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Harley MS 6090
- Record Id:
- 040-002051938
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051938
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x000265
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6090
- Title:
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An English heraldic manuscript
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 2r: A title-page: ‘Coates Geathered of A name and other Coates’.
f. 3r: Five attributed arms: ‘Osyris alias Jupiter king of Egypt’; ‘Hercules Kinge of Lybia’; ‘Anubis’; ‘Macedours Prince of Emathya’; ‘Semyramis Queen of babylon’.
ff. 3v-4v: ‘The armes of the nine worthy women’; 3 arms per page, with comments on the Nine Worthy Women, here named as Minerva, Tomyris, Semiramis, Delborah, Jahel, Judith, Empress Maude, Elizabeth of Aragon, Joanna II of Naples.
ff. 5r-58r: The arms of English nobility; 9 per page, some shields have been left empty.
ff. 58v-68r: An index of surnames of families included in this manuscript.
The manuscript contains a few additions:
f. 1r: Drawings [upside down] of three coffins with palls (mort-cloths) embroidered with coat of arms for a deceased noblewoman, nobleman, and an unmarried woman; the first is labelled 'the woman ded / the man lyveng'; the second: 'a man'; the third: 'a mayde', and features a lozenge-shaped shield, as was usual for widowers and umarried women; added in the 17th century.
f. 2r: A reference to the Spanish chivalric romance of Palmerín de Oliva [1511]: ‘Palmerin de oliva’ [2x]; written upside down; added in the 17th century.
f. 2r: Two recipes for making an ‘anoynment’; added in the 17th century.
Decoration:
Coats of arms, tricked, in brown and black ink; 1 with red colour (f. 13r). Drawings of coffins with heraldic palls (f. 1r) added in brown ink; sketches of animals and human figures (f. 68v) added in black ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051938", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6090: An English heraldic manuscript" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051938 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6090 : An English heraldic manuscript - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6094]/040-002051938
- 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:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 200 x 155 mm.
Foliation: ff. 67 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end);
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house. According to the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), III, p. 324, the manuscript was bound together with Harley MS “6084 & others” in the Harleian Library.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
? ‘Savike[r]’, owned in the 17th century: inscribed recipes for ointments with their name f. 2v: ‘By me Savike[r]’ (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
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.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England