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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5799
Title:: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Herefordshire families
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*verso-33v: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Herefordshire families, some with their crests. ff. 34r-35r: An alphabetical index of families included in this manuscript. Decoration: Coats of arms and crests, tricked, drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5830
Title:: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Surrey families
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-10r: Printed shields (20 per page), with the arms of Surrey families tricked in pencil or ink; the latest date in the accompanying inscriptions is 1623. ff. 11r-155v, 157r-254v: Pedigrees of Surrey families with coats of arms throughout; also featuring copies of charters, con...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1623
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5841
Title:: Pedigrees of Worcestershire families with coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A title inscription: ‘The Visitacion of Worcestershire taken in Anno Domini 1569’. ff. 1r-32r: Pedigrees of Worcestershire families with coats of arms. ff. 33r-33v: An alphabetical index of families included in this manuscript. f. 34v: A coat of arms in brown ink. D...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5842
Title:: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Suffolk families
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2*recto-3*verso: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-117r: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Suffolk families, beginning with the seals of towns in Suffolk; with a copy of a patent of arms (f. 4v) granted by Thomas Hawley (d. 1557), entitled: ‘...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5848
Title:: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Shropshire families
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-41r: Pedigrees of Shropshire families with their coats of arms; including a summon (f. 40v) for members of the Kynnaston family to appear before the king for disobedience, entitled: ‘Rot. Parliam. anno 3 Hen. 7 n. 32: An Acte against Thomas Kynnaston, and others’. ff. 42r-42v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6140
Title:: A miscellany of arms and grants of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. i verso: A printed poem, entitled: ‘The affection of a Friend – In memory of the right Worshipfull his deceased friend’. The letters of the first lines are an acrostic for the name of ‘Sir William Stone Knight’. f. ii recto: A title inscription in pencil: ‘Pedegrees quartering Cr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7550
Title:: Almanack of Allestree (1627), annotated by Symonds D’Ewes
Scope & Content:: Printed Almanack of Allestree for the year 1627, with chronological notes in the handwriting of Sir Symonds D’Ewes. Also large collections in cypher. The manuscript's former binding is now stored separately as Harley MS 7550/1.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Cipher and English
Date Range:: 1627
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1091
Title:: Devonshire heraldry book
Scope & Content:: Devonshire arms and pedigrees, chiefly copied by Jacob Chaloner (1586-1631), arms painter, from the Visitation of Devonshire 1564, by William Harvey, with additions by John Saunders (died c. 1687). Includes: ff. 2-3r: Translation of the patent of King James I, creating Sir Thomas Ridgeway Kni...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2352
Title:: William Lyndwood, Provinciale
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r–118r: William Lyndwood, Provinciale, with an index (ff. 113r–118r). Decoration: Full bar border in red and blue with 1 large initial in blue (f. 1r). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Rubrics in red. Smaller plain initials in red. Paraphs in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2626
Title:: Cicero, Disputationes Tusculanae
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r-112r: Cicero, Disputationes Tusculanae (Tusculan Disputations). Decoration: A large white vine initial in gold and colours at the beginning of each book (ff. 1r, 3r, 28v, 43v, 63v, 85r). Space for a smaller initial left blank (f. 65v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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