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Harley MS 6102
- Record Id:
- 040-002051950
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051950
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x000271
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6102
- Title:
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Welsh coats of arms and pedigrees
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1v-27r: Coats of arms of Welsh nobility and gentry (4 per page) with descriptions of their houses in English, entitled: ‘Welsh Armes – The Auncient descents of divers Noble howses and gentlemen of Wales’; on f. 26v: ‘Heare endes the Coppie of a welshe booke of Armes and descentes as youe maye see frome Cadwaleder unto this Bowld / taken by me R. K.’; followed by a few more arms. Derived from the Welsh armorial of Robert Glover (Harley MS 1143).
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 1*recto: A title inscription with a pressmark: ’40 Welsh Armes’; added in the 17th century.
Decoration:
Coats of arms, tricked, drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript. 1 coat of arms in colours (arrowhead on sable) with a drawing of a bird of prey in black ink below it (f. 28v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051950", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6102: Welsh coats of arms and pedigrees" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051950 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6102 : Welsh coats of arms and pedigrees - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6106]/040-002051950
- 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:
- 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: 190 x 145 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 28 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end); 4 unfoliated blank paper leaves between f. 1* and f. 1; 4 unfoliated blank paper leaves between f. 1* and f. 1; 20 unfoliated blank paper leaves between f. 27 and f. 28
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house. According to A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum (1808), III, p. 328, the manuscript was bound with Harley MS 5058.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Scribe:
Richard Kimby, his signature (f. 1v).
Provenance:
Richard Kimby (fl. early 17th century), arms painter, compiled and the Welsh arms and pedigrees: his name and that of a family member inscribed on f. 1v: ‘Richard Kembey – Robert Kembey’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 209-10).
John Johnson (fl. late 17th and early 18th century), owned the manuscript: part of the heraldic manuscripts that were purchased from him for the Harleian Library in 1716 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 206).
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. 325.
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.
Daniel Huws, A Repertory of Welsh Manuscripts and Sources c.800-c.1800, 3 vols (Aberystwyth: The National Library of Wales and University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, 2022), I, p. 688.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England