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Harley MS 6107
- Record Id:
- 040-002051955
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051955
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x000276
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6107
- Title:
- Drawings of seals and arms of Scottish nobility
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-20r: Drawings of seals of Scottish nobility, some with descriptions of their charters (in Latin).
ff. 21v-23r: Drawings of coats of arms on the windows of the church of Bothwell, South Lanarkshire (Scotland); from ‘Douglas Tower’ and the ‘Earle of Forfars garden’ at Bothwell Castle; it is noted that these arms were observed ‘By Mr Alexander Bayly and myself [‘Mr D.S.’] on munday september 8 1707’. This followed by arms from Rosslyn Chapel, Roslin, Midlothian (Scotland) that were drawn by the same in 1707.
The manuscript contains a few additions:
ff. 3r-3v: A description of the seal of William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas, in English; with on the verso: ‘Harl. MS 6107 // Allan Hay //’; added in the early 18th century.
f. 20r: Two seals entitled: ‘Draught of the Seals of the Earle of Marsh’; added in the early 18th century.
Decoration:
Coats of arms and seals drawn in black ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051955", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6107: Drawings of seals and arms of Scottish nobility" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051955 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6107 : Drawings of seals and arms of Scottish nobility - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6111]/040-002051955
- 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:
- 1702
- End Date:
- 1712
- Date Range:
- c 1707
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 195 x 125 mm.
Foliation: ff. 23 (+ 12 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 12 at the end); f. 2 is a small paper leaf mounted onto a paper guard; f. 20 is a small paper bifolium mounted onto a paper guard; f. 20 is followed by a paper leaf that is also foliated as f. 20 [and remains uncorrected in this foliation]; 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf between f. 4 and f. 5; and f. 19 and f. 20; 29 between f. 20 and f. 21.
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Scotland.
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:
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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.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England