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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6078
Title:: A treatice concernynge the Nobilitie accordinge to the Lawe of England
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*verso: A table of contents. ff. 1r-74r: ‘A treatice concernynge the Nobilitie accordinge to the Lawe of England [added:] By Will[iam] Bird’; and ‘Much Enlarged by Sir John Doderidge’. The additional information apparently comes from ‘Cat. MSS Angl. tom. 2. inter Cod. Thomas Bar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6081
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: An introduction for a genealogical manuscript, beginning: ‘The lyneall dissent of the morgans from Blederye ap Kydenor Lord of St Clere and Tredegar’. A strip of parchment, together with ff. 158-159, taken from a genealogical manuscript or roll and reused for the manuscript’s ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1604
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6084
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-57v: Coats of arms of English gentry and nobility, 20 or less per page; all coats of arms feature birds, and are organised according to their aviary device. The manuscript opens with arms featuring a double-headed eagle. Decoration: Coats of arms, tricked, in brown ink.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6086
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-23r: An index of surnames of families included in this manuscript. ff. 24r-106v: Coats of arms with crests of English nobility and gentry, tricked, some featuring family mottos and dates; 4 per page. Decoration: Coats of arms, tricked, in brown ink; 1 in colours (f. 82r). ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6087
Title:: The Statutes of the Order of the Garter
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘The Statutes ordinances and decrees, with other the rites, ceremonies and observations of the most honorable Order of the Garter – Collected in the yere of Christ: 1580’. ff. 1v-2r: A table of contents, entitled: ‘The principall matters conteyned in this booke...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1580
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6088
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3r: An index of surnames of families f. 4v: A drawing of a coat of arms with the title: ‘G[r]enenaye’. ff. 5r-11v: An index of surnames of families ff. 12r-81v: Drawings of coats of arms with crests of English nobility, some feature family mottos (in display script) and dat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6089
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-25r: Coats of arms with crests of English nobility and gentry (4 per page on ff. 1r-15v; varying numbers on ff. 16r-25r), some featuring dates [up to 1637]. The manuscript contains a later addition: ff. 26r, 27r: The names of towns (? relating to families in this manuscript)...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1637
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6090
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 2r: A title-page: ‘Coates Geathered of A name and other Coates’. f. 3r: Five attributed arms: ‘Osyris alias Jupiter king of Egypt’; ‘Hercules Kinge of Lybia’; ‘Anubis’; ‘Macedours Prince of Emathya’; ‘Semyramis Queen of babylon’. ff. 3v-4v: ‘The armes of the nine worthy women’...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6091
Title:: Sir Richard Maitland, Genealogy of the House of Setton
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-19r: ‘The Genologie and History of the Illustrious house and sirname of Seton Collected and Sett furth by Sir Richard Maitland of Lethingtoun a sisters sone of the said house - With a Table of the Kings Reigns of Sctoland Since King Malcom Canmore for the Clearing of the times ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1633
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6092
Title:: Blazoned arms of English nobility and gentry
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-285r: Blazoned arms of English nobility and gentry, organised according to their heraldic device. ff. 286v-358v: An index of surnames and titles included in this manuscript. Decoration: A few coats of arms in brown ink. 2 pencil drawings of men’s heads wearing berets, in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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