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Harley MS 6077

Record Id:

040-002051925

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002051925

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x000258

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 6077

Title:

A rental of the Diocese of St Davids

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-4r: Rental of St Davids' Pembrokeshire advowsons, 1594.

f. 5r: Full-page drawing of St Davids cathedral.

f. 5v: Rental of St Davids' recotries, tithes, and vicarages, 1558-59.

ff. 6r-22r: Valuations and patronage in St Davids' diocese from records in the Office of First Fruits and Tenths, copied not before 1586, signed by George Owen.

ff. 23r-49v: Rentals for other dioceses in England and Wales.

ff. 50r-50v: Valuation of the livings of English bishops and their tithes.

f. 51r: Valuation of English deaneries and their tithes.

The manuscript contains a later addition:

f. 18r: A note in English: 'This for subayron [Deanery of Sub-Ayron] ys not nau to be trusted, unto for yt is altered sins the suppression of the colledge of llandewy brevy [Llanddewi Brefi]'; added in the 16th century.

ff. 4v, 22v, 51v are blank.

Decoration:

A full-page drawing of St David’s Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, with the coat of arms of the Bishop of St David’s and an empty shield with crest, entitled: ‘Ecclesia Menevensis’ (f. 5r).

Calligraphically decorated initials in black ink (f. 6r). Decorated accolades with birds and fishes in black ink (f. 6v). Small initials with penwork decoration in black ink throughout the manuscript.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002051925

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 6077 : A rental of the Diocese of St Davids

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[6081]/040-002051925

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1594

End Date:

1594

Date Range:

1594

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 290 x 195 mm; mounted onto paper leaves of 350 x 230 mm.

Foliation: ff. 51 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. 1r (an old pressmark: ‘50 / 31’) and f. [54]verso (note of repair).

Script: 16th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound on 21 June 1967.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Wales.

Scribe:

George Owen of Henllys, his signature (ff. 18v, 22r).

Provenance:

George Owen of Henllys (b. 1552, d. 1613), Welsh antiquarian and naturalist: perhaps the scribe who signed his name on f. 18v: ‘George Owen’; and f. 22r: ‘Georgius Owen’ (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (1689-1741), 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 (1694-1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715-1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 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), pp. 321-22.

Daniel Huws, A Repertory of Welsh Manuscripts and Scribes, c.800-c.1800, 3 vols (Aberystwyth: The National Library of Wales and University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, 2022), I, p. 688.

Exhibitions:

Picturing places, (online), 27 April 2017-

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England