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1021. Harley MS 1366

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1366
Title:
Richard Scarlet, Coats of arms in Canterbury and notes from old manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*verso: The arms of Canterbury: 'The Armes of the Cyttie of Canterberys compounded of parcel of the Kinges Coate and the Armes of St Thomas Becket together'. ff. 1r-35r: Collection of arms found by Richard Scarlet in Canterbury Cathedral and other sites in Canterbury in the year...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1599
Extent:

1 volume

1022. Harley MS 1375

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1375
Title:
Blazons of the coats of arms of English nobility and gentry
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title page: ‘Atchievements of Nobles’. f. 1v: A blazon of the arms of Carnaby, and two Latin sayings: ‘Fle, si solari, Jeiuna si saturari / da, si ditari, servi si vis dominari’ and ‘Vive diu, sed vive Deo, nam vivere mundo / Mortis opus, vera est vivere vita Deo’. f. 2r: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1023. Harley MS 1377

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1377
Title:
Emblems for ensigns for the Parliamentary army during the English Civil War
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-20r: Emblems for ensigns for the Parliamentary army during the English Civil War, with mottos in Latin. The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 21*verso: Notes: 'att Mr Rayes in Collmon Street [? Coleman Street]'; added in the 17th century. ff. 21v-23r: Three additiona...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1642– c 1651
Extent:
1 volume

1024. Harley MS 1378

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1378
Title:
Miscellaneous English coats of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-59v: A miscellany of various 17th-century collections of English coats of arms (1-30 per page), some with crests. Featuring the arms of Jean-Baptiste Colbert (b. 1619, d. 1683) on f. 64r, with the note: ‘Monsieur Calvert or Colbert Ambassador from Lewis the 14th King of ffrance...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1668
Extent:
1 volume

1025. Harley MS 1383

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1383
Title:
Designs for ensigns for both parties in the English Civil War
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-57r: Unfinished designs for ensigns with mottoes in French and Latin for the English Civil War (1642-1651), for those fighting for and against the English monarch; featuring on f. 55v: Two wax impressions of the seal of ‘Captain Blount’ and an excerpt of Seneca, Epistles, book ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1651
Extent:
1 volume

1026. Harley MS 1384

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1384
Title:
Achievements and coats of arms of the English, Scottish and Irish nobility
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title inscription by John Withie: ‘Auncient English & Scottish Nobility’. ff. 1r-32r: Achievements (with mottos in French and Latin) of the English nobility since the time of King Henry VIII; the last one is dated to 1610. f. 33r: A title inscription by John Withie: ‘...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1027. Harley MS 1389

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1389
Title:
Alphabetical tables of English pedigrees
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-74v: Alphabetical tables of surnames of families mentioned in other manuscripts (perhaps other unidentified Harleian manuscripts). ff. 75r-80r: The ‘Genealogie of the Ancient and Illustrious ffamuly [sic] of the Montacutes alias Montagues. Lords. and Kings of Man, Earles of S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1670
Extent:
1 volume

1028. Harley MS 1390

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1390
Title:
Pedigrees and coats of arms of Bedfordshire families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-29r: Descents and arms of Bedfordshire families, dated to 1582 and 1583; with continuations and additions by John Saunders (the latest date is 1687); featuring an epitaph poem for ‘John Welles late of Heath Esquire who departed this life in the year of our Lord God 1645’; commi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1687
Extent:
1 volume

1029. Harley MS 1394

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1394
Title:
Robert Glover, The Visitation of Yorkshire and Church Notes from Yorkshire, 1584-1585; with additions by Nicholas Charles
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: A drawing of William the Conqueror giving a patent to Alan Rufus, 1st Earl of Richmond, who kneels before him [reproduced in Christopher Clarkson, The History of Richmond, in the County of York (Richmond: Bowman, 1814), plate between p. 14 and p. 15]; with a copy of the patent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

1030. Harley MS 1403

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1403
Title:
Coats of arms of the Irish nobility
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: ‘A Booke of the Armes, Creasts, & Suporters, with the severall Quarterings of all the Nobility of Ireland in their sevrall ranks Collected together by me John Withie’. ff. 2r-4r: A list of peerages included in this manuscript and the dates of their creations, going up to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1630-c 1655
Extent:
1 volume

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