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4021. Harley MS 6081

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6081
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: An introduction for a genealogical manuscript, beginning: ‘The lyneall dissent of the morgans from Blederye ap Kydenor Lord of St Clere and Tredegar’. A strip of parchment, together with ff. 158-159, taken from a genealogical manuscript or roll and reused for the manuscript’s ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1604
Extent:
1 volume

4022. Harley MS 6083

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6083
Title:
Charles Cavendish, Mathematical papers
Scope & Content:
Mathematical papers assembled and partially copied by the mathematician Sir Charles Cavendish (b. 1595?, d. 1654). The manuscript consists of several sets of mathematical notes, treatises and loose papers, including a treatise on geometry, called Geometria phoronomica (ff. 236r-272v); a treatise...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1621-1654
Extent:

1 volume

4023. Harley MS 6084

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6084
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-57v: Coats of arms of English gentry and nobility, 20 or less per page; all coats of arms feature birds, and are organised according to their aviary device. The manuscript opens with arms featuring a double-headed eagle. Decoration: Coats of arms, tricked, in brown ink.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4024. Harley MS 6085

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6085
Title:
William Segar, Book of royal arms, badges and achievements from Brutus to James I
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-25r: William Segar, 'The Variation of the Armes, and Badges of the Kings of England, from the tyme of Brute, untill this present Yeare of our Lord, 1604'; beginning with an address by William Segar to King James I; containing drawings and English descriptions with blazons in La...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1604
Extent:
1 volume

4025. Harley MS 6086

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6086
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-23r: An index of surnames of families included in this manuscript. ff. 24r-106v: Coats of arms with crests of English nobility and gentry, tricked, some featuring family mottos and dates; 4 per page. Decoration: Coats of arms, tricked, in brown ink; 1 in colours (f. 82r). ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4026. Harley MS 6087

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6087
Title:
The Statutes of the Order of the Garter
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘The Statutes ordinances and decrees, with other the rites, ceremonies and observations of the most honorable Order of the Garter – Collected in the yere of Christ: 1580’. ff. 1v-2r: A table of contents, entitled: ‘The principall matters conteyned in this booke...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1580
Extent:
1 volume

4027. Harley MS 6088

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6088
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: An index of surnames of families f. 4v: A drawing of a coat of arms with the title: ‘G[r]enenaye’. ff. 5r-11v: An index of surnames of families ff. 12r-81v: Drawings of coats of arms with crests of English nobility, some feature family mottos (in display script) and dat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4028. Harley MS 6089

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6089
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-25r: Coats of arms with crests of English nobility and gentry (4 per page on ff. 1r-15v; varying numbers on ff. 16r-25r), some featuring dates [up to 1637]. The manuscript contains a later addition: ff. 26r, 27r: The names of towns (? relating to families in this manuscript)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1637
Extent:

1 volume

4029. Harley MS 6090

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6090
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r: A title-page: ‘Coates Geathered of A name and other Coates’. f. 3r: Five attributed arms: ‘Osyris alias Jupiter king of Egypt’; ‘Hercules Kinge of Lybia’; ‘Anubis’; ‘Macedours Prince of Emathya’; ‘Semyramis Queen of babylon’. ff. 3v-4v: ‘The armes of the nine worthy women’...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4030. Harley MS 6091

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6091
Title:
Sir Richard Maitland, Genealogy of the House of Setton
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-19r: ‘The Genologie and History of the Illustrious house and sirname of Seton Collected and Sett furth by Sir Richard Maitland of Lethingtoun a sisters sone of the said house - With a Table of the Kings Reigns of Sctoland Since King Malcom Canmore for the Clearing of the times ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1633
Extent:
1 volume

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