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Harley MS 6175
- Record Id:
- 040-002052023
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052023
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x000382
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6175
- Title:
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Kentish arms and pedigrees
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-8r: Coats of arms (35 per page) of Kentish nobility and gentry, alphabetically organised.
ff. 8v-[81a]r: Pedigrees of Kentish families, featuring tricked arms and dates (the latest is the year 1619); also featuring a statute of All Souls College in Latin on f. 10r.
ff. 84r-95r: An alphabetical index of the names of families included in this manuscript.
The manuscript contains a few additions:
ff. 1*recto-1*verso, 96r-96v: Two leaves from a late 14th or early 15th-century Pontifical-Missal, featuring neumes. for ff. 1*verso-1*recto (the leaf has been bound reversed) see Liber Pontificalis of Edmund Lacy, ed. by Barnes (1847), pp. 250-52; ff. 96r-96v contains texts from the Sarum Missal.
f. 82r: A note (upside down and crossed out): ‘[…] Leeds […] Luctuosus moornfull Of this name I kn[o]w […] a Clothwoorker in Cheap at milkstrete eend about 1530’.
f. 83v: A note on the change of a coat of arms by William Segar (b. c. 1554, d. 1633), officer of arms, beginning: ‘To all and singular persons, as well noble as others, to whom this present certificate shall Come, William Segar Garter, principall king of Armes sendeth greeting in our Lord God everlasting, Know ye that I the sayed Garter, at the request, of the much honoured Sir Henry Baker, knight Baronett hath added and annexed unto his auncient Coate of Armes [etc.]’; written in the late 16th or early 17th century.
Decoration:
Coats of arms, tricked [although some with colours added], drawn throughout the manuscript. ff. 1*recto-1*verso, 96r-96v feature large blue initials with red penwork decoration and pen-flourishing, small blue and red initials with penwork decoration in the opposite colour, rubrics and four-line staffs in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052023", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6175: Kentish arms and pedigrees" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052023 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6175 : Kentish arms and pedigrees - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6179]/040-002052023
- 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:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1624
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: paper; parchment (ff. 1*, 96).
Dimensions: 370 x 265 mm.
Foliation: ff. 96 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); the manuscript only features early modern foliation, according to which two leaves are foliated as ‘81’; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. 1r (Harleian pressmarks); ff. 1* and 96 are smaller parchment leaves (305 x 230) taken from a medieval manuscript; each leaf has been mounted onto a paper guard.
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. 338.
Liber Pontificalis of Edmund Lacy, Bishop of Exeter: A Manuscript of the Fourteenth Century, ed. by Ralph Barnes (Exeter: Roberts, 1847), pp. 250-52.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England