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Harley MS 6095
- Record Id:
- 040-002051943
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051943
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x00026a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6095
- Title:
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An English heraldic manuscript
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-41r: Coats of arms of English nobility and gentry, some featuring family mottos and dates [up to c. 1620]; 4 per page [1 dated to 1607 on f. 20r].
ff. 44r-44v: An index of surnames of families included in this manuscript.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 43v: A note entitled: ‘to captaine John Franke’; featuring the arms of ‘Ed: Bish Esq Garter 18 January 1652’.
Decoration:
Coats of arms, tricked, in brown ink. A roundel with a bird and quadruped, in brown ink (f. 42r). Human faces (3x) added in brown ink to f. 1*recto.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051943", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6095: An English heraldic manuscript" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051943 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6095 : An English heraldic manuscript - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6099]/040-002051943
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1624
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 195 x 150 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 44 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); 12 blank leaves between f. 42 and f. 43 have been foliated as ff. ‘42i’-‘42xiv’ 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf between f. 43 and f. 44; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [46]verso (notes of repair for both Harley MSS 1359 and 6095).
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house; bound together with Harley MS 1359.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Richard Kimbe (fl. Early 17th century), arms painter: his surname inscribed [2x] on f. 1*recto (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 209-10).
Unknown 17th century owners: their names inscribed on f. 1*recto: ‘Anthony’ [2x], ; ‘Frauncis’; ‘Felton’; ‘Ursula’; ‘Joane’.
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.
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. 364.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England