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Harley MS 6781
- Record Id:
- 040-002052633
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052633
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x000134
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6781
- Title:
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Indices of English family names for heraldic manuscripts
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-31v, 32r-33v, 34r-52v: indices of family names, organized in columns by county and in alphabetical order; undoubtedly originally belonging to or intended for heraldic manuscripts.
ff. 53v-72v: A large index of family names, organized alphabetically.
f. 73r: A note: ‘I would have Sir Peter Brooke his Coate and his wifes being descended from the Brerestons of Malpas an Inheritrix’; followed by (?) coats of arms, and a short index of names.
Decoration:
Five coats of arms in brown ink on ff. 1r (2x), 53r, 73r (2x).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052633", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6781: Indices of English family names for heraldic manuscripts" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052633 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6781 : Indices of English family names for heraldic manuscripts - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6789]/040-002052633
- 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:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 300 x 190 (ff. 1-52); 300 x 310 (ff. 53-73).
Foliation: ff. 73 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end); 3 unfoliated blank paper leaves between f. 1 and f. 2; 1 between f. 31 and f. 32; 18 between f. 33 and f. 34; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. 1r.
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: Post-1600. Marbled paper binding. Bound together with Harley MS 6780.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
? ‘Messrs Tompkins’ (fl. 17th century), (?) London booksellers, perhaps owned ff. 1-52: their names inscribed on f. 1v of Harley MS 6780: ‘Messrs Tompkins At the signe of the goalden Ball and bunch of Grapes in Coleman streett’ (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972).
? ‘Fox’ (fl. 17th century), (?) London bookseller, perhaps owned ff. 53-73: his name inscribed on f. 53r: ‘Mr ffox next to the white hart in the Strand oposit to the maypole’ (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
John Johnson (fl. 1690), arms painter; Master of the Painter-Stainers Company in 1696: purchased from him by Humfrey Wanley for the Harleian Library in 1716: his name inscribed on f. 1r of Harley MS 6780: ‘To John Johnson’, and, in another hand below: ‘Shrewbridg[e] - Chambers & Chadwicke’; the number ‘107’ in Wanley’s hand in the right upper corner of f. 1r of this manuscript (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 206); a fragmentary catalogue of his manuscripts and books made by Humfrey Wanley is preserved in Add MS 70488, Loan 29/261, envelope 5.
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. 395.
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)