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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 907
Title:: Miscellany of Mr John Withie, largely concerning heraldry
Scope & Content:: Duodecimo manuscript volume, written and tricked by Mr John Withie. Contents: ff. 1-17: Arms, tricked by Mr Withie collected from various sources, between 1631 and 1632. ff. 18-19v: Family trees of Bardwell and Herbert families. ff.20-20v: Church notes and arms, taken by Mr Withie at Bechampton...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1631-1633
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 908
Title:: A collection of arms found in Kent
Scope & Content:: Duodecimo manuscript volume, written and tricked by Mr John Withie. Contents: f. 1*v: 'Livesey of Killingborne'. f. 1: Arms of Canterbury, Rochester, and Dover See. ff. 1v-2v: Arms of various Earls, Viscounts, and Lords, of Kent. ff. 3-4: Arms of various Baronets of Kent. ff. 4v-5: Arms of Knig...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 909
Title:: Arms of the aldermen of the ward of Aldersgate, 1461?-1616
Scope & Content:: Duodecimo manuscript volume, written and painted by Mr John Withie. The volume contains 'the names and Armes of them that hath beene Alldermen [Aldermen] of the warde of Alldersgate [Aldersgate] since the tyme of King Henry VI, beginninge at the 39 yeare of his Reigne [1460-1461], untill this p...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1616
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 910
Title:: Account book of John Saunders, arms painter
Scope & Content:: Duodecimo manuscript volume, containing the accounts of welcomes and other work done for the Lord Mayors and Sheriffs of the City of London, from 1681-1692, by Mr John Saunders and other arms painters.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1681-1692
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 911
Title:: Notebook of Richard Symonds containing movements of the royal army, April-August 1645, and church notes
Scope & Content:: Notebook of Richard Symonds written while accompanying the King and the royal army, from leaving the King’s winter quarters at Oxford in April 1645, passing through the Midlands and Wales, up to their arrival in Yorkshire in August. Records the progress of the army and principal events, includin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Apr 1645-Aug 1645
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 912
Title:
Scope & Content:: Commonplace-Book including Theological and Historical Texts in Prose and Verse; mid 14th cent. Latin and Anglo-Norman. Imperfect. The commonplace-book, now in two volumes, also includes the Pseudo-Hippocrates, Epistula ad Antiochum regem (ff. 393-393v; item 1), followed (ff. 393-395v; item 2)...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 918
Title:: Theological miscellany
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains works and excerpts from various Protestant theologians. The inclusion of a work by William Twisse, published in 1632, provides a terminus post quem for the manuscript. Contents: ff. 1r-44v: Guillelmus Estius [Willem Hessels van Est], Domini Guillelmi Estii in quatuor ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 922
Title:: Balthasaris Castilionis comitis de curiali sive aulico libri quatuor, ex Italico sermone in Latinum conversi. Bartholomaeo Clerke Anglo Cantabrigiensi interprete
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-49r: Baldassare Castiglione (b. 1478, d. 1529), Il Cortegiano [The Book of the Courtier] (1528); Latin translation of the Italian original by Bartholomew Clerke (b. c. 1537, d. 1590), published as Balthasaris Castilionis comitis de curiali sive aulico libri quatuor, ex Italico...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1472-c 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 923
Title:: Notes on Common Law
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-74v: Notes on Common Law, featuring extracts from the Plea Rolls; additions with the date 1598 on f. 29r.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 925
Title:: Notes on Common Law
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-86v: Notes on Common Law, featuring law cases from the courts of 6 Henry VIII to 21 Elizabeth I (1578/1579).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: c 1579
Extent:: 1 volume

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