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711. Harley MS 6137

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6137
Title:
Collection of Richard Kimbey's copies of English rolls of arms
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of medieval armorial rolls made by 'Richard Kimbey', possibly the arms painter Richard Kimbe. Among his transcripts is a copy of the 'Camden Roll', a 13th-century English roll with the coats of arms of English and European monarchs, lords, and knights, now Cotton ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1604-c 1618
Extent:
1 volume

712. Harley MS 6152

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6152
Title:
The pedigrees of the families of Chasteleine, and Basset of Weldon
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-13v: The pedigrees (‘Historicall Descent[s]’) of the families of Chasteleine, and Basset of Weldon (‘Welledone’), featuring various drawn replicas of original charters with their contents written in imitative Gothic scripts from the 13th and 14th centuries, and containing seal...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1632
Extent:
1 volume

713. Harley MS 888

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 888
Title:
William Harvey, Clarencieux King of Arms, The Visitation of Wiltshire and Dorsetshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title on a parchment pastedown: 'Wiltshire and Dorsetshire Visitacions' ff. 2*verso-3*recto: A table of contents: ‘A Kallender of the Descents and Marches with Heries mentioned in this Visitacion of Wiltshire; Anno 1570’. ff. 1r-35v: William Harvey, Clarencieux King o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1570
Extent:
1 volume

714. Harley MS 1125

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1125
Title:
Translations of charters granted by English kings to the City of London
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: An introduction to the manuscript, dated 1581. ff. 1r-46v: A collection of English translations of ten charters granted by King John, Henry IV, Edward IV and Edward VI to the City of London. f. 47r: ‘A Table of certaine Charters graunted by former Kinges to the Citie...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1581
Extent:

1 volume

715. Harley MS 1139

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1139
Title:
Pedigrees and arms from the Visitation books of Berkshire, Hampshire and Buckinghamshire
Scope & Content:
Pedigrees and arms of three counties copied from the following Visitation books, with additions or continuations to them all. 1. Visitation of Berkshire 1566 by William Hervey, Clarenceux, enlarged by William Smith, Rouge-dragon, 1602. 2. Visitation of Hampshire 1576 by Robert Cooke, Clarence...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

716. Harley MS 1947

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1947
Title:
Heraldic book for Sir Thomas Holcroft, written and painted by Mercury Patten
Scope & Content:
Probably produced for Sir Thomas Holcroft MP (1557-1620). Title page (f. 1): ‘Nomina, Insignia, Etymologiae, Insigniumq[ue] Descriptiones, Gallice, Latine, et Anglice, uniuscujusq[ue] Scuti pertinentis ad digniss[imum] virum Thomas Holcroft de Holcroft, in Comitatu Lancastrensi, Armigerum’. S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1600
Extent:

1 volume

717. Harley MS 5247

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5247
Title:
An English miscellany including a treatise on oaths; theological questions; a catechism
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3v: Miscellaneous notes and sayings in English or Latin. ff. 4r-33v: ‘A Briefe Treatise of Oathes exacted by Ordinances and Ecclesiastical Judges to answer generally to all such articles or Interrogatories as pleaseth them to propound and of their forced and constrayned oathe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

718. Harley MS 7027

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7027
Title:
Plans of fortifications, and of several towns in France and Flanders etc.
Scope & Content:
Plans of fortifications, and of French and Flemish towns. Includes several printed maps, 1626-1690, some folded to fit the volume (ff. 31-46 and f. 53).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

719. Harley MS 182

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 182
Title:
Notebook of Simonds D’Ewes
Scope & Content:
Manuscript notebook of Simonds D’Ewes. Collected extracts from Latin authors, and passages in Latin, including some draft letters. Contents: ff. 2-21: Draft indexes, each folio marked into 3 columns, with letter headings in alphabetical order (apparently unrelated to the text of the notebook)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1618?
Extent:
1 volume

720. Harley MS 521

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 521
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-50v: The arms of English nobility and gentry (6 per page). ff. 51v-55r: A fragment of a heraldic manuscript with arms of Cheshire families (12 per page). ff. 56r-59r: Arms, displaying the types of crosses in heraldry (4 per page); with some marginal additions in brown ink. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

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