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Harley MS 5836
- Record Id:
- 040-002051683
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051683
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x000166
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5836
- Title:
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The firste Probationer, shewenge his progression in the mystery of Armorye
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘The Probationer hys fyrste assaye, in the Mysteryes of Armorye, cowched in a very playne and famylliar discourse, of the trewe placinge, of the ordinary discendinge difference of yonger brothers, and famylyes, Incidente to any Coate armour – And so briefelye touchinge the Coniugall partition of the Shielde: From whence proceedeth, the primary concession of superiour assignation, to the well deservinge. With the due location of all sortes of Remunerations, or Augmentionations, in all Escocheons, especiallye in those, which do discende by heredetarye devolution – Collected, repeated, and conferred upon , by (3) wanderinge knightes as Syr Bezaore, Syr Challamour, and Syr Persides’.
f. 1*verso: ‘The Epistell to the Reader’.
ff. 1r-63r: A dialogic treatise on heraldry, beginning: ‘A Dialogue betweene three wanderinge knightes upon the Probationers fyrste assaye’ [another copy of the same text in Harley MS 5837, and its sequel in Harley MS 5838].
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051683", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5836: The firste Probationer, shewenge his progression in the mystery of Armorye" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051683 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5836 : The firste Probationer, shewenge his progression in the mystery of Armorye - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5839]/040-002051683
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 325 x 200 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 63 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end).
Script: 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. 302.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England