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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1071
Title:: Coats of arms and crests of the nobility of Ireland
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume, titled 'The Nobility of Ireland their Titles, Coats, Creasts, Supporters, and Mottoes, set forth in their severall coullers by me John Withy [Withie]'. At the end of the volume are some accounts.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1613
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1927
Title:: Poems by the Chester arms-painters Thomas Chaloner and Randle Holme
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-53v: A collection of English poems and Latin sayings by Thomas Chaloner (d. 1598), dated to 1575-1577. ff. 54r-120v: A collection of English poems and notes by Randle Holme I (b. 1570/71, d. 1655), dated to 1616-1638. One poem on ff. 60v-61r (‘The Songe called the Buttned smo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1575-1638
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2308
Title:: Accounts of the coronation of Edward VI and his reign
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-120r: A treatise on ‘The Maner of Coronation of Kinge Edward the Sixth’; followed by abstracts of entries in the Council book of King Edward VI from the beginning of his reign to 6 February 1549-50.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2820/1
Title:: Detached ivory panel from Harley MS 2820 (the 'Cologne Gospels')
Scope & Content:: Ivory panel of the Crucifixion with the four symbols of the Evangelists and the Manus Dei from an earlier binding, now mounted in a post-1600 British Museum binding of brown leather, formerly attached to Harley MS 2820 (the 'Cologne Gospels).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: Ivory panel and binding

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6858
Title:: Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: The Elements of Law, a treatise on political theory and the origins of the state, was completed by Thomas Hobbes on 9 May 1640 (see f. 2v), dedicated to William Cavendish, 1st duke of Newcastle, and distributed in manuscript copies produced by professional scribes. This manuscript includes a t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1640-1699
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 434
Title:: Cartulary of St Bees Priory
Scope & Content:: General cartulary of St Bees Priory, with a few additions, arranged topographically in 13 books. Includes copies of some royal charters and one or two episcopal charters passim. f. 1r: Flyleaf, a fragment of a charter. f. 1v: Memorandum in English by Robert Paddy, last prior of St Bees (Wilson...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4206
Title:: William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, The Truth of the Sorde
Scope & Content:: Manuscript volume containing a treatise of fencing by William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle. The treatise is mostly autograph, with parts in the hand of an amanuensis. On f.9 is inscribed 'The nexte This muste bee the mathematicall demonstration off The Sorde', which makes reference to a tre...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1640s-1650s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 451
Title:: 'Of the Nobilety in Generall' by Sir John Doddridge
Scope & Content:: Fair copy manuscript of a discourse on the nobility, their creation, privileges, and trials. The manuscript is titled 'Of the Nobilety in Generall', and is believed to have been written by Sir John Doddridge, lawyer and antiquarian.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1834-1835
Title:: Notes relating to the history of the Fiennes family
Scope & Content:: 2 volumes compiled by Nathanial Fiennes, containing his notes relating to the name Fiennes and the history of the Fiennes family.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 17th century
Extent:: 2 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3885
Title:: John Scottowe, Alphabet book, with English and Latin phrases
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-24v: John Scottowe, Alphabet book, with English and Latin phrases; inscribed 'Mr Tharlton' (inside the letter 'T') with a poem about him, beginning, 'The picture here set down, / Within this letter T, / Aright doth shew the form and shape / Of Tharlton unto thee' (f. 19r). Ric...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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