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271. Harley MS 1855

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1855
Title:
A register of the Spanish Company (Society of Merchants of England trading in Spain and Portugal), 1605
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-36v: A register of the Spanish Company (Society of Merchants of England trading in Spain and Portugal) including lists of members admitted to the company (ff. 1r-14r), a copy of the charter granted by King James I to the Company (31 May 1605) (ff. 15r-34v), and an index of topi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1605
Extent:
1 volume

272. Harley MS 1856

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1856
Title:
Collection of writs and legal precedents from the reign of Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-174r: Collection of writs and legal precedents from the reign of King Henry VIII, written in Latin and English and organised alphabetically by 'Rouland Shakelady'. For example, including a licence to Bartholomew Hesketh to wear his bonnet at his own liberty for head infirmities...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1540
Extent:

1 volume

273. Harley MS 1859

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1859
Title:
Registrum brevium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-217r: Registrum brevium. The manuscript contains several additions: f. 1*verso: 'Sacramentum Servientis ad legem', beginning: 'Ye shall swere that well and truly ye shall serve the kynges People as one of the Sergeantes at the Lawe'; added in the 16th century. f. 1r: Lati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

274. Harley MS 1879

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1879
Title:
Catalogues of the books of Henry Savile of Banke, Robert Bruce Cotton, and John Dee
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-10r: Catalogue of the library of Henry Savile of Banke (d. 1617) in English and Latin, written in the hand of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician. f. 10v: List of books wanted by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, headed: 'Books I want', fr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1583-c 1612
Extent:
1 volume

275. Harley MS 1880

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1880
Title:
Indenture between King Henry VIII and Sir Andrew Windsor, keeper of the wardrobe, for the sale of the manor of Stanwell (Middlesex) and other estates
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an indenture, or deed of sale, between King Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547) and Sir Andrew Windsor (b. 1467, d. 1543), an English MP, keeper of the wardrobe, and knight banneret. Dated 14th March 1542, the indenture records Windsor's sale of his ancestral manor house of Stanwe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1542-1543
Extent:
1 volume

276. Harley MS 1882

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1882
Title:
How to perfume gloves, to make perfumes and swete waters with divers other sundrie preservatives as they be made in Spanie and Portugall translated forthe of a written Spannishe booke of the Duches of Ferias
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-22r: A collection of 87 recipes, entitled: 'Howe to perfume gloves, to make perfumes and swete waters with divers other sundrie preservatives as they be made in Spanie and Portugall translated forthe of a written Spannishe booke of the Duches of Ferias'; Jane Dormer (b. 1536, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:

1 volume

277. Harley MS 1887

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1887
Title:
Collection of medical recipes and treatments
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*recto (margins)-1*verso (margins), 1r-1v: Recipes, including a tract on 'The virtue and degree of herbs' and a 'Restorative'; added in the 2nd half of the 16th century. ff. 2r-10v, 14r-45v: Latin treatise on the theory and practice of medicine, containing recipes for electuari...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1545
Extent:
1 volume

278. Harley MS 1888

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1888
Title:
A record of parliamentary proceedings for 1592
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-118r: A record of parliamentary proceedings for 1592, titled 'A Journall of the Parliament holden at Westminster in Anno 35 Reginae Elizabethae Anno Domini 1592' (f. 1*r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1592-1593
Extent:
1 volume

279. Harley MS 1921

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1921
Title:
A catalogue of alphabets and specimens of handwriting
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-80r: A catalogue of alphabets and specimens of handwriting, including 2 printed page fragments on the topic of writing (ff. 51, 80).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

280. Harley MS 1922

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1922
Title:
English coats of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4v, 6r-14v, 16r-18v, 20r-26v, 29r-35v, 37r-42v, 45r-50v, 52r-57v, 62r-62v, 64r-65v: Coats of arms of English nobility and gentry, with names written in French, many of which seem to originate from Kent and Lancashire (as indicated by the cropped rubricated Latin headers in the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

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