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111. 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

112. 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

113. 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

114. Harley MS 6171

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6171
Title:
Fragment of an Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-30v: A fragment of an Alphabet of Arms, with the arms of English families (‘A’ to ‘B’) blazoned with French heraldic terminology. Decoration: Heraldic elements drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

115. Harley MS 6206

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6206
Title:
Letters and tracts concerning Emperor Charles V
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A table of contents: ‘Les tiltres de ce que est contenui en ce livre’. ff. 2r-7r: ‘Une Epistre de la tressacree maieste Imperialle aux elateurs de saint empire de Romme’. ff. 7r-13r:‘Apollogie ou contradiction du Roy de France alemontre du tractat entre luy faict et Limperi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1526-1527
Extent:
1 volume

116. Harley MS 6222

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6222
Title:
Petition of Richard Troughton, Bailiff of South Witham, Lincolnshire, to the Privy Council in the reign of Queen Mary, relating to the share taken by him in the Duke of Northumberland's Plot
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: A letter by Richard Throughton, beginning: ‘To the Kinge and Quenes maiesties moste honorabili councell’; ending ‘Uppon mundaye beffor The Duke of Suffolk’; ending with a declaration: ‘I was never in any commocion or otherwise against the Crowne of Englond in all my liffe b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1555
Extent:
1 volume

117. Harley MS 6561

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6561
Title:
George Boleyn, translation of Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples’s Epistres et Evangiles des cinquante et deux sepmaines de l'an, made for his sister Anne Boleyn
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-202v: Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (b. c. 1450, d. 1536), Epistres et Evangiles des cinquante et deux sepmaines de l'an [Epistles and Gospels for the Fifty-two Weeks of the Year], translated into English and French by George Boleyn (b. c. 1504, d. 1536), Viscount Rochford, for his...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1532-1533
Extent:
1 volume

118. Harley MS 6592

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6592
Title:
Copies of William Flower, Visitation of Northumberland (1575), and William Flower and Robert Glover, Visitation of Derbyshire (1569); pedigrees and arms from Cheshire, Durham, Northumberland, Staffordshire and Yorkshire
Scope & Content:
This heraldic manuscript predominantly contains pedigrees and arms of families in Durham, Derbyshire, Northumberland and Nottinghamshire. The main part (ff. 2r-67v) was written by William Wyrley (b. 1565, d. 1613) between 1590 and 1592; the additions (ff. 68r-116r) appear to have been made a few...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1590s
Extent:
1 volume

119. Harley MS 6660

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6660
Title:
Commentary on the Book of Revelation, chapters 12-13
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a commentary on the Book of Revelation in English, dedicated to William Cecil (b. 1520/1521, d. 1598), 1st Baron Burghley, and perhaps given to him on his anniversary or appointment as Lord High Treasurer in 1572. Contents: ff. 1r-31r: Commentary on the Book of Revelat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Syriac, Classical, and Welsh
Date Range:
1572
Extent:
1 volume

120. Harley MS 6673

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6673
Title:
Law precedents in the time of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-56r: Law precedents, particularly from the reigns of King Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth I, up to the 39th year of her reign (1596-97).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

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