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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1140
Title:: Herefordshire heraldry compiled by William Penson
Scope & Content:: Collection of Herefordshire heraldic material written and tricked by William Penson, Lancaster Herald. Contents: ff. 1*r-2*v: Notes relating to eminent persons of Herefordshire, collected from Holinshead’s Chronicle. f. 2*v: Arms of the City and See of Hereford, in blazon. ff. 1-108: Pedi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1164
Title:: Visitation of Devon and Cornwall 1620
Scope & Content:: Papers registering the descents of gentry at the Visitation of Devon and Cornwall by Henry St George, while Richmond Herald, and Sampson Lennard, Bluemantle, for William Camden, Clarenceux, 1620. The red chalk annotation ‘entred’ above the descents indicates that they had been transcribed into t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1620
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1181
Title:: William Harvey, The Visitation of Wiltshire
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2v: A table of surnames. f. 3r: A title-page: ‘The Visitation of Wiltshire made in Anno Domini 1565 per William Harvey Clarenceux’. ff. 4r-66v: William Harvey, The Visitation of Wiltshire; with some additions.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1317
Title:: An abridgment of the statute laws
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-94v: An abridgement of the statute laws from Magna Carta to the reign of King Henry VI, in Latin and French. f. 95v: A letter of ‘Johannis Stevenson’ to his brother ‘Capellanum Magistri Willelmi Broune Armigeri’, headed ‘Johannes Steveson suo fratri Philosopha accuratissimo ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1663
Title:: Book of Hours (Use of York)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar. ff. 7r-46v: The Hours of the Virgin Mary. ff. 47r-58v: The Seven Penitential Psalms. ff. 58v-69r: Litany of Saints, followed by several prayers. ff. 70r-122r: Office of the Dead, featuring musical notation: black neumes on four-line red staves. ff. 123r-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2019
Title:: Commentary on excerpts from the Bible
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4v, 159r-162v: Account notes, 1592-1597, referring to persons located in Wales, including Beaumaris, Caernarfon, (?) Llanbadrig ('Llanbeddrey'), Wrexham ('Wrexen'). f. 5r: Notes relating to guests and a dinner on 26 November 1576; Sir John Savage of Baraver in Cheshire or hi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1580-c 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2088
Title:: Coats of arms of Cheshire families
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-14v: Coats of arms of Cheshire families (16 per page), entitled: ‘Cheshire Coates, of every hundreth’; only covers the hundreds of Macclesfield and part of Bucklow; escutcheons under subsequent hundreds are outlined in pencil or have been left empty. ff. 48v: An Alphabet of A...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: c 1588
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2212
Title:: Part of an Ordinary of Arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-186v: Part of an Ordinary of Arms; with the arms of English persons and families drawn and tricked (20 per page). Decoration: Coats of arms in brown ink drawn and tricked in grids of printed escutcheons.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2433
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Tournai
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2v-3r: Offsets and sewing holes from pilgrim badges on blank pages. ff. 3v-4r: A table to calculate the date of Easter with an explanation in Middle Dutch. ff. 5r-16v: A calendar, in Middle Dutch, including in red: Sts Veerele (Pharaildis of Ghent), Amant (Ghent), Eloy (Tourn...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2849
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Contents ff. 1r-46v: The Hours of the Virgin. ff. 47r-99r: The Office of the Dead with musical notation on four-line red staves (ff. 47-98v). ff. 99r-109v: The Penitential Psalms. ff. 109v-125r: Litany of saints, followed by other litanies for 'feria [secunda] in quadragesima' until 'feri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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