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791. Harley MS 2169

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2169
Title:
Heraldic collection
Scope & Content:
This heraldic manuscript contains a collection of arms compiled in the time of Henry VI or Edward IV. The collection focuses on English arms, as is indicated by its opening pages which feature verses on and drawings of William of Normandy (f. 1r), King Henry V (f. 2r), and King Henry VI (f. 3r)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and French, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

792. Harley MS 2178

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2178
Title:
Collection of philosophical tracts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-7r: Fragment of a treatise on motion, perhaps by Johannes Chilmarchus [Chilmarcus], according to A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, II (1808), p. 547. ff. 7r-10r: 'Universalia Mylleverley'. ff. 10v-21v: 'Universalia Magistri W. P. cum expotione super librum Prophirii'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

793. Harley MS 2182

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2182
Title:
The Prose Brut
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-185r: The Prose Brut; extended version to 1419. The manuscript contains numerous additions: f. 1*recto: Various early modern inscriptions, now largely erased. f. 80v: Draft indenture, referring to 'Johannes Mayler' of ?Aston ['Assone'], Flintshire, and 'Johannes Shones de M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

794. Harley MS 2185

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2185
Title:
Tracts relating to and orations held in Parliament in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, 1558-1563
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: A table of contents, indicating that the current manuscript was originally part of a much larger volume of 322 pages, which ran up to the year 1587 (29 Elizabeth I). ff. 2r-48v: Tracts relating to and orations held in Parliament in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, 1558-1563.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1587-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

795. Harley MS 2195

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2195
Title:
Copies of certificates of Hundreds in England from the time of Edward II
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-80r: A Latin letter of King Edward II to all viscounts of England, certifying existing Hundreds and their bailiffs, how many cities and villages there are therein; followed by Latin certificates of Norfolk, Suffolk, Canterbury, Huntingdonshire, Middlesex and Kent; dated to 5 M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1s quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

796. Harley MS 2199

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2199
Title:
A treatise on mortification
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-60v: An English treatise on mortification. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1r: A title 'The maner and method to true mortification'; added in the 16th century; with another inscription added in a different 16th- or 17th-century hand: 'By the Godly Father He...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

797. Harley MS 2200

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2200
Title:
Blazons of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4v: A collection of blazons of the attributed arms of the Nine Worthies, the Three Kings of Cologne (i.e. the Three Magi), and ‘the Emperours’ (the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire, and Prester John); followed by the blazons of the attributed and historic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

798. Harley MS 2203

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2203
Title:
Coats of arms of Staffordshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-19v: Coats of arms of arms from the Visitation-Book of Staffordshire of 1583, some organized in a grid (16 arms per page), and others without a grid, featuring crests (about 9 per page); also featuring seals of towns (Stafford, Litchfield, Newcastle under Lyme). ff. 20r-21v: A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

799. Harley MS 2212

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2212
Title:
Part of an Ordinary of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-186v: Part of an Ordinary of Arms; with the arms of English persons and families drawn and tricked (20 per page). Decoration: Coats of arms in brown ink drawn and tricked in grids of printed escutcheons.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

800. Harley MS 2213

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2213
Title:
Coats of arms of English knights and nobility from the reigns of Kings Edward I and Edward II
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3v: Coats of arms, drawn and tricked and blazoned in French, of King Edward I and his Nobility and of the Banerets, entitled: ‘Ces sont les nomes et les Armes de Banares de Angletere’. ff. 3v-21v: Coats of arms, drawn and tricked and blazoned in French, of English Knights, or...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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