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61. Harley MS 2086

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2086
Title:
A copy of the Visitation Book of Lancastershire by William Flower in 1567
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2*recto-2*verso: A ‘table of the Pedegrees conteyned in this booke’; ‘Lancaster’ on a paper pastedown. f. 7r: A title-page: ‘The visitacion of the Countie of Lancastre made by William fflower Esquire alias Norroy kinge of Armes: Anno Domini .1567.’. ff. 8r-104v: A copy of the Visitatio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

62. Harley MS 1190

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1190
Title:
A copy of the Visitation-Book of Lincolnshire of 1562
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-94v: A copy of the Visitation-Book of the county of Lincolnshire made by Robert Cooke, Chester Herald, in 1562; with many additions to the pedigrees by Henry Parker (fl. mid 17th century) and others; featuring the arms of ‘Sir Edmond Winne’ with the date 1672 on f. 1r ff. 95r-105v: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

63. Harley MS 1480

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. 1667), Blue...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

1 volume

64. Harley MS 1095

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1095
Title:
A copy of the Visitation-book of Oxfordshire of 1574
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2*verso-3*verso: An alphabetical index of the names of families included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-66r: Pedigrees and coats of arms from the Visitation-book of Oxfordshire made by Richard Lee, Portcullis Pursuivant, in 1574; copied by John Withie in 1621; beginning with the arms of th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1621-1634
Extent:
1 volume

65. Harley MS 1136

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1136
Title:
A copy of the Visitation-book of Suffolk of 1561
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-68v: Pedigrees and arms of Suffolk families, copied from the Visitation-book of Suffolk of 1561 by William Harvey (b. 1510, d. 1567), Clarenceux King of Arms; with misbound leaves from of a copy of the Visitation-book of Buckinghamshire of 1634 by John Philipot (b. 1588, d. 1645), R...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd quarter or 3rd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

66. Harley MS 1194

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1194
Title:
A copy of the Visitation Book of Sussex, 1633-1634
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-142r: A copy of the Visitation Book of the county of Sussex by John Philipot (b. 1588, d. 1645), Somerset Herald, and by George Owen (b. c. 1598, d. 1665), York Herald, in 1633-1634; with some additions (including grants of arms and copies of charters in English and Latin) and notes...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter or 2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

67. Harley MS 1135

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1135
Title:
A copy of the Visitation-book of Sussex of 1633-1634
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-4r: An alphabetical index of the names of families included in this manuscript. f. 4r: ‘Memorandum that the booke that this was transcribed by was part of Northamptsh. ad ffoll. […]’. ff. 7r-: Pedigrees and coats of arms of the nobility and gentry of Sussex, copied from the Visitati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1650
Extent:
1 volume

68. Harley MS 1070

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1070
Title:
A copy of the Visitation of Cheshire of 1580 by Robert Glover and William Flower; original papers of the Visitation of Cheshire of 1613 by Richard St George and Henry St George
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-64r: A copy of the book of the Visitation of Cheshire (1580) by William Flower (b. 1497/98, d. 1588), Norroy King of Arms, and Robert Glover (b. 1543/1544, d. 1588), Herald of Somerset, 1569; probably copied in the early 17th century. According to the Catalogue of the Harleian Manus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

69. Harley MS 6093

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, Clarenceux King...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

70. Harley MS 1137

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1137
Title:
A copy of William Harvey’s Visitation-book of the county of Essex with additions by Jacob Chaloner and John Gough
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2v: An alphabetical table of the surnames of families whose pedigrees are described in this manuscript. ff. 3r-5r: An incomplete table of the arms of families represented in this manuscript. ff. 6r-6v: Pedigrees of Parker, Bugg, Ap Walter, and Hevingham. ff. 7r-10r: Sheriffs of Esse...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1615-1638
Extent:
1 volume

71. Harley MS 1341

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1341
Title:
A Dialogicall Discourse of Marine Affaires; distributed into six Dialogues, by Nathanael Boteler
Scope & Content:
Draft of A Dialogical discourse of marine affairs, with additions in another hand, by Nathanael Boteler or Butler. Six dialogues between an admiral and a captain, including a glossary of maritime vocabulary (dialogue four). With additions in another hand. Later printed as: Six dialogues about sea-se...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1634
Extent:
1 volume

72. Harley MS 6352

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6352
Title:
A dictionary of Latin abbreviations
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-37r: A dictionary of Latin abbreviations used in diplomatic records, entitled ‘Abbreviaturae’; copied from Diplomata Scotiae of James Anderson (b. 1662, d. 1728) (published posthumously in 1739). The manuscript contains a later addition: f. [ii]recto: A pencil note: ‘Copied from And...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1740
Extent:
1 volume

73. Harley MS 3919/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3919/1
Title:
A discourse written by Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire, in defence of his marriage with Penelope Rich
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8v: Charles Blount (b. 1563, d. 1606), 1st Earl of Devonshire, 'A discourse written by me Earle of Devonshire in defence of his marriage with the Lady Riche [Penelope Rich (b. 1563, d. 1607)]'. The manuscript contains an addition: ff. [vi]recto-[vi]verso: A fragmentary leaf from a l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

74. Harley MS 4701

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4701
Title:
A formulary of English legal instruments
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-215v: A formulary of English legal instruments. This manuscript contains later additions: ff. 1v-2r, 216r-217v: various notes in 15th/16th-century hands pasted on the paper (f. 1v) and parchment (ff. 2r, 216r-217v) leaves. Decoration: A large gilded initial on a red and blue backgro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

75. Cotton MS Vespasian B XI, f 83

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XI, f 83
Title:
A fragment of a rental
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 83r-83v: A fragment of a rental. No decoration.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B XI

76. Stowe MS 73

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 73
Title:
A genealogical chronicle of the kings of England to Edward IV
Scope & Content:
A genealogical chronicle, formerly in concertina format, now a codex. Contents: An abbreviated version in English of a genealogical chronicle from Adam to the beginning of the reign of Edward IV, of the type known as the 'Considerans' chronicle, named from the opening words of the Latin prologue, 'C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1461-1499
Extent:

1 volume

77. Harley MS 951

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 951
Title:
A genealogy of English kings, from Alfred the Great to Henry III
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. [1]recto-[3]recto: ‘A Genealogie of Kings from Alfred to Henry the Third’; probably copied from a medieval genealogical roll. Decoration: Roundels in brown ink.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 roll

78. Harley MS 6776

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6776
Title:
A genealogy of the De Vere family
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-16v: A genealogy of the De Vere family in English and Latin, entitled: 'The Genalogy of the most Ancient and Illustrious Family of the Veres, Earles of Guisnes in Normandy, and of Oxford, and Lord great Chamberlands of England, being descended from the Kings of the Argives, Dukes of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1676
Extent:
1 volume

79. Harley MS 1357

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1357
Title:
A generall Cathologe of all the Names and Armes of the Lord Chauncellors and Keepers of the great Seal of England ffrom the tyme of William the Conqueror, untill this present yeare Anno 1646
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title page: ‘A generall Cathologe of all the Names and Armes of the Lord Chauncellors and Keepers of the great Seal of England ffrom the tyme of William the Conqueror, untill this present yeare Anno 1646’. ff. 2r-98v: A work listing the Lord Chancellors and Lord Keepers, but appar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1646
Extent:
1 volume

80. Harley MS 1030

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1030
Title:
A historical and religious miscellany
Scope & Content:
This miscellany consists of four different parts. Part one (ff. 1-6) is in English and was written in the 17th century. Part two (ff. 7-72) is in English and was written in the 17th century. Part three (ff. 73-85) is in French and was written in 1598. Part four (ff. 86-92) is in English and was writ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1598-17th century
Extent:

1 volume

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