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Harley MS 5862

Record Id:

040-002051709

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002051709

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x000180

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5862

Title:

Kentish pedigrees and coats of arms

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-4r: Coats of arms of Keniths nobility and gentry (6 per page).

ff. 9r-40r: Collection of genealogies of Kentish families, with the signature of Robert Cook (d. 1593), Clarenceux King of Arms on f. 28r; but clearly a copy [see the date 1615 on f. 37r].

ff. 40-42r. An alphabetical index of family names.

ff. 43r-60r: Collection of coats of arms of Kentish nobility and gentry (16 per page), beginning with those of King James.

The manuscript contains a later addition:

ff. 1r-1v, 76r-76v: Fragments from a 15th-century liturgical manuscript, perhaps a Pontifical (e.g. 'Et tradat eis episcopus librum , in quo scripti sunt exorcismi'); with champ initials (gold letters in blue and purple frames), small blue initials with red penwork decoration.

Decoration:

Coats of arms and crests, tricked, drawn in black ink. ff. 4v-8r and ff. 60v-75v contains outlines of scutcheons that have been left empty.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002051709

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5862 : Kentish pedigrees and coats of arms

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5865]/040-002051709

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:

1699

Date Range:

17th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper; parchment (only ff. 1, 76).

Dimensions: 295 x 185 mm.

Foliation: ff. 1* + 76 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); ff. 1* and 76 are parchment leaves from another manuscript that were reused as flyleaves or binding materials [f. 1 has folded parchment sides that may have been used for an upper cover] for this manuscript; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. 1*recto (a pressmark: ‘83’); ff. 32 and 33 both are part of a single script of paper that has been mounted separately.

Collation: Each leaf has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.

Script: 17th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound on 18 July 1968. According to the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), III, p. 304, the manuscript was bound together with Harley MS 5843 in the Harleian Library.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Richard Kimbe (fl. early 17th century), arms painter: his name inscribed on f. 1*recto: ‘Richard Kimbe’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 209-210).

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. 304.

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. 209-10, 462.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England