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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6092
Title:: Blazoned arms of English nobility and gentry
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-285r: Blazoned arms of English nobility and gentry, organised according to their heraldic device. ff. 286v-358v: An index of surnames and titles included in this manuscript. Decoration: A few coats of arms in brown ink. 2 pencil drawings of men’s heads wearing berets, in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6093
Title:: A copy of the Visitation of Norfolk by William Harvey, Clarenceux King of Arms, 1563 (5th year of Queen Elizabeth I), with additions up to the year 1634
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘The visitacion of Norffolke made by William Harvy Clarencieulx kinge of Armes the xxvth day of July 1563 and in the fifth yeare of the raygne of our soveraigne Lady Queene Elizabethe’. ff. 2r-169v: A copy of the Visitation of Norfolk by William Harvey, Clarenceu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6094
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-11r: Full-page and quarter-page drawings of coats of arms in colours, beginning with those of ‘Sir Thomas Hewitt’, followed by further arms of Hewitt, Aincotte and Asthorpe. ff. 11v-30r: Coats of arms of English nobility and gentry (4-5 per page), tricked, in brown ink. ff....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6095
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-41r: Coats of arms of English nobility and gentry, some featuring family mottos and dates [up to c. 1620]; 4 per page [1 dated to 1607 on f. 20r]. ff. 44r-44v: An index of surnames of families included in this manuscript. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 43v:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6096
Title:: Arms of the nobility and gentry of Ireland
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘In This Booke are Contayned all the Armes of the Nobilitie and Gentrie of Ireland’, with the date ‘1603’. f. 2r: A full-page drawing of the coat of arms of Queen Elizabeth I in colours; with her motto: ‘Semper Eadem’. ff. 3r-21v: Coats of arms of Irish nobili...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1603
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6097
Title:: An English treatise on the rules of heraldry [Harleian Version of John's Treatise]
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-49v: A treatise on the rules of heraldry, based on 'John's Treatise' [see Dennys, The Heraldic Imagination (1976), p. 86], beginning: ‘As King Herodes recordith the beginninge and grownde of Armes was firste att greate assege of Troye’. f. 50v: A drawing of a quartered coat o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6099
Title:: The Armes and Discents of all the Dukes, Marqueses, Erles, Viscountes and Lordes, that have bin Created in England since the tyme of William the Conqueror, untill this present yeare of our Lord .1584.
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-77r: The ‘Armes and Discents of all the Dukes, Marqueses, Erles, Viscountes and Lordes, that have bin Created in England since the tyme of William the Conqueror, untill this present yeare of our Lord .1584.’; dated to 1584. Decoration: Coats of arms in colours throughout.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1584
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6100
Title:: A history of the Lord Chancellors of England, from Leofric to John Morton
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘A booke of the lorde Chaunscellors of Englande’. ff. 1r-49v: A history of the Lord Chancellors of England, beginning with Leofric, Bishop of Exeter, and ending with John Morton (d. 1500), Archbishop of Canterbury. f. 50r: The name ‘henrie deney’ [Henry ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6101
Title:: A Scots heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A full-page coat of arms with crest (quarterly of nine): arms of Jermyn. f. 2r: The ‘Armes of the Balliam’. ff. 3r-17r: Royal arms, from King Malcolm III (‘Malcum Camoir’) to Mary I of Scotland [Mary, Queen of Scots] (r. 1542-1567). ff. 18r-71r: The arms of Scots peerage...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin and Scots
Date Range:: 1567-1578
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6102
Title:: Welsh coats of arms and pedigrees
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-27r: Coats of arms of Welsh nobility and gentry (4 per page) with descriptions of their houses in English, entitled: ‘Welsh Armes – The Auncient descents of divers Noble howses and gentlemen of Wales’; on f. 26v: ‘Heare endes the Coppie of a welshe booke of Armes and descentes...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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