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Harley MS 6164
- Record Id:
- 040-002052012
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052012
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x000377
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6164
- Title:
- The Visitation Book of the county of Sussex of 1634
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-98v: The Visitation Book of the county of Sussex, recorded by John Philipot (b. 1588, d. 1645), Rouge Dragon Pursuivant and Somerset Herald, and George Owen (b. c. 1598, d. 1665), Clarenceux and Norroy King of Arms and York Herald, in 1633-1634; containing a tract (f. 83r) confirming the noble lineage of ‘Mathias Caldicote’ of Cambridge, signed by the officers of arms Richard St George (b. 1554/5, d. 1635) and William Segar (b. c. 1544-1633).
The manuscript contains several later additions:
f. i verso: A note about forged additions that were made to this manuscript by Glanville Richards, who was imprisoned for damaging and changing British Museum manuscripts [including Harley MS 6164] in 1891 (see Wright, ‘The Man who Wrote on the Manuscripts in the British Museum’ (1986), 76-85); added by Edward John Long Scott (b. 1840, d. 1918), Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum in 1691.
f. ii recto: ‘Sussex’; inscribed in pencil in the (?) 19th century.
f. [64a]recto: A 19th-century copy of the note on f. i verso, referring to forged additions made to f. 64v.
ff. 99r-104r: An alphabetical index of surnames of families included in this manuscript; copied at the British Museum in the (?) early 19th century [based on the index supplied by the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum (1808), III, pp. 337-37, where it is noted that the manuscript lacks an index].
Decoration:
Coats of arms, mostly in colours, throughout.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052012", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6164: The Visitation Book of the county of Sussex of 1634" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052012 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6164 : The Visitation Book of the county of Sussex of 1634 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6168]/040-002052012
- 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:
- 1634
- End Date:
- 1634
- Date Range:
- 1634
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 395 x 285 mm.
Foliation: ff. ii + 98 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); ff. i, ii, 99-104 are two paper leaves; 1 unfoliated strip of modern lineated paper between f. 64 and f. 65 (f. [64a]).
Script: 17th-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. 334-37.
The Visitations of the County of Sussex Made and Taken in the Years 1530, Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux King of Arms; and 1633-4 by John Philipot, Somerset Herald, and George Owen, York herald, for Sir John Burroughs, Garter, and Sir Richard St. George, Clarenceux, ed. by William Bruce Bannerman, The Publications of the Harleian Society, 53 (London: Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, 1905) [edition from this manuscript].
C. J. Wright, ‘The Man who Wrote on the Manuscripts in the British Museum’, British Library Journal, 12.1 (1986), 76-85.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England