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Harley MS 5865
- Record Id:
- 040-002051712
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051712
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x000183
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5865
- Title:
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Pedigrees and coats of arms of Hampshire families
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1*recto: Inscriptions of the names 'Cufeild' and 'Cufaulde', perhaps referring to a location in Bramley, Hampshire.
ff. 2*recto-3*recto: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript.
ff. 1r-6v: Coats of arms of Hampshire families (20 per page), some with crests, drawn in rows with escutcheons; many have been left blank.
ff. 7r-41r: Pedigrees with coats of arms of Hampshire families; featuring the descent of John Shelley and Beatrix Hawkwood, ancestors of Percy Bysshe Shelly on f. 11v. This pedigree goes up Mary Shelley, daughter of Henry Shelley of Mapledurham and Mary Lutterell, and Edward Stanford of Perry Hall, Handsworth, Staffordshire, who died in 1631, but may have been alive at the time of this manucript’s production. The latest date in this manuscript is 1623 (f. 40r).
f. 41v: A copy of an inscription on the tombstone of Nicholas Love of Norton in Hampshire, warden of the Merchant Taylors' Company, and his wife ‘Jone’, at Borden, Kent; a drawing of his arms; and a Latin certificate of his arms by Richard St George (b. 1554/5, d. 1635), here referred to as Clarenceux King of Arms (appointed in 1623).
ff. 42r-50r: Coats of arms with crests of families of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (4 per page).
Decoration:
Coats of arms and crests, tricked, drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051712", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5865: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Hampshire families" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051712 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5865 : Pedigrees and coats of arms of Hampshire families - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5868]/040-002051712
- 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:
- 1618
- End Date:
- 1628
- Date Range:
- c 1623
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 305 x 185 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1*-3* + 50 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); each leaf has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house. According to the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), III, p. 304, the manuscript was bound together with Harley MS 1186 in the Harleian Library.
- 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)
- Places:
- England