Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Language: Latin - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6066
Title:: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Northamptonshire
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A note by Sir John Cutts of Cambridge: ‘Mr Allen I pray bring to Ms Lady Cutts Ms Lady wilds house on the back side of the Drury Lane right agaynst the Cockpitt Sir Sir John Cutts Coate of Armes with all quart[er]ings [...] if you have them, the day [...] the Clocke, one M...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1618-1629
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6068
Title:: English royal records and Welsh pedigrees
Scope & Content:: A manuscript copied by George Owen of Henllys from the collections of Richard Broughton. Contents: f. 1*: Title page. f. 1r-53v: Extracts from patent rolls, plea rolls, and other English royal records, including a list of the household officials and servants of Princes Mary, 1525-26. ff. 40r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Latin, and Welsh
Date Range:: c 1597
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6075
Title:: The value of English benefices
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Sums of benefices included in this manuscripts, an addition for Christ Church, Canterbury, and a table of contents. ff. 2r-117v: Benefices organised according to counties and their deaneries, entitled: ‘Nomina et Valores omnium et singulorum Angliae Archiepiscopatuum, Espisco...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6077
Title:: A rental of the Diocese of St Davids
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4r: Rental of St Davids' Pembrokeshire advowsons, 1594. f. 5r: Full-page drawing of St Davids cathedral. f. 5v: Rental of St Davids' recotries, tithes, and vicarages, 1558-59. ff. 6r-22r: Valuations and patronage in St Davids' diocese from records in the Office of First F...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1594
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6083
Title:: Charles Cavendish, Mathematical papers
Scope & Content:: Mathematical papers assembled and partially copied by the mathematician Sir Charles Cavendish (b. 1595?, d. 1654). The manuscript consists of several sets of mathematical notes, treatises and loose papers, including a treatise on geometry, called Geometria phoronomica (ff. 236r-272v); a treatise...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1621-1654
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6085
Title:: William Segar, Book of royal arms, badges and achievements from Brutus to James I
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-25r: William Segar, 'The Variation of the Armes, and Badges of the Kings of England, from the tyme of Brute, untill this present Yeare of our Lord, 1604'; beginning with an address by William Segar to King James I; containing drawings and English descriptions with blazons in La...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1604
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6087
Title:: The Statutes of the Order of the Garter
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘The Statutes ordinances and decrees, with other the rites, ceremonies and observations of the most honorable Order of the Garter – Collected in the yere of Christ: 1580’. ff. 1v-2r: A table of contents, entitled: ‘The principall matters conteyned in this booke...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1580
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6091
Title:: Sir Richard Maitland, Genealogy of the House of Setton
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-19r: ‘The Genologie and History of the Illustrious house and sirname of Seton Collected and Sett furth by Sir Richard Maitland of Lethingtoun a sisters sone of the said house - With a Table of the Kings Reigns of Sctoland Since King Malcom Canmore for the Clearing of the times ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1633
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6095
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-41r: Coats of arms of English nobility and gentry, some featuring family mottos and dates [up to c. 1620]; 4 per page [1 dated to 1607 on f. 20r]. ff. 44r-44v: An index of surnames of families included in this manuscript. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 43v:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6101
Title:: A Scots heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A full-page coat of arms with crest (quarterly of nine): arms of Jermyn. f. 2r: The ‘Armes of the Balliam’. ff. 3r-17r: Royal arms, from King Malcolm III (‘Malcum Camoir’) to Mary I of Scotland [Mary, Queen of Scots] (r. 1542-1567). ff. 18r-71r: The arms of Scots peerage...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin and Scots
Date Range:: 1567-1578
Extent:: 1 volume

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