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1. Harley MS 4021

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4021
Title:
Registrum brevium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-199r: Registrum brevium, including a table of contents (ff. 2r-5v). The manuscript contains several additions: f. [ii]verso: An erased (? ownership) inscription. f. 1v: Legal note in Law French added in the (?) 17th century. f. 122r: Oonsteth'; added in the (?) 15th centu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Harley MS 6747

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6747
Title:
Legal precedents
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-27r: A collection of legal precedents in French. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: An indenture in French; written in the (?) 17th century.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. 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

4. Harley MS 1171

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1171
Title:
English pedigrees
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A page with nine empty shields, one intended for the arms of Thomas Robson of Westmorton granted by Richard St George, Norroy King of Arms, in 1615. ff. 2r-4v: A copy of part of the Visitation-book of Yorkshire, made by William Flower, Norroy King of arms, in 1575; other part...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 577

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 577
Title:
Narrationes placitorum veterum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-64r: Narrationes placitorum veterum, in French. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 12r and f. 65r: A Middle English prayer, ‘Jhesu Cryst lady helpe’; written in the 15th or 16th century. ff. 63v-64r: Account of payments; added in the early 17th century. f....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 1108

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1108
Title:
Alphabets of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-168r: An Alphabet of Arms, with the coats of arms of the English nobility and gentry blazoned in heraldic French. ff. 169r-174r: An Alphabet of Arms, with the coats of arms of the knights and gentry of Kent blazoned in heraldic French. ff. 175r-185r: An Alphabet of Arms, wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Harley MS 1351

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1351
Title:
Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-145r: An Alphabet of Arms, written in English but blazoned in French heraldic terminology, with coats of arms drawn in the outer and inner margins throughout; on f. 100*verso the note: ‘From London the xvth of June 1561’. f. 145v: Pedigree of the family of FitzGerald. f. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 5154

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5154
Title:
Book of law cases
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-2v: Alphabetical index of subjects. ff. 3r-273r: Book of law cases, written in Law French and organised alphabetically: beginning with 'Accompt' and ending with 'voucher'. ff. 274r-284v: Additions to the book of law cases, with legal notes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1590s
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 437

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 437
Title:
English heraldry
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Part of an Alphabet of Arms of English families (their names starting with the letter 'B'), blazoned and tricked. ff. 5r-7r: Arms of English nobility and gentry (their names starting with the letters 'O' and 'P'), tricked. ff. 8r-11v: Part of an Alphabet of Arms of Engl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 2200

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2200
Title:
Blazons of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4v: A collection of blazons of the attributed arms of the Nine Worthies, the Three Kings of Cologne (i.e. the Three Magi), and ‘the Emperours’ (the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire, and Prester John); followed by the blazons of the attributed and historic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume