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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1428
Title:: English coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-16v: Coats of arms and crests of English families (4 per page or full-page drawings), some with mottoes (in French and Latin); also featuring accounts of their descents and epitaphs. The latest date attached to these arms is 1654. f. 17r: A list of the Lords created by King Ch...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1641-1654
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1479
Title:: Coats of arms of Knights of the Garter and the English peerage
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: An unfinished ink sketch of the arms of Charles II. ff. 1r-24r: Full-page drawings of coats of arms of Knights of the Garter, including those of King Charles II, all circumscribed by the Garter; also featuring supporters, crowns, crests and mottoes. f. 25v: A note on t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1480
Title:: A copy of the Visitation Book of Oxfordshire of 1634
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A title inscription: ‘Oxfordshire 1634’. ff. 2*recto-3*verso: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-64r: A copy of the Visitation Book of Oxfordshire made by John Philipot (b. 1588, d. 1645), Somerset Herald, and William Ryley (d. 16...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1481
Title:: Robert Glover, De Origine Antiquitate et Differentijs Armorum; coats of arms of English bishops and nobility
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*recto: A title inscription: ‘De Origine Antiquitate et Differentijs Armorum sive Insigniorum R. Gloveri alias Somerset Fecialis regij observationes aliquot’. ff. 2*recto-4*verso: An alphabetical index of surnames included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-5r: A Latin treatise by Ro...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1499
Title:: English heraldic collection, including royal coats of arms; genealogies of English noble families; Thomas Tonge, Visitation of the Northern Counties, 1530; tracts on heraldic matters; a transcript of Domesday Book relating to Yorkshire
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff 1r-1v: 'A Table of the Hole Contentes of the boke Both of the Petygrees and also the Geanologees And of wych lefe every oon doth stand'. ff. 2r-4r: Arms of kings, beginning with the 'arma Christi', and the attributed arms of the Three Magi and Prester John. ff. 4v-5r: Table of co...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1530
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1503
Title:: Collection of coats of arms of English kings, earls, nobility and gentry, and kings of the world
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-92v: Collection of coats of arms (16 per page) of English kings, earls, nobility and gentry; and kings of the world, among whom are many attributed arms such as those of Prester John. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: Coats of arms and ownership inscriptions o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Latin, and Welsh
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1508
Title:: Theological treatises on the Ten Commandments and the Book of Acts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-144r: A theological treatise on the Ten Commandments. ff. 145r-197r: A theological treatise on the Book of Acts.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1524
Title:: The Pauline epistles with magna glossatura
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-226v: The Pauline epistles (Romans 1.2-Hebrews 11.13) with magna glossatura (the gloss beginning on f. 1v); imperfect at the beginning and at the end. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: 'istas epistolas habet W. de Wilmintones pro [...] ad liberarum [...]'; adde...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1250
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1588
Title:: Reports of law cases from the reign of Queen Elizabeth
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-170r, 178r-192r: Reports of law cases from the 23rd until the 37th years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth; in English and Law French. ff. 171r-177r: 'Cases hors del Curia Wardorum'. ff. 192r-194r: Case between Lord Buckhurst and Justice Fenner, 40 Elizabeth I. ff. 194r-198...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1580-c 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1591
Title:: Collection of legal treatises
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: Law notes, including a line in French: 'Pur un plaisir mille dole'. f. 1r: Recipe for sleep, including milk, treacle, saffron and ivy. ff. 2r-5v: Forms of writs from the time of Queen Elizabeth. ff. 6r-10r: 'The Manner and Order of kepinge the Quarter Cessions'. f....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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