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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5868
Title:: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Buckinghamshire families
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-63r: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Buckinghamshire families; featuring notes in English and Latin; partially based on the Visitation of that county in 1566; the latest date to feature in the manuscript is 1618. ff. 64v-65r: An alphabetical index of family names included in t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1618
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5874
Title:: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Lincolnshire families
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3v: A collection of coats of arms and crests of Lincolnshire families (6-10 per page) with (?) page references. ff. 4r-7v, 9r-29v: Coats of arms with crests of Lincolnshire families (4 per page), some or all drawn from architecture, such as Theobalds House [demolished in 1649...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6087
Title:: The Statutes of the Order of the Garter
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘The Statutes ordinances and decrees, with other the rites, ceremonies and observations of the most honorable Order of the Garter – Collected in the yere of Christ: 1580’. ff. 1v-2r: A table of contents, entitled: ‘The principall matters conteyned in this booke...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1580
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6096
Title:: Arms of the nobility and gentry of Ireland
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘In This Booke are Contayned all the Armes of the Nobilitie and Gentrie of Ireland’, with the date ‘1603’. f. 2r: A full-page drawing of the coat of arms of Queen Elizabeth I in colours; with her motto: ‘Semper Eadem’. ff. 3r-21v: Coats of arms of Irish nobili...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1603
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6107
Title:: Drawings of seals and arms of Scottish nobility
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-20r: Drawings of seals of Scottish nobility, some with descriptions of their charters (in Latin). ff. 21v-23r: Drawings of coats of arms on the windows of the church of Bothwell, South Lanarkshire (Scotland); from ‘Douglas Tower’ and the ‘Earle of Forfars garden’ at Bothwell ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1707
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6129
Title:: Arms of English and European kings and nobility
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-25r: The arms of the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, kings of European countries, dukes, counts, and English nobility and gentry. Decoration: Coats of arms (16 per page), tricked, drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7655
Title:: Theological questions and answer by a Protestant author
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-20r: Theological questions and answer by a Protestant author (referring to ‘The Papists wicked blasphemie’), beginning: ‘Q: How many commaundements are there in the first Table?’.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 16th century-4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 81
Title:: Acts of the Privy Council under Henry VI, 1442-1461
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-74v: The 'Actes of Counsyll of Hary the sixte This tyme from the 26 of october in the 20 yeare [1442] of his Raigne to the 26 of July in the 24th yeare [1446]'; followed by further acts from 19 March 1447 to 9 August 1461; transcribed by John Claxton and Ralph Starkey.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 772
Title:: The arms of aristocracy and towns in Suffolk, tricked
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-26r: The arms of aristocracy and towns in Suffolk, tricked. ff. 27r-28r: A table of contents. Decoration: Coats of arms (tricked), many with crests, in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 893
Title:: An Alphabet of Arms of Cheshire and Lancashire families
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-35r: An Alphabet of Arms of Cheshire and Lancashire families, blazoned. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 36v: Notes concerning the creations of nobility under James I, dated to 1616, 1620, 1622 and 1627.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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