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271. Harley MS 5846

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5846
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. [v]recto: A note in pencil: ‘Barkers grants’. f. 1r: A title-page: ‘Armes given by Christopher Barker alias Garter knight with some other auntient armes. who died the second day of January being thursday about 8. of the Clock at night in Pater noster rewe in London anno 3.o Edwar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1663
Extent:
1 volume

272. Harley MS 5849

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5849
Title:
English coats of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-69v: Coats of English families arms (mostly 9 per page), many with crests and mottoes (in French). ff. 70r-72v: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 73r: A note (crossed out): ‘The remaining part of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

273. Harley MS 5850

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5850
Title:
Alphabets of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: Frontispiece decoration, left empty. ff. 1r-43r: An Alphabet of Arms (incomplete), featuring drawings of coats of arms of English families (56 per pages) in alphabetical order, covering the letters ‘A’-‘H’. ff. 43v-92v. An Alphabet of Arms, with the arms blazoned in Eng...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

274. Harley MS 5864

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5864
Title:
English coats of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title inscription: ‘Single Coats and Crests and some Irish Armes’; a fragmentary list of surnames with page references. ff. 2r-89v: A collection of English coats of arms (16 per page), some with crests and Latin and French mottoes, beginning with the arms of St George, ‘The...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

275. Harley MS 5866

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5866
Title:
Coats of arms of Irish nobility and gentry
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: A list of ‘The names of the governors, Lieutenants, Lord iustices and Deputies of Ireland, since the conquest thereof by King Henrie the second’; ending in 1541. f. 2r: A list of ‘The names of all the Lords Deputies and Justices in Ireland, since the deathe of King Henrie...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

276. Harley MS 5875

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5875
Title:
Coats of arms of English families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-121v: Coats of arms (6 per page) of English families, some with mottos in French or Latin; many escutcheons have been left blank. ff. 122r-127r: An alphabetical index of surnames included in this manuscript. Decoration: Coats of arms, tricked, drawn in black ink throughout ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

277. Harley MS 5883

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5883
Title:
English pedigrees and coats of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-173v: Collections of pedigrees of English families, some featuring coats of arms; with excerpts from charters and inscriptions of tombstones; one of the latest dates featuring in this manuscript is 1615 (f. 46v). ff. 174r-174v: Copies of indentures in French and Latin. The m...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

278. Harley MS 5891

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5891
Title:
Alphabets of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: The arms of the archbishops and bishops, blazoned in French heraldic terminology. ff. 2r-143r: An Alphabet of arms of English families, with their arms blazoned in French heraldic terminology. ff. 144r-150r: An Alphabet of arms of cities and towns, with their arms blazoned ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

279. Harley MS 6017

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6017
Title:
Description of the astronomical clock at Lyon Cathedral, by Thomas Colepeper
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript, titled 'The Discription of a Clock That the Citizens of Lyons have Caused to be made in the Church of Saint John in the yeare 1660'. This autograph manuscript also contains a diagram by Colonel Thomas Colepeper. On f. 1 is an engraving of the clock, by F. Houas.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1678
Extent:
1 volume

280. Harley MS 6054

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6054
Title:
Notebook of verse and prose
Scope & Content:
A quarto notebook of verse and prose in English, Latin and French, in various hands. Probably partly compiled by Edmund Killingworth of Winchester College and New College, Oxford (see Kelliher). The manuscript is made up of the remains of 2 notebooks. The first notebook (ff. 1-11) contains misce...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

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