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Harley MS 6162
- Record Id:
- 040-002052010
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052010
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x000375
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6162
- Title:
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Arms of the Knights of the Garter
- Scope & Content:
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This composite manuscript contains two separately produced parts that both contain the arms of the Knights of the Garter. The first part (ff. 1-47) bears the date 1579, which is supported by the fact that the last identified knight, Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, was elected to the Order of the Garter in 1575. The second part (ff. 48-57) originally was part of a much larger manuscript as is indicated by its original foliation (‘303’-‘312’). This part is undated but the fact that it lists the arms of the Knights of the Garter during the reign of Henry VIII and ends with the arms of Richard Wingfield of Kimbolton Castle, who was elected to the Order of the Garter in 1522, suggest that it was produced between 1522 and 1547.
Contents:
f. 1r: The arms (shield) of the Trinity surrounded by the arms of the Twelve Patriarchs.
f. 2r: The arms of England.
f. 3r: The arms of the Holy Roman Empire.
f. 4r: The arms of France.
f. 5r: The arms of Scotland.
ff. 6r-47r: The arms of the Knights of the Garter.
ff. 48r-57r: The arms of the Knights of the Garter, here entitled ‘The names and armes off the knights of the right honorable order of the garter as they be sett in ther talles at Windesore the viijth of May the xvith yere of the reigne of kynge Henry theight our soveraine Lord taken owte off a parchment scrolle’.
Decoration:
Coats of arms in colours throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052010", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6162: Arms of the Knights of the Garter" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052010 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6162 : Arms of the Knights of the Garter - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6166]/040-002052010
- 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:
- 1522
- End Date:
- 1579
- Date Range:
- 1522-1579
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 410 x 280 mm.
Foliation: ff. 57 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); ff. 48-57 have been mounted onto paper guards.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: Post-1600. Gold-stamped and –tooled brown leather.
- 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. 334.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)