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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1456
Title:: Heraldic achievements of the English nobility, living about the 16th year of King Charles I
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume containing the heraldic achievements of the English nobility, painted in colour, in the hand of John Withie, painter-stainer.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1640?
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1462
Title:: Coats of arms of the Knights of the Bath from King James I to Charles II; Sir William Dugdale, The Manner of Creating the Knights of the Antient and Honourable Order of the Bath, According to the Custom used in England in Times of Peace with a List of those Honourable Persons who are to be Created Knights of the Bath at his Majesties Coronation, 23 Aprill, 1661
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*verso: An introduction to ff. 1r-22r: 'In this Booke: Are conteined the Names, Armes, and Creasts, of all the Knights of the Bath, made at the Coronation of King Iames, 1603. At the Creation of Charles Duke of York, At hte Creation of Henry Prince of Wales, At the Creation of Cha...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1661
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1474
Title:: Descents of baronets
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. [iii]recto: A title inscription: ‘Baronets Discents’. f. 1*recto: A list of payments, entitled: ‘A bill of fees due to the Kings Servants from all persons that receive the Honour of Knighthood’. f. 1*verso: A list of payments, entitled: ‘The ffees of the Severall Offices for a ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1660s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1479
Title:: Coats of arms of Knights of the Garter and the English peerage
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: An unfinished ink sketch of the arms of Charles II. ff. 1r-24r: Full-page drawings of coats of arms of Knights of the Garter, including those of King Charles II, all circumscribed by the Garter; also featuring supporters, crowns, crests and mottoes. f. 25v: A note on t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1480
Title:: A copy of the Visitation Book of Oxfordshire of 1634
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A title inscription: ‘Oxfordshire 1634’. ff. 2*recto-3*verso: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-64r: A copy of the Visitation Book of Oxfordshire made by John Philipot (b. 1588, d. 1645), Somerset Herald, and William Ryley (d. 16...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1481
Title:: Robert Glover, De Origine Antiquitate et Differentijs Armorum; coats of arms of English bishops and nobility
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*recto: A title inscription: ‘De Origine Antiquitate et Differentijs Armorum sive Insigniorum R. Gloveri alias Somerset Fecialis regij observationes aliquot’. ff. 2*recto-4*verso: An alphabetical index of surnames included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-5r: A Latin treatise by Ro...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1488-1497
Title:: The minutes, precepts, and registers, of the Commission of the Public Accounts, 1690-1697
Scope & Content:: A collection of 10 folio manuscript volumes containing the minutes, precepts, and registers, of the Commission of the Public Accounts, 1690-1697. Harley MS 1492 and Harley MS 1493 are bound together. Harley MS 1494 and Harley MS 1495 are bound together.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1690-1697
Extent:: 8 volumes (10 items)

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1498
Title:: Quadripartite Indenture for Henry VII's Chapel at Westminster Abbey
Scope & Content:: Content: ff. 1-129v: The manuscript preserves a series of four agreements (indentures) made on 16 July 1504 between Henry VII and the abbot and monks of Westminster Abbey concerning the King’s new burial chapel that was designed to replace an earlier structure at the east end of the church. T...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1504
Extent:: 1 volume.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1499
Title:: English heraldic collection, including royal coats of arms; genealogies of English noble families; Thomas Tonge, Visitation of the Northern Counties, 1530; tracts on heraldic matters; a transcript of Domesday Book relating to Yorkshire
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff 1r-1v: 'A Table of the Hole Contentes of the boke Both of the Petygrees and also the Geanologees And of wych lefe every oon doth stand'. ff. 2r-4r: Arms of kings, beginning with the 'arma Christi', and the attributed arms of the Three Magi and Prester John. ff. 4v-5r: Table of co...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1530
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1501
Title:: Songs, duets, and trios, including some opera numbers and motets, in score, transcribed by Pietro Reggio for Monsieur Didie, in London, 1681.
Scope & Content:: Passim. Songs, with a figured bass for harpsichord, in score, transcribed by Pietro Reggio for Monsieur Didie, in London, 1681. 1. 'Difenditi, o core.' 'Luiggi Rossi.' f. 12. 2. 'Chi d'amor diuien seguace.' Anonymous. f. 13. 3. 'Scusateme; non posso': canzone. Anonymous. f. 14 4. 'Ohime, madre, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 1681
Extent:: 1 volume

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