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2. Harley MS 1233
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1233
- Title:
- Heraldic miscellany
- Scope & Content:
- Miscellaneous collection of pedigrees and descents, with some anecdotes and other material, in various hands. Contents: f. 1v: A Jest of the Duke de Joyeuse on King Henri IV of France himself, and other Lords present. Account of a great treasure revealed to Christian Duke of Brunswick by th...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
3. Harley MS 1385
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1385
- Title:
- Somerset heraldry
- Scope & Content:
- Heraldic book relating to Somerset families tricked by Jacob Chaloner (1586-1631) and John Saunders (died c. 1687), arms painters. f. 1: List of Somerset sheriffs during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and the first seventeen years of King James I, by Jacob Chaloner. f. 2: Arms of Somerset j...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4. Harley MS 1393
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1393
- Title:
- Heraldic collection
- Scope & Content:
- Heraldic collection, mainly pedigrees, with the title ‘Copia ex Libro Nicholai Tubmanni alias Lancastr’. For a detailed list of pedigrees, see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, volume 2 (1808), pages 22-25.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- Unspecified
- Extent:
- 1 volume
5. Harley MS 1578
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1578
- Title:
- Political tracts
- Scope & Content:
- Composite volume of political tracts bound together. On impositions, commission of sewers, ship-money, liberty of freemen, right to property, and other subjects, with some ecclesiastical matters. Contents: ff. 1-123: Remonstrance of the House of Commons to King James I (ff. 1-16r); Argument i...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
6. Harley MS 1759
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1759
- Title:
- Commonplace book
- Scope & Content:
- English commonplace book of historical, political, military and ecclesiastical matters, taken from the writings of Clarion, Sleidan, de Commines, Knolles, Guicciardini, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Vere, and other sources. Includes a table of contents (ff. 2-3). For a detailed list of the c...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1617
- Extent:
- 1 volume
7. Harley MS 1982
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1982
- Title:
- Shropshire pedigrees
- Scope & Content:
- Heraldic manuscript volume in several hands, showing arms and pedigrees of old Shropshire families. Re-foliated. The letter from Richard Mundy to Randle Holme, 22 June 1638 (before original folio 78), referred to in the printed Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum (1808-12...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- Early 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
8. Harley MS 2945
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2945
- Title:
- Processional
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-171r: Processional, imperfect at the beginning; containing a litany, listing various English saints on ff. 57v-58r, 58v, and 134v-135r, including Aldhelm, Birinus, Edith, Edmund, Edward, Oswald, and Etheldreda, Swithun (ff. 167v-168); featuring musical notation on four-line red...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
9. Harley MS 1174
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1174
- Title:
- Miscellaneous pedigrees
- Scope & Content:
- Volume of miscellaneous pedigrees, arms, and other heraldical papers bound together. For a detailed list of contents, see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, vol. I (1808), pages 578-581. A British Library curatorial note pasted into the front of the volume states t...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- Late 16th century-Early 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
10. Harley MS 1220
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1220
- Title:
- Political tracts
- Scope & Content:
- Composite volume of political tracts in several hands. ff. 1-6: Concerning the decay of rents, and how to improve them. Headed ‘Decay of Rents’. ff. 7-9: Proposals for the better ordering the poor of an unidentified parish. ff. 10-20: Proposals for settling the peace of England, both in Ch...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume