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1331. Harley MS 6119

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6119
Title:
Scottish coats of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-15r: A collection of full-page drawings of imaginary coats of arms, including the shield of the Trinity, the arms of Prester John, Melchior, Caspar, Hector, Alexander the Great, David, Judas Maccabeus, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne and Godfrey of Bouillon [perhaps this group repre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1332. Harley MS 6120

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6120
Title:
An English heraldic collection
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-98r: An Alphabet of Arms; blazons of arms of English nobility and gentry; made by Roger Kemys. ff. 99r-136r: A treatise on the earls of England since the Norman Conquest, with the blazons of their arms, organized by county; made by Roger Kemys using a work by William Camden. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1333. Harley MS 6123

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6123
Title:
Blazons of English coats of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-35v: Names with their arms blazoned, entitled: ‘Out of a manuscript in the Trinity libararie’. ff. 36r-74v: Names with their arms blazoned, entitled: ‘Out of the same volume in the Publick Library to these following is prefixed this inscription: These armes were taken forth of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1334. Harley MS 6124

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6124
Title:
Arms and pedigrees of English earls
Scope & Content:
This manucsript contains the arms and pedigrees of English earls, organised according to county. Contents: f. 1*recto: An alphabetical index of the counties included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-17r: ‘Catalogus Comitum Herefordiæ’. ff. 18r-36r: ‘Catalogues Comitum Salisburiæ’. ff. 37r-53v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1590s
Extent:
1 volume

1335. Harley MS 6125

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6125
Title:
The Visitation of Leicestershire of 1619
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*recto-4*verso: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-107v: A copy of or notes for the Visitation Book of Samson Lennard (d. 1633) and Augustine Vincent (b. c. 1584, d. 1626) for the Visitation of Leicestershire of 1619, here entitled: ‘The V...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1336. Harley MS 6126

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6126
Title:
Inquisitiones Post Mortem for Devon and Somerset from Henry III to Edward III
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2*recto: ‘Perambulatio Forestae de Exmore in Com. Somers. et Devon in Turri London remanens'. f. 3*recto: An unidentified coat of arms with crest in a lozenge. ff. 1r-12r: 'Inter Inquisitiones post mortem: Anno 28 Regis Henrici Tertii. in Turre London. remanentes'. ff. 13r-1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1617
Extent:
1 volume

1337. Harley MS 6128

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6128
Title:
The Visitation of Staffordshire of 1583
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*recto-2*verso: An introduction to the Visitation of Stafforshire of 1583. ff. 3*recto-5*recto: Coats of arms of Stafforshire nobility (30 per page), entitled: ‘Arma Nobilium de Comitatu Stafford. ex Libro Antiquo in officio Armorum’. ff. 5*verso-109v, 111r-114r, 130v-131r: A ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1620
Extent:
1 volume

1338. Harley MS 6129

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6129
Title:
Arms of English and European kings and nobility
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-25r: The arms of the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, kings of European countries, dukes, counts, and English nobility and gentry. Decoration: Coats of arms (16 per page), tricked, drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1339. Harley MS 6131

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6131
Title:
English pedigrees
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4r: An index of names of families included in this manuscript. ff. 5r-32v: A book of ‘Pedigrees by Sir Henry St George’ [Henry St George (b. 1581, d. 1644), Richmond Herald] of families whose name begin with the letter 'S'. On f. 12r is a charter of the foundation of the mon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1340. Harley MS 6132

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6132
Title:
Henry St George, Successions of the Dukes, Marquesses, Earls and Viscounts of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Notes on heraldic customs by ‘Sir William Segar’, beginning: ‘The reason of officer of armes wearing the kings coates at buryalls is to testefye that the persons deceased declared dyed in the Kings allegiance’; and the note ‘posted Sir Edm Turner’ on 19 January 1663. ff. 1v-31...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd and 3rd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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