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Harley MS 6113
- Record Id:
- 040-002051961
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051961
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x000344
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6113
- Title:
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English pedigrees and coats of arms
- Scope & Content:
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This early 17th-century miscellany contains sections from different English heraldic works that, at some point, were rebound, causing some items that originally belonged together to become separated from one another.
Contents:
ff. 1r-2v: Coats of arms and crests of English families (4-5 per page), some featuring mottos.
f. 3r: Blazons of family names beginning with the letter ‘B’.
ff. 3r-3v: A letter in English (upside down), beginning: ‘Worshipful my duty [? remembered] unto yow theise are in most humble manner to certifei yowr worshipful that all the necessarys in general wihich yow appointed me to send […]’; with notes and names in the margins.
ff. 4r-4v: Notes, signatures and names (e.g. ‘Swanson’, ‘Henry Lylly’), and sketches of coats of arms and heraldic devices.
ff. 5r-14v: Coats of arms and crests of English families (5-12 per page), some featuring mottos).
ff. 15r-15v: Coats of arms with monumental inscriptions, copied from tombstones and effigies in churches.
f. 16r: Coats of arms of (30 per page) English and Irish families named after saints, beginning with ‘St Michell of Ireland’ and ending with ‘St Julian’.
ff. 16v-17r: Coats of arms and crests of English families (6 per page); one featuring the date ‘1608’.
ff. 17v-19v: Genealogies of English families with coats of arms.
ff. 19v-21v: Coats of arms of English families, about 20 per page.
ff. 22r-26r: An alphabetical index of surnames of families included in this manuscript.
f. 26v: A list of English nobility and their ranks, with sketches of heraldic devices.
ff. 27r-31v: Coats of arms with monumental inscriptions in English and Latin, copied from tombstones and effigies in churches, entitled: ‘In Christchurch in the quier’.
ff. 32r-34v, 35v-46r: Coats of arms of English families, 4-12 per page; the arms on ff. 44r-46r also contain descriptions of families (featuring the dates 1608 and 1609).
f. 35r: Notes, signatures and names (e.g. ‘Lillie’ and ‘William Hiltham’), and sketches of coats of arms.
ff. 47v-51r: Pedigrees of English families.
ff. 51v-63v: Coats of arms of English families, 6-20 per page.
ff. 64r-64v: Blazons of arms, alphabetically organised, beginning with the letters ‘C’, ‘D’, and ‘E’.
ff. 65r-65v: Coats of arms of (30 per page) English and Irish families named after saints, beginning with ‘St Owen’ and ending with ‘St Quintin’.
Decoration:
Coats of arms in brown ink, tricked, drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript; some featuring added colours.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051961", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6113: English pedigrees and coats of arms" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051961 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6113 : English pedigrees and coats of arms - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6117]/040-002051961
- 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: 180 x 140 mm.
Foliation: ff. 65 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end).
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house. According to the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), III, p. 326, the manuscript was bound together with Harley MSS 6084, 6090 and 6601 in the Harleian Library.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
? Henry Lily [Lilly] (b. 1589, d. 1638), herald painter in Little Britain; Rose Rouge Pursuivant; Rouge Dragon Pursuivant: his name inscribed on f. 4r and surname on f. 35r (not listed in his entry in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 224).
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. 326.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England