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161. Harley MS 1279

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1279
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. [1a]recto-78r: A late 16th- or early 17th-century collection of arms, in colours or tricked, beginning with a full-page drawing of ‘Bradford his Coate Armes’ (f. [1a]recto); also features the arms of Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st Baronet, added at a later stage on ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

162. Harley MS 1405

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1405
Title:
English coats of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A list of places: ‘Oxford – Buckingham – Bedford – Hartfordsh[ire] – Essex – Norff[olk] – Suff[olk]’. ff. 1r-1v: The arms of Gregory Payne, with the date 26 August 1675. ff. 2r-5v: Coats of arms of Oxfordshire (12 per parge) dated to 1668; with a note on the arms and c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1668-1669
Extent:
1 volume

163. Harley MS 1976

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1976
Title:
English and Welsh pedigrees
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Title page. f. 2r: Pastedown from a pedigree of Ferdinando Stanley (1559-94), Lord Strange, later earl of Derby. ff. 3r-11r: Index of pedigrees in the hand of Randle Holme II, 1632. ff. 12r-13v: Lists of Welsh and English nobles and their heraldry. f. 14r: Index of families...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

164. Harley MS 2199

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2199
Title:
A treatise on mortification
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-60v: An English treatise on mortification. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1r: A title 'The maner and method to true mortification'; added in the 16th century; with another inscription added in a different 16th- or 17th-century hand: 'By the Godly Father He...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

165. Harley MS 2412

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2412
Title:
Thomas Legge, Richard Tertius
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of the eleven extant copies of Richardus Tertius, a play about King Richard III by the Cambridge playwright Thomas Legge (b. c. 1535, d. 1607). Contents: ff. 1r-72v: Thomas Legge, Richardus Tertius, here entitled: ‘Richardus Tertius – Tragedia in tres actiones div...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1588
Extent:
1 volume

166. Harley MS 2809

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2809
Title:
Bible without the Psalms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 6r-362v: Bible without the Psalms, imperfect. The manuscript contains various additions: Numerous marginal annotations in medieval hands. f. 1r: Prayers to the Virgin Mary ('Ave Maria gracia plena'); added in the (?) 13th century. f. 1v: A list of 'Apocripha'; added in the (?...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

167. Harley MS 4076

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4076
Title:
Collection of medical recipes
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a 16th-century collection of medical and cosmetic recipes in English and Latin, most likely compiled by a physician in the county of Devon. Its first known owner was William Raulyngs [Ralyngs], who appears to have been closely related to the manuscript's compiler. The la...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1550
Extent:
1 volume

168. Harley MS 5807

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5807
Title:
English coats of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title-page by John Philipot: ‘The Book of Coates & Creasts – Promptuarium Armorum – Begonne the 28 of may 1602 Per William Smith Rougdragon’. f. 2r: 22 printed coats of arms from the windows of a college or church, entitled: ‘In Orientali Fenestra’, ‘In prima fenestra ex...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

169. Harley MS 5820

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5820
Title:
An Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-270r: An alphabet of arms, with the arms blazoned. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. [vii]recto: ‘Alphabett of Blazon to Letter E […] Coates of A[rmes]’; added in pencil in the 17th or 18th century.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

170. Harley MS 5846

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5846
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. [v]recto: A note in pencil: ‘Barkers grants’. f. 1r: A title-page: ‘Armes given by Christopher Barker alias Garter knight with some other auntient armes. who died the second day of January being thursday about 8. of the Clock at night in Pater noster rewe in London anno 3.o Edwar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1663
Extent:
1 volume

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