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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6163
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. iii verso-134v: The arms of saints, emperors, kings, English nobility and gentry, beginning with the attributed arms of Prester John, the Trinity, the Virgin Mary, St George, St Denis, St Edward, St Edmund, Shield of Faith, St Albans, St Thomas of Canterbury, St Peter and St Paul....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c. 1480-c. 1500
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6164
Title:: The Visitation Book of the county of Sussex of 1634
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-98v: The Visitation Book of the county of Sussex, recorded by John Philipot (b. 1588, d. 1645), Rouge Dragon Pursuivant and Somerset Herald, and George Owen (b. c. 1598, d. 1665), Clarenceux and Norroy King of Arms and York Herald, in 1633-1634; containing a tract (f. 83r) conf...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1634
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6171
Title:: Fragment of an Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-30v: A fragment of an Alphabet of Arms, with the arms of English families (‘A’ to ‘B’) blazoned with French heraldic terminology. Decoration: Heraldic elements drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6175
Title:: Kentish arms and pedigrees
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-8r: Coats of arms (35 per page) of Kentish nobility and gentry, alphabetically organised. ff. 8v-[81a]r: Pedigrees of Kentish families, featuring tricked arms and dates (the latest is the year 1619); also featuring a statute of All Souls College in Latin on f. 10r. ff. 84r-95...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6176
Title:: A treatise on the inheritance of baronies and earldoms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-18v: A treatise on the question ‘Whether a Barony by Writt being one involved into an Earledome, may be afterwards transferred into an-other family by a daughter and heire and the Earldome continue in the male heire’; with examples dated to 1640. The manuscript contains a la...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1640
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6178
Title:: Coats of arms from Devon, Dorset and Somerset; coats of arms of mayors and sheriffs of London, from 1189 to 1705
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-20v: Coats of arms (9 per page) of families in Devon, Dorset and Somerset; some featuring dates going up to 1620. ff. 22r-108r: Coats of arms (9 per page) of mayors and sheriffs of London, from 1189 to 1705. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: A titl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1620-c 1705
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6183
Title:: The Visitation of Leicestershire in 1619
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*verso: The beginning of a draft or copy of an indenture: 'Know all present and to come that wee John de Verdon Lord of Brikilasworth Knight, and Maud my wife; doe give and grant, and by this our present writeing doe confirme unto John the sone of Walter de Howby and to william d...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6184
Title:: William Smith, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:: This manuscript was recorded missing since before 1825. The contents according to the printed Harley catalogue (1808) were as follows: 'A Book in folio, intitled, Smith's Alphabet of Arms in Blazon, anno 1604. This Smith was Rouge-dragon Herald.'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1604
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6185
Title:: English pedigrees and arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-160v: Pedigrees and arms of families in the county of Gloucestershire. Several pedigrees end with indications of the ages of family members in the year 1623. The manuscript contains several additions: f. 1*recto: A title inscription: ‘Glocester’; written in the 17th century....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1623
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6186
Title:: English coats of arms from the reign of James I
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 5r-7v: Coats of arms of English peerage (about 9-12 per page). ff. 12v-45v: Coats of arms of English families (12 per page). The manuscript contains a later addition: ff. 1r-1v, 48r-48v: Fragments of Peter Lombard, Commentarium in Psalmos; written in the 2nd or 3rd quarter of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1603-1625
Extent:: 1 volume

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