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Harley MS 5866
- Record Id:
- 040-002051713
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051713
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x000184
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5866
- Title:
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Coats of arms of Irish nobility and gentry
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-2r: A list of ‘The names of the governors, Lieutenants, Lord iustices and Deputies of Ireland, since the conquest thereof by King Henrie the second’; ending in 1541.
f. 2r: A list of ‘The names of all the Lords Deputies and Justices in Ireland, since the deathe of King Henrie the Eight 1546, who died in Januarie’; originally going up to 1584; with additions going up to 1599.
f. 3r: The achievement of George Calvert (b. 1580, d. 1632), 1st Baron Baltimore [with his family’s Italian motto: ‘Fatti Maschii, Parole Femine’].
ff. 4r-9v: An Alphabet of Arms, with the arms of Irish nobility blazoned in French heraldic terminology: ‘In This Booke are Contayned the Armes of the nobilitie of Ireland and of Certaine Genlemen of the same Countrie’.
f. 10r: Two coats of arms with crests: ‘The Armes by auncient records of Irishe monuments belonge to the famylie of O duinne of Oregan in Ireland witnes my hande the vjth of march 1606 – Daniel Molyneux ulster kinge of Armes [since 1596] his word Mullagherabo: Mullagherabo is the crie of the dunnes which in tyme of warre they used when they would encounter their Enemies’; followed by the arms of ‘Cusack of Irland’ [with the family’s French motto: ‘En Dieu est mon Espoir’]
ff. 11r-26v: Coats of arms of Irish nobility (16 per page).
Decoration:
Coats of arms and heraldic elements, tricked, drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051713", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5866: Coats of arms of Irish nobility and gentry" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051713 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5866 : Coats of arms of Irish nobility and gentry - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5869]/040-002051713
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French
Italian - 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: 300 x 190 mm.
Foliation: ff. 26 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 8 at the end); 4 unfoliated blank paper leaves between f. 3 and f. 4
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house. According to the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), III, p. 305, the manuscript was bound together with Harley MS 6096 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. 305.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England