Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1923
Title:: Dysgread Arfau, copied by Thomas Chaloner of Chester
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-1v: a 17th-century indenture. f. 2r: a fragment of a personal accounts ledger titled 'Thursday' at the top. ff. 3r-20v: Dysgread Arfau, a treatise on the practice of heraldry in Welsh, copied by Thomas Chaloner of Chester.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Welsh
Date Range:: 1594
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1924
Title:: Bede, Life of Cuthbert; Miracles of St Cuthbert
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-48v: Bede, Vita Sancti Cuthberti (Life of St Cuthbert), preceded by a prologue (ff. 1r-2v) and capitula (ff. 2v-3v), ending at chapter 42: 'et involutum novo amictu corpus levique in theca reconditum supra pavimentum sanctuarii composuerunt' (f. 48v). Chapters 41 and 44-46 are ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1927
Title:: Poems by the Chester arms-painters Thomas Chaloner and Randle Holme
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-53v: A collection of English poems and Latin sayings by Thomas Chaloner (d. 1598), dated to 1575-1577. ff. 54r-120v: A collection of English poems and notes by Randle Holme I (b. 1570/71, d. 1655), dated to 1616-1638. One poem on ff. 60v-61r (‘The Songe called the Buttned smo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1575-1638
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1935
Title:: Welsh pedigrees
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1v: A reused leaf of part of a manor court record. ff. 2r-109v: Pedigrees, mostly of south-east Wales, particularly Breconshire, but also for Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire, in Welsh, on the pattern of achau’r mamau. f. 110r: Another reused leaf from a manor court record. ff....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Welsh
Date Range:: 1589-1630
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1937
Title:: Ceremonies of the Catholic Church; collection of George Bellin, ironmonger and clerk of Chester; Guido de Monte Rochen, Manipulus Curatorum; sermons by Thomas Watson
Scope & Content:: A composite manuscript consisting of three separate parts. The first part (ff. 1r-116r) contains texts on the ceremonies of the Catholic Church, and was written down around 1600. The second part (ff. 102r-116r) contains a collection of thanksgivings, prayers, letters and medical recipes by Ge...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1554-c 1617
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1938
Title:: Law reports, instructions and charges
Scope & Content:: Manuscript law papers bound together with Harley MS 1941, another set of legal notes. The first two parts of the manuscript (Reports of Kings Bench cases 1612/13; Instructions for various legal processes and legal charges) are in the same hand. The third part (case of James Doe v Thomas Halewood...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1940
Title:: Heraldic book of Cheshire and Lancashire families
Scope & Content:: Lists of Earls of Chester, Cheshire and Lancashire families and their arms, with additions in another hand. f.1: Flyleaf with arms of one John Coventrey. f. 2: Epitaph of Tomson, died 7 May 1579. Ownership inscription of Randle Holme on verso. f. 3: ‘Earles of Chester’. List of the Earls, wit...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1941
Title:: Copies of legal documents
Scope & Content:: Copies of various documents for use by a trainee clerk or lawyer, dated from 1590s to 1635, including bonds, wills, indentures, etc. With a document dated 1651 hinged in (f. 18). Folios 1*-3* and 33-38 are written in a different hand on larger folios, now cut up, possibly former wrappers. Boun...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1590s-1650s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1942
Title:: Constitution of Freemasonry
Scope & Content:: Manuscript constitution, in the form of an address to a new member of the Freemasons, starting with a history of masonry, the Articles to be observed, the New Articles and oath.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1660
Extent:: 1 volume

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