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151. IO Islamic 4867

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 4867
Title:
Ahdname - عهدنامه
Scope & Content:
An ahdname or treaty between England and the Ottoman Empire concluded in the middle of the month of Jumādá al-Ukhrá 1086 AH (September 1675). The text opens with the following preamble: Balası hatt Humayün şevkatımkurun ile ma'nu muveşşah Ingiltere kıralı tarafına ca'ib Devlet-i Aliye-yi ebdu'l...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1086
Extent:
1 text, 23 ff

152. Harley MS 3224

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3224
Title:
Alain de Lille, De planctu naturae; Forma dictandi; Richard de Bury, Philobiblon; Contra luxuriam; John of Limoges, Morale somnium Pharaonis
Scope & Content:
This volume once belonged to William Welde, a Benedictine, doctor of canon law, and Abbot of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury from 1387 until his death in 1405. Among the contents of the manuscript are copies of Alain de Lille's De planctu naturae (On the plaint of nature), a satire on the vices...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

153. WD1364

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1364
Title:
Album of 27 drawings; 26 portraits and caricatures of members of the India Office Social Club. 1901-4. Artist(s): Wickham, William Allen (1857-1938)
Scope & Content:
27 drawings (60 pages); 26 portraits and caricatures of members of the India Office Social Club. 1901-4. Some portraits signed: ‘W.A.W’. and inscribed with subject and notes. Pencil, pen-and-ink, and wash; size of volume 14.5 by 10 ins. Presented. Note: A menu for the twelfth dinner in 1907...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1901-1904
Extent:
1 Item

154. Harley MS 2407

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2407
Title:
Alchemical treatises, recipes and poems, including Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Account of the Philosopher’s Stone; Geber, On the Virtue of the Planets and of the Philosopher’s Stone; and John Lydgate, The Chorle and the Bird
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: Names of herbs related to individual planets, beginning: 'Herba Saturni / Anglice Affodill'. f. 2r: Verses on lunar cycles following the days of the week. f. 2r: Recipe, beginning: ‘To make Mustard to bere […]'. f. 2v: Middle English poem on Mercury, beginning: 'And thou wed...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

155. Royal MS 7 D XXIV, ff 82r-162v, 166r-168v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 7 D XXIV, ff 82r-162v, 166r-168v
Title:
Aldhelm, De Virginitate; Aldhelm, letter to Heahfrith (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. : Aldhelm's De Virginitate, with a table of contents (ff. 82r-85v) and a sketch of a writing figure (f. 85v). One of the scribes may also have been the main hand of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 183 (see Bishop, 'Early Example' (1966), p. 247). It is followed by a copy of Aldh...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 10th century
Extent:
Part of Royal MS 7 D XXIV

156. Harley MS 3013

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3013
Title:
Aldhelm of Sherborne, Epistola ad Ehfridum; Aldhelm of Sherborne, De laudibus virginitatis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two didactic works composed by Aldhelm of Sherborne (d. 709): the Epistola ad Ehfridum (Letter to Heahfrith), a letter promoting the schools of Theodore and Adrian of Canterbury; and the De laudibus virginitatis (In Praise of Virginity), a work in 60 chapters extolling v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

157. Sloane MS 3525

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3525
Title:
Aldobrandino of Siena, Le Régime du corps; Le livre de toutes herbes; Roger Frugard, Chirurgia; Antidotarium Nicolai; and other medical texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2v, 1r-7v, 22v, 23r-v: Recipes in a hand of the 17th century. ff. 3r-5v: Table of contents, probably compiled by the scribe; this does not accurately list all contents, but contains a list of the chapters of the Régime du corps, and of the texts on ff. 82-108. ff. 6r-16v: A ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

158. Sloane MS 2401

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2401
Title:
Aldobrandino of Siena, Le Régime du corps; Le livre Ypocrae; medical charms and recipes
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of Le Régime du corps, a handbook for health composed by Aldobrandino of Siena (d. 1296/1299), an Italian physician. Three other copies of Le Régime du corps also contain roughly 140 historiated initials with comparable subject matter: Cambridge, Uni...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

159. Harley MS 325

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 325
Title:
Alexander Nequam, Sermones; Lotharius (Pope Innocent III), De contemptu mundi; William de Montibus, Numerale, Speculum penitentis; St Jerome, De Hebraicis Nominibus; Priscian, About Greek prepositions; Hildebert, Poem on the Mass
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8v, 34r-37v, 59v-64r: Alexander Nequam, Sermones. ff. 9r-29r: Lotharius (Pope Innocent III), De contemptu mundi. f. 29r: an unidentified letter. ff. 29v-33v: Hildebert, Poem on the Mass. ff. 39r-82r: William de Montibus, Numerale. ff. 82v-86v: Sermones. ff. 87r-94r: Will...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century - 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

160. Harley MS 5357

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5357
Title:
Almonius Pelonius', untitled work against the 'Episcopatus Ordinem
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-37r: 'Almonius Pelonius', untitled work against the 'Episcopatus Ordinem', beginning: 'Dubitanti mihi, utrum sacros, (ut vocant) episcorum nostrorum ordines, quis salva conscientia suscipere posset, et doctorum hominum de tam difficili controversia, scire cupienti sententias, f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

161. Harley MS 1351

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1351
Title:
Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-145r: An Alphabet of Arms, written in English but blazoned in French heraldic terminology, with coats of arms drawn in the outer and inner margins throughout; on f. 100*verso the note: ‘From London the xvth of June 1561’. f. 145v: Pedigree of the family of FitzGerald. f. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

162. Harley MS 860

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 860
Title:
Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-197r: An Alphabet of Arms; with the arms of English gentry and aristocracy, blazoned.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

163. Harley MS 1389

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1389
Title:
Alphabetical tables of English pedigrees
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-74v: Alphabetical tables of surnames of families mentioned in other manuscripts (perhaps other unidentified Harleian manuscripts). ff. 75r-80r: The ‘Genealogie of the Ancient and Illustrious ffamuly [sic] of the Montacutes alias Montagues. Lords. and Kings of Man, Earles of S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1670
Extent:
1 volume

164. Harley MS 5850

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5850
Title:
Alphabets of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: Frontispiece decoration, left empty. ff. 1r-43r: An Alphabet of Arms (incomplete), featuring drawings of coats of arms of English families (56 per pages) in alphabetical order, covering the letters ‘A’-‘H’. ff. 43v-92v. An Alphabet of Arms, with the arms blazoned in Eng...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

165. Harley MS 5891

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5891
Title:
Alphabets of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: The arms of the archbishops and bishops, blazoned in French heraldic terminology. ff. 2r-143r: An Alphabet of arms of English families, with their arms blazoned in French heraldic terminology. ff. 144r-150r: An Alphabet of arms of cities and towns, with their arms blazoned ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

166. Harley MS 1108

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1108
Title:
Alphabets of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-168r: An Alphabet of Arms, with the coats of arms of the English nobility and gentry blazoned in heraldic French. ff. 169r-174r: An Alphabet of Arms, with the coats of arms of the knights and gentry of Kent blazoned in heraldic French. ff. 175r-185r: An Alphabet of Arms, wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

167. Harley MS 5859

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5859
Title:
Alphabets of Arms for English families, emperors, kings, saints and the Knights of the Round Table
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title inscription: ‘Alphabett in Blazon’; followed by the note: ‘att the Later end Armes of Emperour Kings Duckes and Saintes etcaetera’. ff. 1r-198r:An Alphabet of Arms, with the coats of arms of English families, blazoned in French heraldic terminology; and some illu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

168. Cotton MS Titus D XVI, ff 70r-111r

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus D XVI, ff 70r-111r
Title:
Altercatio Ecclesie contra Synagogam
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 70r-111r: Altercatio Ecclesie contra Synagogam with some later annotations in the margins. Decoration: Pencil-drawing of a human face. Initials an rubrics in red. Some initials are highlighted in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
Part of Cotton MS Titus D XVI

169. Harley MS 5408

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5408
Title:
An abridgement of law reports
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-235r: An abridgement of law reports; featuring a note in English on f. 158r: ‘After 4 leaves a day this book is r[...] on in 10 dayes’ ff. 236v-238v: Memoranda in English concerning legal matters, dated to the 14th year of Henry VIII (1522-1523).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English., French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

170. Cotton MS Vespasian E III, ff 103–108

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian E III, ff 103–108
Title:
An account of the Council of Oxford of 1222
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 103r-108r: An account of the Council of Oxford of 1222, beginning: ‘Autoritate Dei patris omnipotentis et beate Virginis Marie’. [f. 108v is blank]. Decoration: Numerous large initials in brown and red. Rubrics in red. Highlighting in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian E III

171. Harley MS 6892

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6892
Title:
An account of the foundations of Oxford and Cambridge colleges and their coats of arms; blazons of the coats of arms of the Peers of England, and the offices in the Holy Roman Empire
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a miscellany of heraldic works copied at different times in the late 16th and early 17th century. Contents: f. 1r: A catalogue description of the manuscript by an early modern owner: ‘An Account of the ffoundations and the Armes each Colledge bears in England and also...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter 16th century-1st quarter 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

172. Harley MS 1414

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1414
Title:
An Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*verso: A title inscription: ‘The Greate Alphabett in trick’. ff. 1r-286r: An Alphabet of Arms, with coats of arms in colour and tricked in brown ink. Decoration: Coats of arms in colour or tricked in brown ink, organized in grids with 20 escutcheons per page.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

173. Harley MS 5833

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5833
Title:
An Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-142r: An Alphabet of Arms in English, featuring French heraldic terminology. Decoration: Occasional drawings of heraldic elements in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

174. Harley MS 1134

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1134
Title:
An Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2*r: Sketches of heraldic elements (including a griffon statant regardant, and a lion rampant in brown ink and highlighted in red); a pedigree of the ‘Rosseter’ family going up to 1637. ff. 3r-262v: An Alphabet of Arms, with the coats of arms of English nobility and gentry t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:

1 volume

175. Harley MS 5890

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5890
Title:
An Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-219r: An Alphabet of Arms for English families, blazoned, with drawings of heraldic devices. ff. 220r-226r: Lists of Lords and Knights made by King James I, beginning with ‘knyghts made the first yere of kinge James 1603’. Decoration: Heraldic devices drawn in black ink th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

176. Harley MS 5820

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5820
Title:
An Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-270r: An alphabet of arms, with the arms blazoned. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. [vii]recto: ‘Alphabett of Blazon to Letter E […] Coates of A[rmes]’; added in pencil in the 17th or 18th century.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

177. Harley MS 6112

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6112
Title:
An Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-235v: An Alphabet of Arms, with blazons and heraldic devices; a note with the date 1674 on f. 121v. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. [iv]verso-2r: Sketches of heraldic devices and arms in ink and pencil, including a roundel featuring a deer drinking water f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

178. Harley MS 295

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 295
Title:
An English collection of letters concerning Spain and the Spanish Netherlands
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-261v: A large collection of papers relating to Spain, Portugal, the Spanish Netherlands, and England’s affairs and trade with these regions; originals and transcripts in English, French, Italian and Latin dated to 1518-1623, including letters to Sir Thomas Walsingham, Cardinal ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1518-1623
Extent:
1 volume

179. Harley MS 6120

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6120
Title:
An English heraldic collection
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-98r: An Alphabet of Arms; blazons of arms of English nobility and gentry; made by Roger Kemys. ff. 99r-136r: A treatise on the earls of England since the Norman Conquest, with the blazons of their arms, organized by county; made by Roger Kemys using a work by William Camden. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

180. Harley MS 5818

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5818
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A pencil drawing of a coat of arms. ff. 2r-45v: Coats of arms of English families (4 per page). ff. 46v-50v: An alphabetical index of families. Decoration: Coats of arms with crests in colours throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

181. 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

182. 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

183. Harley MS 1116

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1116
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r: ‘The copy of a dyde taken oute of the Evidences of thomas wolley of hamsted in the counte of Staffordshire Anno 1563’. ff. 3v-4r: Full-page drawings of a seven-headed dragon and St Michael the Archangel. ff. 5r-12v: Empty coats of arms (9 per page) in brown ink, circumscri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

184. Harley MS 4957

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4957
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*verso-2*recto: A full-page drawing of a composite coat of arms with supporters (mermaids). ff. 1r-23v: Genealogies of English families with arms and seals, entitled: ‘Genealogia Nobilissime et Honoratissimae familiae Baronum de Berklay necnon aliarum ornatissimarum familiarum ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

185. Harley MS 5860

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5860
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*verso-2*recto: Unfinished drawings or sketches of coats of arms in pencil and ink. ff. 1r-1v: An abstract of a patent in Latin from King Charles of Sweden, granting to John Jackson of Stockport, Cheshire, the honour of nobility, and a coat of arms with the title of Johannes Pe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

186. Harley MS 1402

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1402
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-18v: Coats of arms (4-9 per page) of deceased persons, probably of those for whom John Spicer had been employed as a painter. Decoration: Coats of arms and crests drawn and tricked in brown ink throughout the manuscript. Drawings of banners with coats of arms in brown ink an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1682
Extent:
1 volume

187. 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

188. Harley MS 5821

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5821
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-23r: Pedigrees and arms with crests of English familie; below the entry for 'Wilkinson' (f. 23r) is an inscription: 'Entred in the Visitation of yorkshire at york the 13 of August Anno 1666 by William Dugdale Norroy King of Armes'. Decoration: Coats of arms, tricked, drawn i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1663-1678
Extent:
1 volume

189. 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

190. Harley MS 1088

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1088
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-39v: A list of the commissioners of Oyer and Terminer, from 23 April, 29th year of Henry VIII (1538)-February 29th year of Queen Elizabeth I (1587). f. 40r: Descents of Brome and Ferrers of Baddesley, Cockayne and Audley. f. 41v: ‘A Table for the Armes in the .vii. leaves ne...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

191. 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

192. Harley MS 6095

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

193. Harley MS 5823

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5823
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-55v: Arms granted by Gilbert Dethick (b. 1499/1500, d. 1584), herald and diplomat, with additions on ff. 1 and 4r, the latter referring to arms with the date ‘1631’. ff. 56r-57v: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. f. 58r: A title-page: ‘The v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1613-1631
Extent:
1 volume

194. 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

195. Harley MS 5815

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5815
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-114v: Coats of arms with crests of English nobility and gentry, with grants of arms. ff. 115r-120v: An alphabetical index of family names. Decoration: Coats of arms with crests, tricked, drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

196. Harley MS 6094

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

197. Harley MS 521

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 521
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-50v: The arms of English nobility and gentry (6 per page). ff. 51v-55r: A fragment of a heraldic manuscript with arms of Cheshire families (12 per page). ff. 56r-59r: Arms, displaying the types of crosses in heraldry (4 per page); with some marginal additions in brown ink. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

198. Harley MS 834

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 834
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-44v, 46v-51vr: Part of an ordinary of arms, organised according to heraldic device. ff. 52r-58v: ‘The whole discourse of Thomas Duke of Norffolke his arrainement the xijth day of January 1571’. ff. 59r-62v: ‘The arraygnement of Philip Howard Late Earle of Arundell [1589]’. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

199. Harley MS 1054

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1054
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-9r: Coats of arms of Wiltshire; copied from the Visitation of 1623 by Henry St George (b. 1581, d. 1644), Richmond Herald, and Sampson Lennard (d. 1633), Rose Rouge Pursuivant, Bluemantle Pursuivant, marshalls and deputies to William Camden (b. 1551, d. 1623), Clarenceux King o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

200. 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

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