Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Language: English - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

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 2302
Title:: A Replicacion in further meintenaunce of free will to an answere of a Protestant devyne to the treatis in that behalf first made by a Romish Catholicke Priest; a treatise written in answer to a book against the existence of witches
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a 17th-century miscellany containing two English treatises written separately at different moments in time. Contents: ff. 1*recto-56r: ‘A Replicacion in further meintenaunce of free will to an answere of a Protestant devyne to the treatis in that behalf first made by a Romi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
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 2307
Title:: A view of Devonshire, by Thomas Westcote
Scope & Content:: History and topographical account of Devonshire by ThomasWestcote (c 1567-c 1637). Published as A View of Devonshire 1630, ed. George Oliverand Pitman Jones (1845). Manuscript includes marginal notes, additions, andcorrections. The author’s postscript apology for the work, addressed ‘To thegener...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1630
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 2316
Title:
Scope & Content:: Collections of Theological, Hagiographical and Legendary Prose and Verse; 14th cent., 2nd half. Latin. Copies. The manuscript is a composite miscellany of theological, hagiographical and legendary prose and verse, including verses on plague (f. 16; item 1) and a medical recipes (f. 26v; item ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

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

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