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Harley MS 6153

Record Id:
040-002052001
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002052001
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x00036c
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6153
Title:

Pedigrees and coats of arms of Welsh and Shropshire families

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-27v: Pedigrees, mainly of families of Wales and Shropshire, going up to the year 1623; a blazon of the arms of Andrew Corbet, entittled: ‘Sir Andrew Corberts knight beareath these Coates quarterlye quarterlye as followeth’ (f. 23r)

ff. 28r-31r: A tract on the ‘pedegree of Mr Rowland Owmen’, dated to 1629; followed by pedigrees of families, mainly from Wales and Shropshire; Pedigrees for Pugh, Herbert, Puleston.

Decoration:

Coats of arms in colours, relationship lines in the genealogies in yellow, and stamps of two hands shaking in black ink used for marriages throughout ff. 1r-27r. Stamped coats of arms with two lions passant (f. 20r), a lion rampant with six fleurs-de-lis (ff. 21r-22v). Stamped roundels for pedigrees in black ink on ff. 29v-31r.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
Hierarchy Tree:
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002045828
040-002052001
Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

 

Harley MS 6153 : Pedigrees and coats of arms of Welsh and Shropshire families
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[6157]/040-002052001
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:
1623
End Date:
1629
Date Range:
1623-1629
Era:
CE
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User Conditions:
Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 435 x 290 mm.

Foliation: ff. 8* + 31 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. 2r (title inscription and pressmark); f. 8* is a small paper leaf mounted onto a paper leaf (index of family names).

Script: 17th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

James Newton (fl. early 18th century), bookseller: sold to Harley as part of a group of 19 heraldic manuscripts on 19 October 1725 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 251-52).

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. 332.

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