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Harley MS 6081
- Record Id:
- 040-002051929
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051929
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x00025c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6081
- Title:
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An English heraldic manuscript
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1r: An introduction for a genealogical manuscript, beginning: ‘The lyneall dissent of the morgans from Blederye ap Kydenor Lord of St Clere and Tredegar’. A strip of parchment, together with ff. 158-159, taken from a genealogical manuscript or roll and reused for the manuscript’s original binding.
ff. 2r-2v: A list of 'the names of the Lordes and Barons that wer sumened to apper at a Parlament holden at Carlils Anno 35 of Edward I’.
ff. 3r-3v: A list of 'the names of All Suche noble men as were at the Parlament of Lyncolne holden in the tyme of kinge Edwarde the firste'.
ff. 4r-80r: Roger Kemys, The coats of arms of English nobility and gentry since the Norman Conquest (16 per page), organised alphabetically; featuring many outlines of arms that have been left unfinished.
ff. 81r-154r: Pedigrees of royal and noble English families, with the pencil outlines of unfinished coats of arms.
ff. 155r-155v: A list of the ‘The nobyllitie of England 2. Ia. 1604’.
ff. 156r-157r: An alphabetical index to the pedigrees.
ff. 158v, 159v: Part of a genealogy of the Morgans of St Clere and Tredegar, with coats of arms in colours, taken from a 17th-century genealogical manuscript or roll and reused for the manuscript’s original binding.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 159r: A note on the contents of this manuscript: ‘Another Book of Herald Coates of Arms of several ffamilyes since the Conquest by Roger Kemyse’ [not in the hand of Kemys]; added in the 17th century.
Decoration:
Coats of arms in brown ink, tricked, or colours. Doodles in brown ink, featuring a human face, added to f. 157v.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051929", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6081: An English heraldic manuscript" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051929 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6081 : An English heraldic manuscript - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6085]/040-002051929
- 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:
- 1604
- End Date:
- 1604
- Date Range:
- 1604
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper; parchment (ff. 158-159).
Dimensions: 260 x 190 mm.
Foliation: ff. 159 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 1 parchment strip pasted on f. 1r (also foliated as ‘1’); 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf between f. 15 and f. 16; f. 123 and f. 124; f. 124 and f. 125; 2 between f. 154 and f. 155; each quire has been mounted onto paper guard
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound on 17 January 1967.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
‘Roger Kemys’, probably Roger Kemys (d. 1610) of Wickwick in Frampton Cotterell, Gloucestershire: wrote and collected the manuscript in the early 17th century; his memorandum added to f. 2r: ‘In this booke are the single Coates of sunderye noble men and gentlmen that have ben sence the Conquest in order after the Letter Collected by me Roger Kemys’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 209).
Arthur Hewes, owned in the early 18th century: his pressmark (‘E. 8.3’) on f. 1r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 188).
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. 323.
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. 464.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England