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1. Harley MS 1-7661

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1-7661
Title:
Harley Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts collected by Robert Harley (d 1724) and Edward Harley (d 1741), 1st and 2nd Earls of Oxford. c 1300-c 1700. 7661 manuscripts
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, Arabic, Dutch, English, English, Middle, English, Old, French, French, Old, Georgian, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Irish, Irish, Old, Italian, Latin, Slavic languages, and Turkish
Date Range:
c 1300-c 1700
Extent:
7689 items

2. Harley MS 1938 and 1941

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1938 and 1941
Title:
Two law manuscripts
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1590s-1650s
Extent:
1 volume

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

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