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1671. Harley MS 1399

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1399
Title:
Copy of the Visitation book of Devonshire, 1564
Scope & Content:
Copy of the Visitation book of Devonshire, 1564 by William Hervey, Clarenceux. In narrative form. Includes tricks of: Arms of the City of Exeter (f. 1v) Arms of the Merchant Taylors of Exeter (f. 2)Arms of the Corporation of Smiths, Cutlers, Armorers, Lorimers and Brasiers of Exeter (f. 2v)Arm...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1672. 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

1673. Harley MS 1403

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

1674. Harley MS 1404

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1404
Title:
Ordinary of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-42r: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript, entitled: ‘The Contentes of this Booke’. ff. 43r-200r: An Ordinary of Arms; with some additions by John Withie and John Saunders. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. [iv]recto: A title inscript...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1675. Harley MS 1405

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1405
Title:
English coats of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A list of places: ‘Oxford – Buckingham – Bedford – Hartfordsh[ire] – Essex – Norff[olk] – Suff[olk]’. ff. 1r-1v: The arms of Gregory Payne, with the date 26 August 1675. ff. 2r-5v: Coats of arms of Oxfordshire (12 per parge) dated to 1668; with a note on the arms and c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1668-1669
Extent:
1 volume

1676. Harley MS 1413

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1413
Title:
Albrecht of Prussia, Kriegsordnung (chapters 7-10)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the second half of a two-volume set of the Kriegsordnung (chapters 7-10), a treatise on managing large military campaigns composed by Albrecht of Prussia (b. 1490, d. 1568), first Duke of Prussia and grand master of the Teutonic Order. It is considered to be one of the m...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
c 1555
Extent:
1 volume

1677. Harley MS 1414

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1414
Title:
An Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*verso: A title inscription: ‘The Greate Alphabett in trick’. ff. 1r-286r: An Alphabet of Arms, with coats of arms in colour and tricked in brown ink. Decoration: Coats of arms in colour or tricked in brown ink, organized in grids with 20 escutcheons per page.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1678. Harley MS 1415

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1415
Title:
Robert Glover, Visitation Book of Yorkshire (1584-85), and Visitation Book of Staffordshire (1583)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-96v: Robert Glover (b. 1543/4, d. 1588), Visitation Book of Yorkshire (1584), entitled: ‘The Booke of Entrances, made in the tyme of thevisitation of Yorkeshier, begone 1584, and continued, Anno Domini 1585 by Robert Glover, alias Somersett herald at Armes: Mareshall, and deput...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1679. Harley MS 1416

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1416
Title:
The Progenie of the monarchs of the English men
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-59v: Anonymous, ‘The Progenie of the monarchs of the English men – Conteyning: The titles and reignes of them ; the coronations and parentage of them and their wyves : the names, armes, nativities, mariages, deceasses, burialles, and issue, of them, theire wyves, and theire chi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1595
Extent:
1 volume

1680. Harley MS 1417

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1417
Title:
Descents and pedigrees of English families
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Added ownership inscriptions. f. 2r: A list of nobleman during the reign of King Henry VIII, perhaps those who formed part of his Privy Council. ff. 3r-11r: A partial index to two collection of arms, one signified by a maltese cross (possibly identified as London, College ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1525-1534
Extent:
1 volume

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