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6401. Harley MS 6105

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6105
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript relating to Hampshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘Hampshire’. ff. 1v-2r: Two lists of expenses for food and a banquet entitled ‘Mr Bartrands Bill’ and ‘Swering Diner when I was warden’. The second list also includes payments for ‘washing the dishes’, ‘the Cooke’, and ‘the Butler’. Next to the second list is a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6402. Harley MS 6106

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6106
Title:
Nicholas Upton, De Studio Militari
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-74v: Nicholas Upton (b. 1400, d. 1457), cleric, lawyer, and writer on warfare and heraldry, De Studio Militari [Libellus de Officio Militari], Books I-III [Book IV is missing]; entitled: ‘Liber primus de Coloribus’ (f. 1r); ‘Liber Secundus de Regulis et Signis in Armis depicti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6403. Harley MS 6107

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6107
Title:
Drawings of seals and arms of Scottish nobility
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-20r: Drawings of seals of Scottish nobility, some with descriptions of their charters (in Latin). ff. 21v-23r: Drawings of coats of arms on the windows of the church of Bothwell, South Lanarkshire (Scotland); from ‘Douglas Tower’ and the ‘Earle of Forfars garden’ at Bothwell ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1707
Extent:
1 volume

6404. Harley MS 6108

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6108
Title:
The history of Brecon and Glamorgan until the year 1606
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-54v: The history of Brecon and Glamorgan until the year 1606; for a large part illegible due to damage by damp.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1606
Extent:
1 volume

6405. Harley MS 6109

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6109
Title:
Coats of arms of Kentish families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v, 2v-5r: Coats of arms of Kentish families, 4 per page. ff. 1*recto-1*verso: An alphabetical index of surnames of families included in this manuscript. Decoration: Coats of arms in brown ink (tricked).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6406. Harley MS 6110

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6110
Title:
Coats of arms of Shropshire families
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Salopie 1623’. f. 1**recto: Notes and sketches. ff. 1r-45r: Coats of arms of Shropshire families. f. 46v: Notes on payments. Decoration: Coats of arms, tricked, drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6407. Harley MS 6112

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6112
Title:
An Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-235v: An Alphabet of Arms, with blazons and heraldic devices; a note with the date 1674 on f. 121v. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. [iv]verso-2r: Sketches of heraldic devices and arms in ink and pencil, including a roundel featuring a deer drinking water f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6408. Harley MS 6113

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6113
Title:
English pedigrees and coats of arms
Scope & Content:
This early 17th-century miscellany contains sections from different English heraldic works that, at some point, were rebound, causing some items that originally belonged together to become separated from one another. Contents: ff. 1r-2v: Coats of arms and crests of English families (4-5 per p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6409. 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

6410. 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

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