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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7647
Title:: Catalogues of Cotton charters
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-12v: A copy of a Latin catalogue of Cotton charters made by Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726) in 1703. ff. 13r-52r: A copy of an English catalogue of Cotton charters made by Richard Widmore (bap. 1681, d. 1764) after 1750 [according to a note by Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1703-2nd half of the 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 332
Title:: Arms of the Knights of the Garter
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-8v: 15 Arms of the Knights of the Garter with titles and mottos. Decoration: Arms and crests in colours; outline of an unfinished coat of arms on f. 5v
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 418
Title:: John Foxe, De tota sacramenti eucharistiae causa
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-206v: John Foxe, De tota sacramenti eucharistiae causa (autograph translation into Latin of Thomas Cranmer's Answer unto a Crafty and Sophistical Cavillation).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 672
Title:: 'Bonus Lombardus de Ferraria', Preciosa margarita novella
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-169r: 'Bonus Lombardus de Ferraria', Preciosa margarita novella; according to an explicit in Italian (f. 169r) the work was composed in 1330. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 171v: Two verses in English: 'The good done to a good man / Is the greatest b[...] he ca...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 910
Title:: Account book of John Saunders, arms painter
Scope & Content:: Duodecimo manuscript volume, containing the accounts of welcomes and other work done for the Lord Mayors and Sheriffs of the City of London, from 1681-1692, by Mr John Saunders and other arms painters.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1681-1692
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1068
Title:: Lists and coats of arms of knights
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6r: ‘Les nosmes et lez armes dz Seignieurs et nobles hommes qui estoyent aveq le Roy Edward le primer a la siege de karlaverocke en Escoece lan 1300’. ff. 6v-11r: ‘De la Tournay a la Vile de Donstable lan 2 Edward II’. ff. 11r-18r: ‘Cest le Reteinaunce del Counte de Lancast...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1193
Title:: Copy of the Visitation Book of Buckinghamshire
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-91r: A copy of the Visitation Book of Buckinghamshire made by John Philipot (b. 1588, d. 1645), Somerset Herald, and William Ryley (d. 1667), Bluemantle Pursuivant in 1634; according to Humfrey Wanley, Keeper of the Harleian Libary, the copy was made by Henry Parker and his app...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1634
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1403
Title:: Coats of arms of the Irish nobility
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: ‘A Booke of the Armes, Creasts, & Suporters, with the severall Quarterings of all the Nobility of Ireland in their sevrall ranks Collected together by me John Withie’. ff. 2r-4r: A list of peerages included in this manuscript and the dates of their creations, going up to ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1630-c 1655
Extent:: 1 volume

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