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Harley MS 5830

Record Id:

040-002051677

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002051677

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x000160

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5830

Title:

Pedigrees and coats of arms of Surrey families

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-10r: Printed shields (20 per page), with the arms of Surrey families tricked in pencil or ink; the latest date in the accompanying inscriptions is 1623.

ff. 11r-155v, 157r-254v: Pedigrees of Surrey families with coats of arms throughout; also featuring copies of charters, confirmations of pedigrees and arms, and other documents (one on f. 19v dated to 1622). The manuscript features several church notes, including coats of arms from ‘the Parish Church of Horley in the County of Surr. the sixteenth of December Anno Domini 1619’ (f. 25v); ‘the parish Church of Cashalton in the County of Surr. taken the 5th of Aprill 1623’ (ff. 30v-31r); ‘the parish Church of Stretham in the Countie of Surr. taken the first of Aprill anno 1623’ [unfinished] (f. 46v); ‘the parish Church of Newdigate in Surr. taken the Sixteenth of Decembr. Anno Domni 1623’ (f. 51v); ‘the Parish Church of Putney Anno 1623’ (f. 67v); ‘the Parish Church of Putney in the County of Surr. 5to Die Aug. 1609 by N. C. Lancaster’ (f. 68r); ‘the Parish Church of Putney 1623’ (f. 69r); Peterborough Cathedral (f. 179r); ‘the parish Church of Chorlwood in the County of Surr. 15 Decemb. 1622’ (f. 184r); ‘the Church of Kingston’ (f. 248r).

ff. 156r-156v: A list of the names of judges in Surrey, entitled: ‘Nomina Jusic. pacis in Com. Surr. anno 1623’.

ff. 255r-257r: An alphabetical index of families included in this manuscript.

The manuscript contains a later addition:

f. 258r: A list of numbers and their sums; added in the (?) 17th century.

Decoration:

Coats of arms, tricked, drawn in ink or pencil throughout the manuscript. The shields on ff. [iva]recto-[ivb]verso, 1r-10v, [10a]recto-[10b]verso are printed. Drawings of seals from charters in black ink (ff. 23r-23v, 50r, 64v, 89v, 219r, 249r). A banner with a coat of arms in black ink (f. 204r). Two patrons from St Bartholomew’s Church in Horely, kneeling, drawn in pencil (f. 25v); a knight in armour from Peterborough Cathedral, drawn in pencil (f. 179r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002051677

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5830 : Pedigrees and coats of arms of Surrey families

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5833]/040-002051677

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:

1618

End Date:

1628

Date Range:

c 1623

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 315 x 205 mm.

Foliation: ff. 258 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end); 2 unfoliated leaves with printed empty shields (20 per page) between f. [iv] and f. 1; and 2 other leaves with printed shields followed by 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf between f. 10 and f. 11; 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf between f. 36 and f. 37; f. 64 and f. 85; f. 124 and f. 125; f. 155 and f. 156; f. 156 and f. 157; f. 181 and f. 182; and 2 between f. 198 and f. 199.

Script: 17th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house.

Custodial History:

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 302.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)