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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1508
Title:: Theological treatises on the Ten Commandments and the Book of Acts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-144r: A theological treatise on the Ten Commandments. ff. 145r-197r: A theological treatise on the Book of Acts.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1540
Title:: The Visitations of Durham of 1575 and 1615
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 2r: A note on the Visitations of Durham of 1575 and 1615. ff. 3r-4r: An alphabetical table of the family names included in this manuscript. ff. 5r-10v, 161r-162v: Arms of Durham families (20 per page), tricked in printed shields, mostly left blank. ff. 11r-160v, 163r-169r: Ped...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1580
Title:: The first of two volumes with letters and papers concerning state affairs, dated to 1616-1625
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-456v: The first of two volumes with letters and papers concerning state affairs, mostly originals of English and French letters addressed to the Duke and Marquess of Buckingham, organised in alphabetical order; the letters and papers are dated to 1616-1625. The second volume is...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1616-1625
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1581
Title:: The second of two volumes with letters concerning state affairs, dated 1612-1625
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-412v: The second of two volumes with letters concerning state affairs, featuring 129 letters, mostly originals in English addressed to the Duke and Marquess of Buckingham, but also Charles, Prince of Wales, King James I, the Lord Treasurer, and others; also featuring originals ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1612-1625
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1584
Title:: A collection of English letters concerning foreign state affairs, dated to 1625-1628; Charles Cornwallis, The Life and Death of Our Late Noble Prince Henry; A True and Just Relation of Major-General Sir Thomas Morgans Progress in France and Flanders with the Six Thousand English in the Yeares 1657 and 1658
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-204v A collection of drafts and copies of letters with instructions to various addressees concerning foreign state affairs, dated to 1625-1628. ff. 205r-229v: Charles Cornwallis (d. 1629), The Life and Death of Our Late Noble Prince Henry. ff. 230r-240v: Anonymous, A True an...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1625-1658
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1588
Title:: Reports of law cases from the reign of Queen Elizabeth
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-170r, 178r-192r: Reports of law cases from the 23rd until the 37th years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth; in English and Law French. ff. 171r-177r: 'Cases hors del Curia Wardorum'. ff. 192r-194r: Case between Lord Buckhurst and Justice Fenner, 40 Elizabeth I. ff. 194r-198...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1580-c 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1591
Title:: Collection of legal treatises
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: Law notes, including a line in French: 'Pur un plaisir mille dole'. f. 1r: Recipe for sleep, including milk, treacle, saffron and ivy. ff. 2r-5v: Forms of writs from the time of Queen Elizabeth. ff. 6r-10r: 'The Manner and Order of kepinge the Quarter Cessions'. f....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1597
Title:: Collection of writs, oaths, warrants and fees from the reign of Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1v-3r: 'Tabula pro demonstratione nominum et naturarum presidencium, tam Brevium confessionum et finium, quam aliorum in hoc libro contentorum'. ff. 5r-50r: A collection of legal writs in Latin, entitled 'Presidencia diversorum generum', most of which date to 20-25 Elizabeth I, b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1580
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1602
Title:: Collection of medical treatises, alchemical recipes and charms
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript is formed of four separate codicological units with materials added to the beginning and the end, when the units appear to have been bound or kept together. Part 1 (ff. 3r-4v) contains a collection alchemical recipes that was written in the 15th century. Part 2 (ff. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century-16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1605/1
Title:: Fragments of an anonymous Anglo-Norman metrical translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Brittaniae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the first of three volumes that comprise Harley MS 1605 (the others being Harley MS 1605/2 and Harley MS 1605/3). It contains fragments of an anonymous Anglo-Norman verse translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Brittaniae. The text is known as the 'Harley Brut' bu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and English
Date Range:: c 1250
Extent:: 1 volume

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