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Harley MS 4957

Record Id:

040-002050801

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002050801

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 4957

Title:

An English heraldic manuscript

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1*verso-2*recto: A full-page drawing of a composite coat of arms with supporters (mermaids).

ff. 1r-23v: Genealogies of English families with arms and seals, entitled: ‘Genealogia Nobilissime et Honoratissimae familiae Baronum de Berklay necnon aliarum ornatissimarum familiarum quae in eandem per nuptias haeredum faemelarum faeliciter coaluerunt viz. Mowbriarorum Ducum Norfolcia etcaetera – Bellocampiorum Baronum de Bedford – Breosorum – Baronum de Gower; Segraviorum – de Caloughden Baronum; Brothertoni – Comitis Norfolciae et Marescalli Angliae; Albeniorum et Fitzalanorum Comit. Arundell; Comitum Warrenae et Surriae; Cariorum – Baronum de Hunsdon; Ex Archivis Regijs et incorruptae fidei monumentis diligenter delineata’.

Decoration:

Coats of arms and seals in colours throughout. The family trees have been drawn as branches with leaves.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002050801

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 4957 : An English heraldic manuscript

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[4957]/040-002050801

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1600

End Date:

1624

Date Range:

1st quarter of the 17th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 350 x 230 mm.

Foliation: ff. 1* + 2* + 23 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 7 at the end); ff. 1* and 2* are part of a single sheet that has been folded in half.

Script: 17th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

William Camden (b. 1551, d. 1623), antiquary and Clarenceux King of Arms, owned in c. 1613: his signatures inscribed on ff. 1r and 17r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 93).

The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.

Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d. 1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 233.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 451.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England