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Harley MS 5806

Record Id:
040-002051653
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002051653
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x000148
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5806
Title:

English coats of arms

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1v-182v: Composite collection of English coats of arms, mostly drawn and tricked in brown ink, and described in English and French heraldic terms with Latin mottoes. The following items can be identified:

ff. 1v, 3r-3v, 5r-5v, 7r-7v, 9r-10v, 12r-12v, 14r-14v, 16r-16v: Alphabetical index of family names; written in the 17th century.

f. 22r: List of the Nine Worthies ('The Nyne Worthies of the Woorlde') and Kings and Emperors: 'The Names of all the Emperors and Kings in Crystendome', 'The Names of themperors, Kings, that be under the Soldan', 'The names of all the Emperors and Kingers that be under the greate Turke'; written c. 1550.

f. 24r: Account of the casualties in the Norman Conquest, beginning: 'The Battell betwixt William Conqueror and Harolde Kinge of Englond and was on Satterdaye the 24th of October in anno 1068'; written c. 1550.

ff. 24r, 25r, 26r, 27r, 29r, 30r: 'The names of those parsons that have put in there Clayme to do service at the Coronation of our Sovereigne Lord kinge Edward the syxte'; written c. 1550.

ff. 27r: Knights of the Bathe Accordinge to their Senioritye of their Creatione made by Kinge James at White Hall the 24 of July wiche was the daye before the Kinges Cronation'; written in the early 17th century.

f. 30v: Various early modern inscriptions and pen trials.

f. 36r: 'The names of the Parliamente from the Tower at Harmes in the Lordes Temporall […] howse and ther in order unto Westminster Cronacyone'; written c. 1550.

f. 36v: A note: 'Lord Chauncelors, Erles, and Barons to dyne to gether / Duchesses, Marqusses, Countesses, and Ladies to dyne together in […] of London and his bretherne to dyne to gether at one table'; written c. 1550.

Stamped escutcheons and crests on ff. 43r, 44r, 51r, 52r,

ff. 53-54 are a single folded leaf

ff. 23, 45, 53-54, 61 have paper foldouts; f. 37 is a paper strip.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
Hierarchy Tree:
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002045828
040-002051653
Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

 

Harley MS 5806 : English coats of arms
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[5809]/040-002051653
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
1 volume
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Latin
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1545
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
c. 1550-17th century
Era:
CE
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User Conditions:
Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 360 x 270 mm.

Foliation: ff. 182 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end).

Script: mostly 17th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house; gold-tooled purple half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers.

ff. '18-1' to '18-4' are paper pastedowns on two unfoliated blank paper leaves after f. 18 (ff. [18a] and [18b]); a paper pastedown on f. [18b] has been foliated as f. 19; ff. '19-1' to '19-4' are paper pastedowns on an unfoliated modern paper leaf after f. 19 (f. [19a]); 1 paper pastedown on f. [19a]verso has been foliated as f. 20; ff. '20-1' to '20-10' are paper pastedowns on 2 unfoliated modern paper leaves after f. 20 (ff. [20a] and [20b]); 1 paper pastedown on f. [20b]verso has been foliated as f. 21; ff. '21-1' to '21-4' are paper pastedowns on a modern unfoliated paper leaf after f. 21 (f. [21a]); ff. '22-1' to '22-2' are paper pastedowns on f. 22v; ff. '23-1' is a leaf after f. 23; ff. '23-2' to '23-4' are paper pastedowns on an unfoliated modern paper leaf after f. '23-1' (f. [23-1a]); f. '24-1' is a paper leaf after f. 24; f. '25-1' is a paper leaf after f. 25; f. '26-1' is a paper leaf after f. 26; f. '27-1' is a paper leaf after f. 27; ff. '28-1' to '28-7' are paper pastedowns on an unfoliated modern paper leaf after f. 28 (f. [28a]); ff. '30-1' to '30-3' are paper pastedowns on an unfoliated modern paper leaf after f. 30; ff. 33, '33-1', and '33-2' are paper pastedowns on an unfoliated blank paper leaf after f. 32 (f. [32a]); f. '33-3' is a leaf after f. [32a]; ff. '36-1' and '36-2' are paper leaves after f. 36; ff. '37-1' and '37-2' are paper leaves after f. 37; ff. '38-1' to '38-3' are paper leaves after f. 38; f. '39-1' is a paper leaf after f. 39; ff. '40-1' to '41-6' are paper pastedowns on an unfoliated modern paper leaf after f. 40 (f. [40a]); f. '40-7' is a paper leaf after f. [40a]; ff. '41-1' to '41-4' are paper pastedowns on an unfoliated modern paper leaf after f. 41 (f. [41a]); ff. '43-1' to '43-4' are paper pastedowns on f. '43-1'; ff. '43-2' to '43-4' are paper pastedowns on an unfoliated modern paper leaf after f. '43-1'; ff. '44-1' and '44-2' are paper leaves after f. 44; ff. '48-1' to '48-5' are paper pastedowns on an unfoliated modern paper leaf after f. 48; f. '51-1' is a paper strip pasted on f. 51v; ff. '52-1' to '52-4' are paper pastedowns on an unfoliated modern paper leaf after f. 52 (f. [52a]); f. '53-1' is a paper leaf after f. 53; f. '54-1' is a paper leaf after f. '53-1'; ff. '55-1' and '55-2' are paper pastedowns on an unfoliated modern paper leaf after f. 55 (f. [55a]); ff. '55-3' to '55-5' are paper leaves after f. [55a]; f. '56-1' is a paper leaf after f. 56; ff. '56-2' to '56-3', and f. 57 are paper pastedowns on an unfoliated modern paper leaf after f. 56 (f. [56a]); f. '58-1' is a paper leaf after f. 58; ff. '58-2' to '58-4' are paper pastedowns on an unfoliated modern paper leaf after f. '58-1' (f. ['58-1'a]); f. '58-5' is a paper leaf after f. ['58-1'a]; f. '59-1' is a paper leaf after f. 59; f. '61-2' is a paper leaf after f. 61 [f. '61-1' does not exist]; f. '62-1' is a paper pastedown on a modern paper leaf; f. '63-1' is a paper leaf after f. 63; ff. '66-1' and '66-2' are paper leaves after f. 66; ff. 67, '67-1' to '67-5' are paper pastedowns on two unfoliated modern paper leaves after f. '66-2' (ff. ['66-2'a] and ['66-2'b]); f. '67-6' is a paper leaf after f. ['66-2'b]; ff. '67-8', '67-9', 68, '68-1' to '68-4', 69, '69-1' to '69-4', 70, '70-1' are paper pastedowns on 4 unfoliated modern paper leaves after f. '67-6' (ff. ['67-6'a]-'67-6'd]) [f. '67-7' does not exist].

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

'Thomas Fane', early 17th century: his name inscribed on f. 1r.

'George Fane', early 17th century: his name inscribed on f. 1r.

'Thomas Challenor', early 17th century: his name inscribed on f. 1r.

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. 300.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Places:
England