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Harley MS 6094
- Record Id:
- 040-002051942
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051942
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x000269
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6094
- Title:
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An English heraldic manuscript
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1v-11r: Full-page and quarter-page drawings of coats of arms in colours, beginning with those of ‘Sir Thomas Hewitt’, followed by further arms of Hewitt, Aincotte and Asthorpe.
ff. 11v-30r: Coats of arms of English nobility and gentry (4-5 per page), tricked, in brown ink.
ff. 31r-34r: An index of surnames of families included in this manuscript.
ff. 35v-38r: Full-page and quarter-page drawings of coats of arms in colours, beginning with those of ‘Glover’, followed by those of ‘Sir Robert Robinson of Yerkeshire’; and the family of Hotham.
f. 39r: The arms of ‘Robinson of yerkeshire’ in brown ink, tricked.
Decoration:
Coats of arms in colours and brown ink (tricked); a few outlined in pencil only.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051942", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6094: An English heraldic manuscript" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051942 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6094 : An English heraldic manuscript - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6098]/040-002051942
- 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: 195 x 155 mm.
Foliation: ff. 39 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 5 unfoliated blank paper leaves between 30 and f. 31; 2 between f. 34 and f. 35; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. 1r (pressmark)
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house; the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on the centre of the upper and lower covers, with gold-stamped and –tooled borders. According to the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), III, p. 324, the manuscript was bound together with Harley MS 1279.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
An unknown early modern owner or owners: their pressmarks on f. 1r: ‘39’ in black ink; ‘16’ on a square of paper pasted on f. 1r.
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:
- 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