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231. 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

232. Harley MS 1426

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1426
Title:
Achievements of English families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-32v, 35r-111r: The achievements of the English nobility from the time of James I or Charles I, with mottoes in Latin and French. f. 33v: The arms, and descents of noble persons written and painted circularly, and concentring on William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke. f. 34r: Thr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1625-c 1629
Extent:
1 volume

233. Harley MS 1428

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1428
Title:
English coats of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-16v: Coats of arms and crests of English families (4 per page or full-page drawings), some with mottoes (in French and Latin); also featuring accounts of their descents and epitaphs. The latest date attached to these arms is 1654. f. 17r: A list of the Lords created by King Ch...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1641-1654
Extent:

1 volume

234. Harley MS 1462

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1462
Title:
Coats of arms of the Knights of the Bath from King James I to Charles II; Sir William Dugdale, The Manner of Creating the Knights of the Antient and Honourable Order of the Bath, According to the Custom used in England in Times of Peace with a List of those Honourable Persons who are to be Created Knights of the Bath at his Majesties Coronation, 23 Aprill, 1661
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*verso: An introduction to ff. 1r-22r: 'In this Booke: Are conteined the Names, Armes, and Creasts, of all the Knights of the Bath, made at the Coronation of King Iames, 1603. At the Creation of Charles Duke of York, At hte Creation of Henry Prince of Wales, At the Creation of Cha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1661
Extent:
1 volume

235. Harley MS 1474

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1474
Title:
Descents of baronets
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. [iii]recto: A title inscription: ‘Baronets Discents’. f. 1*recto: A list of payments, entitled: ‘A bill of fees due to the Kings Servants from all persons that receive the Honour of Knighthood’. f. 1*verso: A list of payments, entitled: ‘The ffees of the Severall Offices for a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1660s
Extent:
1 volume

236. Harley MS 1479

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1479
Title:
Coats of arms of Knights of the Garter and the English peerage
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: An unfinished ink sketch of the arms of Charles II. ff. 1r-24r: Full-page drawings of coats of arms of Knights of the Garter, including those of King Charles II, all circumscribed by the Garter; also featuring supporters, crowns, crests and mottoes. f. 25v: A note on t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

237. Harley MS 1480

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1480
Title:
A copy of the Visitation Book of Oxfordshire of 1634
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title inscription: ‘Oxfordshire 1634’. ff. 2*recto-3*verso: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-64r: A copy of the Visitation Book of Oxfordshire made by John Philipot (b. 1588, d. 1645), Somerset Herald, and William Ryley (d. 16...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

1 volume

238. Harley MS 1481

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1481
Title:
Robert Glover, De Origine Antiquitate et Differentijs Armorum; coats of arms of English bishops and nobility
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*recto: A title inscription: ‘De Origine Antiquitate et Differentijs Armorum sive Insigniorum R. Gloveri alias Somerset Fecialis regij observationes aliquot’. ff. 2*recto-4*verso: An alphabetical index of surnames included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-5r: A Latin treatise by Ro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

239. Harley MS 1499

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1499
Title:
English heraldic collection, including royal coats of arms; genealogies of English noble families; Thomas Tonge, Visitation of the Northern Counties, 1530; tracts on heraldic matters; a transcript of Domesday Book relating to Yorkshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff 1r-1v: 'A Table of the Hole Contentes of the boke Both of the Petygrees and also the Geanologees And of wych lefe every oon doth stand'. ff. 2r-4r: Arms of kings, beginning with the 'arma Christi', and the attributed arms of the Three Magi and Prester John. ff. 4v-5r: Table of co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1530
Extent:
1 volume

240. Harley MS 1503

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1503
Title:
Collection of coats of arms of English kings, earls, nobility and gentry, and kings of the world
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-92v: Collection of coats of arms (16 per page) of English kings, earls, nobility and gentry; and kings of the world, among whom are many attributed arms such as those of Prester John. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: Coats of arms and ownership inscriptions o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Welsh
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

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