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3761. Harley MS 6106

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6106
Title:
Nicholas Upton, De Studio Militari
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-74v: Nicholas Upton (b. 1400, d. 1457), cleric, lawyer, and writer on warfare and heraldry, De Studio Militari [Libellus de Officio Militari], Books I-III [Book IV is missing]; entitled: ‘Liber primus de Coloribus’ (f. 1r); ‘Liber Secundus de Regulis et Signis in Armis depicti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3762. Harley MS 6107

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6107
Title:
Drawings of seals and arms of Scottish nobility
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-20r: Drawings of seals of Scottish nobility, some with descriptions of their charters (in Latin). ff. 21v-23r: Drawings of coats of arms on the windows of the church of Bothwell, South Lanarkshire (Scotland); from ‘Douglas Tower’ and the ‘Earle of Forfars garden’ at Bothwell ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1707
Extent:
1 volume

3763. Harley MS 6113

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6113
Title:
English pedigrees and coats of arms
Scope & Content:
This early 17th-century miscellany contains sections from different English heraldic works that, at some point, were rebound, causing some items that originally belonged together to become separated from one another. Contents: ff. 1r-2v: Coats of arms and crests of English families (4-5 per p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3764. Harley MS 6119

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6119
Title:
Scottish coats of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-15r: A collection of full-page drawings of imaginary coats of arms, including the shield of the Trinity, the arms of Prester John, Melchior, Caspar, Hector, Alexander the Great, David, Judas Maccabeus, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne and Godfrey of Bouillon [perhaps this group repre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3765. Harley MS 6124

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6124
Title:
Arms and pedigrees of English earls
Scope & Content:
This manucsript contains the arms and pedigrees of English earls, organised according to county. Contents: f. 1*recto: An alphabetical index of the counties included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-17r: ‘Catalogus Comitum Herefordiæ’. ff. 18r-36r: ‘Catalogues Comitum Salisburiæ’. ff. 37r-53v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1590s
Extent:
1 volume

3766. Harley MS 6126

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6126
Title:
Inquisitiones Post Mortem for Devon and Somerset from Henry III to Edward III
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2*recto: ‘Perambulatio Forestae de Exmore in Com. Somers. et Devon in Turri London remanens'. f. 3*recto: An unidentified coat of arms with crest in a lozenge. ff. 1r-12r: 'Inter Inquisitiones post mortem: Anno 28 Regis Henrici Tertii. in Turre London. remanentes'. ff. 13r-1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1617
Extent:
1 volume

3767. Harley MS 6128

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6128
Title:
The Visitation of Staffordshire of 1583
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*recto-2*verso: An introduction to the Visitation of Stafforshire of 1583. ff. 3*recto-5*recto: Coats of arms of Stafforshire nobility (30 per page), entitled: ‘Arma Nobilium de Comitatu Stafford. ex Libro Antiquo in officio Armorum’. ff. 5*verso-109v, 111r-114r, 130v-131r: A ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1620
Extent:
1 volume

3768. Harley MS 6131

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6131
Title:
English pedigrees
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4r: An index of names of families included in this manuscript. ff. 5r-32v: A book of ‘Pedigrees by Sir Henry St George’ [Henry St George (b. 1581, d. 1644), Richmond Herald] of families whose name begin with the letter 'S'. On f. 12r is a charter of the foundation of the mon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3769. Harley MS 6134

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6134
Title:
Collection of texts relating to the de Vere family, Earls of Oxford
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4r: A Latin chronicle of the Lord Chamberlains of England (‘Camerarij Angliae’), from William the Conqueror until Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (4th year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I [1561/2]). ff. 5v-12v, 15r-21v: 17th-century collections relating to the de Vere f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century-2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3770. Harley MS 6137

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6137
Title:
Collection of Richard Kimbey's copies of English rolls of arms
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of medieval armorial rolls made by 'Richard Kimbey', possibly the arms painter Richard Kimbe. Among his transcripts is a copy of the 'Camden Roll', a 13th-century English roll with the coats of arms of English and European monarchs, lords, and knights, now Cotton ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1604-c 1618
Extent:
1 volume

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