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1161. Harley MS 4040

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4040
Title:
Arms of Irish nobility
Scope & Content:
Heraldic book of Irish nobility probably compiled by James Terry (1660-1725), Athlone Herald, at the Jacobite court in France. Decorated with painted and gilt arms and headings. Includes blanks probably intended for narrative pedigrees. Contents: f. 1v: Print portrait of James Drummond, 1st ti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

1162. Harley MS 4045

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4045
Title:
History of Bohemia from the year 890 to 1618
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-46r: History of Bohemia from the year 890 to 1618, inscribed to 'Lord George, Marques of Buckingham, Lord high Admirall of England' [George Villiers (b. 1592, d. 1628), Marquess of Buckingham from 1618 until elevated to (1st) Duke of Buckingham in 1623, and Lord High Admiral b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1619-1623
Extent:
1 volume

1163. Harley MS 4053

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4053
Title:
Debates of the House of Commons April 1679; a historical speech in defence of Charles I; a treatise on the value of money; a historical miscellany of the Norman Conquest; St Augustine, Regula; Henry of Sawtry, De purgatorio S. Patricii
Scope & Content:
ff. 2r-35r: Debates of the house of Commons April 1679. ff. 36r-46v: A historical speech in defence of King Charles I. ff. 47r-55r: A treatise on the value of money. ff. 65r-76r: A historical miscellany of the Norman Conquest. f. 77r: A note about the articles of faith in a 17th-century han...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century - 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1164. Harley MS 4064

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4064
Title:
A composite volume of verse and prose
Scope & Content:
A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous verse and prose, in various hands. Including legal and financial documents and a verse miscellany containing many poems by John Donne. Cited in the Index of English Literary Manuscripts as the ‘Harley Noel MS’. Contents: ff. 2r-191v: A register of Ecc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1165. Harley MS 4076

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4076
Title:
Collection of medical recipes
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a 16th-century collection of medical and cosmetic recipes in English and Latin, most likely compiled by a physician in the county of Devon. Its first known owner was William Raulyngs [Ralyngs], who appears to have been closely related to the manuscript's compiler. The la...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1550
Extent:
1 volume

1166. Harley MS 4125

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4125
Title:
Copy of the 1579 charter of the Eastland Company
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto (parchment pastedown): 'Coppie of the Eastland companie their Charter dated the 17th of August the xxjth of Queen Elizabeth Anno Domini .1568. [sic: should be 1579]'. ff. 2*recto-2*verso: 'The Principall Heads, and Contents of the Charter'. ff. 1r-21v: The 'Eastland Chart...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1579-c 1625
Extent:
1 volume

1167. Harley MS 4131

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4131
Title:
Register of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford; rental of King Henry VIII's lands in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire; jury presentments for Gloucestershire
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-363v: Register of the Causes of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1628 to 1633. ff. 364v-477v: Rental of the royal lands in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire in the 30th year of the reign of King Henry VIII (1538/9). ff. 478r-571v: Jury presentments at quarter ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1538-1633
Extent:
1 volume

1168. Harley MS 4133

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4133
Title:
Account book of Elizabeth I's Courts and Offices
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: Register of accounts of Queen Elizabeth I's Courts and Offices, entitled: 'A Register of the Offices of her Maiesties Courte, her Courte of Revenew, and Courtes of Iustice and Record: As also of other offices of her highness chamber, housholde, and stable: with the offyces ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1593
Extent:
1 volume

1169. Harley MS 4136

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4136
Title:
Essex indentures and wills; accounts from a merchant of the Company of the Staple at Calais
Scope & Content:
A composite collection of indentures and last wills relating to Essex, compiled between 1580 and 1612, inter-mixed with copies of account rolls in an earlier hand, and leaves from an English cloth merchant's account book from the early 1540s. The latter's notes indicate that they were a merchant...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1540-c 1612
Extent:
1 volume

1170. Harley MS 4138

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4138
Title:
English translation of Bernardino de Mendoza's Theorica y Practica de la Guerra
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r, 4r-228r: English translation of Bernardino de Mendoza (b. c. 1540, d. 1604), Theorica y Practica de la Guerra [1595], here entitled: 'The Theorick and Practick of warre written for the Prince Don Phillip of Spayne by Don Bernardino de Mendosa'; perhaps the English translation ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1600-c 1630
Extent:
1 volume

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