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31. 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

32. Harley MS 4479

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4479
Title:
Collection of French state papers
Scope & Content:
This manuscript comprises four parts that were brought together at an unknown point in time, and possibly only bound together in the Harleian Library. The latter is suggested by the fact that the manuscript contains no less than three inscriptions with the acquisition date that Humfrey Wanley, K...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1543-c 1564
Extent:
1 volume

33. Harley MS 731

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 731
Title:
Rolls of Parliament, 1485-1486
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-128v: ‘A Parliament holden at Westminster on Fryday the xxiijd day of January in the First year of the reigne of King Richard the Third’; signed by (?) Francis Mylles (d. 1618). ff. 129r-185v: ‘Diverses Communes Billes & Petitions, lesquelles fuerent baillez, en c'est pres...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

34. Harley MS 4776

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4776
Title:
Liber Terrarum of Wales
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains land surveys and letters patent relating to Wales. Other copies of these materials can be found in Harley MS 696. Although '1565' is inscribed in an initial on f. 53v, this date may only apply to ff. 1*recto-2*recto, and ff. 41r-54r. While the texts on ff. 129v-131v we...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1500-c 1565
Extent:
1 volume

35. 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

36. 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

37. Harley MS 1030

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1030
Title:
A historical and religious miscellany
Scope & Content:
This miscellany consists of four different parts. Part one (ff. 1-6) is in English and was written in the 17th century. Part two (ff. 7-72) is in English and was written in the 17th century. Part three (ff. 73-85) is in French and was written in 1598. Part four (ff. 86-92) is in English and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1598-17th century
Extent:

1 volume

38. Harley MS 7371

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7371
Title:
Miscellany of English historical papers
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a miscellany of historical papers in English, French and Latin, written in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. They were part of two separate manuscripts (ff. 1-77; and ff. 80r-184v) that were joined together at a later point. The volume also contains fragments of a 13th-c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

39. Harley MS 553

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 553
Title:
Histoire des Dignitez honoraires de France
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-17v: Histoire des Dignitez honoraires de France.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

40. Harley MS 1681

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1681
Title:
Historical collections of Pierre Du Prat
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous historical collection of Pierre Du Prat, or Prataeus, author of Le Portrait du Mareschal de Gassion (1664). f. 1v: Portrait of De Gassion, engraved by Balthasar Moncornet. This may be the print formerly inserted in Harley MS 1589, which is no longer present – see description in A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1640s-1660s
Extent:
1 volume

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