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1152. Harley MS 1503
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1503
- Title:
- Collection of coats of arms of English kings, earls, nobility and gentry, and kings of the world
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 2r-92v: Collection of coats of arms (16 per page) of English kings, earls, nobility and gentry; and kings of the world, among whom are many attributed arms such as those of Prester John. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: Coats of arms and ownership inscriptions o...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, Latin, and Welsh
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
1153. Harley MS 3813
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3813
- Title:
- Account of the counties of England, Ireland and Scotland, with engraved maps by Pieter van den Keere
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-188v: Account of the counties of England, Ireland and Scotland, written in English, with printed and coloured maps of counties (with their names in Latin and English) engraved by the Flemish engraver Pieter van den Keere ['Peter Kerius'] (b. 1571, d. c. 1646) in 1599. Decorat...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
1154. Harley MS 6355
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6355
- Title:
- Leaves from a 14th-century missal; a treatise on making gunpowder and the use of cannons and mortars
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Leaves from a 14th-century missal or other liturgical manuscript, with music notation. ff. 5r-24v: A treatise on making gunpowder and the use of cannons and mortars, with illustrations of weapons and tables; written in the 16th century. The manuscript contains a later a...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 14th century-16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
1155. Harley MS 1128
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1128
- Title:
- 'A discourse of the Privilidge and Practize of the Highe Courte of Parleament in England, collected out of the Comon Lawes of this Land, etc'
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-24v: 'A discourse of the Privilidge and Practize of the Highe Courte of Parleament in England, collected out of the Comon Lawes of this Land, etc'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
1156. Harley MS 1326
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1326
- Title:
- Survey of castles and fortifications on the Thames, Medway, and south coast of England, with a survey of the Tower of London
- Scope & Content:
- A survey of the castles and forts on the banks of the Thomas and Medway, and along the south coast from Kent to Cornwall, carried out 1 August – 14 October 1623. With a survey of the Tower of London and its stores, December 1623. Contents: f. 1*: Part of original parchment cover with barely...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1620-1641
- Extent:
-
1 volume
1157. Harley MS 2205
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2205
- Title:
- Coats of arms recorded in the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Mary the Virgin of Worcester, and the churches of Great Malvern, Little Malvern and Evesham
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-16r: ‘Thease Armes or Monumentes taken out of the discription of the Cathedrall Churche of Worcester are all as they are theare, althoughe not every one as itt shoulde bee ‘ [with the added note: ‘by Mr Habingdon of Henley’]. ff. 17r-19v: ‘Armes in the Churche of Great Malver...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and French
- Date Range:
- 1586-c 1600
- Extent:
- 1 volume
1158. Harley MS 7555
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7555
- Title:
- List of Parliamentary summons; assizes from the reign of King Edward III; grant and charters relating to the chapel and college of St Mary in the Fields, Norwich
- Scope & Content:
- This composite manuscript consists of parts that were written at different times. Part 1 (ff. 1-32) was written in the 16th century. Part 2 (ff. 33r-64v) was written in the middle or 2nd half of the 14th century. Part 3 (ff. 66r-72r) was written in 1546. Part 4 (ff. 74r-77v) was written in t...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, Middle, and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1350-1546
- Extent:
- 1 volume
1159. Harley MS 133
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 133
- Title:
- Cuthbert Tunstall, A booke of all the Spyrituall Benifites and Chaunteryes within London and the Dyocesse of the same
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-36v: Cuthbert Tunstall (b. 1474, d. 1559), Bishop of London [r. 1521-1530], ‘A booke of all the Spyrituall Benifites and Chaunteryes within London and the Dyocesse of the same’; beginning ‘Pleaseth it your grace to understande, that where the kinges highnes my sovereigne lorde ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1522
- Extent:
- 1 volume
1160. Harley MS 1584
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1584
- Title:
- A collection of English letters concerning foreign state affairs, dated to 1625-1628; Charles Cornwallis, The Life and Death of Our Late Noble Prince Henry; A True and Just Relation of Major-General Sir Thomas Morgans Progress in France and Flanders with the Six Thousand English in the Yeares 1657 and 1658
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-204v A collection of drafts and copies of letters with instructions to various addressees concerning foreign state affairs, dated to 1625-1628. ff. 205r-229v: Charles Cornwallis (d. 1629), The Life and Death of Our Late Noble Prince Henry. ff. 230r-240v: Anonymous, A True an...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1625-1658
- Extent:
- 1 volume