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1221. Harley MS 6097

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6097
Title:
An English treatise on the rules of heraldry [Harleian Version of John's Treatise]
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-49v: A treatise on the rules of heraldry, based on 'John's Treatise' [see Dennys, The Heraldic Imagination (1976), p. 86], beginning: ‘As King Herodes recordith the beginninge and grownde of Armes was firste att greate assege of Troye’. f. 50v: A drawing of a quartered coat o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1222. Harley MS 6099

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6099
Title:
The Armes and Discents of all the Dukes, Marqueses, Erles, Viscountes and Lordes, that have bin Created in England since the tyme of William the Conqueror, untill this present yeare of our Lord .1584.
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-77r: The ‘Armes and Discents of all the Dukes, Marqueses, Erles, Viscountes and Lordes, that have bin Created in England since the tyme of William the Conqueror, untill this present yeare of our Lord .1584.’; dated to 1584. Decoration: Coats of arms in colours throughout.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1584
Extent:
1 volume

1223. Harley MS 6100

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6100
Title:
A history of the Lord Chancellors of England, from Leofric to John Morton
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘A booke of the lorde Chaunscellors of Englande’. ff. 1r-49v: A history of the Lord Chancellors of England, beginning with Leofric, Bishop of Exeter, and ending with John Morton (d. 1500), Archbishop of Canterbury. f. 50r: The name ‘henrie deney’ [Henry ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1224. Harley MS 6102

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6102
Title:
Welsh coats of arms and pedigrees
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-27r: Coats of arms of Welsh nobility and gentry (4 per page) with descriptions of their houses in English, entitled: ‘Welsh Armes – The Auncient descents of divers Noble howses and gentlemen of Wales’; on f. 26v: ‘Heare endes the Coppie of a welshe booke of Armes and descentes...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1225. Harley MS 6103

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6103
Title:
Edmund Bolton, Academ Roial
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-25r: Edmund Bolton (b. 1575, d. 1633), here using the pseudonym ‘Pilanactophil’ (f. 4v), ‘Overtures and reasons for two excellent publick works: The one an Academ, or College roial, to bee the certain seat of the doctrines, and exercises of Honor, subordinated to the Garter, a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1620
Extent:
1 volume

1226. Harley MS 6104

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6104
Title:
William Dugdale, Visitation of Staffordshire, 1663-64, and Visitation of Derbyshire, 1662-63
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1**recto: A title-page: ‘The Visitation of Staffordshire Taken in the year of our Lord on Thousand six hundred sixty three by William Dugdale Esquire Norroy King at Armes – Received in Anno 1664’. ff. 2*recto-2**recto: An alphabetical index of the names of families included in th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1664
Extent:
1 volume

1227. Harley MS 6105

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6105
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript relating to Hampshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘Hampshire’. ff. 1v-2r: Two lists of expenses for food and a banquet entitled ‘Mr Bartrands Bill’ and ‘Swering Diner when I was warden’. The second list also includes payments for ‘washing the dishes’, ‘the Cooke’, and ‘the Butler’. Next to the second list is a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1228. Harley MS 6107

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6107
Title:
Drawings of seals and arms of Scottish nobility
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-20r: Drawings of seals of Scottish nobility, some with descriptions of their charters (in Latin). ff. 21v-23r: Drawings of coats of arms on the windows of the church of Bothwell, South Lanarkshire (Scotland); from ‘Douglas Tower’ and the ‘Earle of Forfars garden’ at Bothwell ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1707
Extent:
1 volume

1229. Harley MS 6108

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6108
Title:
The history of Brecon and Glamorgan until the year 1606
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-54v: The history of Brecon and Glamorgan until the year 1606; for a large part illegible due to damage by damp.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1606
Extent:
1 volume

1230. Harley MS 6109

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6109
Title:
Coats of arms of Kentish families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v, 2v-5r: Coats of arms of Kentish families, 4 per page. ff. 1*recto-1*verso: An alphabetical index of surnames of families included in this manuscript. Decoration: Coats of arms in brown ink (tricked).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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