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682. 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
683. Harley MS 835
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 835
- Title:
- Legal annals from the first to the thirteenth years of the reign of Edward II (1307-1320)
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-152r: Legal annals from the first year unto the thirteenth year of the reign of Edward II (1307-1320); written in French. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A Latin memorandum concerning a 'Johannus Sace' of Wombourne, South Staffordshire; dated to the 1s...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French and Latin
- Date Range:
- 14th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
684. Harley MS 836
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 836
- Title:
- The Last Enstructions which the Emperour Charles the fiveth gave to his soune Philippe before his death
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-61v: A ‘copie of the Last Enstructions which the Emperour Charles the fiveth gave to his soune Philippe before his death translated out of Spanish’; preceded by an introduction by Henry Howard (b. 1540, d. 1614), 1st Earl of Northampton, addressed to Queen Elizabeth I.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
685. Harley MS 837
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 837
- Title:
- Miscellaneous collection of poetry and historical texts
- Scope & Content:
- Folio manuscript volume. Contents: ff. 1*-48v: Extracts from Plutarch's Lives. ff. 49-61v: A letter of Mr John Goodwin, Minister in Coleman Street, at the request of a friend, concerning points of religion. f. 62: Inscription: 'A Booke of versee', in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’. Above thi...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
686. Harley MS 838
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 838
- Title:
- Collection of heraldic and genealogical works, including Mirabilia Orientis, Mirabilia Anglie, and a Middle English translation of Christine de Pizan's Epistre d'Othéa; Annales Cambriae
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript consists of two distinct parts that were copied separately and joined together at an unknown point before the manuscript reached the Harleian Library. The first part (ff. 1r-95r) contains heraldic works, chronicles and other historical items, and one of the two extant independen...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
687. Harley MS 839
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 839
- Title:
- Alphabet of Arms
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 3r-49v: An Alphabet of Arms; blazons organized alphabetically according to family names; f. 43, containing the blazoned arms of the princes of the royal house of Plantagnet, appears to have been misbound. ff. 50r-51v: Arms of Salisbury; Companies; Sir Christopher Hatton and Sir ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and French
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
688. Harley MS 840
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 840
- Title:
- Genealogies of aristocratic families
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-43v: Genealogies of aristocratic families, several of which contain blazons or tricks for their arms. ff. 44r-45v: A table of contents. Decoration: Coats of arms in brown ink (‘tricks’) in the genealogies throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
689. Harley MS 841
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 841
- Title:
- Memoirs of the life and actions of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton
- Scope & Content:
- Folio manuscript volume containing a draft copy of the memoirs of the Duke of Hamilton, by Gilbert Burnet, with autograph corrections. Titled 'Memoires of the life and actions of James, Duke of Hamiltoun etc' [James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton], and compiled by Gilbert Burnet using the origin...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- c 1677
- Extent:
- 1 volume
690. Harley MS 842
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 842
- Title:
- John Leland, Itinerary in England and Wales (excerpts)
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-93v: Excerpts from John Leland's Itinerary in England and Wales (1539-1543); in Stillingfleet’s catalogue entitled 'Dodderige's Geographical Description of several Counties in England'. Decoration: A drawing of a cross purporting to be King Arthur’s gravestone (‘Hic iacet ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 16th century-4th quarter of the 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume