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1291. Harley MS 5890

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5890
Title:
An Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-219r: An Alphabet of Arms for English families, blazoned, with drawings of heraldic devices. ff. 220r-226r: Lists of Lords and Knights made by King James I, beginning with ‘knyghts made the first yere of kinge James 1603’. Decoration: Heraldic devices drawn in black ink th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1292. Harley MS 5891

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5891
Title:
Alphabets of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: The arms of the archbishops and bishops, blazoned in French heraldic terminology. ff. 2r-143r: An Alphabet of arms of English families, with their arms blazoned in French heraldic terminology. ff. 144r-150r: An Alphabet of arms of cities and towns, with their arms blazoned ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1293. Harley MS 5908/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5908/1
Title:
Fragment of 'The Clerk's Tale', from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
This single leaf contains a fragment of 'The Clerk's Tale' from The Canterbury Tales by the poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400), comprising ll. 808-891 of the text, beginning, 'Takeþ it aȝen I ȝeue ȝew leue of my grace'. The leaf was formerly f. 61 in Harley MS 5908, a 17th-century co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 leaf

1294. Harley MS 5959

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5959
Title:
A collection of fragments of different date and origin
Scope & Content:
A collection of fragments from manuscripts of different date and origin. The volume was part of a collection of fragments from manuscripts and printed books, including maps and drawings, assembled in 64 volumes by the bookseller and antiquary John Bagford (b. 1650/51, d. 1716). During the 19th c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1295. Harley MS 6018

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6018
Title:
A catalogue of the manuscripts and printed books of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-146r: A catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631): ‘Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca Roberti Cottoni - 1621’. The heading and a number of later entries are in the hand of Robert Cotton (see Tite, The Early Records...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1621-1653
Extent:
1 volume

1296. Harley MS 6033

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6033
Title:
A miscellany of heraldic and historical texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title for a heraldic (?) treatise that was never begun: ‘Compendium or abstracts of all that hath byn written [...] Of the word Arma [...] and signification thereof’. ff. 3r-4r: A list of English monasteries in Latin, incomplete. ff. 5r-5v: An English heraldic treatise on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1590s
Extent:
1 volume

1297. Harley MS 6059

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6059
Title:
Notes on L. Annaeus Florus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-188v: Notes on L. Annaeus Florus (fl. early 2nd century) in Latin and Greek.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1298. Harley MS 6060

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6060
Title:
Pedigrees and coats of arms of Warwickshire families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2*recto-4*recto: An alphabetical index of surnames. ff. 5*recto-5*verso: Coats of arms (20 per page) of ‘Knightes of warwickeshire about the tyme of Edward the first’. ff. 6*recto-6*verso: Coats of arms (20 per page) of ‘Warwickshire [gentry] as they are in Theobalds Gallery’. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1632
Extent:
1 volume

1299. Harley MS 6062

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6062
Title:
Knights made by King James I and King Charles I (1603 to 1636)
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title inscription: ‘Knights made by King James and King Charles, From 1603, to 1636: With an Alphabetical Table by Sir Richard St George’. ff. 2r-38r: A ‘List of such Knights as have bene made by King James in the times of his Most happy Reigne – Rolle of all the Knights ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1636
Extent:
1 volume

1300. Harley MS 6065

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6065
Title:
A copy of the Visitation Book of Essex by John Raven in 1612
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-149r: A copy of the Visitation Book of Essex by John Raven (1597-1615), Richmond Herald, in 1612, with continuations up to 1627; and later additions, including a patent of arms dated to 1660 (f. 22v); a copy from the Visitation Book of the Count of Essex in 1634 [Henry Lily], a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1627
Extent:
1 volume

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