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Harley MS 6085
- Record Id:
- 040-002051933
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051933
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x000260
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6085
- Title:
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William Segar, Book of royal arms, badges and achievements from Brutus to James I
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-25r: William Segar, 'The Variation of the Armes, and Badges of the Kings of England, from the tyme of Brute, untill this present Yeare of our Lord, 1604'; beginning with an address by William Segar to King James I; containing drawings and English descriptions with blazons in Latin and French of coats of arms, badges and achievements of England's kings and queens, beginning with the attributed arms of legendary and historical kings who lived before the age of heraldry, including Brutus, his three sons (Locrin, Albania, and Camber), Belinus, Uther Pendragon, Arthur and Cadwaladr, and ending with King James I.
Decoration:
17 shields of arms and additional badges of the kings of England in colours and gold throughout.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051933 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6085 : William Segar, Book of royal arms, badges and achievements from Brutus to James I - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6089]/040-002051933
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1604
- End Date:
- 1604
- Date Range:
- 1604
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 220 x 165 mm (text space: 150 x 120 mm).
Foliation: ff. 25 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 2 unfoliated original parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated original parchment flyleaves and 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the at the end); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [28]recto (note of repair).
Script: Humanistic and Humanistic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Original binding of gilt-stamped and -tooled red morocco; gilt edges; and gilt decorated endleaves with green paint.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
South-East England (London).
Provenance
Written and possibly illuminated by Sir William Segar (b. in or before 1564, d. 1633), herald: presented by him to James I in 1604.
James VI and I (b. 1566. d. 1625), king of Scotland, England and Ireland: given to him by William Segar as a New Year Gift on 1 January 1605 and listed in the New Year Gift Roll, now Add MS 15649 (see Godfrey, The College of Arms, 1963), p. 49.
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. 324.
The College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street: Being the Sixteenth and Final Monograph of the London Survey Committee, ed. by Walter H. Godfrey, assisted by Sir Anthony Wagner, Monograph of the London Survey Committee, 16 (London: The College of Arms, 1963), p. 49.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 203, 300, 464.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Segar, William, Somerset Herald; Garter King of Arms 1603; Knight 1616,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108138459 - Places:
- London, England