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Harley MS 6106
- Record Id:
- 040-002051954
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051954
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x000275
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6106
- Title:
- Nicholas Upton, De Studio Militari
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-74v: Nicholas Upton (b. 1400, d. 1457), cleric, lawyer, and writer on warfare and heraldry, De Studio Militari [Libellus de Officio Militari], Books I-III [Book IV is missing]; entitled: ‘Liber primus de Coloribus’ (f. 1r); ‘Liber Secundus de Regulis et Signis in Armis depictis’ (f. 16r); ‘Liber tertius de Animalibus et Avibus in Armis portatis et eorum proprietatibus’.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. [iii]recto: ‘De re Heraldica libri tres’; added in the (?) 17th century.
Decoration:
Coats of arms, mostly in colours, others in ink or pencil, or unfinished. Small initials in blue. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051954", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6106: Nicholas Upton, De Studio Militari" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051954 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6106 : Nicholas Upton, De Studio Militari - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6110]/040-002051954
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1575
- End Date:
- 1624
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 190 x 150 mm.
Foliation: ff. 74 (+ 7 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning); 46 unfoliated blank paper leaves after f. 74.
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house. The previous binding (blind-stamped brown leather) has been pasted on the outsides of the upper and lower covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
An unknown early modern English owner: their pressmark (‘O:27:2’) inscribed on f. [vii]verso; also featuring a previous pressmark (? ‘KK[…]), crossed out. Possibly their erased ownership inscription on f. 57r.
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