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241. Harley MS 738

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 738
Title:
Collection of legal and political tracts
Scope & Content:
Collection of miscellaneous early 17th century law tracts bound together. f. 1* list of contents. ff. 1-67: Reading on the Forest Charter by George Treherne or Treheyron, Reader of Lincoln’s Inn (d. 1528). Header: ‘A Redynge, & a Declaracion of the Auctoryties, Liberties, and Offyces of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

242. Harley MS 976

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 976
Title:
Notes on sermons, by Michael Foster
Scope & Content:
Quarto manuscript volume containing notes from various sermons, in the hand of Michael Foster. Contents: f. 1*v: Notes on various bible passages. f. 1: Short notes and pen tests. At the top of the page is inscribed 'Michael Foster'. f. 1v: 'Ex precationibus collectanea'. ff. 2-5: Montiqi[?] - o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

243. Harley MS 1247

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1247
Title:
Tracts on navigation and the navy
Scope & Content:
Book in several hands on navigation, with diagrams, and English navy matters 1658-1665. Contents: ff. 1-14: Short geometrical tract for learners, with diagrams. ff. 15-32: Explanation of some problems in the art of navigation. ff. 33-37: The doctrine of spherical triangles. f. 38v: Li...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1650s-1660s
Extent:
1 volume

244. Harley MS 1754

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1754
Title:
Heraldic collection compiled by arms painters
Scope & Content:
Heraldic collection, roughly drawn and written by arms painters. Some content starts from the end of the volume and is written inverted, some is written sideways on the folios. Includes: ff. 1-2: Coats of several families, with some crests and impalements. f. 3: A few short descents. f....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

245. Harley MS 887 and 1398

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 887 and 1398
Title:
Two heraldic manuscripts concerning Essex
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume containing two heraldic manuscripts, originally bound separately, concerning Essex.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume (2 items)

246. Harley MS 834

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 834
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-44v, 46v-51vr: Part of an ordinary of arms, organised according to heraldic device. ff. 52r-58v: ‘The whole discourse of Thomas Duke of Norffolke his arrainement the xijth day of January 1571’. ff. 59r-62v: ‘The arraygnement of Philip Howard Late Earle of Arundell [1589]’. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

247. Harley MS 1116

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1116
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r: ‘The copy of a dyde taken oute of the Evidences of thomas wolley of hamsted in the counte of Staffordshire Anno 1563’. ff. 3v-4r: Full-page drawings of a seven-headed dragon and St Michael the Archangel. ff. 5r-12v: Empty coats of arms (9 per page) in brown ink, circumscri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

248. Harley MS 1402

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1402
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-18v: Coats of arms (4-9 per page) of deceased persons, probably of those for whom John Spicer had been employed as a painter. Decoration: Coats of arms and crests drawn and tricked in brown ink throughout the manuscript. Drawings of banners with coats of arms in brown ink an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1682
Extent:
1 volume

249. Harley MS 1426

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1426
Title:
Achievements of English families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-32v, 35r-111r: The achievements of the English nobility from the time of James I or Charles I, with mottoes in Latin and French. f. 33v: The arms, and descents of noble persons written and painted circularly, and concentring on William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke. f. 34r: Thr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1625-c 1629
Extent:
1 volume

250. Harley MS 1591

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1591
Title:
Collection of legal treatises
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: Law notes, including a line in French: 'Pur un plaisir mille dole'. f. 1r: Recipe for sleep, including milk, treacle, saffron and ivy. ff. 2r-5v: Forms of writs from the time of Queen Elizabeth. ff. 6r-10r: 'The Manner and Order of kepinge the Quarter Cessions'. f....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

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