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81. Harley MS 840

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 840
Title:
Genealogies of aristocratic families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-43v: Genealogies of aristocratic families, several of which contain blazons or tricks for their arms. ff. 44r-45v: A table of contents. Decoration: Coats of arms in brown ink (‘tricks’) in the genealogies throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

82. Harley MS 1004

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1004
Title:
Ranulph Higden, Speculum Curatorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-196r: Ranulph Higden, Speculum Curatorum, imperfect at the beginning (the first quire is missing). The manuscript contains several additions: f. 1*verso: A note on Higden and this manuscript, added in the 17th century f. 196r: A satirical poem on bishops (‘casus episcopales...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

83. Harley MS 1019

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1019
Title:
John Donne, Conclave Ignatii
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-64v: John Donne, Conclave Ignatii, English translation, here entitled ‘Jgnatus his Closet – Or – His late installinge in the highe Courte of Parlament somoned by generall consent of the chirche governinge furyes of the deepest helle – Wherein diverse thinges are handled Satyric...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:

1 volume

84. Harley MS 1089

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1089
Title:
An Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-179v: An Alphabet of Arms, blazoned. Decoration: Elements of arms drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

85. Harley MS 1104

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1104
Title:
English pedigrees and heraldry
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A description of the manuscript’s contents, beginning: ‘The allphebett for kente for diveres Petigres’. ff. 2*recto-4*recto: An alphabetical table of the surnames of families referring to the pedigrees in the manuscript. ff. 1v-57v: Pedigrees of Kentish gentry. f. 58r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

86. Harley MS 1155

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1155
Title:
Pedigrees of English nobility
Scope & Content:
Pedigrees of English nobility about the year 1616, with some continuations, and a description in blazon of their achievements. General index (ff. 117-127). Index of barons (ff. 128-133). For a detailed contents list, see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (Lon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1616
Extent:
1 volume

87. Harley MS 1200

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1200
Title:
Collection of legal tracts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-80v: 'Prohibitions granted upon this position that the Interpretation of all Statutes belonged to the Judges of the temporall Courts'. ff. 81r-87v: 'De magno Cancellario Angliae et Cancellaria ac Condicionibus ejus et Authoritate eorundem'. ff. 88r-89v: The Petition of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1690
Extent:
1 volume

88. Harley MS 1227

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1227
Title:
Collections of legal precedents
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-66r: Collection of precedents for pleadings etc. in the Court of Chancery. ff. 66r-69: Table to the above collection. ff. 70-180: Collection of precedents, such as conveyances, bonds, leases, assignments, useful to counsellors, attorneys etc. Including: The Style of George Villie...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

89. Harley MS 1601

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1601
Title:
House of Commons diary
Scope & Content:
House of Commons diary 1626-1628, 1640-1641. Contemporaneous brief notes of proceedings by an unknown writer. ff. 1-4r: 1626. ff. 4v-5: 1627. ff. 6-41v: March-May 1628. ff. 42-56: Long Parliament, 1640-1641.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1626-1641
Extent:
1 volume

90. Harley MS 1653

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1653
Title:
Board of Works accounts
Scope & Content:
Board of Works accounts 1614. Money received and disbursed by Andrew Kerwin, Paymaster, for six months 1 April - 30 September 1614. Formerly a single volume, now rebound in two parts.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1614
Extent:
1 volumes

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