Francis Pierrepont Barnard (1854-1931) was an archaeologist, historian and numismatist. Details are given in Who Was Who.

Heraldic manuscripts, consisting of:

• A 17th-century transcript of 'The manner of proceedings in a case of arms betweene John Lord Louell and Thomas Lord Morleys before the Constable and Marshall. Anno 1395 [recte 1385]', with notes by Barnard and a pedigree compiled by Sir Charles G. Young
• Translation of Nicholas Upton, 'De studio militari', made by John Blount 'studens in the vniuersite of Oxforthe' at the command of William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy. Copied, and illustrated with emblazoned coats of arms, by two mid-16th-century scribes, and annotated from the Latin original and paginated in a third 16th-century hand
• Transcripts, mainly in Barnard's hand, of English works on heraldry, with glossaries
• Draft of 'A discourse upon cadency' by James Cotes, 18th century, incomplete at end, with an index in a different hand
• 'The general armory of the Netherlands', compiled from manuscripts in the British Museum by William Dickinson for Thomas Culleton, Esq., 19th century

The manuscripts were bequeathed to the Library, with two medieval manuscripts, MSS. Lat. misc. e. 86 and Lat. th. e. 19, by F.P. Barnard in 1931.

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 43611-15.

Heraldry

Barnard | Francis Pierrepont | 1854-1931 | Archaeologist, Historian, and Numismatist

Blount | John | fl 1511 | Fellow of All Souls, Oxford

Cotes | James | fl 1700-1799

Dickinson | William | fl 1800-1899

Lovel | John | d 1408 | Lord Lovel

Morley | Thomas | d 1416 | Lord Morley

Upton | Nicholas | ? 1400-1457

Young | Charles George | 1795-1869 | Sir | Knight and Herald