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371. Harley MS 834

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 834
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-44v, 46v-51vr: Part of an ordinary of arms, organised according to heraldic device. ff. 52r-58v: ‘The whole discourse of Thomas Duke of Norffolke his arrainement the xijth day of January 1571’. ff. 59r-62v: ‘The arraygnement of Philip Howard Late Earle of Arundell [1589]’. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

372. Harley MS 836

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 836
Title:
The Last Enstructions which the Emperour Charles the fiveth gave to his soune Philippe before his death
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-61v: A ‘copie of the Last Enstructions which the Emperour Charles the fiveth gave to his soune Philippe before his death translated out of Spanish’; preceded by an introduction by Henry Howard (b. 1540, d. 1614), 1st Earl of Northampton, addressed to Queen Elizabeth I.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

373. Harley MS 837

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 837
Title:
Miscellaneous collection of poetry and historical texts
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume. Contents: ff. 1*-48v: Extracts from Plutarch's Lives. ff. 49-61v: A letter of Mr John Goodwin, Minister in Coleman Street, at the request of a friend, concerning points of religion. f. 62: Inscription: 'A Booke of versee', in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’. Above thi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

374. Harley MS 838

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 838
Title:
Collection of heraldic and genealogical works, including Mirabilia Orientis, Mirabilia Anglie, and a Middle English translation of Christine de Pizan's Epistre d'Othéa; Annales Cambriae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of two distinct parts that were copied separately and joined together at an unknown point before the manuscript reached the Harleian Library. The first part (ff. 1r-95r) contains heraldic works, chronicles and other historical items, and one of the two extant independen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

375. Harley MS 839

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 839
Title:
Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-49v: An Alphabet of Arms; blazons organized alphabetically according to family names; f. 43, containing the blazoned arms of the princes of the royal house of Plantagnet, appears to have been misbound. ff. 50r-51v: Arms of Salisbury; Companies; Sir Christopher Hatton and Sir ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

376. Harley MS 840

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 840
Title:
Genealogies of aristocratic families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-43v: Genealogies of aristocratic families, several of which contain blazons or tricks for their arms. ff. 44r-45v: A table of contents. Decoration: Coats of arms in brown ink (‘tricks’) in the genealogies throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

377. Harley MS 841

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 841
Title:
Memoirs of the life and actions of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume containing a draft copy of the memoirs of the Duke of Hamilton, by Gilbert Burnet, with autograph corrections. Titled 'Memoires of the life and actions of James, Duke of Hamiltoun etc' [James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton], and compiled by Gilbert Burnet using the origin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1677
Extent:
1 volume

378. Harley MS 842

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 842
Title:
John Leland, Itinerary in England and Wales (excerpts)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-93v: Excerpts from John Leland's Itinerary in England and Wales (1539-1543); in Stillingfleet’s catalogue entitled 'Dodderige's Geographical Description of several Counties in England'. Decoration: A drawing of a cross purporting to be King Arthur’s gravestone (‘Hic iacet ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 16th century-4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

379. Harley MS 844

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 844
Title:
Copies of charters and exemplifications of orders concerning Congleton (Cheshire), 1518-1595
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Charters & Exemplificacions of Orders concerning Congleton. W: S:’. ff. 1r-29v: Collection of copies of charters and exemplifications of orders concerning Congleton in Cheshire, dated 1518-1595.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1595
Extent:
1 volume

380. Harley MS 845

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 845
Title:
Index to a book of law precedents
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume containing an index to a book of law precedents, compiled by Thomas Cole of the Court of Wards and Liveries. Inscribed on f. 1: 'A Table to my Booke of Presedents marked Cole. B.'. The location of this book is not known.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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