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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 839
Title:: Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-49v: An Alphabet of Arms; blazons organized alphabetically according to family names; f. 43, containing the blazoned arms of the princes of the royal house of Plantagnet, appears to have been misbound. ff. 50r-51v: Arms of Salisbury; Companies; Sir Christopher Hatton and Sir ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 860
Title:: Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-197r: An Alphabet of Arms; with the arms of English gentry and aristocracy, blazoned.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1351
Title:: Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-145r: An Alphabet of Arms, written in English but blazoned in French heraldic terminology, with coats of arms drawn in the outer and inner margins throughout; on f. 100*verso the note: ‘From London the xvth of June 1561’. f. 145v: Pedigree of the family of FitzGerald. f. 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4749
Title:: Tracts on baronies
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-29r: A collection of tracts on baronies, with an account of the 'controversy touching the Descent of the Dignity and Name of the Baronie of Abergaveny', and pedigrees, entitled: 'Presidents Collected out of a Number of Others and Titles of Honours Created by Writt to descend in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1598
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5194
Title:: Book of Forests
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Table of contents: 'The Contents of this Booke'. f. 2r: Letter by William Fletewood to Nicholas Bacon (b. 1510, d. 1579), dated 8 June 1571. ff. 3r-38r: 'A treates upon fforestes, Parkes, Chases and ffree warrens'. ff. 39r-48v: 'A charge of the Justyce of the fforests'. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1571
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 154
Title:: Genealogical and heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-90v: Genealogies of noble families. ff. 91r-93r: An index of names. Decoration: Coats of arms (‘tricks’) in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 522
Title:: Gildas, De excidio Britanniae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4r-77v: Gildas, De excidio Britanniae [English translation]. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. [i]recto-2r: Notes about Gildas, printed works and history, added in the 16th century. f. 3r: A title-page added by Sir Simonds D’Ewes, added in the 17th century. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1550
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 583
Title:: Collection of justices' charges
Scope & Content:: Manuscript collection of justices’ charges, in law French and English, with some brief legal arguments on poisoning, treason, etc. ff. 1-6r: Sir John Doderidge’s first charge to the Grand Jury of Middlesex. Hilary Term, 17 James I. f. 6v-8r: Arraignment of Williams, barrister of the Middle Templ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and English
Date Range:: 1610-1642
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 710
Title:: Pedigrees of English aristocracy
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4r-6r: Pedigree of the Plantagenets. ff. 6r-16r: Pedigree of the Beaufort, Clare, Fitzgerald, Bohun and other families. ff. 16v-17r: Pedigree of Robert Devereux (the younger), Earl of Essex. f. 18r: A diagram of Devereux’s pedigree. ff. 19r-24v: Pedigree of Clifford, Earl o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 736
Title:: Collection of legal tracts
Scope & Content:: Six legal tracts, in several hands, with various former foliations. Now divided into two volumes. Vol. 1: Robert Cotton, The Courte of Chancerye King James I’s Instructions for the Master of Wards and Liveries William Burde, Treatise on ecclesiastical matters Treatise on the Star Chamber Vol....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 2 volumes

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