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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 532, ff 116r-121r
Title:: George Rawe, Description of the river Ems from the sea to Emden
Scope & Content:: George Rawe, Description of the river Ems from the sea to Emden.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century
Extent:: 6 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 538
Title:: John Stow's historical papers
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-154v: Historical papers in the hand of John Stow. Decoration: A drawing of stamp of a unicorn in red ink (f. 62r, foldout).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1590s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 541
Title:: English miscellany of historical and devotional writings, containing Middle English poems
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript contains English historical and religious writings, and Middle English poems, that were written in the late 15th century, late 16th century, and early 17th century. Contents: ff. 1r-44r: John Davies, Adagia Brittanica; sent to Sir Simonds D’Ewes from Mallwyd in 1641....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 542
Title:: English historical miscellany
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A note about the foundation of a hospital in Ingastone. ff. 1v-10r: John Taxtor of Bury St Edmunds, excerpts from his chronicle. ff. 11r-12v: A list of nobles who came to England with William the Conqueror. f. 13r: John Lydgate, The order of Fools, extract only. f. 14r: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and English, Middle
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 543
Title:: Collection of English historical texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-24v: Annals from the reign of Edward III. ff. 25r-30v: Henry Knighton, Chronicon, excerpt about John Wycliffe. ff. 31r-49r: A history with the title ‘The Historie of the arrivall of K. Edward IV. in England and the finall recoverie of his kingdomes from Henry VI. in Anno D...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 545
Title:: A collection of English historical texts, largely translated and copied by John Stow
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page by Sir Simonds D’Ewes: ‘Robert of Avesburie Keeper of The Reigster of the Court of Canterburie his historie of King E.3 Concerning his marveilous geste and wonderfull victories’. f. 2r*recto: A table of contents, added by Sir Simonds D’Ewes. ff. 1r-40v: Ro...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 551
Title:: Gerald of Wales, Itinerarium Kambriae; Topographia Hiberniae; Expugnatio Hibernica; Descriptio Kambriae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2r: An index of place-names. ff. 3r-37v: Gerald of Wales, Itinerarium Kambriae; translated into English and written by John Stow [Stowe] in 1575. ff. 38r-62v: Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae; translated into English and written by John Stow [Stowe] in 1575. ff. 63r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1575-1576
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 555
Title:: John Hales, A Declaration of the Succession of the Crowne Imperiall of Ingland; with a reply by Anthony Browne
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-10v: John Hales (b. 1516?, d. 1572), A Declaration of the Succession of the Crowne Imperiall of Ingland (1563); imperfect at the beginning, but the missing leaves have been supplied and bound together with Harley MS 555 with leaves ff. 50-55 from Harley MS 537. Here, the treati...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1590s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 557
Title:: Copy of a Letere wrytten by a Master of Artes of Cambridge
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-81r: The ‘Copy of a Letere wrytten by a Master of Artes of Cambridge, to his frend in London, concerning some talke past of late betweene twoe worshipfull and grave men, about the presente state and some proceedinges of my Lord of Leicester and his frends in England, Conceved,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 558
Title:: Ralph Starkey, Life of Edward II
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-56r: Ralph Starkey, Life of Edward II, in English verse, beginning with ‘The appearance of the Ghost of King Edward the seconde kinge of England’. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 57v: Latin notes, added in the 16th and/or 17th century.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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