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2181. Harley MS 1945

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1945
Title:
Notebook probably kept by members of the Holme family
Scope & Content:
Notebook with varied content, written in more than one hand. Includes records of expenditure, calendars, miscellaneous passages, heraldic sketches and pen trials. Contents: Notes on expenditure on tallow and candles, and shop accounts dated February 1673 to May 1674, (ff. 2-4, at head of foli...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2182. Harley MS 1946

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1946
Title:
Heraldic book of Welsh names
Scope & Content:
Heraldic book with arms in colours of the old founders of Welsh families, starting with Brutus. British Museum printed catalogue attributes the writing to Thomas Chaloner (d 1598), deputy to the Office of Arms, whose widow married Randall Holme I. Many coats of arms lack written description. Fol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1598
Extent:
1 volume

2183. Harley MS 1947

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1947
Title:
Heraldic book for Sir Thomas Holcroft, written and painted by Mercury Patten
Scope & Content:
Probably produced for Sir Thomas Holcroft MP (1557-1620). Title page (f. 1): ‘Nomina, Insignia, Etymologiae, Insigniumq[ue] Descriptiones, Gallice, Latine, et Anglice, uniuscujusq[ue] Scuti pertinentis ad digniss[imum] virum Thomas Holcroft de Holcroft, in Comitatu Lancastrensi, Armigerum’. S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1600
Extent:

1 volume

2184. Harley MS 1948

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1948
Title:
Breviary of Chester collections, by Archdeacon Robert Rogers
Scope & Content:
Copy of Breviary of Chester collections by Archdeacon Robert Rogers (d. 1595), in the hand of his son, David Rogers. Chapter VII includes outline coats of arms, unfinished. ff. 3-17. ‘The Charter of the Cittie of Chester; beinge the moste principall Charter graunted by Kinge Henry the Seventh’...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1619
Extent:
1 volume

2185. Harley MS 1949

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1949
Title:
A collection of medical recipes in Welsh, and a genealogy of British kings and princes in English
Scope & Content:
Two manuscripts in the same hand. Outer folios ff. 1-2 and 39-40 (probably former wrappers), are constructed from manuscript waste. ff. 4-31: A collection of medicinal recipes, in Welsh. Section ff. 22-24 includes drawings of urns or apothecary jars. At the end of the manuscript the writer’s na...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Welsh
Date Range:
1604
Extent:
1 volume

2186. Harley MS 1950

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1950
Title:
‘A Character of the Queene of Great-Brittaine’
Scope & Content:
Manuscript account of Henrietta-Maria, wife of Charles I, Queen of Great Britain. Formerly wrapped in an old parchment fragment of a pageant or play, now lost. Note by Frederic Madden in the Keeper’s copy of the catalogue: ‘This cover or parchment fragment was carelessly lost when the tract was ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1630s-1640s
Extent:
1 volume

2187. Harley MS 1951

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1951
Title:
Heraldic book of the arms of English families, and arms of Irish nobility, with later lists of knights of the Bath 1603-1625
Scope & Content:
Manuscript book of heraldry in two main parts: English families and Irish nobility. Preceded by lists of new knights of the Bath created 1603-1625, and followed by further heraldic and other notes. Mainly in the hand of Thomas Chaloner. Contents: f. 1: Old wrapper made of paper manuscript was...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1598-c 1632
Extent:
1 volume

2188. Harley MS 1952

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1952
Title:
Scope & Content:
Heraldic Treatise with Armorial Drawings and Medical Recipe for Edward IV; 1517. Middle English. Imperfect. The cataloguing of this heraldic manuscript was funded by the Wellcome Trust and only an additional medical recipe is fully itemised in the description. The main text is a heraldic tre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
1517
Extent:
1 item

2189. Harley MS 1954

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1954
Title:
Laws relating to Wales
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4r: Tracts on making a testament in Latin; with examples dated to 1420-1426. f. 4v: A draft indenture by Nicholas Bolnehyll, Eschaetor of Caernaerfon, concerning Jevan ap Gruffyth ap Hoelle, dated 1443/4. f. 6r: 'Compositio monete et mensurarum'. ff. 6r-7r: 'Assisa Panis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-2rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2190. Harley MS 1960

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1960
Title:
A collection of riddles
Scope & Content:
A manuscript volume of about 144 riddles, with some repeated and crossed out, collected by the Holme family of Chester. This volume is written in three different hands, one of which has been identified as Randle Holme III. There is an index found at the back of the volume, also written by Randl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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