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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1129
Title:: An etymological glossary of Anglo-Saxon, Latin and English terms by William Dugdale
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-105r: An etymological glossary of Anglo-Saxon, Latin and English terms, mostly pertaining to law and property, organised according to alphabetical order; copied by William Dugdale (not dated). The manuscript has a few later additions, added in the 17th century: f. 52r: A let...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 17th century-4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1130
Title:: Thomas Smithe, 'The manner of government or pollicie of the Realme of England'; 'A Communication or Discourse of the Queenes Majestie her Marriage, debated by foure Gentlemen of the Court at Mount Hall in Essex, and reported by Sir Thomas Smith, knight to his neighbour Frauncis Wiat, Gentlemann, 1567, April 1'
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-40v: Thomas Smithe, 'The manner of government or pollicie of the Realme of England'; in 3 books. ff. 41r-73r: 'A Communication or Discourse of the Queenes Majestie her Marriage, debated by foure Gentlemen of the Court at Mount Hall in Essex, and reported by Sir Thomas Smith,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1131
Title:: Nicaise Ladam, Chronique
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page ‘Chronique de Treshault et puissant prince Arche-duc d'Austrie Phelippe Prince de Spaenden que Dieu absoille'. ff. 1r-36v: Nicaise Ladam (b. 1465, d. 1547), Chronique [Chronicle of the Burgundian Court]; copied from a book printed at Antwerp in 1516; beginnin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1516
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1132
Title:: Annales Colecestrenses (Annals of Colchester)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-40v: Annales Colecestrenses (The Annals of Colchester), Latin annals from the Benedictine abbey of Colchester (Essex). The manuscript lacks the beginning to AD 231, the years AD 299-500, and anything after AD 1193.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1133
Title:: Pedigrees of Worcestershire
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*recto-2*recto: An index of surnames. ff. 2*verso-37r: Pedigrees of Worcestershire; probably copied from the 1569 Visitation by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms with continuations (the date ‘1653’ on f. 31v). Decoration: Coats of arms, tricked, in brown ink throughout t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1134
Title:: An Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2*r: Sketches of heraldic elements (including a griffon statant regardant, and a lion rampant in brown ink and highlighted in red); a pedigree of the ‘Rosseter’ family going up to 1637. ff. 3r-262v: An Alphabet of Arms, with the coats of arms of English nobility and gentry t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1135
Title:: A copy of the Visitation-book of Sussex of 1633-1634
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-4r: An alphabetical index of the names of families included in this manuscript. f. 4r: ‘Memorandum that the booke that this was transcribed by was part of Northamptsh. ad ffoll. […]’. ff. 7r-: Pedigrees and coats of arms of the nobility and gentry of Sussex, copied from the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1650
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1136
Title:: A copy of the Visitation-book of Suffolk of 1561
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-68v: Pedigrees and arms of Suffolk families, copied from the Visitation-book of Suffolk of 1561 by William Harvey (b. 1510, d. 1567), Clarenceux King of Arms; with misbound leaves from of a copy of the Visitation-book of Buckinghamshire of 1634 by John Philipot (b. 1588, d. 164...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd quarter or 3rd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1137
Title:: A copy of William Harvey’s Visitation-book of the county of Essex with additions by Jacob Chaloner and John Gough
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2v: An alphabetical table of the surnames of families whose pedigrees are described in this manuscript. ff. 3r-5r: An incomplete table of the arms of families represented in this manuscript. ff. 6r-6v: Pedigrees of Parker, Bugg, Ap Walter, and Hevingham. ff. 7r-10r: Sherif...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1615-1638
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1138
Title:: William Harvey, The Visitation of Northamptonshire (1564)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6r: A table of surnames of pedigrees in this manuscript. ff. 7r-63v: The Pedigrees of the Northamptonshire Gentry with their arms, blazoned, by William Harvey, Clarencieux King of Arms, at his Visitation in 1564. Decoration: Coats of arms, tricked, in brown ink throughout th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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