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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5813
Title:: English, Welsh, Scottish and Lancashire coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Sketches of coats of arms and notes: ‘in the yeare 1453 Jo Norman Draper beinge maior and 32 of H. 6 the ridinge of the maiors of London was put downe’. f. 1v: Part of an alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript (‘B’). ff. 2r-72r: Coats of arms with cre...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5815
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-114v: Coats of arms with crests of English nobility and gentry, with grants of arms. ff. 115r-120v: An alphabetical index of family names. Decoration: Coats of arms with crests, tricked, drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5817
Title:: English coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-208r: Full-page achievements of British peerage in ink or pencil, some with mottos (in French), but most are unfinished; intersected with numerous paper pastedowns and smaller papers with coats of arms, pedigrees, and notes. ff. 85v-86r feature a note concerning ‘The Coat of Ar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5818
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A pencil drawing of a coat of arms. ff. 2r-45v: Coats of arms of English families (4 per page). ff. 46v-50v: An alphabetical index of families. Decoration: Coats of arms with crests in colours throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5819
Title:: English pedigrees and coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-55v: Pedigrees from Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire (and other counties), with coats of arms, up to 1665. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Pedegrees and coats of armes Berks. Bucks Oxon etcaetera’; added in the 17th century. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1665
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5820
Title:: An Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-270r: An alphabet of arms, with the arms blazoned. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. [vii]recto: ‘Alphabett of Blazon to Letter E […] Coates of A[rmes]’; added in pencil in the 17th or 18th century.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5821
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-23r: Pedigrees and arms with crests of English familie; below the entry for 'Wilkinson' (f. 23r) is an inscription: 'Entred in the Visitation of yorkshire at york the 13 of August Anno 1666 by William Dugdale Norroy King of Armes'. Decoration: Coats of arms, tricked, drawn i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1663-1678
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5822
Title:: Copy of the Visitation of Berkshire in 1566
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-49r: A copy of the Visitation of Berkshire in 1566 by William Harvey (d. 1567), Clarenceux King of Arms. The manuscript contains several additions: f. 50v: A note: ‘Fry of Abingdon at the George in Friday streete for St George Stonehouse at Radley Thursday, Seven’; added in t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5823
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-55v: Arms granted by Gilbert Dethick (b. 1499/1500, d. 1584), herald and diplomat, with additions on ff. 1 and 4r, the latter referring to arms with the date ‘1631’. ff. 56r-57v: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. f. 58r: A title-page: ‘The v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1613-1631
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5824
Title:: Coats of arms of English families
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-140r: Coats of arms of English families, some with dates: ‘1628’ added in black ink on f. 68v; and ‘1661’ added in pencil on f. 93v. f. 145r: Drawings and sketches of coats of arms in brown ink on a paper pastedown; perhaps from a former flyleaf of the original manuscript. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1628-c 1661
Extent:: 1 volume

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