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Harley MS 6033

Record Id:

040-002051881

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002051881

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x00022c

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 6033

Title:

A miscellany of heraldic and historical texts

Scope & Content:

Contents:

f. 1r: A title for a heraldic (?) treatise that was never begun: ‘Compendium or abstracts of all that hath byn written [...] Of the word Arma [...] and signification thereof’.

ff. 3r-4r: A list of English monasteries in Latin, incomplete.

ff. 5r-5v: An English heraldic treatise on the 'Metals - Of the s[il]ver[s] and Collours wherby Arms ar Blasoned’.

ff. 6r- 6v: The births, marriages and deaths of English nobility and gentry before the year 1388.

f. 8r: A list of people accompanying Henry III to the Holy Land, with the taxes they were released from.

ff. 9r-10r: A list of the names of the ‘Bodyes buryed in the white friars of London founded by Kinge Edward the first’.

ff. 10v-11v: A list of the names of the ‘Bodyes buryed in the Black ffryers of London founded by King Edward the first and queen Alionor his wife’.

ff. 12r-13r: A list of the names of the ‘Bodyes buryed in the ffryers Augustyn of London founded by the Earle of Herford’.

f. 13v: A list of the names of the ‘Bodyes buryed in the abbey of Christchurch of London founded by Queen Mawde wife of King Henry the first’.

ff. 14r-16r: A list of the ‘Bodyes buryed in the Grey ffyers in London’.

f. 17r: A list of the founders of the Friars Minor of Greyfriars, Coventry: ‘Nomina fundatorum fratrum Minorum in Coventree’.

ff. 17v-19r: A list of those buried at Greyfriars, Coventry: ‘Nomina aliorum amicorum sepultorum’

ff. 20r-22v: An Alphabetical index of names.

f. 23r: Two heraldic crests.

ff. 24r-26v: Notes on funerals by Officers of Arms from September 1596 until July 1599; featuring coats of arms.

The manuscript contains a later addition:

f. 1*recto: A title inscription in pencil: ‘Bodyes Buried in the Grey fryers London Black freyers Augustin fryers Index att the end’.

Decoration

Coats of arms and crests, tricked, drawn in brown ink.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002051881

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 6033 : A miscellany of heraldic and historical texts

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[6037]/040-002051881

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:

1590

End Date:

1599

Date Range:

1590s

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 290 x 190 mm.

Foliation: ff. 1* + 26 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper leaf between f. 1* and f. 1; f. 1 and f. 2; f. 4 and f. 5; f. 5 and f. 6; f. 6 and f. 7; and f. 13 and f. 14; 18 between f. 16 and f. 17; 24 between f. 7 and f. 8.

Script: 16th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house. Half leather binding with marbled paper boards and the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on the upper and lower cover. According to the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, III (1808), p. 312, the manuscript was bound together with Harley MS 1088 in the Harleian Library.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Robert Treswell (b. c. 1566, d. 1630/31), Bluemantle Pursuivant 1589; Somerset Herald 1597, owned after 1589: his name and title inscribed on f. 1*recto (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 331).

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. 312.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 463.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England