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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1455
Title:: Arms and crests, tricked by John Withie
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume containing arms and crests of different families which bear the same name. Mostly tricked by John Withie, painter-stainer, into printed escutcheons. At the front of the volume is an imperfect table of names found within the volume.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1626
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4347
Title:: The Aphorisms of Hippocrates and other maxims
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes: 1. Hippocrates, Aphorismata (ff. 1r-37r); 2. Bernard de Gordon, A series of definitions from the chapter headings of the Lilium Medicinae (ff. 37r-41r); 3. A collection of definitions and maxims (ff. 42v-43r); 4. A text on the Invention of the Holy Cross (f. 43v); 5...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 44 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6066
Title:: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Northamptonshire
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A note by Sir John Cutts of Cambridge: ‘Mr Allen I pray bring to Ms Lady Cutts Ms Lady wilds house on the back side of the Drury Lane right agaynst the Cockpitt Sir Sir John Cutts Coate of Armes with all quart[er]ings [...] if you have them, the day [...] the Clocke, one M...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1618-1629
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 600
Title:: Account book from the time of Henry VIII
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-19r: A treatise entitled ‘Therreccion of the Courte of Thaugmentations and Revenuez of the kings majesties Crowne’; dated to 1546. ff. 20r-48r: Declaratio brevis omnium et singulorum Feodorum Collectorum ac Aliorum; ff. 47r-47v contains additions made in the 16th century. D...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1546
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1142
Title:: Copy of the Visitation book of Cornwall 1620
Scope & Content:: Copy of the Visitation of Cornwall 1620, by Henry St George, Richmond Herald, and Sampson Lennard, Bluemantle, Marshalls and Deputies to William Camden, Clarenceux, King of Arms. Chiefly pedigrees, with the names of the subscribers to the pedigrees entered. Arms omitted, apart from some in bla...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1157
Title:: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Shropshire families
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A list of the order for a funeral procession (‘Order for funeralls’). ff. 2r-78r: Pedigrees of Shropshire families, with coats of arms; the latest date in the manuscript is 1612 (ff. 45r, 58v). f. 79: An unidentified coat of arms. Decoration: Coats of arms, tricked, drawn...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1365
Title:: A collection of Alphabets of Arms in blazon
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A blazon of the arms of 'Laurence Breterghe of Bretegheholt' in French heraldic terminology. ff. 1r-21v: An Alphabet of Arms in blazon (French heraldic terminology), including English families and attributed arms such as those of of King Arthur, Godfrey of Bouillon, and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1753
Title:: Notes taken from sermons preached by Edmund Calamy
Scope & Content:: Quarto manuscript volume containing what was originally three books of notes taken from sermons preached by Edmund Calamy the elder, Presbyterian church leader and divine. The first book is titled 'Liber D: D:D' and contains notes from two sermons: 'Mathew 6:2323 The Single Eye' and 'Luke 8:18....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1650
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1921
Title:: A catalogue of alphabets and specimens of handwriting
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-80r: A catalogue of alphabets and specimens of handwriting, including 2 printed page fragments on the topic of writing (ff. 51, 80).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1948
Title:: Breviary of Chester collections, by Archdeacon Robert Rogers
Scope & Content:: Copy of Breviary of Chester collections by Archdeacon Robert Rogers (d. 1595), in the hand of his son, David Rogers. Chapter VII includes outline coats of arms, unfinished. ff. 3-17. ‘The Charter of the Cittie of Chester; beinge the moste principall Charter graunted by Kinge Henry the Seventh’...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1619
Extent:: 1 volume

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