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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5801
Title:: Peter Le Neve, Pedigrees of Knights made by King Charles II to Queen Anne (Volume 1)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-201r: Peter Le Neve, Pedigrees of Knights made by King Charles II to Queen Anne (Volume 1), entitled on f. 6r: 'A Catalogue of the Knights made from the first year of the reign of King Charles the 2nd during all his reign those of James the 2nd, King William and Queen Mary with...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1696-1714
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5802
Title:: Peter Le Neve, Pedigrees of Knights made by King Charles II to Queen Anne (Volume 2)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-93r: Peter Le Neve, Pedigrees of Knights made by English Kings and Queens (Charles II-Anne), entitled: ‘The 2nd Volume of Pedigrees of Knights made by King Charles the 2nd beginning with the Year 1683 Aprill 12th collected by Peter Le Neve Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms Anno Do...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1696-1714
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5803
Title:: English coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 2*recto: A table of contents for the manuscript, entitled: ‘This Book of Syng[l]e Cotes gathered and here set downe Anno 1609 And devyen [sic] By Roger Kemys’. ff. 1r-268r: English coats of arms (16 per page), organised according to their Ordinaries and charges, organised alphabe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1609
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5806
Title:: English coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-182v: Composite collection of English coats of arms, mostly drawn and tricked in brown ink, and described in English and French heraldic terms with Latin mottoes. The following items can be identified: ff. 1v, 3r-3v, 5r-5v, 7r-7v, 9r-10v, 12r-12v, 14r-14v, 16r-16v: Alphabetic...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c. 1550-17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5807
Title:: English coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title-page by John Philipot: ‘The Book of Coates & Creasts – Promptuarium Armorum – Begonne the 28 of may 1602 Per William Smith Rougdragon’. f. 2r: 22 printed coats of arms from the windows of a college or church, entitled: ‘In Orientali Fenestra’, ‘In prima fenestra ex...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5809
Title:: Pedigrees and arms of Derbyshire
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3r: A list of the names of gentry with their arms blazoned, entitled :‘A note of the Armes of Certaine gents in Com. Derby and Nottingham anno 1569’. ff. 4r-87v: The seals of Derby and Chesterfield (dated 1611), pedigrees of families in Derbyshire with coats of arms and seal...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5810
Title:: The pedigrees and descents of families in the City of London
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3v: An index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 4r-70r: The pedigrees and descents of families in the City of London. Decoration: Coats of arms, some with crests, tricked in brown ink or drawn in pencil.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1615
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5811
Title:: Pedigree and arms of the Finch family and other Sussex families
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-14v: Pedigree of the Finch family of Sussex with their arms blazoned and illustrated from charters and other records, beginning: ‘Under the raigne of King John and Henry the third there florished one Mathew Harbert in the county of Sussex written in the Latyne Records of this K...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1588-1620
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5812
Title:: The Visitation of Oxfordshire of 1574
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-53v: The Visitation of Oxfordshire of 1574, beginning with the arms of Magdalen College, Christ Church, and the City of Oxford with the seal of the town and borough of Witney. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘Visitation of Oxfordshire 1574’; ad...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1574
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5813
Title:: English, Welsh, Scottish and Lancashire coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Sketches of coats of arms and notes: ‘in the yeare 1453 Jo Norman Draper beinge maior and 32 of H. 6 the ridinge of the maiors of London was put downe’. f. 1v: Part of an alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript (‘B’). ff. 2r-72r: Coats of arms with cre...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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