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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6093
Title:: A copy of the Visitation of Norfolk by William Harvey, Clarenceux King of Arms, 1563 (5th year of Queen Elizabeth I), with additions up to the year 1634
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘The visitacion of Norffolke made by William Harvy Clarencieulx kinge of Armes the xxvth day of July 1563 and in the fifth yeare of the raygne of our soveraigne Lady Queene Elizabethe’. ff. 2r-169v: A copy of the Visitation of Norfolk by William Harvey, Clarenceu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6094
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-11r: Full-page and quarter-page drawings of coats of arms in colours, beginning with those of ‘Sir Thomas Hewitt’, followed by further arms of Hewitt, Aincotte and Asthorpe. ff. 11v-30r: Coats of arms of English nobility and gentry (4-5 per page), tricked, in brown ink. ff....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6095
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-41r: Coats of arms of English nobility and gentry, some featuring family mottos and dates [up to c. 1620]; 4 per page [1 dated to 1607 on f. 20r]. ff. 44r-44v: An index of surnames of families included in this manuscript. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 43v:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6096
Title:: Arms of the nobility and gentry of Ireland
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘In This Booke are Contayned all the Armes of the Nobilitie and Gentrie of Ireland’, with the date ‘1603’. f. 2r: A full-page drawing of the coat of arms of Queen Elizabeth I in colours; with her motto: ‘Semper Eadem’. ff. 3r-21v: Coats of arms of Irish nobili...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1603
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6097
Title:: An English treatise on the rules of heraldry [Harleian Version of John's Treatise]
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-49v: A treatise on the rules of heraldry, based on 'John's Treatise' [see Dennys, The Heraldic Imagination (1976), p. 86], beginning: ‘As King Herodes recordith the beginninge and grownde of Armes was firste att greate assege of Troye’. f. 50v: A drawing of a quartered coat o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6100
Title:: A history of the Lord Chancellors of England, from Leofric to John Morton
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘A booke of the lorde Chaunscellors of Englande’. ff. 1r-49v: A history of the Lord Chancellors of England, beginning with Leofric, Bishop of Exeter, and ending with John Morton (d. 1500), Archbishop of Canterbury. f. 50r: The name ‘henrie deney’ [Henry ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6102
Title:: Welsh coats of arms and pedigrees
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-27r: Coats of arms of Welsh nobility and gentry (4 per page) with descriptions of their houses in English, entitled: ‘Welsh Armes – The Auncient descents of divers Noble howses and gentlemen of Wales’; on f. 26v: ‘Heare endes the Coppie of a welshe booke of Armes and descentes...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6104
Title:: William Dugdale, Visitation of Staffordshire, 1663-64, and Visitation of Derbyshire, 1662-63
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1**recto: A title-page: ‘The Visitation of Staffordshire Taken in the year of our Lord on Thousand six hundred sixty three by William Dugdale Esquire Norroy King at Armes – Received in Anno 1664’. ff. 2*recto-2**recto: An alphabetical index of the names of families included in th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1664
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6105
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript relating to Hampshire
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘Hampshire’. ff. 1v-2r: Two lists of expenses for food and a banquet entitled ‘Mr Bartrands Bill’ and ‘Swering Diner when I was warden’. The second list also includes payments for ‘washing the dishes’, ‘the Cooke’, and ‘the Butler’. Next to the second list is a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6107
Title:: Drawings of seals and arms of Scottish nobility
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-20r: Drawings of seals of Scottish nobility, some with descriptions of their charters (in Latin). ff. 21v-23r: Drawings of coats of arms on the windows of the church of Bothwell, South Lanarkshire (Scotland); from ‘Douglas Tower’ and the ‘Earle of Forfars garden’ at Bothwell ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1707
Extent:: 1 volume

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