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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1081
Title:: Visitation of Berkshire, 1566
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title page, ‘The Visitation of Barkshier Anno 1566 – Made by William Harvy Esquier alias Clarencieux King of Armes, Collected and Augmented by William Smith alias Rougdragon officer of Armes 1602’; signed by ‘John Withy Anno 1628’. ff. 2r-65v: A heraldic collection with th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1566
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1098
Title:: Achievements of London Companies
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: The achievement of Chaloner. ff. 1v-83r: The achievement of Westminster (with two added drawings of the arms of Westminster in brown ink), followed by the achievements of the Livery Companies and other companies of London; with historical notes, banners and pennons; dated to ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1640
Extent:: 1 volume

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1222
Title:: Political and legal tracts
Scope & Content:: Various tracts bound together: ff. 1-23: Sir John Davies (1569-1626), ‘Charge to the jurors of the Grand Inquest at York, 1619, for the mainteyning and contynueing the publique Peace by the Execution of Justice’. ff. 24-52: ‘A Catt may look at a King’. Tract on the tyranny of kings from Kin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1303
Title:: The Court of Exchequer
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-35v: The Court of Exchequer; dated to 1516.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1388
Title:: An Ordinary of Arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: An alphabetical index of crests found in this manuscript. ff. 2r-8r: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript, entitled: ‘A table ot my Book of Creasts in Suites’. ff. 10r-163v: An Ordinary of Crests, featuring coats of arms (16 per page), organized...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1702
Title:: Petri Prataei analecta medicinalia
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-178r: Petri Prataei analecta medicinalia.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1747
Title:: Collection of alchemical treatises
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-15r: Tractatus dompni iohannis sawtre monachum de thorneye. ff. 15r-15v: Table of chapters of the Tractatus. ff. 15v-16r: Excerpts from the Speculum Secretorum Alkimie. ff. 16r-19v: Expositio Ortolani super hermetem. ff. 20r-20v: Untitled alchemical treatise, beginning 'Ec...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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