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371. Harley MS 710

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 710
Title:
Pedigrees of English aristocracy
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-6r: Pedigree of the Plantagenets. ff. 6r-16r: Pedigree of the Beaufort, Clare, Fitzgerald, Bohun and other families. ff. 16v-17r: Pedigree of Robert Devereux (the younger), Earl of Essex. f. 18r: A diagram of Devereux’s pedigree. ff. 19r-24v: Pedigree of Clifford, Earl o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

372. Harley MS 713

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 713
Title:
Chronicle of Melrose Abbey
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-143r: Chronicle of Melrose Abbey; copied from Cotton MS Faustina B IX.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

373. Harley MS 736

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 736
Title:
Collection of legal tracts
Scope & Content:
Six legal tracts, in several hands, with various former foliations. Now divided into two volumes. Vol. 1: Robert Cotton, The Courte of Chancerye King James I’s Instructions for the Master of Wards and Liveries William Burde, Treatise on ecclesiastical matters Treatise on the Star Chamber Vol....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
2 volumes

374. 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

375. Harley MS 974

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 974
Title:
Statuta Collegii Medicorum Londoniensum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-35v: Statuta Collegii Medicorum Londoniensum. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: A memorandum: ‘[...] Owing Mr Wheatley this 9 of July 1648 being Fryday – 3 Earthen chamberpotts – quart of Strong [? bere]’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

376. Harley MS 1004

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1004
Title:
Ranulph Higden, Speculum Curatorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-196r: Ranulph Higden, Speculum Curatorum, imperfect at the beginning (the first quire is missing). The manuscript contains several additions: f. 1*verso: A note on Higden and this manuscript, added in the 17th century f. 196r: A satirical poem on bishops (‘casus episcopales...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

377. Harley MS 1019

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1019
Title:
John Donne, Conclave Ignatii
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-64v: John Donne, Conclave Ignatii, English translation, here entitled ‘Jgnatus his Closet – Or – His late installinge in the highe Courte of Parlament somoned by generall consent of the chirche governinge furyes of the deepest helle – Wherein diverse thinges are handled Satyric...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:

1 volume

378. Harley MS 1089

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1089
Title:
An Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-179v: An Alphabet of Arms, blazoned. Decoration: Elements of arms drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

379. Harley MS 1104

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1104
Title:
English pedigrees and heraldry
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A description of the manuscript’s contents, beginning: ‘The allphebett for kente for diveres Petigres’. ff. 2*recto-4*recto: An alphabetical table of the surnames of families referring to the pedigrees in the manuscript. ff. 1v-57v: Pedigrees of Kentish gentry. f. 58r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

380. Harley MS 1155

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1155
Title:
Pedigrees of English nobility
Scope & Content:
Pedigrees of English nobility about the year 1616, with some continuations, and a description in blazon of their achievements. General index (ff. 117-127). Index of barons (ff. 128-133). For a detailed contents list, see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (Lon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1616
Extent:
1 volume

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