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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1619
Title:: Collection of theological and historical treatises, including an English translation of Aristotle's Politics
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Notes in English, concerning the price of a hide of land, and the foundations of colleges in Oxford, Cambridge and Westminster. f. 2r: Definition of 'Abacus'. ff. 2r-2v: 'Twelfe steppes that a Christian may stride towards heaven, and being in the first may think him self a g...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1572-c 1585
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1647
Title:: Thomas Busshe, A ledger book for expenses made for the construction of Sandgate Castle by Henry VIII (Volume 1)
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: ‘The fyrst. the iide. iiide. iiiith. vth. vith. viith. viiith. and the .ixth. boke of the leger of the Workes of the Kynges Castell at Sandgate in the tyme of Thomas Corkes and Rychard Keys Esquyres Commyssioners there [...]’. f. 2*recto: A Latin inscription: ‘Castrum dom...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1540
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1651
Title:: Thomas Busshe, ledger book for expenses made for the construction of Sandgate Castle by Henry VIII (Volume 2)
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A Latin inscription on a strip of parchment: ‘thes vi bookes be truly examined’. f. 1r: A Latin inscription: ‘Castrum domini Regis de Sandegate’. f. 1r: A title inscription on a parchment fragment: ‘The .xth. the .xith. xiith. xiiith. xiiiith. xvth. xvith. xviith. xviiith. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1540-1541
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1696
Title:: A collection of law cases for the period 1562-1585
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-22v: A collection of law cases for the period 1562-1585. [f. 23 is blank].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1562-1585
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1697
Title:: A collection of law cases at Queen's Bench, 1593-1597
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-143r: A collection of law cases at Queen's Bench for the period 1593-1597.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1593-1597
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1703
Title:: William Forrest, Poems
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3v: A ‘Prologe in the warke followinge’. ff. 3v-22v: A ‘Treatyse uppon the Salutation of the moste gloryous virgyn Marye, and that all praysinges that eaver hathe beene saide of her (After the sayinge of saincte Augustyne) are farre Insuffycient to her worthynes, and honoure:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1572
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1704
Title:: Collection of works in Middle English and Latin, including Chaucer's Prioress's Prologue and Tale
Scope & Content:: This English manuscript is made up of four parts that were separately produced at different moments in time. The first part (ff. 1r-12v) was written in the first half of the 14th century and contains a number of legal texts, including the sole witness to the complete text of the Consiliatio Cnu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century-mid 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1711
Title:: Records of the tenements in the hundreds of Middlesex (London)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3v: Latin lists of the tenants of the hundreds in the county of Middlesex (London) in years 17 and 18 of the reign of Elizabeth I (1575); with documents in Latin and English related to the tenements appended. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A list of n...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1575
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1716
Title:: A treatise on the Court of Chancery
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-50v: A treatise on the Court of Chancery.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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