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Harley MS 6131
- Record Id:
- 040-002051979
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051979
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x000356
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6131
- Title:
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English pedigrees
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-4r: An index of names of families included in this manuscript.
ff. 5r-32v: A book of ‘Pedigrees by Sir Henry St George’ [Henry St George (b. 1581, d. 1644), Richmond Herald] of families whose name begin with the letter 'S'. On f. 12r is a charter of the foundation of the monastery of Shrewsbury.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051979", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6131: English pedigrees" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051979 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6131 : English pedigrees - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6135]/040-002051979
- 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:
- 1649
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: paper.
Dimensions: 310 x 195 mm.
Foliation: ff. 32 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 at the end); 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf between f. 3 and f. 4.
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
? Henry St George (b. 1581, d. 1644), Richmond Herald, wrote the manuscript; according to a title inscription on f. 1r; a note by Peter Le Neve on f. 1r; the manuscript’s spine inscription and the Harleian catalogue (not listed in the entry for him in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 292-93).
? Edward Bysshe (b. c. 1610, d. 1679), herald and politician: perhaps owned the manuscript before the herald from whom Peter Le Neve (below) acquired the manuscript; in a note on f. 1r, Le Neve deems his ownership likely based on its binding (not listed in the entry for him in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 91).
An unnamed herald [‘Heirelt painter’] (fl. late 17th or early 18th century), owned the manuscript: purchased from him by Peter Le Neve, according to his note on f. 1r.
Peter Le Neve (b. 1661, d. 1729), herald and antiquary, owned in 1712: inscribed a note dated to 21 March 1711/712 on f. 1r; perhaps his pressmark (‘No 12’) on f. 1r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 219-221).
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. 329.
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