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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5860
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*verso-2*recto: Unfinished drawings or sketches of coats of arms in pencil and ink. ff. 1r-1v: An abstract of a patent in Latin from King Charles of Sweden, granting to John Jackson of Stockport, Cheshire, the honour of nobility, and a coat of arms with the title of Johannes Pe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5862
Title:: Kentish pedigrees and coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4r: Coats of arms of Keniths nobility and gentry (6 per page). ff. 9r-40r: Collection of genealogies of Kentish families, with the signature of Robert Cook (d. 1593), Clarenceux King of Arms on f. 28r; but clearly a copy [see the date 1615 on f. 37r]. ff. 40-42r. An alpha...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5865
Title:: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Hampshire families
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: Inscriptions of the names 'Cufeild' and 'Cufaulde', perhaps referring to a location in Bramley, Hampshire. ff. 2*recto-3*recto: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-6v: Coats of arms of Hampshire families (20 per page), some with cre...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1623
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5868
Title:: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Buckinghamshire families
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-63r: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Buckinghamshire families; featuring notes in English and Latin; partially based on the Visitation of that county in 1566; the latest date to feature in the manuscript is 1618. ff. 64v-65r: An alphabetical index of family names included in t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1618
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5883
Title:: English pedigrees and coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-173v: Collections of pedigrees of English families, some featuring coats of arms; with excerpts from charters and inscriptions of tombstones; one of the latest dates featuring in this manuscript is 1615 (f. 46v). ff. 174r-174v: Copies of indentures in French and Latin. The m...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5884
Title:: English coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-12r: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 13r-16v: Letters of patent (copies), dated to 1539/40, 1592 and 1613. ff. 17r-105r: Coats of arms of English families (mostly 12 per page), one featuring the date 1618 (f. 87r). Decoration: Coats...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5959
Title:: A collection of fragments of different date and origin
Scope & Content:: A collection of fragments from manuscripts of different date and origin. The volume was part of a collection of fragments from manuscripts and printed books, including maps and drawings, assembled in 64 volumes by the bookseller and antiquary John Bagford (b. 1650/51, d. 1716). During the 19th c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6018
Title:: A catalogue of the manuscripts and printed books of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-146r: A catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631): ‘Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca Roberti Cottoni - 1621’. The heading and a number of later entries are in the hand of Robert Cotton (see Tite, The Early Records...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1621-1653
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6033
Title:: A miscellany of heraldic and historical texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title for a heraldic (?) treatise that was never begun: ‘Compendium or abstracts of all that hath byn written [...] Of the word Arma [...] and signification thereof’. ff. 3r-4r: A list of English monasteries in Latin, incomplete. ff. 5r-5v: An English heraldic treatise on...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1590s
Extent:: 1 volume

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