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Harley MS 6830
- Record Id:
- 040-002052682
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052682
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x000165
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6830
- Title:
- Pedigrees and coats of arms of Cambridgeshire families
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1r: A leaf from another manuscript with the title: ‘These are the Ancient Coate of Armes of Collings of Shropshier of [...] Robe[r]t Collings of Stapleton [...] Anno Domini 1615’ (inscribed in red pencil).
ff. 2r-3v: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript.
ff. 4r-72v: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Cambridgeshire families; also featuring blazons in heraldic French terminology; the latest date in this manuscript is 1639; ff. 7r-9r contain additions going up to 1698, including a letter with ‘An Answer to Mr Bedfords queries’ concerning the state of Sir Thomas Chicheley of Wimpole, which, according to the author ‘The Lady Henrietta Cavendishe Holles Harley [(b. 1694, d. 1755)]’ is now the heir of the estate.
f. 73r: An English account of the discovery of 16 skeletons near Arrington, Cambridgeshire, in October 1721, which the author deems to be the remains of soldiers who died in the English Civil War.
ff. 74r-75r: Four coats of arms in colours.
ff. 76r-77v: Copies of inscriptions on tombs and drawings of monuments belonging to the Cage and Bovey families in the medieval church of Longstowe, Cambridgeshire.
ff. 78r-79r: A Latin bull, entitled: ‘A Copy of A Popes’ Bull granted to sir John Colvil of Newton near Wisbich, in the Isle of Ely, transcribed from the Original lately in the hands of Richard Colvil Esquire of Newton’.
f. 79v: An account of the foundation of a chantry by John Colville during the reign of King Henry IV.
Decoration:
Coats of arms and crests, tricked, drawn in black ink throughout the manuscript; featuring copies from seals on f. 16r and f. 28r. Coats of arms in colours on ff. 74r-75). A griffon rampant in brown ink and red pencil, with rabbits (5x) in red and grey pencil, and brown ink, on f. 1r; lobsters in grey pencil and brown ink (4x) on f. 1v. Sketches of monuments (f. 76r), and a full-page drawing of a monument [featuring the statue of man receiving an anchor from heaven] ‘upon the East Wall of Boveys Chappel in Stow Church’ (f. 77v) in pencil and ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052682", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6830: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Cambridgeshire families" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052682 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6830 : Pedigrees and coats of arms of Cambridgeshire families - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6838]/040-002052682
- 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:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 385 x 245 mm.
Foliation: ff. 79 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 9 at the end); 2 unfoliated blank paper leaves between f. 1 and f. 2; ff. 7-9 are inserted smaller leaves mounted onto paper guards; ff. 73-79 have been separately mounted onto paper guards.
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
George Harbin (b. c. 1665, d. 1744), non-juror and historical writer, wrote ff. 78-79: according to Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 179.
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. 421.
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. 179.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England