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6441. Harley MS 6136

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6136
Title:
Pedigrees of English families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-46r: Various pedigrees of English families, including ‘A Genealogicall History of the very Ancient and Worshipfull Family of Hereford of Hereford’ (ff. 14r-19r); ‘A Coppy of the Register of the Parish of Mordiford in the County of Hereford’ (ff. 40r-40v); ‘A Coppy of the Regis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6442. Harley MS 6137

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6137
Title:
Collection of Richard Kimbey's copies of English rolls of arms
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of medieval armorial rolls made by 'Richard Kimbey', possibly the arms painter Richard Kimbe. Among his transcripts is a copy of the 'Camden Roll', a 13th-century English roll with the coats of arms of English and European monarchs, lords, and knights, now Cotton ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1604-c 1618
Extent:
1 volume

6443. Harley MS 6138

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6138
Title:
The Visitation of Kent of 1619
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A wisdom in Latin: 'Modica alteratio in membro principali magnam alterationem facit’; probably excerpted from John Guillim's A Display of Heraldrie (London, 1610); followed by a note 'This visitation Taken 1619 & some part since'. ff. 1r-225v: The Visitation of Kent of 16...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1619
Extent:
1 volume

6444. Harley MS 6139

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6139
Title:
Pedigrees and coats of arms of Herefordshire, Worcestershire, and Gloucestershire families, some taken in the years 1633-1634
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-10v: Coats of arms with crests (20 per page), most are empty escutcheons. ff. 11r- 35v: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire families, some taken in the years 1633-1634. f. 36r: Blazons of arms. f. 37r-39v: Pedigrees and coats of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6445. Harley MS 6140

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6140
Title:
A miscellany of arms and grants of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. i verso: A printed poem, entitled: ‘The affection of a Friend – In memory of the right Worshipfull his deceased friend’. The letters of the first lines are an acrostic for the name of ‘Sir William Stone Knight’. f. ii recto: A title inscription in pencil: ‘Pedegrees quartering Cr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6446. Harley MS 6144

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6144
Title:
An Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-22v: An Alphabet of Arms, blazoned.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6447. Harley MS 6145

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6145
Title:
Pedigrees of English nobility
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-39v: Pedigrees of English nobility. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: A title for the manuscript: 'The original pedigree of armes of the englishe nobility'; added in the 16th or 17th century. f. 1*recto: Notes about payments in French; added in the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

6448. Harley MS 6146

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6146
Title:
English coats of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-115r: Coats of arms of English families (9 per page). Decoration: Coats of arms, tricked, drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

1 volume

6449. Harley MS 6147

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6147
Title:
Copy of Henry Lilly's Visitation-book of Hertfordshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title-page, ‘The Visitacion of Hertfordshire’. f. 2r: A title-page, ‘The Visitation of the Countie of Hertford made in Anno 1572’. f. 3r: ‘A note of thantiquity of the Gentlemen of Hartfordshire yet remaineing and as they came first into this shire’. ff. 3r-59r: A copy ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6450. Harley MS 6149

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6149
Title:
A collection of Scots and Latin heraldic and chivalric treatises
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: An untitled Scots heraldic treatise on the different rights and privileges of the kings of arms and heralds, and the sergeants of arms in service of the king, beginning: ‘Arthour son to the duke of Bertaingnie erle of Richmont lord of partynay Counstable of ffrance Till all...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Scots
Date Range:
c 1494
Extent:
1 volume

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