Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Language: English - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5809
Title:: Pedigrees and arms of Derbyshire
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3r: A list of the names of gentry with their arms blazoned, entitled :‘A note of the Armes of Certaine gents in Com. Derby and Nottingham anno 1569’. ff. 4r-87v: The seals of Derby and Chesterfield (dated 1611), pedigrees of families in Derbyshire with coats of arms and seal...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5810
Title:: The pedigrees and descents of families in the City of London
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3v: An index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 4r-70r: The pedigrees and descents of families in the City of London. Decoration: Coats of arms, some with crests, tricked in brown ink or drawn in pencil.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1615
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5811
Title:: Pedigree and arms of the Finch family and other Sussex families
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-14v: Pedigree of the Finch family of Sussex with their arms blazoned and illustrated from charters and other records, beginning: ‘Under the raigne of King John and Henry the third there florished one Mathew Harbert in the county of Sussex written in the Latyne Records of this K...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1588-1620
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5812
Title:: The Visitation of Oxfordshire of 1574
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-53v: The Visitation of Oxfordshire of 1574, beginning with the arms of Magdalen College, Christ Church, and the City of Oxford with the seal of the town and borough of Witney. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘Visitation of Oxfordshire 1574’; ad...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1574
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5813
Title:: English, Welsh, Scottish and Lancashire coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Sketches of coats of arms and notes: ‘in the yeare 1453 Jo Norman Draper beinge maior and 32 of H. 6 the ridinge of the maiors of London was put downe’. f. 1v: Part of an alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript (‘B’). ff. 2r-72r: Coats of arms with cre...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5815
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-114v: Coats of arms with crests of English nobility and gentry, with grants of arms. ff. 115r-120v: An alphabetical index of family names. Decoration: Coats of arms with crests, tricked, drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5817
Title:: English coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-208r: Full-page achievements of British peerage in ink or pencil, some with mottos (in French), but most are unfinished; intersected with numerous paper pastedowns and smaller papers with coats of arms, pedigrees, and notes. ff. 85v-86r feature a note concerning ‘The Coat of Ar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5818
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A pencil drawing of a coat of arms. ff. 2r-45v: Coats of arms of English families (4 per page). ff. 46v-50v: An alphabetical index of families. Decoration: Coats of arms with crests in colours throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5819
Title:: English pedigrees and coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-55v: Pedigrees from Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire (and other counties), with coats of arms, up to 1665. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Pedegrees and coats of armes Berks. Bucks Oxon etcaetera’; added in the 17th century. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1665
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5820
Title:: An Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-270r: An alphabet of arms, with the arms blazoned. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. [vii]recto: ‘Alphabett of Blazon to Letter E […] Coates of A[rmes]’; added in pencil in the 17th or 18th century.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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