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351. Harley MS 5824

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5824
Title:
Coats of arms of English families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-140r: Coats of arms of English families, some with dates: ‘1628’ added in black ink on f. 68v; and ‘1661’ added in pencil on f. 93v. f. 145r: Drawings and sketches of coats of arms in brown ink on a paper pastedown; perhaps from a former flyleaf of the original manuscript. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1628-c 1661
Extent:
1 volume

352. Harley MS 6102

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6102
Title:
Welsh coats of arms and pedigrees
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-27r: Coats of arms of Welsh nobility and gentry (4 per page) with descriptions of their houses in English, entitled: ‘Welsh Armes – The Auncient descents of divers Noble howses and gentlemen of Wales’; on f. 26v: ‘Heare endes the Coppie of a welshe booke of Armes and descentes...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

353. Harley MS 6138

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6138
Title:
The Visitation of Kent of 1619
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A wisdom in Latin: 'Modica alteratio in membro principali magnam alterationem facit’; probably excerpted from John Guillim's A Display of Heraldrie (London, 1610); followed by a note 'This visitation Taken 1619 & some part since'. ff. 1r-225v: The Visitation of Kent of 16...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1619
Extent:
1 volume

354. Harley MS 6816

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6816
Title:
A collection of English medical texts
Scope & Content:
This collection predominantly features medical texts in Latin and English. It contains a section (ff. 97r-133v) of Middle English recipes that ends with Latin prayers against the plague and an indenture from Sempringham Priory in Lincolnshire, suggesting that the recipes may originate from this ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 18th century
Extent:

1 volume

355. Harley MS 677

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 677
Title:
Collection of letters, speech, prose and poetry
Scope & Content:
Manuscript volume written in a number of different hands. Contents: ff. 1-31: Collections out of Plutarch’s Lives. ff. 31-32: Extracts from a letter to Sir Edward Coke in the time of his trouble. Header ‘Witty Speeches collected out of a Letter sente to Sir Edward Cooke after he was Lord ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

356. Harley MS 767

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 767
Title:
Journal of the House of Lords, 1603-1687
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume containing journals of the House of Lords for different parliaments of the 17th century. Contents: ff. 1-151: Journal of the House of Lords for the first Parliament of James I, known as the Blessed Parliament, 19 March 1604-16 October 1610. ff. 152-166v: Journal of the H...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

357. Harley MS 1141

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1141
Title:
Pedigrees from the Visitation of Somerset 1623
Scope & Content:
Original book of the Visitation of Somerset taken 1623, by Henry St George, Richmond Herald; and Sampson Lennard, Blew-Mantle, Marshalls and Deputies to William Camden, Clarenceux. More pedigrees than arms. A red chalk cross and sometimes the word 'Entered' at the top of the pedigrees suggest ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1623
Extent:
1 volume

358. Harley MS 1167

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1167
Title:
Copy of the Visitation of Warwickshire 1619
Scope & Content:
Visitation of the County of Warwick 1619, by Sampson Lennard, Bluemantle, and Augustine Vincent, Rouge-Rose, Marshalls and Deputies for William Camden, Clarenceux. Almost entirely in the hand of Sampson Lennard, and first bound by him. With some additions by Henry Parker. This copy does not have...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

359. Harley MS 1609

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1609
Title:
Extracts from rolls of the Common Pleas
Scope & Content:
Extracts from late 13th century plea rolls. With some accounts relating to service in Cromwell’s army. Contents: ff. 1-2: Records of movements of horses. f. 4r: Accounts of money received for service in a regiment. f. 3v: Note dated December 1659 explaining source of following folios (ff. 4-4...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1650s
Extent:
1 volume

360. Harley MS 1820

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1820
Title:
Arms and descents of Suffolk families etc.
Scope & Content:
Heraldry book relating mainly to Suffolk, in mixed order, with some bills for painters’ goods. Contents: ff. 1*-7*: Alphabetical table of family names. ff. 7*(i.e., 7**), 5v, 6r, 7v: Bills for painters’ good and services, including, food, travel, materials. Headed on f. 7v ‘Layde oute for the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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