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Harley MS 6120
- Record Id:
- 040-002051968
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051968
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x00034b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6120
- Title:
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An English heraldic collection
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-98r: An Alphabet of Arms; blazons of arms of English nobility and gentry; made by Roger Kemys.
ff. 99r-136r: A treatise on the earls of England since the Norman Conquest, with the blazons of their arms, organized by county; made by Roger Kemys using a work by William Camden.
ff. 138r-162r: A treatise on heraldry, with tricked coats of arms (12 or 4 per page), with title inscriptions referring to their heraldic devices; entitled 'The Blason of Armes taken out of Gerard Leighs and Master Ferne withe some Rules concernynge the same'; a table of contents on f. 162r.
Decoration:
Coats of arms, tricked, drawn in brown ink (ff. 138r-162r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051968", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6120: An English heraldic collection" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051968 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6120 : An English heraldic collection - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6124]/040-002051968
- 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: 175 x 110 mm.
Foliation: ff. 163 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 2 at the end); 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf between f. 24 and f. 25; f. 29 and f. 30; f. 31 and f. 32; f. 36 and f. 37; f. 47 and f. 48; f. 87 and f. 88; f. 98 and f. 99; and f. 162 and f. 163; 2 between f. 5 and f. 6; f. 46 and f. 47; f. 49 and f. 50; f. 54 and f. 55; f. 60 and f. 61; f. 62 and f. 63; f. 70 and f. 71; f. 83 and f. 84; 3 between f. 96 and f. 97; and f. 136 and f. 137; 4 between 16 and 17; f. 137 and f. 138.
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
‘Roger Kemys’, probably Roger Kemys (d. 1610) of Wickwick in Frampton Cotterell, Gloucestershire: wrote and collected the manuscript in the early 17th century: according to his note on f. 1r: ‘‘The blazon of sundery […] Cotes Collected by Alphabet by me Roger Kemys – Also the names of all such as have ben erles of Any Countys of this Realme sence the Conquest made by wyll[ia]m the Conqueror According to Mr Cambdens Collections wyth the blazon of there severall Cotes’; his name inscribed on f. 1r [different hand] (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 209).
Clayton Milborne (fl. 1689-1715), son of John Milborne of Allesoton, Gloucestershire: his name inscribed on 1r (perhaps also inscribed the name of ‘Roger Kemys’ on that page; his name with the year 1680 inscribed on f. 163v (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 240).
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. 327.
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.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England