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1611. Harley MS 1388

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1388
Title:
An Ordinary of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: An alphabetical index of crests found in this manuscript. ff. 2r-8r: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript, entitled: ‘A table ot my Book of Creasts in Suites’. ff. 10r-163v: An Ordinary of Crests, featuring coats of arms (16 per page), organized...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1612. Harley MS 1389

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1389
Title:
Alphabetical tables of English pedigrees
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-74v: Alphabetical tables of surnames of families mentioned in other manuscripts (perhaps other unidentified Harleian manuscripts). ff. 75r-80r: The ‘Genealogie of the Ancient and Illustrious ffamuly [sic] of the Montacutes alias Montagues. Lords. and Kings of Man, Earles of S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1670
Extent:
1 volume

1613. Harley MS 1390

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1390
Title:
Pedigrees and coats of arms of Bedfordshire families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-29r: Descents and arms of Bedfordshire families, dated to 1582 and 1583; with continuations and additions by John Saunders (the latest date is 1687); featuring an epitaph poem for ‘John Welles late of Heath Esquire who departed this life in the year of our Lord God 1645’; commi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1687
Extent:
1 volume

1614. Harley MS 1391

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1391
Title:
Copy of the Visitation of Buckinghamshire 1634
Scope & Content:
Copy of the Visitation book of Buckinghamshire, 1634, with additions. Mostly written and tricked by John Saunders (died c 1687), arms painter. Includes town seal of Chipping Wycombe, church notes and extracts from deeds. Includes among the other contents: f. 29: Arms and epitaph of William Du...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1615. Harley MS 1392

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1392
Title:
Robert Glover’s Ordinary of arms
Scope & Content:
Heraldry book with the title: ‘This is a Coppie of Mr Robert Glover’s great Booke of Ordinaries.’ All the arms are roughly tricked in printed escutcheons. Folios 390-391 and 402-407 contain blank escutcheons. Contents: ff. 1-3: Table listing the ordinaries. ff. 4-27: Table of surnames and arm...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1616. Harley MS 1393

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1393
Title:
Heraldic collection
Scope & Content:
Heraldic collection, mainly pedigrees, with the title ‘Copia ex Libro Nicholai Tubmanni alias Lancastr’. For a detailed list of pedigrees, see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, volume 2 (1808), pages 22-25.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 volume

1617. Harley MS 1394

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1394
Title:
Robert Glover, The Visitation of Yorkshire and Church Notes from Yorkshire, 1584-1585; with additions by Nicholas Charles
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: A drawing of William the Conqueror giving a patent to Alan Rufus, 1st Earl of Richmond, who kneels before him [reproduced in Christopher Clarkson, The History of Richmond, in the County of York (Richmond: Bowman, 1814), plate between p. 14 and p. 15]; with a copy of the patent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

1618. Harley MS 1395

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1395
Title:
Arms of English nobility
Scope & Content:
Heraldry volume in the hands of Jacob Chaloner (1586-1631) and John Saunders (died c. 1687), arms painters. Contents: ff. 1*-2*: Catalogue of the nobility of England, during the reign of King Charles II, by John Saunders. ff. 2*-5*: Achievements of James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, James Butler...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1619. Harley MS 1396

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1396
Title:
Visitations of Shropshire 1584 and 1623
Scope & Content:
Copy of the Visitation book of Shropshire, 1584, supplemented by material from the Visitation of 1623. Mostly written and tricked in the hand of John Withie (1593-c. 1678), arms painter, in imitation of the hands of those who gave the information in 1623. Seals and arms well drawn by John Withie...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1620. Harley MS 1397

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1397
Title:
Copies of Visitation books of Cornwall, Surrey and Durham
Scope & Content:
Heraldry book almost wholly tricked and written in the hand of John Saunders (died c. 1687), arms painter. Contents: ff. 3*-21*: Alphabetical index of surnames up to f. 263 ff. 1-37: Arms of the Cornish gentry from the Visitation book of 1620, with arms of families from other counties mixed i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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