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Harley MS 5863
- Record Id:
- 040-002051710
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051710
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x000181
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5863
- Title:
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A transcript from a heraldic roll by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald of Arms
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1*verso: A testimony about the transcript by Robert Glover (b. 1543/1544, d. 1588), Somerset Herald of Arms: 'Hoc transcriptum sive exemplar rarissimi cujusdam Rotuli antiqui de re Armorum, fideliter cum prototypo concordare testatur Robertus Glover, aliter dictus Somersett heraldus Armorum, qui manu propria eundem [sic] scripsit, atque Armorum omnium in eo formulas expressit. In cujus rei fidem in Testimonium nomen suum subscripsit xxo die mensi Aprilis Anno Christi Servatoris MDLXXIX qui fuit Regni Serma Reginae Elizabethae Annus Vicesimus primus Robertus Glover Somersett’.
ff. 2*recto-11*verso: An index of surnames of families includes in this manuscript.
ff. 12*recto-12*verso: A list of the ‘Knightes dubbed at Cales in spayne by the right honourable Sir robert devereutx, knight, Earl of Essex, anno domini 1596’ [f. 12*recto: ‘Knightes made by roberte of Essex at Cailz in spayne 1596’].
ff. 13*recto-13*verso: A list of ‘Knightes at Cales in Spayne by the Earle of Essex and Lord Admyrall On July 1596’ [f. 13*verso: ‘The names of the knightes made by roberte of Essex at the burnynge of Calles in Spayne in the year of our Lord 1596’].
f. 14*recto: A list of ‘Knights mayde by the Ryght honorrabell the Earle of Essex at the wynning of Cales 1596’.
ff. 14*verso-138v: A large collections of arms, most with crests and quarterings.
Decoration:
Coats of arms in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051710", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5863: A transcript from a heraldic roll by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald of Arms" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051710 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5863 : A transcript from a heraldic roll by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald of Arms - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5866]/040-002051710
- 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:
- 1579
- End Date:
- 1579
- Date Range:
- 1579
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 300 x 210 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1*-14* + 138 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 2 unfoliated paper pastedowns (coats of arms) on f. 14*verso; each quire has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound in 1968.
- 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. 304.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)