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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2284
Title:: Account book of the Great Wardrobe from the reign of Henry VIII (8-12 Henery VIII)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*recto-53r: An account book of the Great Wardrobe from the 8th to the 12th years of the reign of King Henry VIII, with a title inscription on a parchment leaf (f. 1*recto): ‘The boke of Delyveraunce and Discharge of the kinges standyng warderobe of his Robes within the towre of L...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1516-1521
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2290
Title:: Robert Persons, Leicester's Commonwealth
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-49v: Robert Persons [Parsons] (b. 1546, d. 1610), Leicester's Commonwealth (1584).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1584-c 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2292
Title:: An English translation of Niccolò Machiavelli’s Il Principe
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title page: ‘The Prince of Nicholas Machiavill Citizen and Secretarie of Florence dedicated to the noble Prince Lawrence sonn of Peeter de medices – Translated out of Italian into English – Welcome to mee, in measure, and in meane, too much is naught, yet doe not leave mee cl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2293
Title:: Discourse on geomancy dedicated to King James II
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-57r: A discourse on geomancy dedicated to King James II (r. 1685-1688), beginning: 'Most Gratious and Dread Soveraigne, before I can discover the Inchanted Island the Garment Shem and Iapheth cast over the Father of Mankind when they went backwards must be taken of And the vai...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1685-1700
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2303
Title:: The Prevarication of Holy Church Libertyes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-3r: Henry Tichborne, dedication to King James II, beginning: ‘To the Kings most Excellent Majestie These Humbly Presented: The Virtues of your most Illustrious Ancestors have in all Ages since Christianity inlightned our Horizon, and been the Glory of so many Princes as have de...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2308
Title:: Accounts of the coronation of Edward VI and his reign
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-120r: A treatise on ‘The Maner of Coronation of Kinge Edward the Sixth’; followed by abstracts of entries in the Council book of King Edward VI from the beginning of his reign to 6 February 1549-50.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2318
Title:: Arthur Capell's prayers and devotional texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1v: ‘Made by Docter Willet of Barle and by him sent to Sir Arthure Capell in his long sicknes’. ff. 2r-7v: ‘A frughtfull exhortation to a sicke person to prepare against his end’. ff. 8r-10r: ‘A prayer for one that is sick’. ff. 11r-13v: English prayers with biblical citatio...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1600-1638
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2326
Title:: Tristram Tirwhyt's council on military leadership and rules of war for Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-8r: A dedicatory letter by Tristram Tirwhyt to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, beginning: ‘To the right honourable and his speciall good Lorde, Robert Erle of Leicester, Baron of Denbigh, of the moste noble orders of the Garter, and St Michael knight, one of the Quenes maiest...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1577
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2327
Title:: Manual of religious instruction for an English Catholic family
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-25r: 'The maner how to make our Confession which is accustomed to bee don everie eight daye'; with detailed instructions on how to examine one’s conscience according to deadly and capital sins. ff. 25v-36r: 'Of the manner of the preparing of anyone unto the receving the most h...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1576
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2335
Title:: The Pore Caitif
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-105v: The Pore Caitif (a popular 14th-century compilation of 14 treatises intended for the religious instruction of the laity). The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: A list of payments: 'Receved of Robert [?] Harman - iis 4d / Due to me from Frances - 3s ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and English, Middle
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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