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1201. Harley MS 4620

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4620
Title:
Inventory of charters granted in Scotland from James I to James III
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r: A note concerning the 'erle of douglas'; with the date '1380'. ff. 4r-123v: Inventory of charters granted in Scotland from James I to James III, beginning: 'A perfyte minute of all the chartours content in the register [?] Papen of beginning .c. candidæ casæ'. However, the li...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1590s
Extent:
1 volume

1202. Harley MS 4632

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4632
Title:
Heraldic collections of Sir Christopher Barker
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the heraldic collections of Sir Christopher Barker (d. 1549), Garter King of Arms 1536, who compiled the manuscript between c. 1520-c. 1530. The manuscript also contains later additions, including coats of arms that may have been added in the 17th century. Contents: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
c 1520-c 1530
Extent:
1 volume

1203. Harley MS 4640

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4640
Title:
Two copies of an indenture with the last will of Hugh Denys of Osterley
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two identical copies executed by the same scribe and decorated by the same illuminator an indenture that was made in 1529/1530 for the execution of the last will of Hugh Denys of Osterley (b. c. 1440, d. 1511), a courtier of King Henry VII and King Henry VIII. In his wil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1529-1530
Extent:

1 volume

1204. Harley MS 4659

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4659
Title:
Miscellany of verse lampoons
Scope & Content:
Quarto manuscript in a single cursive hand, containing mostly verse lampoons. Contents: ff. 1-1v: 'A True and perfect relation how a bould sawcy Beadle Being in the watch on Sunday February ye 26th 1670 was killed fairely by Three Dukes'. First line: Near Holbourn Lies a Parke of Great Renoune'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

1205. Harley MS 4660

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4660
Title:
Miscellaneous collection of transcriptions of Old English charters and the Narratio de Sanctis qui in Anglia quiescunt; fragments of a Latin work on the Old English language
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A catalogue of fifteen charters held at Worcester Cathedral, entitled: ‘Cartarum aliquod pervetustarum quae extant in Archivis Ecclesiae Cathedralis Wirogn; Apographa’; ending with the note: ‘Harum Cartarum nulla exhibetur in Monastico Anglicana’. f. 1v: A transcription of a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, Dutch, English, English, Old, and Germanic languages
Date Range:
c 1643-c 1700
Extent:
1 volume

1206. Harley MS 4698

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4698
Title:
Jewels received by Elizabeth I, 1572–1586
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–32v: A descriptive account of jewels received by Queen Elizabeth at New Year and delivered to Mrs Katherine Howard, one of the gentlewomen of her privy chamber, for the 14th–28th years of her reign (1572–1586). Marginal notes record gifts Elizabeth made of these jewels, and if she lost the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1572-1586
Extent:
1 volume

1207. Harley MS 4714

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4714
Title:
Cartulary of Biddlesden Abbey
Scope & Content:
General cartulary, arranged in sections with charters individually numbered in each, including royal and episcopal charters. f. 1*r: Fragment of an effaced indenture, 1620. f. 1r–6v: Foundation charters. ff. 7r–352v: Sections arranged topographically. ff. 353r–363r: Three 16th-century additi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

1208. Harley MS 4718

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4718
Title:
An inventory of the rarities of King Charles I in the Privy Gallery at Whitehall
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-85v: An inventory of the rarities of King Charles I (b. 1600, d. 1649) in the Privy Gallery at Whitehall, in the King’s new erected Cabinet Room, beginning: ‘By the King’s Especial command his Pictures & rarities which he had kept at St James’ in the Cabbenett Room were tra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1625-1649
Extent:
1 volume

1209. Harley MS 4720

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4720
Title:
Collections of medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-69v: Collection of medical recipes in Latin and English; written in the 16th or 17th century. ff. 70r-71v, 73r-74v: Alphabetical indices of subjects. ff. 75r-75v: A fragment of a work on ‘Arithmaticke’ in English; written in the 17th century. ff 76rv: Collection of medic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1210. Harley MS 4742

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4742
Title:
Legal treatises
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-16v: 'Consultationes tres de quæstionibus legis feudalis'. ff. 17r-32r: 'Rerum criminalium tractatus continens expositionem titulorum quadragesimi octavi ff[orum], Libri, cum interpretatione philosophicæ l[is]. Respiciendum [ff] de pœnis in qua quid præstare judex, aut quomod...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1588-1589
Extent:
1 volume

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