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Harley MS 5845
- Record Id:
- 040-002051692
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051692
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x00016f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5845
- Title:
- Coats of arms and pedigrees of Lincolnshire families
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1v: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript.
ff. 2r-3v: Coats of arms of Lincolnshire families (30 per page).
ff. 4r-21r: Coats of arms of Lincolnshire families (4 per page), with empty escutcheons drawn in pencil towards the end.
f. 21v: Part of a pedigree of the Towers family, ending in the year 1631.
The manuscript contains a few additions:
ff. 1*recto-1*verso: Warner of Saint-Victor (b. 1170), Gregorianum, Book 5, Chapters 6-7 (beginning); probably datable to the 2nd half of the 13th century; with the inscription ‘Lyncolneshire’ (referring to the manuscript’s contents) added to the lower margin of f. 1*recto in a Gothic script, probably in the late 16th or early 17th century.
ff. 22r-22v: Warner of Saint-Victor (b. 1170), Gregorianum, Book 5, Chapters 14 (end)-15 (beginning); probably datable to the 2nd half of the 13th century.
Decoration:
Coats of arms with crests, tricked, drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript. ff. 1*recto-1*verso and ff. 22r-22v contain small (2-line) initials in blue or red with penwork decoration in the other colour.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051692", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5845: Coats of arms and pedigrees of Lincolnshire families" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051692 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5845 : Coats of arms and pedigrees of Lincolnshire families - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5848]/040-002051692
- 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:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1649
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper; parchment (ff. 1* and 22).
Dimensions: 305 x 200 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 22 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); f. 1* and f. 22 are smaller parchment leaves (260-290 x 165-175 mm) from a 13th-century manuscript mounted on paper guards; 36 blank paper leaves mounted on paper guards in groups of three after f. 22; each leaf has been mounted onto a paper guard and has a white strip of paper attached to its outer margin.
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house. According to the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), p. 303, the manuscript was bound together with Harley MS 5874 in the Harleian Library.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
John Fox, owned in the 17th century: his name inscribed on f. 1*recto (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 156).
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. 303.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 156, 462.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England