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1. Harley Ch 83 H 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ch 83 H 1
Title:
Westminster Tournament Challenge
Scope & Content:
Contents: The Westminster Tournament Challenge, an invitation to the Westminster Tournament, the joust held in honour of the birth of a son, Prince Henry, to Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547) and Catherine of Aragon (b. 1485, d. 1536) on New Year's Day, 1511. The document concludes with the signatur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1511
Extent:
1 leaf

2. Harley MS 6, ff 150-196r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6, ff 150-196r
Title:
Alexander Neckam, Corrogationes Promethei
Scope & Content:
Alexander Neckam (1157-1217), Corrogationes Promethei. Neckam was abbot of Cirencester and a scholar. His work comprises a treatise on grammatical criticism (ff. 150r-157v) followed by a scriptural commentary (ff. 158r-196r). Prohemium, rubric (f. 150r): 'Incipiunt corrogatio/nes Promethei. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:
48 folios.

3. 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

4. Harley MS 41

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 41
Title:
Description of royal ceremonies and related accounts, during the reigns of Edward IV, Richard III, Henry VII and Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
f. 1r: The names of the knights of the Bayn [i.e. Bath] made at the creation of Thomas Grey as Lord Marquis of Dorset in 1475. ff. 2r–11v: The receiving, conveying and coronation of Anne Boleyn. f. 12r: A sketch of the seating plan at Anne Boleyn's coronation. Anne is depicted wearing a closed...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

5. Harley MS 69

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 69
Title:
The booke of certaine triumphes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-63v: A large collection of tracts, letters, and notes in English and French concerning court affairs and entertainment, jousting and the bearing of coats of arms, known as ‘The booke of certaine triumphes’. Decoration: Full-, half-, and quarter-page drawings of knights joust...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 71

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 71
Title:
A survey of all royal manors, honours, castles, lordships, tenements and other hereditaments in the counties of Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Warwickshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-80r: William Homberton (‘Esquire surveyor of the possessions’) and John Harwar (‘deputie receyvour’), survey of all royal manors, honours, castles, lordships, tenements and other hereditaments in the counties of Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Warwickshire; writte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1558-1559
Extent:
1 volume

7. Harley MS 73

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 73
Title:
‘The Journals of all the Parliaments during the raigne of Queene Elizabeth, both of the Upper Howse & Howse of Commons in three volumes, A.D. 1630’. Volume 1
Scope & Content:
Journals of Parliaments during the reign of Elizabeth I, 1558-1601, compiled from original sources by Sir Simonds D’Ewes. First volume, including preface and tables for all three volumes, as well as the journals for 1558-1571. f. 1: Parchment title page, bearing 16 coats of arms of the D'Ewes a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1630
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 74

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 74
Title:
‘The Journals of all the Parliaments during the raigne of Queene Elizabeth, both of the Upper Howse & Howse of Commons in three volumes, A.D. 1630’. Volume 2
Scope & Content:
Journals of Parliaments during the reign of Elizabeth I, 1558-1601, compiled from original sources by Sir Simonds D’Ewes. Volume 2 includes the journals for 1572-1589.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1630
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 75

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 75
Title:
‘The Journals of all the Parliaments during the raigne of Queene Elizabeth, both of the Upper Howse & Howse of Commons in three volumes, A.D. 1630’. Volume 3
Scope & Content:
Journals of Parliaments during the reign of Elizabeth I, 1558-1601, compiled from original sources by Sir Simonds D’Ewes. Volume 3 includes the journals for 1592-1601.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1630
Extent:

1 volume

10. Harley MS 78

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 78
Title:
Collection of English texts, including letters, historical and heraldic works, and poems by Geoffrey Chaucer and John Lydgate
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite miscellany of various 15th- and 16th-century English texts, predominantly letters, historical and heraldic texts and poems. Contents: f. 1r-v: Opinions of Lords on the question 'how goodd myght be had for the settinge forthe of the armes in to Normandye and Guye...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and French
Date Range:
15th century-16th century
Extent:
1 volume

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