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Harley MS 6065
- Record Id:
- 040-002051913
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051913
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x00024c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6065
- Title:
- A copy of the Visitation Book of Essex by John Raven in 1612
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-149r: A copy of the Visitation Book of Essex by John Raven (1597-1615), Richmond Herald, in 1612, with continuations up to 1627; and later additions, including a patent of arms dated to 1660 (f. 22v); a copy from the Visitation Book of the Count of Essex in 1634 [Henry Lily], and an addition dated to 1704 (f. 84v)
ff. 149r-150v: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 1r: A title: ‘The Visitation of Essex made Anno Domini 1612 by John Raven Richmond Herald of Armes by Vertue of a Deputation from the Learned Camden Clarenceulx King of Arms’; added by Henry Lily.
ff. 151r-156r: Collection of letters [copies dated to 1717] concerning the assigning of the coat of arms of Francis Barrington, beginning: ‘To the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Suffolke’.
Decoration:
Coats of arms with crests, tricked, drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript. Relationship lines in the pedigrees in red ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051913", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6065: A copy of the Visitation Book of Essex by John Raven in 1612" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051913 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6065 : A copy of the Visitation Book of Essex by John Raven in 1612 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6069]/040-002051913
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1627
- End Date:
- 1627
- Date Range:
- 1627
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 310 x 200 mm.
Foliation: ff. 157 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf between f. 25 and f. 26; and f. 52 and f. 53; f. 54 and f. 55; f. 137 and f. 138; f. 138 and f. 139; 2 between f. 44 and f. 45; f. 134 and f. 135; f. 147 and f. 148; f. 148 and f. 149; 3 between f. 142 and f. 143; f. 145 and f. 146; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [iii]recto (pressmarks); and 1 on f. 157r (coat of arms); ff. 24-25 are smaller paper leaves; each leaf has been mounted onto a paper guard, and has a white paper strip attached to its outer margin.
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Henry Lily [Lilly] (b. 1589, d. 1638), herald painter in Little Britain; Rose Rouge Pursuivant in 1634; Rouge Dragon Pursuivant in 1638, owned after 1634: his name written on f. 1r: ‘Hen: Lily Rouge Rose’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 224).
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. 316.
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