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Harley MS 5801
- Record Id:
- 040-002051648
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051648
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x000143
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5801
- Title:
- Peter Le Neve, Pedigrees of Knights made by King Charles II to Queen Anne (Volume 1)
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1v-201r: Peter Le Neve, Pedigrees of Knights made by King Charles II to Queen Anne (Volume 1), entitled on f. 6r: 'A Catalogue of the Knights made from the first year of the reign of King Charles the 2nd during all his reign those of James the 2nd, King William and Queen Mary with their pedigrees collected by Peter Le Neve Rouge Croix Pursuivant 7 August 1696 in 2 volumes'; 2 mottos: 'Rem nullam peragis Lenevius, incipit omnem'; and 'Heraldry a study which only loads the Memory without improving the understanding'.
ff. 202r-207v: An alphabetical index of names.
Decoration:
A few coats of arms drawn in brown ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051648", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5801: Peter Le Neve, Pedigrees of Knights made by King Charles II to Queen Anne (Volume 1)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051648 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5801 : Peter Le Neve, Pedigrees of Knights made by King Charles II to Queen Anne (Volume 1) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5804]/040-002051648
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1691
- End Date:
- 1719
- Date Range:
- 1696-1714
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 365 x 230 mm.
Foliation: ff. 207 (+ 6 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 6 at the end); ff. 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 17, 22, 85, 97, 98 [from a printed heraldic work], 99, 112, 113, 122-126, 128, 136 [blue], 137, 160 [blue], 175, 193, 198 are smaller papers or strips of paper, mounted onto paper guards; f. 128 is located between f. 126 and f. 129, but probably originally was a pastedown onto f. 129r; ff. 38v, 39r, 40r, 43r [from a printed heraldic work], 104r, 127r, 169v, are paper pastedowns (with coats of arms or pedigrees) pasted onto their preceding and succeeding folios (ff. 39r and 40r have both been pasted onto f. 41r); unfoliated paper pastedowns (with pedigrees or coats of arms) on ff. 21r, 41r, 51r, 54r, 55r, 96r, 101r; 1 unfoliated small paper leaf between f. 216 and f. 127 mounted onto a paper guard. The remains of 2 red wax seals on f. 113v.
Script: 17th- and 18th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Parts of the previous binding, squares of brown leather with the arms of William III of England gold-stamped, have been pasted on the insides of the upper and lower covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Peter Le Neve (b. 1661, d. 1729), Rouge Croix Pursuivant 1690, compiled from 1696 onwards: his name inscribed on f. 6r, with his (?) mottos: ‘Rem nullam peragis Lenevius, incipit omnem'; and 'Heraldry a study which only loads the Memory without improving the understanding' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 219-21).
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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 298.
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. 462.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England