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121. Harley MS 810

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 810
Title:
English pedigrees and heraldry
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-20v: Pedigrees of Leicestershire from the Visitation of 1564. ff. 21r-33v: Pedigrees and arms of Warwickshire. ff. 34v-114r: Pedigrees and arms of Lincolnshire. ff. 115r-116v: Pedigrees of Digby of Tilton in Rutlandshire. f. 117v: Pedigree of Attkirke of Lincolnshire. f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1530-1564
Extent:
1 volume

122. Harley MS 812

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 812
Title:
Elizabethan miscellany of records and letters
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8r: Forms of indentures in English from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. ff. 9r-60v: Transcripts from public records and rolls of Parliament, from the time of King Edward II to that of Queen Elizabeth I (Latin and English). ff. 61r-63r: Letters Patent by Queen Elizabeth I, s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

123. Harley MS 814

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 814
Title:
A book on forests
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: A treatise on ‘A Forest’. ff. 2r-2v: A treatise on ‘A Chase’. ff. 2v-4v: The ‘differences betwene beasts of the forest and beast of the chace’. ff. 4v-6v: A treatise ‘Of Verte’. ff. 6v-8r: A treatise on the 'Swanimote'; ff. 8r-17r: A treatise on 'Matters taken out...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

124. Harley MS 819

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 819
Title:
An Ordinary of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Tables of Blazoning most Coates of Armes of all Families in Eng[land]’. ff. 1r-97v: An Ordinary of Arms, with the arms of English families in blazon. Decoration: A coat of arms with a design in brown ink (some with colours) at the centre of the top marg...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

125. Harley MS 827

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 827
Title:
Tracts on prohibitions, statutes and law cases
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: ‘The Civilians Peticion to his Maiestie touching Prohibitions’. f. 1v: 'The clergies Peticion to his Majestie touchinge Prohibitions’. ff. 2r-16v: ‘Certaine Articles of Abuses which are desired to be reformed in graunting of Prohibitions with the Judges severall Answear...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

126. 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

127. 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

128. 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

129. Harley MS 847

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 847
Title:
English poems and historical papers
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: An English poem by ‘W. C.’ to Henry Fradsham. ff. 2r-35r: 'A Communicacion or Discourse of the Queenes highness Mariage debated betwixt some Gentlemen of the Court at Northhawt [crossed out: ‘Montharile’] in Essex and reported by syr Thomas Smythe knight to his neyghboure ffr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

130. Harley MS 850

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 850
Title:
John Hoskyns, Directions for Speech and Style (first part); Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes; Peter Heylin, A Summers Journey into France and Observations on it
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-10v: John Hoskyns, Directions for Speech and Style; first part of the work, imperfect at the end. f. 10v: Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes. ff. 11r-83r: Peter Heylin, A Summers Journey into France and Observations on it; imperfect. The manuscript contains several additions: f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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