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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2201
Title:: Cartulary of the Bohun family of Fressingfield
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–89v: Cartulary of the Bohun family of Fressingfield, originally compiled for Edmund Bohun. Containing material relating to Fressingfield from the time of King Edward III. Includes contemporary additions up to the early 16th century. Printed in The Bohun of Fressingfield Cartulary (2011).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1491-1501
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2202
Title:: A miscellany of English prose and verse
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-10v: The Case of Anthony Ashley Cowper Earl of Shaftesbury (‘The Earle of Shaftsburyes Case’), beginning: ‘This day the Earle of Shaftsbury was brought to the Barr upon the returne of an alias habeat corpus directed to the Constable of the Tower of London’, written in the late ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2205
Title:: Coats of arms recorded in the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Mary the Virgin of Worcester, and the churches of Great Malvern, Little Malvern and Evesham
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-16r: ‘Thease Armes or Monumentes taken out of the discription of the Cathedrall Churche of Worcester are all as they are theare, althoughe not every one as itt shoulde bee ‘ [with the added note: ‘by Mr Habingdon of Henley’]. ff. 17r-19v: ‘Armes in the Churche of Great Malver...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1586-c 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2215
Title:: Coats of arms of Kentish families
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4r: An alphabetical index of names of families included in this manuscript. ff. 5v-35v: Coats of arms of Kentish families (4 per page). Decoration: Coats of arms and crests, drawn and tricked in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2220
Title:: Miscellaneous coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Coats of arms (4-9 per page) of English nobility and gentry. f. 7r: The (attributed) coats of arms of the Nine Worthies, with Guy of Warwick. ff. 7v-9r: Coats of arms (16 per page) of ‘howses [that] have matched wyth Danvers’. ff. 9r-11r: Coats of arms (16 per page) o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1589
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2221
Title:: Miscellany of English coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A table of contents, with the date 1591. ff. 2r-3v: Coats of arms (10 per page) of the English archiepiscopal and episcopal sees; with the arms of the archiepiscopal see of Dublin. ff. 4r-6r: Coats of arms (10 per page) of English cities, boroughs, and Calais. f. 7r: A li...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1578-1591
Extent:: 1 volume

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