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381. Harley MS 954

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 954
Title:
Military observations of Colonel Thomas Colepeper
Scope & Content:
Octavo manuscript volume, written by Colonel Thomas Colepeper. This manuscript contains Colepeper's observations regarding military matters, including camping, foraging, detachments, marching, lines, battles, retreat, attacks, forts, and others. Also included are geometry problems as applied to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

382. Harley MS 984

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 984
Title:
The Gospel of Matthew (Middle English)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-71v: The Gospel of Matthew in Middle English, imperfect at the beginning and end due to the loss of folios; ff. 7r-7v, 56r-56v and 64r-64v have been supplied in the 17th century to substitute lost text and appear to have been copied from the Coverdale Bible. The manuscript co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

383. Harley MS 1126

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1126
Title:
George Treheyron, Treatise on forest laws
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘The Book of the Statutes of the Forests Parkes Chacys Warrenes’. ff. 1r-51v: George Treheyron, Treatise on forest laws, beginning ‘What thing doth make a fforest and who may make a fforest and how a fforrest is made what thinges be incydent to a fforest wh...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

384. Harley MS 1140

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1140
Title:
Herefordshire heraldry compiled by William Penson
Scope & Content:
Collection of Herefordshire heraldic material written and tricked by William Penson, Lancaster Herald. Contents: ff. 1*r-2*v: Notes relating to eminent persons of Herefordshire, collected from Holinshead’s Chronicle. f. 2*v: Arms of the City and See of Hereford, in blazon. ff. 1-108: Pedi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

385. Harley MS 1164

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1164
Title:
Visitation of Devon and Cornwall 1620
Scope & Content:
Papers registering the descents of gentry at the Visitation of Devon and Cornwall by Henry St George, while Richmond Herald, and Sampson Lennard, Bluemantle, for William Camden, Clarenceux, 1620. The red chalk annotation ‘entred’ above the descents indicates that they had been transcribed into t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1620
Extent:
1 volume

386. Harley MS 1181

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1181
Title:
William Harvey, The Visitation of Wiltshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2v: A table of surnames. f. 3r: A title-page: ‘The Visitation of Wiltshire made in Anno Domini 1565 per William Harvey Clarenceux’. ff. 4r-66v: William Harvey, The Visitation of Wiltshire; with some additions.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

387. Harley MS 2019

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2019
Title:
Commentary on excerpts from the Bible
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4v, 159r-162v: Account notes, 1592-1597, referring to persons located in Wales, including Beaumaris, Caernarfon, (?) Llanbadrig ('Llanbeddrey'), Wrexham ('Wrexen'). f. 5r: Notes relating to guests and a dinner on 26 November 1576; Sir John Savage of Baraver in Cheshire or hi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1580-c 1600
Extent:

1 volume

388. Harley MS 2088

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2088
Title:
Coats of arms of Cheshire families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-14v: Coats of arms of Cheshire families (16 per page), entitled: ‘Cheshire Coates, of every hundreth’; only covers the hundreds of Macclesfield and part of Bucklow; escutcheons under subsequent hundreds are outlined in pencil or have been left empty. ff. 48v: An Alphabet of A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1588
Extent:
1 volume

389. Harley MS 2849

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2849
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
Contents ff. 1r-46v: The Hours of the Virgin. ff. 47r-99r: The Office of the Dead with musical notation on four-line red staves (ff. 47-98v). ff. 99r-109v: The Penitential Psalms. ff. 109v-125r: Litany of saints, followed by other litanies for 'feria [secunda] in quadragesima' until 'feri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

390. Harley MS 4013

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4013
Title:
Coats of arms of English nobility
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-25r: Coats of arms of English nobility (9 per page). f. 26r: A single coat of arms with the motto: ‘Nihil Sol Clarius’. f. 26v: A blazon for the arms of ‘T[?er]ither’. ff. 27r-30r: An alphabetical index of family names. Decoration: Coats of arms, tricked, drawn in blac...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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