Heraldic book relating to Somerset families tricked by Jacob Chaloner (1586-1631) and John Saunders (died c. 1687), arms painters. f. 1: List of Somerset sheriffs during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and the first seventeen years of King James I, by Jacob Chaloner. f. 2: Arms of Somerset j...
Heraldic collection, mainly pedigrees, with the title ‘Copia ex Libro Nicholai Tubmanni alias Lancastr’. For a detailed list of pedigrees, see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, volume 2 (1808), pages 22-25.
Composite volume of political tracts bound together. On impositions, commission of sewers, ship-money, liberty of freemen, right to property, and other subjects, with some ecclesiastical matters. Contents: ff. 1-123: Remonstrance of the House of Commons to King James I (ff. 1-16r); Argument i...
Theological lectures given by an unidentified theologian. Written in a single hand. Contents: f. 1: Flyleaf with brief list of arguments on ‘otium’ (rest) being created by God, to be touched on in turn by the author. Headed: ‘Argumenta varia cum otium a Deo factum fuerit serio pertractanda’. ...
English commonplace book of historical, political, military and ecclesiastical matters, taken from the writings of Clarion, Sleidan, de Commines, Knolles, Guicciardini, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Vere, and other sources. Includes a table of contents (ff. 2-3). For a detailed list of the c...
Heraldic manuscript volume in several hands, showing arms and pedigrees of old Shropshire families. Re-foliated. The letter from Richard Mundy to Randle Holme, 22 June 1638 (before original folio 78), referred to in the printed Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum (1808-12...
Contents: ff. 1r-52: Petrarch, Trionfi (Triumphs). f. 52v is blank. Decoration: Partial white vine border in blue, green, and pink with 1 large white vine initial in gold and, in the lower border, a coat of arms in colours and gold on a white vine panel (f. 1r). 5 small white vine initials i...
A composite manuscript of papal decretals, beginning with the Clementines, named after Pope Clement V, promulgated by his successor as pope, John XXII, in 1317, with the Glossa ordinaria (Ordinary Gloss) of Johannes Andreae (c. 1270-1348). Followed by decretals of Innocent IV, Gregory X, and Ben...