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Language English Place London, England Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Add MS 17492

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 17492
Title:
Anthology of Tudor courtly verse, mostly attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt, with other poems by Henry Howard, Geoffrey Chaucer and Thomas Hoccleve (‘The Devonshire Manuscript’)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an anthology of early-modern Tudor courtly verse from the 1530s, which was compiled by three women who attended the royal court: Mary Shelton, Mary Fitzroy and Lady Margaret Douglas. The majority of the verses recorded in the volume are attributed to the English politi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1530s
Extent:

1 volume

2. Add MS 42518

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 42518
Title:
Thomas Speght, The Workes of our Antient and learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly Printed; with autograph notes by Gabriel Harvey
Scope & Content:
This book contains the publication by Thomas Speght (d. 1621) of the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer: The Workes of our Antient and learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly Printed (London: Islip, 1598). It features autograph notes by the scholar and writer Gabriel Harvey (b. 1552/3, d. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1598
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 89387/12

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89387/12
Title:
St. James the Great Institute
Scope & Content:
Material relating to the company's former premises, St. James the Great Institute, in Bethnal Green, London, which the company originally moved into as tenants, in early 1984, and later purchased in the latter half of the 1990s; the property was sold in 2013.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1984-2012
Extent:

6 files

4. Cotton MS Vitellius F V

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius F V
Title:
Chronicle of London, 1550-1563 ('The Chronicle of Henry Machyn')
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the only surviving copy of the Chronicle of Henry Machyn (b. 1496/1498, d. 1563), an English clothier and diarist based in London. The Chronicle begins in August 1550 and ends in August 1563, the year of Machyn's death, and provides an eyewitness account to events in the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1550-Aug 1563
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 433

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 433
Title:
A collection of papers from the Signet Office, containing registers of grants, diplomatic correspondence and financial records related to the Crown, from the reigns of Edward V and Richard III
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains registers with abstracts of grants that passed the Signet Office, the king’s personal seal, during the reigns of Edward V and Richard III, and related materials. The latter include a list of office holders at the death of Edward IV, a list of the fees due to officers on ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1463-c 1547
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 487

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 487
Title:
A Psalter with the Hours of the Holy Spirit
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar with astronomical information; featuring additional saints added in the late 15th- or early 16th-century. ff. 7r-177r: The Psalter. ff. 177r-193v: Canticles, hymns and Athanasian creed (Quicumque Vult). ff. 193v-200v: Litany and prayers; featuring St Bridget ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Harley MS 1654

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1654
Title:
Account book for the wages of artificers and labourers paid by the Board of Ordnance, January 1572-December 1573
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title inscription: ‘The Booke of wages of Artificers Woorkmen and Laborers in theoffice of thordinaunce anno xvito’. ff. 1r-53v: Accounts for wages paid to artificers and labourers by the Board of Ordnance, Tower of London, for the months of January-March 1572, and Ap...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1572-1573
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 1831

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1831
Title:
A register of the burgesses of Westminster
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-39r: A register of the burgesses of Westminster.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1585
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 2336

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2336
Title:
The Pore Caitif
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-137v: The Pore Caitif. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A letter in Englsh dated to 1536: 'Bettar it ys for all howsold ffor to hold ffor the [nigt]ly yn brestyn in ffetars off gold cosyn Rosa [...] yn my best [...] I hartely Recom[m]en [sic] me wonto ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 2887

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2887
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hours of the Earls of Ormond')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 21r-26v: Calendar. ff. 29v-32v, 34r-54v: The Hours of the Virgin Mary. ff. 54v, 59r-64r: The Fifteen Oes ['Quindecim Oos']. ff. 64r-66r: Prayer to the Virgin Mary, beginning: 'O Intemerata et in eternum benedicta singularis atque incomparabilis virgo dei'. ff. 66r-67v: Pr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1460
Extent:
1 volume