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Harley MS 5829
- Record Id:
- 040-002051676
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051676
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x00015f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5829
- Title:
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Pedigrees and coats of arms of Sussex families
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1*verso-2*verso: An alphabetical index of families included in this manuscript.
ff. 1r-165r: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Sussex families, the latest is dated to 1636; featuring patents and confirmations of arms by officers of arms such as William Segar and William Camden; Church notes: coats of arms with drawings of patrons from the windows and monuments at the parish church of Steyning, West Sussex (ff. 122v-124v) [entitled: ‘In the Church of Stening taken the 28th of March 1634']; 45 coats of arms and an inscription from the tomb of William Etchingham (d. 1444), perhaps all copied from the parish church of Etchingham, East Sussex (ff. 162v-163r).
Decoration:
Coats of arms, some with crests, tricked, drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript. Copies of charters with drawings of their seals on f. 16r and f. 127v. Drawings of tomb effigies and patrons kneeling in prayer in pencil on ff. 122v-123r.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051676", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5829: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Sussex families" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051676 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5829 : Pedigrees and coats of arms of Sussex families - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5832]/040-002051676
- 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:
- 1630
- End Date:
- 1640
- Date Range:
- c 1635
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 320 x 200 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 2* + 165 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper leaf with a paper pastedown (coat of arms) between f. 2* and f. 1; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. 43r (crest).
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house, with the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on the insides of the upper and lower covers; and the coat of arms of [...] gold-stamped on white leather, taken from the previous binding, and laid into the new boards.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
John Philipot (b. 1588, d. 1645), Blanch Lyon and Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, Somerset Herald, and Norroy King of Arms: his armorial bookplate on the outsides of the upper and lower cover (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 275-76).
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. 302.
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