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781. Harley MS 823

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 823
Title:
Christianographia, by Ephraim Pagitt
Scope & Content:
Manuscript book of Ephraim Pagitt (1575?-1647), Rector of St Edmund King and Martyr, London. In his own hand. Includes the following at the end of the volume: ff. 237-238: ‘Literae a Patriarcha Alexandrino, ad Archiepiscopum Cantuariensem, ex Aegypto in Britanniam transmissae, ex- autographo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

782. Harley MS 834

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 834
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-44v, 46v-51vr: Part of an ordinary of arms, organised according to heraldic device. ff. 52r-58v: ‘The whole discourse of Thomas Duke of Norffolke his arrainement the xijth day of January 1571’. ff. 59r-62v: ‘The arraygnement of Philip Howard Late Earle of Arundell [1589]’. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

783. Harley MS 959

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 959
Title:
The Cloud of Unknowing
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: A cancelled leaf from The Cloud of Unknowing. ff. 3r-123v: The Cloud of Unknowing, ending with the colophon: 'laus deo et honor / prey for the wryter / Qui nominatur Walterus ffytzherbert'. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1r: A note stating that: 'Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

784. Harley MS 1116

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1116
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r: ‘The copy of a dyde taken oute of the Evidences of thomas wolley of hamsted in the counte of Staffordshire Anno 1563’. ff. 3v-4r: Full-page drawings of a seven-headed dragon and St Michael the Archangel. ff. 5r-12v: Empty coats of arms (9 per page) in brown ink, circumscri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

785. Harley MS 1210

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1210
Title:
Law statutes for England
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains law texts from England in Latin and French that were probably written in the late 15th century. Other law texts were added in the final decade of the 15th century and early 16th century. In the same period, a Middle English poem, instructions, recipes and notes were adde...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

786. Harley MS 1259

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1259
Title:
Collection of English statutes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Carta Foresta. ff. 5r-6r: Sententia Excommunicationis Lata in Transgressores Cartarum. ff. 6r-8r: Consuetudines et assisae de Foresta. ff. 8r-9v: Summa de antiquo Dominico Corone. ff. 9v-10v: Statutum Religiosorum. ff. 10v-15r: Statutum Wyntonie. ff. 15r-19v: S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

787. Harley MS 1402

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1402
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-18v: Coats of arms (4-9 per page) of deceased persons, probably of those for whom John Spicer had been employed as a painter. Decoration: Coats of arms and crests drawn and tricked in brown ink throughout the manuscript. Drawings of banners with coats of arms in brown ink an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1682
Extent:
1 volume

788. Harley MS 1426

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1426
Title:
Achievements of English families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-32v, 35r-111r: The achievements of the English nobility from the time of James I or Charles I, with mottoes in Latin and French. f. 33v: The arms, and descents of noble persons written and painted circularly, and concentring on William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke. f. 34r: Thr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1625-c 1629
Extent:
1 volume

789. Harley MS 1591

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1591
Title:
Collection of legal treatises
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: Law notes, including a line in French: 'Pur un plaisir mille dole'. f. 1r: Recipe for sleep, including milk, treacle, saffron and ivy. ff. 2r-5v: Forms of writs from the time of Queen Elizabeth. ff. 6r-10r: 'The Manner and Order of kepinge the Quarter Cessions'. f....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

790. Harley MS 2220

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2220
Title:
Miscellaneous coats of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Coats of arms (4-9 per page) of English nobility and gentry. f. 7r: The (attributed) coats of arms of the Nine Worthies, with Guy of Warwick. ff. 7v-9r: Coats of arms (16 per page) of ‘howses [that] have matched wyth Danvers’. ff. 9r-11r: Coats of arms (16 per page) o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1589
Extent:
1 volume

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