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1. Harley MS 3

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3
Title:
John Mirfield, Breviarium Bartholomei, with glosses and recipes by John Dee
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the medical work of John Mirfield [Johannes de Mirfeld] (d. 1407), an ecclesiastic and medical writer, and chaplain of the hospital of St Bartholomew, Smithfield, in London. Towards the end of his life he wrote two encyclopedic works in Latin, the so-called Florarium Bar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1400
Extent:
1 volume

2. Harley MS 16

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 16
Title:
Transcripts of parliamentary rolls kept in the Tower of London from the time of King Henry VI
Scope & Content:
Transcripts of parliamentary rolls kept in the Tower of London from the time of Henry VI, compiled by Simonds d'Ewes. Title page: ‘Transcripta nonnulla ex Rotulis Parliamenti in Arce Londonensi repositis, De Tempore Regis H[enrici] 6. viz. ab a[nno] 1o Regis ejusdem, usque ad Parliamentum tent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 17

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 17
Title:
Transcripts of parliamentary rolls kept in the Tower of London from the time of King Edward IV
Scope & Content:
Transcripts of parliamentary rolls kept in the Tower of London from the time of King Edward IV, compiled by Simonds d'Ewes. Title page: ‘Transcripta nonnulla ex Rotulis Parliamenti in Arce Londonensi repositis, De Tempore Regis E[dwardi] IV. viz. ab a[nno] 1o Regis ejusdem, usque ad Parliament...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 18-19

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 18-19
Title:
Transcripts and extracts from the Parliament Rolls from the time of Richard III and Henry VII
Scope & Content:
Transcripts and extracts from the Parliament Rolls from the time of Richard III and Henry VII in the Chapel of the Rolls in Chancery Lane London, compiled by Simonds d'Ewes. Transcripts not in D’Ewes’s hand, but he has added running titles and original folio numbers and devised the title pages in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
2 volumes

5. Harley MS 20

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 20
Title:
Transcripts from the Parliament Rolls from the reigns of Henry IV and Henry V in the Tower of London
Scope & Content:
Transcripts from the Parliament Rolls from the reigns of of Henry IV and Henry V in the Tower of London, compiled by Simonds d’Ewes. Not in D’Ewes’s hand, but he has added the original foliation, and perhaps the running titles, and devised the title page (f. 1*). Title page: ‘Transcripta Nonnul...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and English
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 21

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 21
Title:
Abstract of Parliament Rolls from the reigns of Edward III and Henry V
Scope & Content:
Abstract of Parliament rolls from the 4th year of the reign of Edward III to the 9th year of the reign of Henry V, compiled by Sir Simonds d'Ewes. Abridgment attributed by D'Ewes to William Bowyer and his son Robert Bowyer, and the transcript to Ralph Starkey. Simonds d'Ewes has added a title pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Harley MS 22

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 22
Title:
An abstract in English of all the Parliament Rolls in the Tower of London from the 1st year of Henry VI to the 22nd year of Edward IV, and abstracts from the 1st year of Richard III to the 31st year of Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Copies of transcripts from Parliament Rolls, 1422-1483 and 1484-1589, compiled by Simonds d’Ewes. D’Ewes has add a title-page and ‘Prolegomena’, and foliated the manuscript. In the prolegomena D’Ewes explains that ff. 1-115 are copied from transcripts by William Bowyer and his son Robert Bowyer....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 24

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 24
Title:
Prose Brut
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r–218v: Prose Brut (Chronicle of England; extended version to 1419, in the reign of Henry V (r. 1413–22)). For an edition of the work see The Brut or the Chronicles of England, 2 vols, ed. Friedrich W.D. Brie, Early English Text Society, 131 and 136 (Oxford: 1906–8); contains tex...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

9. Harley MS 35

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 35
Title:
A collection of English historical texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-142v: The History of Henry V, compiled from Tito Livio dei Frulovisi (fl. 1429-1456) [Titus Livius Forojuliensis] and other sources. ff. 145r-178r: A ‘Discourse of the Realme of Ireland contagninge the ancient civill warrs thereof the incursions of the Scotts, and a platforme ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 38

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 38
Title:
A miscellany of political papers and letters and tracts on coinage, transcribed largely by Ralph Starkey; original letters addressed to Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine, and Sir Simonds D'Ewes, 1642-1648; A Licence to travayle for Francis Davison and Edward Smith granted by Queen Elizabeth I, 1595
Scope & Content:
This manuscript mostly contains 17th-century English letters and transcripts of 16th-century documents. It also features an original licence on parchment to travel outside of England for three years granted to a ‘Francis Davison’ and ‘Edward Smith’, signed by Queen Elizabeth I and with her wax s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:
1595-1648
Extent:
1 volume

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