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521. Harley MS 6129

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6129
Title:
Arms of English and European kings and nobility
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-25r: The arms of the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, kings of European countries, dukes, counts, and English nobility and gentry. Decoration: Coats of arms (16 per page), tricked, drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

522. Harley MS 6131

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6131
Title:
English pedigrees
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4r: An index of names of families included in this manuscript. ff. 5r-32v: A book of ‘Pedigrees by Sir Henry St George’ [Henry St George (b. 1581, d. 1644), Richmond Herald] of families whose name begin with the letter 'S'. On f. 12r is a charter of the foundation of the mon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

523. Harley MS 6132

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6132
Title:
Henry St George, Successions of the Dukes, Marquesses, Earls and Viscounts of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Notes on heraldic customs by ‘Sir William Segar’, beginning: ‘The reason of officer of armes wearing the kings coates at buryalls is to testefye that the persons deceased declared dyed in the Kings allegiance’; and the note ‘posted Sir Edm Turner’ on 19 January 1663. ff. 1v-31...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd and 3rd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

524. Harley MS 6133

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6133
Title:
Henry St George, Pedigrees of English earls and barons
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-44r: Henry St George, Pedigrees of earls and barons of England. f. 44v: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1644
Extent:

1 volume

525. Harley MS 6134

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6134
Title:
Collection of texts relating to the de Vere family, Earls of Oxford
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4r: A Latin chronicle of the Lord Chamberlains of England (‘Camerarij Angliae’), from William the Conqueror until Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (4th year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I [1561/2]). ff. 5v-12v, 15r-21v: 17th-century collections relating to the de Vere f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century-2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

526. Harley MS 6136

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6136
Title:
Pedigrees of English families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-46r: Various pedigrees of English families, including ‘A Genealogicall History of the very Ancient and Worshipfull Family of Hereford of Hereford’ (ff. 14r-19r); ‘A Coppy of the Register of the Parish of Mordiford in the County of Hereford’ (ff. 40r-40v); ‘A Coppy of the Regis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

527. Harley MS 6137

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6137
Title:
Collection of Richard Kimbey's copies of English rolls of arms
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of medieval armorial rolls made by 'Richard Kimbey', possibly the arms painter Richard Kimbe. Among his transcripts is a copy of the 'Camden Roll', a 13th-century English roll with the coats of arms of English and European monarchs, lords, and knights, now Cotton ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1604-c 1618
Extent:
1 volume

528. Harley MS 6139

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6139
Title:
Pedigrees and coats of arms of Herefordshire, Worcestershire, and Gloucestershire families, some taken in the years 1633-1634
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-10v: Coats of arms with crests (20 per page), most are empty escutcheons. ff. 11r- 35v: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire families, some taken in the years 1633-1634. f. 36r: Blazons of arms. f. 37r-39v: Pedigrees and coats of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

529. Harley MS 6140

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6140
Title:
A miscellany of arms and grants of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. i verso: A printed poem, entitled: ‘The affection of a Friend – In memory of the right Worshipfull his deceased friend’. The letters of the first lines are an acrostic for the name of ‘Sir William Stone Knight’. f. ii recto: A title inscription in pencil: ‘Pedegrees quartering Cr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

530. Harley MS 6146

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6146
Title:
English coats of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-115r: Coats of arms of English families (9 per page). 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

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