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Harley MS 6183
- Record Id:
- 040-002052031
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052031
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x00038a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6183
- Title:
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The Visitation of Leicestershire in 1619
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1*verso: The beginning of a draft or copy of an indenture: 'Know all present and to come that wee John de Verdon Lord of Brikilasworth Knight, and Maud my wife; doe give and grant, and by this our present writeing doe confirme unto John the sone of Walter de Howby and to william de Brinshurst'.
ff. 2*recto-5*verso: An index of the names of families.
f. 1r: A title-page: ‘The Visitation of the county of Leicestersheir taken by Sampson Leonard alias Blewmantle and Augustine Vincent alias Ruderole pursivantes of Armes in Anno Domini 1619’.
ff. 2r-127v: A copy of the Visitation of Leicestershire, 1619, of Samson Lennard (d. 1633) and Augustine Vincent (b. c. 1584, d. 1626). Made sometime between 1619 and 1638.
Decoration:
Coats of arms, tricked, drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052031", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6183: The Visitation of Leicestershire in 1619" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052031 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6183 : The Visitation of Leicestershire in 1619 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6187]/040-002052031
- 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:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1649
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: paper.
Dimensions: 355 x 220 mm.
Foliation: ff. 127 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); each leaf has been mounted onto a paper guard; and has a white strip of paper attached to its outer margin
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Henry Lily [Lilly] (b. 1589, d. 1638), herald painter in Little Britain; Rose Rouge Pursuivant; Rouge Dragon Pursuivant: his name written on f. 1r; perhaps his pressmark ('44') on f. [iii]recto (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 224).
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.
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