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Harley MS 6776
- Record Id:
- 040-002052628
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052628
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x00012f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6776
- Title:
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A genealogy of the De Vere family
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-16v: A genealogy of the De Vere family in English and Latin, entitled: 'The Genalogy of the most Ancient and Illustrious Family of the Veres, Earles of Guisnes in Normandy, and of Oxford, and Lord great Chamberlands of England, being descended from the Kings of the Argives, Dukes of Millaine, Angiers, and Manc[h]e. Extracted and drawn down in the Several Branches to this present yeere Anno 1676: by John Tilston, Esquire, Student in Antiquities'; ending with John de Vere (b. 1442, d. 1513), 13th Earl of Oxford.
Decoration:
Coats of arms in colours, green roundels with yellow crowns and red relationship lines in the genealogy.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052628", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6776: A genealogy of the De Vere family" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052628 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6776 : A genealogy of the De Vere family - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6784]/040-002052628
- 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:
- 1676
- End Date:
- 1676
- Date Range:
- 1676
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 320 x 205 mm.
Foliation: ff. 19 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 at the end); 19 unfoliated blank paper leaves after f. 19; f. 15 is a small strip of paper pasted onto f. 14v; ff. 17, 18, and 19 have paper foldouts on the lower and outer margins.
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house: Green half leather binding with the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers. According to the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, III (1808), p. 394, the manuscript was bound together with Harley MSS 4189 and 6134 in the Harleian Library.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
John Tilston (fl. 1670s), Esquire and ‘Student in Antiquities’, compiled the manuscript in 1676: identified himself as compiler working in this year in the title inscription on f. 1r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 329); probably the same ‘John Tilston’ who compiled the genealogy of the House of Montagu in 1670, extant in Harley MS 1389.
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. 394.
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. 469.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England