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Harley MS 6159
- Record Id:
- 040-002052007
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052007
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x000372
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6159
- Title:
- The Visitation of Lancashire of 1567
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 2*recto: A title-page for the Visitation of Lancashire of 1567, entitled: ‘The Visitacion of Lancashire etcaetera: Made in Anno 1567. Annoque 9 R. Eliz.’; with a full-page drawing of the arms of the house of Lancaster, surmounted above a family tree with coats of arms and the red rose of Lancaster.
ff. 3*verso-4*recto: A 2-page map of Lancashire in colours.
ff. 1r-2r: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript.
f. 3r: A description of Lancashire, entitled: ‘Ex Libro vocatur Domesday. Lancastershire’.
f. 3v: A family tree for the dukes of Lancashire.
ff. 4r-4v: Lists of gentry of the hundreds of Lancashire ('Darby', 'Salford', 'Blackborne, Lailand', 'Aundernes').
ff. 6v-85r: Pedigrees of Lancashire families with their arms.
ff. 92r-93v: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript.
The manuscript contains later additions:
f. 1*recto: A memorandum that 'Katherine Margarett Odingfells wyff to Sir Richard whittacre was first maried to Sir Peter [Lymsey]; and had by hym a d[aughter] ux[or] Richard Rochfort, de co[mitatu] Lyncoln'; added in the (?) 16th century.
f. 1*verso: A list of names with a note: 'Remember to make all the Williamsons', crossed out; added in the (?) 16th century.
Decoration:
Coats of arms in colours and family trees drawn in red ink throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052007", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6159: The Visitation of Lancashire of 1567" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052007 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6159 : The Visitation of Lancashire of 1567 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6163]/040-002052007
- 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:
- 1598
- End Date:
- 1598
- Date Range:
- 1598
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 240 x 265 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 40b + 94 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); f. 1* is a small paper strip mounted onto a paper guard; f. '40b' is a paper leaf; 2 unfoliated paper pastedowns on f. 2*recto (pressmarks).
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
William Smith (b. c. 1550, d. 1618), merchant, traveller, topographer, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary at the College of Arms, 1597-1618, wrote and owned in 1598: his colophon on f. 2*recto: ‘Visitacio ista Lancastriae, transcripta et augmentata fuit, in Anno 1598 per me William Smith (alias) Rougedragon, Prosecutorem ad Arma’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 307).
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. 333.
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