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Harley MS 5803
- Record Id:
- 040-002051650
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051650
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x000145
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5803
- Title:
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English coats of arms
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 2*recto: A table of contents for the manuscript, entitled: ‘This Book of Syng[l]e Cotes gathered and here set downe Anno 1609 And devyen [sic] By Roger Kemys’.
ff. 1r-268r: English coats of arms (16 per page), organised according to their Ordinaries and charges, organised alphabetically; each section followed by an index of names.
ff. 269r-283v: The blazons of earls and knights, entitled:‘The names of all the Erls ferers and knightes in the tyme of H. 3. Also the names of all the knightes of Every Shire of England in the tymes of E. 1. and E. 2. Copied out of An olde manuscript And blazon[ed] in frensse as folowethe’.
ff. 284r-287r: ‘The Table for the book of knightes’.
The manuscript contains a few later additions:
f. 1*recto: A description of the manuscript: 'A Manuscript of Single Coats under the Denomination of Crosses Chefes Bends Fesses Barrs Cheverons Pales Escocheons Salters Cantons Borders and Quarterings etcaetera Collected and Digested under the several heads Alphabetically Anno 1609 and Divided by Roger Kemyss. Also a List of all the Lords and Knights in the time of Henry 3rd also a List of a ll the Knights in every shire in England in the time of Edward 1st and Edward 2nd copyed out of a very old manuscript and Blazoned in French’; added in the (?) 17th-century.
f. 288r: ‘An Alphabeticall Table of the names contained in this Booke’ (unfinished); added in the (?) 17th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051650", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5803: English coats of arms" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051650 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5803 : English coats of arms - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5806]/040-002051650
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1609
- End Date:
- 1609
- Date Range:
- 1609
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 350 x 220 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 2* + 288 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 8 at the end); 1 unfoliated piece of parchment pasted onto f. 1*recto; 1 unfoliated paper leaf between f. 1* and f. 2*; 10 between f. 268 and f. 269.
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Roger Kemys (d. 1610), perhaps of Bedminster, Gloucestershire, gathered in 1609: copied ff. 276-283 of a Parliamentary Roll (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 209).
Clayton Milborne, son of John Milborne of Alleson, Gloucestershire, owned in about 1680: his name inscribed (2x) on f. [1*a]recto: ‘Clayton Milborne’ (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 240, where he lists him only as the owner of Harley MS 6120 [also a manuscript from Roger Kemys]).
‘Jonathan Dowdeswell’, owned in the 17th or 18th century: his name inscribed in pencil on f. [1*a]recto: ‘Jonath. Dowdeswell’ (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
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