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Harley MS 6152
- Record Id:
- 040-002052000
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052000
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x00036b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6152
- Title:
- The pedigrees of the families of Chasteleine, and Basset of Weldon
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-13v: The pedigrees (‘Historicall Descent[s]’) of the families of Chasteleine, and Basset of Weldon (‘Welledone’), featuring various drawn replicas of original charters with their contents written in imitative Gothic scripts from the 13th and 14th centuries, and containing seals in colours; with testimonies referring to the original documents from which the replicas were made. The last one on f. 12r is dated to 1632.
Decoration:
Coats of arms in colours and gold in red frames with a green background (ff. 3r, 5v, 6v, 10r, 11v). Drawings of seals in colours throughout the manuscript. A drawing of Kentwell Hall in Suffolk in colours (f. 2v). Headers and titles in red ink. Relationship lines in the pedigrees drawn in red ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052000", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6152: The pedigrees of the families of Chasteleine, and Basset of Weldon" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052000 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6152 : The pedigrees of the families of Chasteleine, and Basset of Weldon - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6156]/040-002052000
- 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:
- 1627
- End Date:
- 1637
- Date Range:
- c 1632
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 440 x 335 mm.
Foliation: ff. 13 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end).
Script: Gothic (imitative script); and 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound on 31 January 1967.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England
Provenance:
Sir Simonds D'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton: purchased from his grandson on 20 August 1720 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1927), p. 131); but not listed in his catalogues (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D’Ewes (1966)).
Sir Simonds D’Ewes (d. 1722), 3rd baronet and grandson of the former: inherited and later sold the D’Ewes library to Robert Harley on 4 October 1705 for £450.
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.
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966).
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. 460.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England