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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 477
Title:: Journal of the proceedings of the House of Commons, by John More esq, Volume 3
Scope & Content:: Manuscript notebook containing John More’s Journal of the House of Commons, Volume 3. The journal begins on 22 April 1641, and ends 3 June 1641. There is a signature on folio 133 ‘John More esquire, 22 Aprill 1641’. It appears that this notebook and Harley MS 478 were in use by John More at th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1641
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 478
Title:: Journal of the proceedings of the House of Commons, by John More esq, Volume 4
Scope & Content:: Manuscript notebook containing John More’s Journal of the House of Commons, Volume 4. The journal begins on 16 April 1641, and ends 25 June 1641. It appears that this notebook and Harley MS 477 were in use by John More at the same time as they largely cover the same time period. The content of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1641
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 479
Title:: Journal of the proceedings of the House of Commons, by John More esq, Volume 5
Scope & Content:: Manuscript notebook containing John More’s Journal of the House of Commons, Volume 5. The journal begins on 26 June 1641, and ends 18 August 1641. Also contains minutes of Parliament matters, including: The protestation of Allan Blanie, lecturer, of Newigton, Surrey. 25 June 1841. Notes of a s...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1641
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 480
Title:: Journal of the proceedings of the House of Commons, by John More esq, Volume 6
Scope & Content:: Manuscript notebook containing John More’s Journal of the House of Commons, Volume 6. The journal begins on 22 December 1641, and ends 28 February 1641 [1642]. Includes at the end of the volume: A speech made, and a motion carried, in favour of keeping James Stanley, Lord Strange in office as ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1641-1642
Extent:: I volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 481
Title:: Diary of Simonds D’Ewes 1621-1624
Scope & Content:: Manuscript diary of private and public events, written in cipher by Sir Simonds D’Ewes, covering the period January 1621/2-April 1624. Includes personal and public occurrences. Running title: ‘A Diarian Discourse or Ephemeridian Narration’.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1621-1624
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 482
Title:: Diary of Simonds D’Ewes 1643
Scope & Content:: Manuscript diary of private and public events, written in cipher by Sir Simonds D’Ewes, covering the period January – December 1643
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1643
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 486
Title:: English miscellany of historical papers; an alchemical poem; copies from testaments; rentals; a tract on fasting; notes of a sermon
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1v: Ex Fastis Idatianis ab exordio Neronis usque ad Aurelianum. ff. 2r-10v: Descriptio consulum ex quo primum ordinati sunt; followed by another list of Roman consuls ‘Ex Fastis Idatij’. ff. 11r-15r: Historical notes about England, partially in the hand of John Stow, beginning ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: first quarter of the 16th century-first quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 497
Title:
Scope & Content:: Alcoatim, Congregatio sive liber de oculis, and other short medical Texts ; 15th cent. Latin and Italian. Copies. A copy of Alcoatim's ophthalmologic treatise in Latin translation (ff. 1-46; item 1), followed by three other short texts relating to medicine. Owned in the late 15th-early 16th ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 509
Title:: Elegies in English, Latin and Greek written by Wye Saltonstall on the death of his father Sir Samuel Saltonstall
Scope & Content:: Elegies in English, Latin and Greek written by Wye Saltonstall on the death of his father Sir Samuel Saltonstall (d. 30 June 1640). Dedicated to Sir Thomas Middleton.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 1640
Extent:: 1 volume

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