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481. Harley MS 5891

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5891
Title:
Alphabets of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: The arms of the archbishops and bishops, blazoned in French heraldic terminology. ff. 2r-143r: An Alphabet of arms of English families, with their arms blazoned in French heraldic terminology. ff. 144r-150r: An Alphabet of arms of cities and towns, with their arms blazoned ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

482. Harley MS 5959

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5959
Title:
A collection of fragments of different date and origin
Scope & Content:
A collection of fragments from manuscripts of different date and origin. The volume was part of a collection of fragments from manuscripts and printed books, including maps and drawings, assembled in 64 volumes by the bookseller and antiquary John Bagford (b. 1650/51, d. 1716). During the 19th c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

483. Harley MS 6018

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6018
Title:
A catalogue of the manuscripts and printed books of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-146r: A catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631): ‘Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca Roberti Cottoni - 1621’. The heading and a number of later entries are in the hand of Robert Cotton (see Tite, The Early Records...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1621-1653
Extent:
1 volume

484. Harley MS 6033

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6033
Title:
A miscellany of heraldic and historical texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title for a heraldic (?) treatise that was never begun: ‘Compendium or abstracts of all that hath byn written [...] Of the word Arma [...] and signification thereof’. ff. 3r-4r: A list of English monasteries in Latin, incomplete. ff. 5r-5v: An English heraldic treatise on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1590s
Extent:
1 volume

485. Harley MS 6060

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6060
Title:
Pedigrees and coats of arms of Warwickshire families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2*recto-4*recto: An alphabetical index of surnames. ff. 5*recto-5*verso: Coats of arms (20 per page) of ‘Knightes of warwickeshire about the tyme of Edward the first’. ff. 6*recto-6*verso: Coats of arms (20 per page) of ‘Warwickshire [gentry] as they are in Theobalds Gallery’. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1632
Extent:
1 volume

486. Harley MS 6062

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6062
Title:
Knights made by King James I and King Charles I (1603 to 1636)
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title inscription: ‘Knights made by King James and King Charles, From 1603, to 1636: With an Alphabetical Table by Sir Richard St George’. ff. 2r-38r: A ‘List of such Knights as have bene made by King James in the times of his Most happy Reigne – Rolle of all the Knights ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1636
Extent:
1 volume

487. Harley MS 6065

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6065
Title:
A copy of the Visitation Book of Essex by John Raven in 1612
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-149r: A copy of the Visitation Book of Essex by John Raven (1597-1615), Richmond Herald, in 1612, with continuations up to 1627; and later additions, including a patent of arms dated to 1660 (f. 22v); a copy from the Visitation Book of the Count of Essex in 1634 [Henry Lily], a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1627
Extent:
1 volume

488. Harley MS 6066

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6066
Title:
Pedigrees and coats of arms of Northamptonshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A note by Sir John Cutts of Cambridge: ‘Mr Allen I pray bring to Ms Lady Cutts Ms Lady wilds house on the back side of the Drury Lane right agaynst the Cockpitt Sir Sir John Cutts Coate of Armes with all quart[er]ings [...] if you have them, the day [...] the Clocke, one M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1618-1629
Extent:
1 volume

489. Harley MS 6075

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6075
Title:
The value of English benefices
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Sums of benefices included in this manuscripts, an addition for Christ Church, Canterbury, and a table of contents. ff. 2r-117v: Benefices organised according to counties and their deaneries, entitled: ‘Nomina et Valores omnium et singulorum Angliae Archiepiscopatuum, Espisco...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

490. Harley MS 6076

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6076
Title:
Coats of arms of mayors and sheriffs of the City of London
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-6v: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 7r-98v: Coats of arms of mayors and sheriffs of the City of London until the year 1668, beginning with the note: 'Since the 1st Maiors of London to the yeare 1668 is 479 years'. The manuscript contai...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1668
Extent:
1 volume

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