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Harley MS 5828
- Record Id:
- 040-002051675
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051675
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x00015e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5828
- Title:
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An English heraldic miscellany
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-60r: Full-page coats of arms, some with crests, of families of Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Rutland and Bedfordshire (late 16th or early 17th century).
ff. 61r-63r, 64r-68r: Full-page escutcheons in pencil, but left unfinished.
f. 63v: The spurious ‘Epistle of St Paule to The Laodiceans’; followed by the note: ‘This Epistle of St Paule to the Laodiceans was found in the oldest bible that was printed at Wormes’; and ‘A Catalogue of those Scriptur[e]s wich are mentioned but not inserted in the Bible’ (17th century).
f. 68r-77v: The Visitation of Bedfordshire of 1634 by John Philipot (b. 1588, d. 1645), Somerset Herald, and William Ryley (d. 1667), Bluemantle Pursuivant, entitled: ‘The following taken and maid by John Philpott Somerset Herald and William Ryley Blewmantle pursavant att Armes 1634’ (17th century).
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 1*recto: A description of contents: ‘Pedegrees Oxford and Buckingham, Berk, Rutland Bedford Visitation anno 1634 – fol. 70’; added in the 17th century.
Decoration:
Coats of arms, tricked, drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051675", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5828: An English heraldic miscellany" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051675 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5828 : An English heraldic miscellany - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5831]/040-002051675
- 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:
- 1550
- End Date:
- 1649
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 315 x 200 mm.
Foliation: ff. 77 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); f. 77 is a smaller paper leaf; each leaf has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Script: 16th-century and 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
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. 301.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England