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281. Harley MS 6066

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6066
Title:
Pedigrees and coats of arms of Northamptonshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A note by Sir John Cutts of Cambridge: ‘Mr Allen I pray bring to Ms Lady Cutts Ms Lady wilds house on the back side of the Drury Lane right agaynst the Cockpitt Sir Sir John Cutts Coate of Armes with all quart[er]ings [...] if you have them, the day [...] the Clocke, one M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1618-1629
Extent:
1 volume

282. Harley MS 6083

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6083
Title:
Charles Cavendish, Mathematical papers
Scope & Content:
Mathematical papers assembled and partially copied by the mathematician Sir Charles Cavendish (b. 1595?, d. 1654). The manuscript consists of several sets of mathematical notes, treatises and loose papers, including a treatise on geometry, called Geometria phoronomica (ff. 236r-272v); a treatise...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1621-1654
Extent:

1 volume

283. Harley MS 6085

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6085
Title:
William Segar, Book of royal arms, badges and achievements from Brutus to James I
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-25r: William Segar, 'The Variation of the Armes, and Badges of the Kings of England, from the tyme of Brute, untill this present Yeare of our Lord, 1604'; beginning with an address by William Segar to King James I; containing drawings and English descriptions with blazons in La...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1604
Extent:
1 volume

284. Harley MS 6087

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6087
Title:
The Statutes of the Order of the Garter
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘The Statutes ordinances and decrees, with other the rites, ceremonies and observations of the most honorable Order of the Garter – Collected in the yere of Christ: 1580’. ff. 1v-2r: A table of contents, entitled: ‘The principall matters conteyned in this booke...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1580
Extent:
1 volume

285. Harley MS 6112

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6112
Title:
An Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-235v: An Alphabet of Arms, with blazons and heraldic devices; a note with the date 1674 on f. 121v. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. [iv]verso-2r: Sketches of heraldic devices and arms in ink and pencil, including a roundel featuring a deer drinking water f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

286. 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

287. Harley MS 6151

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6151
Title:
Genealogies and coats of arms of Irish and Scottish families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-46r: Descriptions of genealogies of Irish and Scottish families with blazons of arms; includes the families of Keith (Earl Marischal), Stapleton of the Mountains, Elphinstone (Lord Balmerino), Welch ['Wealche'] of the Mountains (featuring a warrant dated to 22 August 1714), Stu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 17th century-1st quarter of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

288. 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

289. Harley MS 6156

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6156
Title:
Pedigrees and coats of arms of English and Welsh kings, nobility and gentry
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A full-page drawing of the coat of arms of Navarre, with a comment in French. f. 2*recto: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. f. 3*recto: A Latin note on the origin of the word ‘honour’ from the Hebew Hon ('Riches') and the French Or ('Go...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1600-1609
Extent:
1 volume

290. Harley MS 6162

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6162
Title:
Arms of the Knights of the Garter
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains two separately produced parts that both contain the arms of the Knights of the Garter. The first part (ff. 1-47) bears the date 1579, which is supported by the fact that the last identified knight, Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, was elected to the Orde...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1522-1579
Extent:
1 volume

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