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261. Harley MS 5408

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5408
Title:
An abridgement of law reports
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-235r: An abridgement of law reports; featuring a note in English on f. 158r: ‘After 4 leaves a day this book is r[...] on in 10 dayes’ ff. 236v-238v: Memoranda in English concerning legal matters, dated to the 14th year of Henry VIII (1522-1523).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English., French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

262. Harley MS 5415

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5415
Title:
Mondonus Belvaleti, Speculum Anglorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-74v: Mondonus Belvaleti, Speculum Anglorum; a treatise on the Order of the Garter. For another manuscript with this text, see Bibliothèque de Saint-Omer, ms. 793, which ends with the words 'brevis abbrevatio'; the present manuscript ends as follows: 'Explicit Brevis abreviacio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1463-c 1475
Extent:
1 volume

263. Harley MS 5766

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5766
Title:
L'Office de la Conception de la Vierge Marie and other prayers
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-27v: L'Office de la Conception de la Vierge Marie and other prayers. Includes a prayer to the Virgin Mary for protection against the plague introduced by the rubric 'Oraison à la V. Marie, laquelle fut trouvee au Monastere S. Claire, au Royaume de Portugal, laquelle disant la ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

264. Harley MS 5771

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5771
Title:
Samuel Morland, Élévation des eaux par toute sorte de machines reduite à la mesure, au poids, à la balance
Scope & Content:
Includes the copy of the Élévation des eaux, a treatise on hydrostatics and hydraulic that Sir Samuel Morland dedicated in 1683 to Louis XIV, king of France. The text was first published in print in 1685 in Paris. Decoration: The text on each page is written within a golden or blue frame with ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1683
Extent:

1 volume

265. Harley MS 5803

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5803
Title:
English coats of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2*recto: A table of contents for the manuscript, entitled: ‘This Book of Syng[l]e Cotes gathered and here set downe Anno 1609 And devyen [sic] By Roger Kemys’. ff. 1r-268r: English coats of arms (16 per page), organised according to their Ordinaries and charges, organised alphabe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1609
Extent:
1 volume

266. Harley MS 5809

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5809
Title:
Pedigrees and arms of Derbyshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: A list of the names of gentry with their arms blazoned, entitled :‘A note of the Armes of Certaine gents in Com. Derby and Nottingham anno 1569’. ff. 4r-87v: The seals of Derby and Chesterfield (dated 1611), pedigrees of families in Derbyshire with coats of arms and seal...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

267. Harley MS 5815

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5815
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-114v: Coats of arms with crests of English nobility and gentry, with grants of arms. ff. 115r-120v: An alphabetical index of family names. Decoration: Coats of arms with crests, tricked, drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

268. Harley MS 5831

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5831
Title:
Arms of the Knights of the Order of the Garter
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title-page in French: ‘Les noms, surnoms, qualitez, armes et leurs blasonnement, de tous les rois, Empereurs, princes, ducs, marquis, comtes, vicomtes, barons, seigneurs comandeurs et officieurs de l’ordre et milice de la Iartiere d’Angleterre, depuis l’institutio d’icelui pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

269. Harley MS 5833

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5833
Title:
An Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-142r: An Alphabet of Arms in English, featuring French heraldic terminology. Decoration: Occasional drawings of heraldic elements in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

270. Harley MS 5836

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5836
Title:
The firste Probationer, shewenge his progression in the mystery of Armorye
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘The Probationer hys fyrste assaye, in the Mysteryes of Armorye, cowched in a very playne and famylliar discourse, of the trewe placinge, of the ordinary discendinge difference of yonger brothers, and famylyes, Incidente to any Coate armour – And so briefelye...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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