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4182. Harley MS 6147
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6147
- Title:
- Copy of Henry Lilly's Visitation-book of Hertfordshire
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: f. 1r: A title-page, ‘The Visitacion of Hertfordshire’. f. 2r: A title-page, ‘The Visitation of the Countie of Hertford made in Anno 1572’. f. 3r: ‘A note of thantiquity of the Gentlemen of Hartfordshire yet remaineing and as they came first into this shire’. ff. 3r-59r: A copy ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4183. Harley MS 6149
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6149
- Title:
- A collection of Scots and Latin heraldic and chivalric treatises
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-1v: An untitled Scots heraldic treatise on the different rights and privileges of the kings of arms and heralds, and the sergeants of arms in service of the king, beginning: ‘Arthour son to the duke of Bertaingnie erle of Richmont lord of partynay Counstable of ffrance Till all...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin and Scots
- Date Range:
- c 1494
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4184. Harley MS 6151
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6151
- Title:
- Genealogies and coats of arms of Irish and Scottish families
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-46r: Descriptions of genealogies of Irish and Scottish families with blazons of arms; includes the families of Keith (Earl Marischal), Stapleton of the Mountains, Elphinstone (Lord Balmerino), Welch ['Wealche'] of the Mountains (featuring a warrant dated to 22 August 1714), Stu...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 17th century-1st quarter of the 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4185. Harley MS 6152
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6152
- Title:
- The pedigrees of the families of Chasteleine, and Basset of Weldon
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-13v: The pedigrees (‘Historicall Descent[s]’) of the families of Chasteleine, and Basset of Weldon (‘Welledone’), featuring various drawn replicas of original charters with their contents written in imitative Gothic scripts from the 13th and 14th centuries, and containing seal...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1632
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4186. Harley MS 6153
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6153
- Title:
- Pedigrees and coats of arms of Welsh and Shropshire families
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-27v: Pedigrees, mainly of families of Wales and Shropshire, going up to the year 1623; a blazon of the arms of Andrew Corbet, entittled: ‘Sir Andrew Corberts knight beareath these Coates quarterlye quarterlye as followeth’ (f. 23r) ff. 28r-31r: A tract on the ‘pedegree of Mr R...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1623-1629
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4187. Harley MS 6154
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6154
- Title:
- Coats of arms of the Holy Roman Empire and Europe
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-49v: Coats of arms of the Holy Roman Emperor ('Inperator Et Archidux Austria’), which are those of Maximilian I (r. 1493-1519), followed by arms of archdukes, archbishops, kings, imperial count palatines, dukes, marquesses, counts (‘Landgrave’ and ‘Burgrave’), knights, and town...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1493-1519
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4188. Harley MS 6155
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6155
- Title:
- Robert Glover, Disceptationes de Regnorum Juribus
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Disceptationes aliquot Christianorum – principium, de regnorum principatuumque iuribus & titulis, hæc nostra memoria invicem contendentium’. f. 1*verso: A table of contents, entitled: ‘Disceptationum Catalogus’. f. 1r: A preface by Robert Glover (b. ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1581
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4189. Harley MS 6156
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6156
- Title:
- Pedigrees and coats of arms of English and Welsh kings, nobility and gentry
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: f. 1*recto: A full-page drawing of the coat of arms of Navarre, with a comment in French. f. 2*recto: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. f. 3*recto: A Latin note on the origin of the word ‘honour’ from the Hebew Hon ('Riches') and the French Or ('Go...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1600-1609
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4190. Harley MS 6157
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6157
- Title:
- Pedigrees of English families
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 4r-15r: Pedigrees of English families, the latest is dated to ‘1572’ (f. 14v); featuring a copy of the inscription on the tomb of Sir John de Freville (d. 1312) in the Church of All Saints, Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire, with the following description of that tomb (f. 7r): ‘In S...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume