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Harley MS 6105

Record Id:

040-002051953

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002051953

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x000274

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 6105

Title:

An English heraldic manuscript relating to Hampshire

Scope & Content:

Contents:

f. 1r: A title-page: ‘Hampshire’.

ff. 1v-2r: Two lists of expenses for food and a banquet entitled ‘Mr Bartrands Bill’ and ‘Swering Diner when I was warden’. The second list also includes payments for ‘washing the dishes’, ‘the Cooke’, and ‘the Butler’. Next to the second list is a roundel with the arms of Basingstoke (crossed out).

ff. 2v-20r: Coats of arms of English families, also featuring roundels with the arms of Basingstoke and Andover, Hampshire (f. 2v); and Newport [2x] and Yarmouth [2x], Isle of Wight (f. 4v).

ff. 29v-32r: A collection of arms (c. 20 per page) drawn from Theobalds House [demolished in 1649-1650], built by William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, entitled: ‘Theis Armes of Hampshire ware taken out of a gallery at Theabaldes a house built by Sir William Cicelles lord Burley and knight of the garter lord highe Treasurer of England’.

f. 32v: The arms (faded) of ‘James Courtney’.

Decoration:

Coats or arms, tricked, in brown ink.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002051953

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 6105 : An English heraldic manuscript relating to Hampshire

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[6109]/040-002051953

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:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper; parchment (ff. 1*, 32).

Dimensions: 200 x 155 mm.

Foliation: ff. 32 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 at the end); f. 1 and f. 32 are parchment leaves; each leaf has been mounted onto a paper guard; ff. 2-19, 29-32 have white strips of paper attached to their outer margins.

Script: 17th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house. According to the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), III, p. 325, the manuscript was bound together with Harley MS 6861.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

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. 325.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England