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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 950
Title:: Collection of medical recipes
Scope & Content:: This manuscript comprises two separate early 16th-century collections of medical recipes (ff. 1r-75v; ff. 80r-179v). A few other recipes were added later in the 16th century (ff. 76r-79v). The recipes in the main collection were numbered in the margin '1-497' by a later reader. Contents: Part ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and English, Middle
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1044
Title:: English heraldry and pedigrees
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-15r: A collection of coats of arms, tricked. ff. 15v-18r: Pedigree of the family of Pury by Edward Byshe Garter and copied by John Saunders. f. 19r: A short note, beginning ‘The 11 day [...]’. f. 20v: An imperfect sentence (repeated 14 times), ‘Bee it knowne unto all men ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1081
Title:: Visitation of Berkshire, 1566
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title page, ‘The Visitation of Barkshier Anno 1566 – Made by William Harvy Esquier alias Clarencieux King of Armes, Collected and Augmented by William Smith alias Rougdragon officer of Armes 1602’; signed by ‘John Withy Anno 1628’. ff. 2r-65v: A heraldic collection with th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1566
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1098
Title:: Achievements of London Companies
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: The achievement of Chaloner. ff. 1v-83r: The achievement of Westminster (with two added drawings of the arms of Westminster in brown ink), followed by the achievements of the Livery Companies and other companies of London; with historical notes, banners and pennons; dated to ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1640
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1134
Title:: An Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2*r: Sketches of heraldic elements (including a griffon statant regardant, and a lion rampant in brown ink and highlighted in red); a pedigree of the ‘Rosseter’ family going up to 1637. ff. 3r-262v: An Alphabet of Arms, with the coats of arms of English nobility and gentry t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1222
Title:: Political and legal tracts
Scope & Content:: Various tracts bound together: ff. 1-23: Sir John Davies (1569-1626), ‘Charge to the jurors of the Grand Inquest at York, 1619, for the mainteyning and contynueing the publique Peace by the Execution of Justice’. ff. 24-52: ‘A Catt may look at a King’. Tract on the tyranny of kings from Kin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1303
Title:: The Court of Exchequer
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-35v: The Court of Exchequer; dated to 1516.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1388
Title:: An Ordinary of Arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: An alphabetical index of crests found in this manuscript. ff. 2r-8r: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript, entitled: ‘A table ot my Book of Creasts in Suites’. ff. 10r-163v: An Ordinary of Crests, featuring coats of arms (16 per page), organized...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1414
Title:: An Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*verso: A title inscription: ‘The Greate Alphabett in trick’. ff. 1r-286r: An Alphabet of Arms, with coats of arms in colour and tricked in brown ink. Decoration: Coats of arms in colour or tricked in brown ink, organized in grids with 20 escutcheons per page.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4142
Title:: Words of English anthems
Scope & Content:: Words of Anthems (verse, unless the contrary is stated), alphabetically arranged.1. 'Aboue the Starrs.' '[T.] Tomkins.' f. 1. 2. 'Allmightie God, which by the leading of a Starr.' 'Dr. Bull.' f. 1. 3. 'Arise, Lord, why sleepest thou' (full). 'Bird.' f. 1 4. 'Allmightie God, the fountaine' (full)....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1630-1685
Extent:: 1 volume (31 folios)

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