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1421. Harley MS 6145

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6145
Title:
Pedigrees of English nobility
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-39v: Pedigrees of English nobility. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: A title for the manuscript: 'The original pedigree of armes of the englishe nobility'; added in the 16th or 17th century. f. 1*recto: Notes about payments in French; added in the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1422. 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

1423. Harley MS 6147

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6147
Title:
Copy of Henry Lilly's Visitation-book of Hertfordshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title-page, ‘The Visitacion of Hertfordshire’. f. 2r: A title-page, ‘The Visitation of the Countie of Hertford made in Anno 1572’. f. 3r: ‘A note of thantiquity of the Gentlemen of Hartfordshire yet remaineing and as they came first into this shire’. ff. 3r-59r: A copy ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1424. Harley MS 6151

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6151
Title:
Genealogies and coats of arms of Irish and Scottish families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-46r: Descriptions of genealogies of Irish and Scottish families with blazons of arms; includes the families of Keith (Earl Marischal), Stapleton of the Mountains, Elphinstone (Lord Balmerino), Welch ['Wealche'] of the Mountains (featuring a warrant dated to 22 August 1714), Stu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 17th century-1st quarter of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

1425. Harley MS 6152

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6152
Title:
The pedigrees of the families of Chasteleine, and Basset of Weldon
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-13v: The pedigrees (‘Historicall Descent[s]’) of the families of Chasteleine, and Basset of Weldon (‘Welledone’), featuring various drawn replicas of original charters with their contents written in imitative Gothic scripts from the 13th and 14th centuries, and containing seal...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1632
Extent:
1 volume

1426. Harley MS 6153

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6153
Title:
Pedigrees and coats of arms of Welsh and Shropshire families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-27v: Pedigrees, mainly of families of Wales and Shropshire, going up to the year 1623; a blazon of the arms of Andrew Corbet, entittled: ‘Sir Andrew Corberts knight beareath these Coates quarterlye quarterlye as followeth’ (f. 23r) ff. 28r-31r: A tract on the ‘pedegree of Mr R...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1623-1629
Extent:
1 volume

1427. Harley MS 6156

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6156
Title:
Pedigrees and coats of arms of English and Welsh kings, nobility and gentry
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A full-page drawing of the coat of arms of Navarre, with a comment in French. f. 2*recto: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. f. 3*recto: A Latin note on the origin of the word ‘honour’ from the Hebew Hon ('Riches') and the French Or ('Go...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1600-1609
Extent:
1 volume

1428. Harley MS 6159

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6159
Title:
The Visitation of Lancashire of 1567
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2*recto: A title-page for the Visitation of Lancashire of 1567, entitled: ‘The Visitacion of Lancashire etcaetera: Made in Anno 1567. Annoque 9 R. Eliz.’; with a full-page drawing of the arms of the house of Lancaster, surmounted above a family tree with coats of arms and the red r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1598
Extent:
1 volume

1429. Harley MS 6161

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6161
Title:
Coats of arms of English families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-97v: Coats of arms of English families (16 per page), with information about heirs, mostly dated to 1601-1607; alphabetically organised. Decoration: Coats of arms, some with crests, tricked, drawn in brown ink in printed escutcheons placed in grids with flowers at their inte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1600-1609
Extent:
1 volume

1430. Harley MS 6162

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6162
Title:
Arms of the Knights of the Garter
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains two separately produced parts that both contain the arms of the Knights of the Garter. The first part (ff. 1-47) bears the date 1579, which is supported by the fact that the last identified knight, Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, was elected to the Orde...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1522-1579
Extent:
1 volume

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