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731. Harley MS 1402

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1402
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-18v: Coats of arms (4-9 per page) of deceased persons, probably of those for whom John Spicer had been employed as a painter. Decoration: Coats of arms and crests drawn and tricked in brown ink throughout the manuscript. Drawings of banners with coats of arms in brown ink an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1682
Extent:
1 volume

732. Harley MS 1403

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1403
Title:
Coats of arms of the Irish nobility
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: ‘A Booke of the Armes, Creasts, & Suporters, with the severall Quarterings of all the Nobility of Ireland in their sevrall ranks Collected together by me John Withie’. ff. 2r-4r: A list of peerages included in this manuscript and the dates of their creations, going up to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1630-c 1655
Extent:
1 volume

733. Harley MS 1404

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1404
Title:
Ordinary of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-42r: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript, entitled: ‘The Contentes of this Booke’. ff. 43r-200r: An Ordinary of Arms; with some additions by John Withie and John Saunders. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. [iv]recto: A title inscript...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

734. Harley MS 1405

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1405
Title:
English coats of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A list of places: ‘Oxford – Buckingham – Bedford – Hartfordsh[ire] – Essex – Norff[olk] – Suff[olk]’. ff. 1r-1v: The arms of Gregory Payne, with the date 26 August 1675. ff. 2r-5v: Coats of arms of Oxfordshire (12 per parge) dated to 1668; with a note on the arms and c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1668-1669
Extent:
1 volume

735. Harley MS 1414

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1414
Title:
An Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*verso: A title inscription: ‘The Greate Alphabett in trick’. ff. 1r-286r: An Alphabet of Arms, with coats of arms in colour and tricked in brown ink. Decoration: Coats of arms in colour or tricked in brown ink, organized in grids with 20 escutcheons per page.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

736. Harley MS 1415

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1415
Title:
Robert Glover, Visitation Book of Yorkshire (1584-85), and Visitation Book of Staffordshire (1583)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-96v: Robert Glover (b. 1543/4, d. 1588), Visitation Book of Yorkshire (1584), entitled: ‘The Booke of Entrances, made in the tyme of thevisitation of Yorkeshier, begone 1584, and continued, Anno Domini 1585 by Robert Glover, alias Somersett herald at Armes: Mareshall, and deput...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

737. Harley MS 1416

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1416
Title:
The Progenie of the monarchs of the English men
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-59v: Anonymous, ‘The Progenie of the monarchs of the English men – Conteyning: The titles and reignes of them ; the coronations and parentage of them and their wyves : the names, armes, nativities, mariages, deceasses, burialles, and issue, of them, theire wyves, and theire chi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1595
Extent:
1 volume

738. Harley MS 1417

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1417
Title:
Descents and pedigrees of English families
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Added ownership inscriptions. f. 2r: A list of nobleman during the reign of King Henry VIII, perhaps those who formed part of his Privy Council. ff. 3r-11r: A partial index to two collection of arms, one signified by a maltese cross (possibly identified as London, College ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1525-1534
Extent:
1 volume

739. Harley MS 1419/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1419/1
Title:
Inventory of King Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
Along with Harley MS 1419/2, this manuscript forms the second part of King Henry VIII's inventory; the first part is Society of Antiquaries MS 129 A and B. From the absence of signatures, it is clear that both volumes are fair copies. Instructions were given to draw up an inventory of Henry's mo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1547-1548
Extent:
1 volume

740. Harley MS 1419/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1419/2
Title:
Inventory of King Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
Along with Harley MS 1419/2, this manuscript forms the second part of King Henry VIII's inventory; the first part is Society of Antiquaries MS 129 A and B. From the absence of signatures, it is clear that both volumes are fair copies. Instructions were given to draw up an inventory of Henry's mo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1547-1548
Extent:
1 volume

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