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1351. Harley MS 6152

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6152
Title:
The pedigrees of the families of Chasteleine, and Basset of Weldon
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-13v: The pedigrees (‘Historicall Descent[s]’) of the families of Chasteleine, and Basset of Weldon (‘Welledone’), featuring various drawn replicas of original charters with their contents written in imitative Gothic scripts from the 13th and 14th centuries, and containing seal...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1632
Extent:
1 volume

1352. Harley MS 6153

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6153
Title:
Pedigrees and coats of arms of Welsh and Shropshire families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-27v: Pedigrees, mainly of families of Wales and Shropshire, going up to the year 1623; a blazon of the arms of Andrew Corbet, entittled: ‘Sir Andrew Corberts knight beareath these Coates quarterlye quarterlye as followeth’ (f. 23r) ff. 28r-31r: A tract on the ‘pedegree of Mr R...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1623-1629
Extent:
1 volume

1353. Harley MS 6155

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6155
Title:
Robert Glover, Disceptationes de Regnorum Juribus
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Disceptationes aliquot Christianorum – principium, de regnorum principatuumque iuribus & titulis, hæc nostra memoria invicem contendentium’. f. 1*verso: A table of contents, entitled: ‘Disceptationum Catalogus’. f. 1r: A preface by Robert Glover (b. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1581
Extent:
1 volume

1354. Harley MS 6156

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6156
Title:
Pedigrees and coats of arms of English and Welsh kings, nobility and gentry
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A full-page drawing of the coat of arms of Navarre, with a comment in French. f. 2*recto: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. f. 3*recto: A Latin note on the origin of the word ‘honour’ from the Hebew Hon ('Riches') and the French Or ('Go...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1600-1609
Extent:
1 volume

1355. Harley MS 6157

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6157
Title:
Pedigrees of English families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-15r: Pedigrees of English families, the latest is dated to ‘1572’ (f. 14v); featuring a copy of the inscription on the tomb of Sir John de Freville (d. 1312) in the Church of All Saints, Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire, with the following description of that tomb (f. 7r): ‘In S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1356. Harley MS 6159

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6159
Title:
The Visitation of Lancashire of 1567
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2*recto: A title-page for the Visitation of Lancashire of 1567, entitled: ‘The Visitacion of Lancashire etcaetera: Made in Anno 1567. Annoque 9 R. Eliz.’; with a full-page drawing of the arms of the house of Lancaster, surmounted above a family tree with coats of arms and the red r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1598
Extent:
1 volume

1357. Harley MS 6163

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6163
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. iii verso-134v: The arms of saints, emperors, kings, English nobility and gentry, beginning with the attributed arms of Prester John, the Trinity, the Virgin Mary, St George, St Denis, St Edward, St Edmund, Shield of Faith, St Albans, St Thomas of Canterbury, St Peter and St Paul....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c. 1480-c. 1500
Extent:
1 volume

1358. Harley MS 6164

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6164
Title:
The Visitation Book of the county of Sussex of 1634
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-98v: The Visitation Book of the county of Sussex, recorded by John Philipot (b. 1588, d. 1645), Rouge Dragon Pursuivant and Somerset Herald, and George Owen (b. c. 1598, d. 1665), Clarenceux and Norroy King of Arms and York Herald, in 1633-1634; containing a tract (f. 83r) conf...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1634
Extent:
1 volume

1359. Harley MS 6165

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6165
Title:
Family trees and coats of arms of Holy Roman Emperors
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-3v: Blank leaves. ff. 4r-9v: A family tree for the Holy Roman Emperors, ending in 1612. ff. 10v-46r: Descriptions of the reigns of Holy Roman Emperors from the Carolingian dynasty to the House of Habsburg. ff. 47v-51r: A family tree of the Holy Roman Emperors from the Hou...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1612
Extent:
1 volume

1360. Harley MS 6171

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6171
Title:
Fragment of an Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-30v: A fragment of an Alphabet of Arms, with the arms of English families (‘A’ to ‘B’) blazoned with French heraldic terminology. Decoration: Heraldic elements drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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