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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6102
Title:: Welsh coats of arms and pedigrees
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-27r: Coats of arms of Welsh nobility and gentry (4 per page) with descriptions of their houses in English, entitled: ‘Welsh Armes – The Auncient descents of divers Noble howses and gentlemen of Wales’; on f. 26v: ‘Heare endes the Coppie of a welshe booke of Armes and descentes...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6104
Title:: William Dugdale, Visitation of Staffordshire, 1663-64, and Visitation of Derbyshire, 1662-63
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1**recto: A title-page: ‘The Visitation of Staffordshire Taken in the year of our Lord on Thousand six hundred sixty three by William Dugdale Esquire Norroy King at Armes – Received in Anno 1664’. ff. 2*recto-2**recto: An alphabetical index of the names of families included in th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1664
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6105
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript relating to Hampshire
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘Hampshire’. ff. 1v-2r: Two lists of expenses for food and a banquet entitled ‘Mr Bartrands Bill’ and ‘Swering Diner when I was warden’. The second list also includes payments for ‘washing the dishes’, ‘the Cooke’, and ‘the Butler’. Next to the second list is a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6106
Title:: Nicholas Upton, De Studio Militari
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-74v: Nicholas Upton (b. 1400, d. 1457), cleric, lawyer, and writer on warfare and heraldry, De Studio Militari [Libellus de Officio Militari], Books I-III [Book IV is missing]; entitled: ‘Liber primus de Coloribus’ (f. 1r); ‘Liber Secundus de Regulis et Signis in Armis depicti...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6107
Title:: Drawings of seals and arms of Scottish nobility
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-20r: Drawings of seals of Scottish nobility, some with descriptions of their charters (in Latin). ff. 21v-23r: Drawings of coats of arms on the windows of the church of Bothwell, South Lanarkshire (Scotland); from ‘Douglas Tower’ and the ‘Earle of Forfars garden’ at Bothwell ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1707
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6108
Title:: The history of Brecon and Glamorgan until the year 1606
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-54v: The history of Brecon and Glamorgan until the year 1606; for a large part illegible due to damage by damp.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1606
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6109
Title:: Coats of arms of Kentish families
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v, 2v-5r: Coats of arms of Kentish families, 4 per page. ff. 1*recto-1*verso: An alphabetical index of surnames of families included in this manuscript. Decoration: Coats of arms in brown ink (tricked).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6110
Title:: Coats of arms of Shropshire families
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Salopie 1623’. f. 1**recto: Notes and sketches. ff. 1r-45r: Coats of arms of Shropshire families. f. 46v: Notes on payments. 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6112
Title:: An Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-235v: An Alphabet of Arms, with blazons and heraldic devices; a note with the date 1674 on f. 121v. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. [iv]verso-2r: Sketches of heraldic devices and arms in ink and pencil, including a roundel featuring a deer drinking water f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6113
Title:: English pedigrees and coats of arms
Scope & Content:: This early 17th-century miscellany contains sections from different English heraldic works that, at some point, were rebound, causing some items that originally belonged together to become separated from one another. Contents: ff. 1r-2v: Coats of arms and crests of English families (4-5 per p...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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