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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7191
Title:: Catalogue of the manuscript collection of John Somers, 1st Baron Somers
Scope & Content:: Classified catalogue of the manuscripts in the collection of John Somers, 1st Baron Somers (1651-1716).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1084
Title:: Mixed heraldry book including extracts from Visitations of Northamptonshire, Sussex, and Yorkshire
Scope & Content:: Heraldical book written and tricked by different hands. Includes: f. 1: Arms of Guyen, Normandy, of the Earl of March, Kent, and Cornwall; of England; with some fabulous arms interspersed. ff. 2-13: Collection of arms of gentry of various counties, some specified as granted by Thomas Hawley...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 908
Title:: A collection of arms found in Kent
Scope & Content:: Duodecimo manuscript volume, written and tricked by Mr John Withie. Contents: f. 1*v: 'Livesey of Killingborne'. f. 1: Arms of Canterbury, Rochester, and Dover See. ff. 1v-2v: Arms of various Earls, Viscounts, and Lords, of Kent. ff. 3-4: Arms of various Baronets of Kent. ff. 4v-5: Arms of Knig...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1050
Title:: Account book of John Saunders, arms painter
Scope & Content:: Manuscript volume containing the personal accounts of John Saunders, arms painter, containing the accounts for his work done as a painter-stainer from January 1652 to December 1660.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1633-1660
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1831
Title:: A register of the burgesses of Westminster
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-39r: A register of the burgesses of Westminster.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1585
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3341
Title:: Statutes of Edward III and Richard II
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-234r: Statutes of Edward III and Richard II in French, including a table of contents (ff. 1-11v). The manuscript contains a later addition: ff. 235v-236v: Unfinished practice sentences in English: 'At my begynnynge god by Spa' and 'To my Ryght worshpfull'; added in the 16th c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1703
Title:: William Forrest, Poems
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3v: A ‘Prologe in the warke followinge’. ff. 3v-22v: A ‘Treatyse uppon the Salutation of the moste gloryous virgyn Marye, and that all praysinges that eaver hathe beene saide of her (After the sayinge of saincte Augustyne) are farre Insuffycient to her worthynes, and honoure:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1572
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3237
Title:: St Jerome, Epistles
Scope & Content:: The first volume of a collection of St Jerome's letters. The second volume is Salisbury Cathedral MS 143. This volume contains items 1-51 of the 117 items listed at the end of Salisbury Cathedral MS 143. Contents: ff. 1r-106v: St Jerome, Epistles. The manuscript contains a few later addition...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1026
Title:: Memorandum book of Justinian Pagitt
Scope & Content:: Private notebook of Justinian Pagitt (1611/2-1688) of Hadley, Middlesex, lawyer and Recorder of the Kings Bench. Contents include: ff. 1-3: Table of contents. ff. 4-5: Notes from Dr Henshaw’s sermons, 1632-3. f. 6: Notes on his health. f. 7: Notes on dancing. Headed: ‘De Arte soltandi,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1633
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1392
Title:: Robert Glover’s Ordinary of arms
Scope & Content:: Heraldry book with the title: ‘This is a Coppie of Mr Robert Glover’s great Booke of Ordinaries.’ All the arms are roughly tricked in printed escutcheons. Folios 390-391 and 402-407 contain blank escutcheons. Contents: ff. 1-3: Table listing the ordinaries. ff. 4-27: Table of surnames and arm...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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