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Harley MS 6125
- Record Id:
- 040-002051973
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051973
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x000350
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6125
- Title:
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The Visitation of Leicestershire of 1619
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1*recto-4*verso: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript.
ff. 1r-107v: A copy of or notes for the Visitation Book of Samson Lennard (d. 1633) and Augustine Vincent (b. c. 1584, d. 1626) for the Visitation of Leicestershire of 1619, here entitled: ‘The Visitation of the countie of Leicester taken by Sampson Leonard alias Blewmantle and Augustine Vincent alias Rougerose Pursuivant of Armes anno Domini 1619’ [also in Harley MS 6183]; featuring only pedigrees without coats of arms.
ff. 108r-120r: Drawings of coats of arms with notes, possibly originals from the visitation, entitled ‘Leicester’ (ff. 108r-109r); and ‘Visitation of Leicester’ (f. 119v).
Decoration:
Coats of arms, tricked, drawn in brown ink on ff. 108r-120r.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051973", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6125: The Visitation of Leicestershire of 1619" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051973 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6125 : The Visitation of Leicestershire of 1619 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6129]/040-002051973
- 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:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 335 x 210 mm.
Foliation: ff. 120 (+ 6 unfoliated blank paper leaves at the beginning + 5 at the end); f. 108 and f. 109 are the same leaf; ff. 108-120 are smaller paper leaves.
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house; gilt fore-edge.
- Custodial History:
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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:
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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. 328.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England