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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6108
Title:: The history of Brecon and Glamorgan until the year 1606
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-54v: The history of Brecon and Glamorgan until the year 1606; for a large part illegible due to damage by damp.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1606
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6109
Title:: Coats of arms of Kentish families
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v, 2v-5r: Coats of arms of Kentish families, 4 per page. ff. 1*recto-1*verso: An alphabetical index of surnames of families included in this manuscript. Decoration: Coats of arms in brown ink (tricked).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6110
Title:: Coats of arms of Shropshire families
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Salopie 1623’. f. 1**recto: Notes and sketches. ff. 1r-45r: Coats of arms of Shropshire families. f. 46v: Notes on payments. Decoration: Coats of arms, tricked, drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6112
Title:: An Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-235v: An Alphabet of Arms, with blazons and heraldic devices; a note with the date 1674 on f. 121v. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. [iv]verso-2r: Sketches of heraldic devices and arms in ink and pencil, including a roundel featuring a deer drinking water f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6113
Title:: English pedigrees and coats of arms
Scope & Content:: This early 17th-century miscellany contains sections from different English heraldic works that, at some point, were rebound, causing some items that originally belonged together to become separated from one another. Contents: ff. 1r-2v: Coats of arms and crests of English families (4-5 per p...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6119
Title:: Scottish coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-15r: A collection of full-page drawings of imaginary coats of arms, including the shield of the Trinity, the arms of Prester John, Melchior, Caspar, Hector, Alexander the Great, David, Judas Maccabeus, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne and Godfrey of Bouillon [perhaps this group repre...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6120
Title:: An English heraldic collection
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-98r: An Alphabet of Arms; blazons of arms of English nobility and gentry; made by Roger Kemys. ff. 99r-136r: A treatise on the earls of England since the Norman Conquest, with the blazons of their arms, organized by county; made by Roger Kemys using a work by William Camden. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6123
Title:: Blazons of English coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-35v: Names with their arms blazoned, entitled: ‘Out of a manuscript in the Trinity libararie’. ff. 36r-74v: Names with their arms blazoned, entitled: ‘Out of the same volume in the Publick Library to these following is prefixed this inscription: These armes were taken forth of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6125
Title:: The Visitation of Leicestershire of 1619
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*recto-4*verso: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-107v: A copy of or notes for the Visitation Book of Samson Lennard (d. 1633) and Augustine Vincent (b. c. 1584, d. 1626) for the Visitation of Leicestershire of 1619, here entitled: ‘The V...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6128
Title:: The Visitation of Staffordshire of 1583
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*recto-2*verso: An introduction to the Visitation of Stafforshire of 1583. ff. 3*recto-5*recto: Coats of arms of Stafforshire nobility (30 per page), entitled: ‘Arma Nobilium de Comitatu Stafford. ex Libro Antiquo in officio Armorum’. ff. 5*verso-109v, 111r-114r, 130v-131r: A ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1620
Extent:: 1 volume

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