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Harley MS 6123

Record Id:

040-002051971

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002051971

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x00034e

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 6123

Title:

Blazons of English coats of arms

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-35v: Names with their arms blazoned, entitled: ‘Out of a manuscript in the Trinity libararie’.

ff. 36r-74v: Names with their arms blazoned, entitled: ‘Out of the same volume in the Publick Library to these following is prefixed this inscription: These armes were taken forth of a very ancient roll of Parchment for worne as they were […] to bee discerned A. D. 1589’.

ff. 75r-76r: Epitaphs of Fernandino, Lord Fairfax, Dr Harris, Dr Airay (d. 1658).

ff. 76v-77v: Memorial inscriptions in a chapel at Wolvercote, Oxfordshire.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002051971

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 6123 : Blazons of English coats of arms

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[6127]/040-002051971

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:

1650

End Date:

1699

Date Range:

2nd half of the 17th century

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 145 x 90 mm.

Foliation: ff. 77 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); ff. 4, 16, 31, and 50 are partially torn.

Script: 17th-century script.

Binding: Post-1600. Blind-stamped and –tooled brown leather.

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. 328.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England