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861. Lansdowne MS 850

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Lansdowne MS 850
Title:
Scope & Content:
folio. A Volume of miscellaneous matter retating to English Coins and Coinage; including a considerable portion of Archbishop Sharp's treatise (see No 785.), and also the first printed edition of Stephen Martin Leake's historical account of English money, with manuscript additions and plates in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

862. Lansdowne MS 851

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 851
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, made shortly after his death, traditionally assigned to the year 1400. Contents: ff. 2r-12r: The General Prologue. ff. 12r-38v: The Knight's Tale. ff. 38v-39v: The Miller's Prologue. ff. 39v-47v: The Miller's Tale. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1410
Extent:

1 volume

863. Lansdowne MS 852

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 852
Title:
Scope & Content:
folio. A large Collection of humorous and satirical Poems, in English and Latin, many of which were levelled by the Tories and Jacobites against the political occurrences of the reigns of King William III. and Geo. I. others are of a miscellaneous nature; and the greatest part of them, perhaps,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1694-1727]
Extent:
1 item

864. Lansdowne MS 853

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 853
Title:
Scope & Content:
4to. An alphabetical Repertory of family names in many of the English and Welsh counties, with their armorial bearings; said to have been collected by one Whittingham. The Supplement begins at p. 119.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

865. Lansdowne MS 854

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 854
Title:
Scope & Content:
4to. The miscellaneous heraldical collections of Richard Pomfret, Rouge Croix pursuivant; with notes relating to Bedfordshire families, and epitaphs, &c. from several churches in that county.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

866. Lansdowne MS 855

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 855
Title:
Scope & Content:
4to. A small Volume compiled by some Herald towards the end of the fifteenth century.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
3 items

867. Lansdowne MS 856

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 856
Title:
Scope & Content:
4to. A Volume of heraldical collections.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
18 items

868. Lansdowne MS 857

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 857
Title:
Scope & Content:
4to. " A Coppy of the Armes taken in the Visitation of the County of Stafford, made in anno 1663 et 1664, by William Dugdale, Esqr Norroy K. of Armes." It is in Dugdale's own hand-writing. At the end is an alphabetical index of names.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1663-1664
Extent:
1 item

869. Lansdowne MS 858

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 858
Title:
Scope & Content:
folio. A Volume containing heraldical and other articles.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
13 items

870. Lansdowne MS 859

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 859
Title:
Scope & Content:
folio. A Volume intitled "The Names and Armes of all the noble men then beinge or created since the Conqueste of Englande, and by whom they were created." Continued to the reign of Queen Elizabeth, in which the book was written.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

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