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4161. Harley MS 6120

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6120
Title:
An English heraldic collection
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-98r: An Alphabet of Arms; blazons of arms of English nobility and gentry; made by Roger Kemys. ff. 99r-136r: A treatise on the earls of England since the Norman Conquest, with the blazons of their arms, organized by county; made by Roger Kemys using a work by William Camden. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4162. Harley MS 6122

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6122
Title:
Welsh coats of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-52v: Coats of arms of Welsh nobility (1 per page). ff. 53r: Genealogical notes, beginning with those of ‘Owen Tudor’. Decoration: Half-page drawings of coats of arms in colours throughout.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Welsh
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

4163. Harley MS 6123

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6123
Title:
Blazons of English coats of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-35v: Names with their arms blazoned, entitled: ‘Out of a manuscript in the Trinity libararie’. ff. 36r-74v: Names with their arms blazoned, entitled: ‘Out of the same volume in the Publick Library to these following is prefixed this inscription: These armes were taken forth of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4164. 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

4165. Harley MS 6125

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6125
Title:
The Visitation of Leicestershire of 1619
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*recto-4*verso: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-107v: A copy of or notes for the Visitation Book of Samson Lennard (d. 1633) and Augustine Vincent (b. c. 1584, d. 1626) for the Visitation of Leicestershire of 1619, here entitled: ‘The V...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4166. 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

4167. 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

4168. Harley MS 6129

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6129
Title:
Arms of English and European kings and nobility
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-25r: The arms of the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, kings of European countries, dukes, counts, and English nobility and gentry. Decoration: Coats of arms (16 per page), tricked, drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4169. 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

4170. Harley MS 6132

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6132
Title:
Henry St George, Successions of the Dukes, Marquesses, Earls and Viscounts of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Notes on heraldic customs by ‘Sir William Segar’, beginning: ‘The reason of officer of armes wearing the kings coates at buryalls is to testefye that the persons deceased declared dyed in the Kings allegiance’; and the note ‘posted Sir Edm Turner’ on 19 January 1663. ff. 1v-31...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd and 3rd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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