Johannes de Felton, Sermones dominicales per annum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-169r: Johannes de Felton, Sermones dominicales per annum. ff. 169r-179v: An index. Decoration: Small red initials with brown penwork decoration.
Quarto manuscript volume containing lists of the offices of the nobility, the general musters, names of fugitives, and the amount of churches in England and Wales. Inscribed on pasted pieces, probably from the original cover of this volume: ‘A book of offices in England’, ‘R. Harley’, and ‘Thi...
Contents: ff. 2r-252r: Peter Lombard, Commentary on the Pauline Epistles. Decoration: Large and medium puzzle initials and initials in blue or red, with penwork decoration and pen-flourishing in combinations of blue, red, green and yellow (ff. 2r, 3r, 66r, 108v, 133r, 153r, 166v, 176r, 185r,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Heraldry collection in different hands owned by John Saunders (died c. 1687), arms painter. Contents: f. 1: MS annotations concerning bill to Sir Robert Henley for funeral of member of Every family (of his third wife, Barbara Every): ‘July 8th 1679 Sir Robert Henly for Every [etc.]’. ff. 3...
Arguments against the proposed union of England and Scotland 1606, by an unidentified parliamentarian. Index or analytical table of the heads.Analyses of the English and Scottish Acts of Commission. Analysis of the Instrument of the treaty to be made. Remarks on the Act of Commission and th...
Heraldic manuscript including Norfolk arms and descents
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Collection of arms, pedigrees, and family notes. Includes extracts possibly from a Visitation of Norfolk 1563 by William Hervey, Clarenceux. Contents: ff. 3-4r: Part of a pedigree for Cavendish family (lacks first three leaves). ff. 4v-7r: Notes on the Ogle, Carnaby, Bassett and Aldithley...
Collection of roughly drawn arms of Cheshire, Kent, Lancashire and other gentry, mixed. ff. 1-13: Arms of Cheshire gentry in alphabetical order. ff. 13v-22: Arms of Kentish gentry from a Visitation book. ff. 23-56: Miscellaneous arms from patents, funeral escutcheons or elsewhere. 1640...
Copy of the Visitation book of Buckinghamshire, 1634, with additions. Mostly written and tricked by John Saunders (died c 1687), arms painter. Includes town seal of Chipping Wycombe, church notes and extracts from deeds. Includes among the other contents: f. 29: Arms and epitaph of William Du...