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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 509, ff 1v-4v
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Scope & Content:: Dedication of elegies by Wye Saltonstall to Sir Thomas Middleton.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1640
Extent:: 4 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 513
Title:: A treatise of tripartite exchange by Gerard de Malynes, merchant
Scope & Content:: Quarto manuscript volume, titled: ‘A Treatise of Tripartite exchaung, According to the Three Essentiall Parts of Trafficque: Comodities for Money; Comodities for Comodities; Comodities for exchang of Money. Shewing the efficient Cause of the Decrease of ye wealth of the Realme of England. And of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1610
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 519
Title:: A treatise on the institution and discipline of a soldier
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-96r: The ‘institucion and dysepline of a souldier gathered oute of dyverse auntyent histories very necessarye to be perused in theis perilous tymes of all good harttes and worthye myndes’.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 521
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-50v: The arms of English nobility and gentry (6 per page). ff. 51v-55r: A fragment of a heraldic manuscript with arms of Cheshire families (12 per page). ff. 56r-59r: Arms, displaying the types of crosses in heraldry (4 per page); with some marginal additions in brown ink. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1450
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 522
Title:: Gildas, De excidio Britanniae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4r-77v: Gildas, De excidio Britanniae [English translation]. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. [i]recto-2r: Notes about Gildas, printed works and history, added in the 16th century. f. 3r: A title-page added by Sir Simonds D’Ewes, added in the 17th century. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1550
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 523
Title:: Letters of Sir Philip Hoby, 1548-1553
Scope & Content:: Collection of copied letters dating from 1548-1553. Concerning Sir Philip Hoby (1504/5–1558), diplomat and administrator, the Privy Council, and others. f. 1*r: Pasted title page. ‘Sir Phillip Hobby & otheres Ambasages with the Emperore. R:S: 1616’. f. 2*r: ‘Sir Phillipe hobes letters dat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c. 1616
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 524
Title:: Collection of sermons and theological tracts (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: The collection includes (f. 66) two contemporary additions relating to medicine, a charm (item 1) and a short verse on humours (item 2). Two short chapters (ff. 84, 119-11v; items 3-4) discuss the formation of the fetus and birth in theological rather than medical terms. The cataloguing of the m...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 13th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 530
Title:: A miscellany of transcripts and original copies of historical works
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a miscellany largely containing early modern transcripts from medieval historical works, mostly dating to the second half of the 16th century. Several entries were copied by the antiquaries John Stow [Stowe] (b. 1524/5, d. 1605) and William Camden (b. 1551, d. 1623). However, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1450-c 1626
Extent:: 1 volume

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