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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1604
Title:: History and theology tracts
Scope & Content:: Composite volume of historical extracts relating to Westminster Abbey, notes on the history of England, and theological tracts. Contents: f. 1: Notes on the building of Westminster Abbey by Henry III, taken from the history of Thomas Walsingham. Latin. ff. 2-4: Account of the founding of the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6145
Title:: Pedigrees of English nobility
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-39v: Pedigrees of English nobility. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: A title for the manuscript: 'The original pedigree of armes of the englishe nobility'; added in the 16th or 17th century. f. 1*recto: Notes about payments in French; added in the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7364
Title:: Book of military tactics
Scope & Content:: A book of tactics, very fairly transcribed, apparently in the time of Charles I. Divided into six chapters, with many large diagrams. Chapter 1: ‘Of the ordering of a file of a Bodie of Men or Company. And of the Duties of the Souldiers in their files’. Chapter 2: ‘Of Distances’. Chapter 3...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 466-467 and 5151
Title:: Three naval journals
Scope & Content:: Three journals, from different authors, detailing their voyages made in the 1690s. Harley MS 466 and Harley MS 467 are different journals from crew members of the same ship, HMS Woolf.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1690-1695
Extent:: 1 volume (3 items)

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1171
Title:: English pedigrees
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A page with nine empty shields, one intended for the arms of Thomas Robson of Westmorton granted by Richard St George, Norroy King of Arms, in 1615. ff. 2r-4v: A copy of part of the Visitation-book of Yorkshire, made by William Flower, Norroy King of arms, in 1575; other part...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1688
Title:: A Psalter
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-7v: Calendar; with various additions, including 'dedicatio ecclesie Nowicensis'; births, marriages, and obits from the Dereham [Derham] family of Crimplesham, Norfolk; and 'obitus hugonis prior hospicii', i.e. Hugh Acton, Master, 1437–1464. ff. 8r-139r: Psalter. ff. 139v-15...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1748
Title:: A Bible-Missal
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-170r, 174r-346v: A Bible. The manuscript contains various additions: Marginal notes throughout the Bible, some relate to the standardisation of the order of the books on the Bible, e.g.: '[…] Ita q[uo]d lib[er] apocal[ipsis] sit u[l]tim[us] lib[er] totius biblie s[ecundum] n...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6131
Title:: English pedigrees
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4r: An index of names of families included in this manuscript. ff. 5r-32v: A book of ‘Pedigrees by Sir Henry St George’ [Henry St George (b. 1581, d. 1644), Richmond Herald] of families whose name begin with the letter 'S'. On f. 12r is a charter of the foundation of the mon...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 709
Title:: An heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-29r: Coats of arms; tricked and painted. ff. 30r-34v: An alphabetical table of coats of arms. ff. 35r-63v: Sketches of coats of arms (tricks).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 808
Title:: Visitation of Oxfordshire
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*recto-2*recto: An index of family names. f. 2*verso: The ‘Armes of the Cittie of Oxenforde’. f. 3*recto: The seals of the ‘Towne and Borough of Whitney’ and ‘Burforde’. f. 3*verso: A description of the ‘Colledges in the Universetie of Oxforde’. ff. 1r-47v: The ‘Visitacio...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1574
Extent:: 1 volume

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