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Harley MS 6151
- Record Id:
- 040-002051999
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051999
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x00036a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6151
- Title:
- Genealogies and coats of arms of Irish and Scottish families
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-46r: Descriptions of genealogies of Irish and Scottish families with blazons of arms; includes the families of Keith (Earl Marischal), Stapleton of the Mountains, Elphinstone (Lord Balmerino), Welch ['Wealche'] of the Mountains (featuring a warrant dated to 22 August 1714), Stuart (Stewart), Gordon, Graham, Lindsay, Hay (Earl of Erroll), Sutherland, Campbell, Douglas (Earl of Morton), Fleming (Earl of Wigtown), Seton (Earl of Winton), Sinclair (Earl of Orkney), Murray (Earl of Tullibardine), Ruthven (Earl of Gowrie), Ker (Earl of Roxburghe); intersected with additional 17th- and 18th-century documents (ff. 4-6, 11-14, 14*, 35, and 46) in Latin, French, and English by different hands. The first paper pastedown on f. 6r has the note: ‘Entered in the Kings booke, 20 May 1690 – Athlon[e]’.
Decoration:
17 coats of arms in colours, gold, and silver, with crowns, crests, and mottos. The family names, written next to these coats of arms, are in blue or red and feature gold initials (ff. 1r, 7r, 8r 10r [the name ‘Stuarts’ entirely written in gold], 18r, 20v, 22r, 24r, 28r, 30r, 32r, 34r, 37r, 39r, 41r, 43r, 45r [the name ‘Ker’ entirely written in gold].
A stamp on f. 4r with three fleurs-de-lis in a laurel wreath circumscribed with the inscription: ‘Grand Pap. II. Sols VIII. D. Le F. - Gen. de Paris’; as found on French paper dated to 1709 (see Devaux, ‘Papiers et Parchemins timbrés de France’ (1905), p. 379).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051999", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6151: Genealogies and coats of arms of Irish and Scottish families" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051999 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6151 : Genealogies and coats of arms of Irish and Scottish families - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6155]/040-002051999
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1675
- End Date:
- 1724
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 17th century-1st quarter of the 18th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: paper.
Dimensions: 455 x 295 mm.
Foliation: ff. 14* + 47 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); f. 14* is a small strip of paper; 2 unfoliated paper pastedowns on f. 6r (genealogical notes); ff. 4, 5, 11-14, 35, and 46 are smaller paper leaves; each leaf has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Script: 17th- and 18th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- 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. 332.
Alexandre Devaux, ‘Papiers et Parchemins timbrés de France (suite)’, Bulletin de la Société Archéologique, Historique et Artistique Le Vieux Papier, 3 (1905), 379-90 (p. 379).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)