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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6089
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-25r: Coats of arms with crests of English nobility and gentry (4 per page on ff. 1r-15v; varying numbers on ff. 16r-25r), some featuring dates [up to 1637]. The manuscript contains a later addition: ff. 26r, 27r: The names of towns (? relating to families in this manuscript)...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1637
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6090
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 2r: A title-page: ‘Coates Geathered of A name and other Coates’. f. 3r: Five attributed arms: ‘Osyris alias Jupiter king of Egypt’; ‘Hercules Kinge of Lybia’; ‘Anubis’; ‘Macedours Prince of Emathya’; ‘Semyramis Queen of babylon’. ff. 3v-4v: ‘The armes of the nine worthy women’...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6091
Title:: Sir Richard Maitland, Genealogy of the House of Setton
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-19r: ‘The Genologie and History of the Illustrious house and sirname of Seton Collected and Sett furth by Sir Richard Maitland of Lethingtoun a sisters sone of the said house - With a Table of the Kings Reigns of Sctoland Since King Malcom Canmore for the Clearing of the times ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1633
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6092
Title:: Blazoned arms of English nobility and gentry
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-285r: Blazoned arms of English nobility and gentry, organised according to their heraldic device. ff. 286v-358v: An index of surnames and titles included in this manuscript. Decoration: A few coats of arms in brown ink. 2 pencil drawings of men’s heads wearing berets, in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6093
Title:: A copy of the Visitation of Norfolk by William Harvey, Clarenceux King of Arms, 1563 (5th year of Queen Elizabeth I), with additions up to the year 1634
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘The visitacion of Norffolke made by William Harvy Clarencieulx kinge of Armes the xxvth day of July 1563 and in the fifth yeare of the raygne of our soveraigne Lady Queene Elizabethe’. ff. 2r-169v: A copy of the Visitation of Norfolk by William Harvey, Clarenceu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6094
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-11r: Full-page and quarter-page drawings of coats of arms in colours, beginning with those of ‘Sir Thomas Hewitt’, followed by further arms of Hewitt, Aincotte and Asthorpe. ff. 11v-30r: Coats of arms of English nobility and gentry (4-5 per page), tricked, in brown ink. ff....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6095
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-41r: Coats of arms of English nobility and gentry, some featuring family mottos and dates [up to c. 1620]; 4 per page [1 dated to 1607 on f. 20r]. ff. 44r-44v: An index of surnames of families included in this manuscript. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 43v:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6096
Title:: Arms of the nobility and gentry of Ireland
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘In This Booke are Contayned all the Armes of the Nobilitie and Gentrie of Ireland’, with the date ‘1603’. f. 2r: A full-page drawing of the coat of arms of Queen Elizabeth I in colours; with her motto: ‘Semper Eadem’. ff. 3r-21v: Coats of arms of Irish nobili...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1603
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6097
Title:: An English treatise on the rules of heraldry [Harleian Version of John's Treatise]
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-49v: A treatise on the rules of heraldry, based on 'John's Treatise' [see Dennys, The Heraldic Imagination (1976), p. 86], beginning: ‘As King Herodes recordith the beginninge and grownde of Armes was firste att greate assege of Troye’. f. 50v: A drawing of a quartered coat o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6100
Title:: A history of the Lord Chancellors of England, from Leofric to John Morton
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘A booke of the lorde Chaunscellors of Englande’. ff. 1r-49v: A history of the Lord Chancellors of England, beginning with Leofric, Bishop of Exeter, and ending with John Morton (d. 1500), Archbishop of Canterbury. f. 50r: The name ‘henrie deney’ [Henry ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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