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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7554
Title:: An English theological miscellany
Scope & Content:: This English manuscript is a miscellany of theological works written in Latin and English. The four parts (ff. 1-[38a]; ff. 39-55; ff. 56-66; ff. 67-90) were separately produced at different moments in time and bound together at an unknown point in time before entering or at the Harleian Library...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1400-c 1700
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7555
Title:: List of Parliamentary summons; assizes from the reign of King Edward III; grant and charters relating to the chapel and college of St Mary in the Fields, Norwich
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of parts that were written at different times. Part 1 (ff. 1-32) was written in the 16th century. Part 2 (ff. 33r-64v) was written in the middle or 2nd half of the 14th century. Part 3 (ff. 66r-72r) was written in 1546. Part 4 (ff. 74r-77v) was written in t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1350-1546
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7567
Title:: Collection of fragments, copies and originals of historical and religious texts, including the Old English edicts of Æthelberht; Old English laws of Æthelred; Decretum Gratiani; Cronica de Anglia; William of St Alban, Passio Sancti Albani
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of fragments, copies and originals of medieval and early modern texts that were produced separately and may have been kept together as a loose collection in the Harleian Library. The manuscript contains at least 38 separate sections ranging from the late 12th c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1175-c 1734
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7578
Title:: Middle English verse, including ballads by Chaucer and Lydgate; 'The Flyting of Montgomerie and Polwart' by Alexander Montgomerie; 'Nebuchadnezzar's Fierie Furnace'; the 'Annals of Oskell'; grammatical exercises in Latin and Greek; Old songs of Durham
Scope & Content:: Miscellany compiling pages from a number of other manuscripts, which vary greatly in size and period. Major sections within the miscellany are f. 1 (verse and prose on the Ten Commandments and Seven Deadly Sins), ff. 2-20 (various ballads and other verse, some by Chaucer and Lydgate), f. 21 (a s...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 1400-1700
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7581
Title:: Collection of religious texts and letters relating to English Puritanism
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of texts relating to English Puritanism. These include letters from the theologian Thomas Cartwright (b. c. 1535, d. 1603) and Henoch Clapham (fl. 1585-1614), a preacher of an English church in Amsterdam, as well as a petition directed to Elizabeth I (r. 155...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7632
Title:: David Casley, Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the King’s Library (autograph manuscript)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-156v, 159r-197v: David Casley, original autograph manuscript of his Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the King’s Library [Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Regiae], published in 1734, with the exception of the preliminary matter (written in English, French, and Latin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1734
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7640
Title:: Psalter (fragment)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-23v: Fragment of a Psalter; the surviving text consists of Psalms 80-150, with gaps, and the Canticles. The manuscript contains several additions: f. i recto: A note by Sir Frederick Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873), Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum, that the volume was...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1300
Extent:: 1 item

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