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Harley MS 5842
- Record Id:
- 040-002051689
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051689
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x00016c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5842
- Title:
- Pedigrees and coats of arms of Suffolk families
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2*recto-3*verso: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript.
ff. 1r-117r: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Suffolk families, beginning with the seals of towns in Suffolk; with a copy of a patent of arms (f. 4v) granted by Thomas Hawley (d. 1557), entitled: ‘May the 24th 1705 - This from the Originall pattent of Mr John Johnson’.
ff. 118v-123v: Additional coats of arms and pedigrees of Suffolk families.
Decoration:
Coats of arms with crests, tricked, drawn in brown ink (or pencil) throughout the manuscript. Relationship lines of genealogies drawn in brown or red ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051689", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5842: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Suffolk families" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051689 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5842 : Pedigrees and coats of arms of Suffolk families - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5845]/040-002051689
- 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:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1624
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 310 x 195 mm.
Foliation: ff. 3* + 123 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 6 unfoliated blank paper leaves between f. 117 and f. 118; 1 unfoliated paper label on ff. 1*recto, 2r, 17v each
leaf has been mounted onto a paper
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house. According to the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), III, p. 302, the manuscript was bound together with Harley MSS 772 and 1103 in the Harleian Library.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Richard Mundy (fl. 1630s), arms painter, Upper Warden of the Painters-Stainers Company 1639: his name inscribed on f. 1*recto (not list under his entry in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 247).
John Saunders (d. c. 1687), Deputy of the Ward of St Dunstans in the West, Master of the Painter-Stainers Company, owned in 1680: his ownership inscription and pressmark on a paper label pasted onto f. 1*recto: ’65 - This is the booke of Mr John Saunders of Fetter Lane 1680’ (Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 297).
‘John Johnson’, perhaps the arms painter of that name who was Master of the Painter-Stainers Company in 1696, and from whom Humfrey Wanley purchased a number of his heraldic manuscripts for the Harleian Library, owned in 1705: a copy of a patent of arms from an original document owned by him on f. 4v is written in his hand: compare with Harley MS 5848, f. 48r (not listed under his entry in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 206).
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