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1211. Harley MS 4744

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4744
Title:
A collection of prophecies and testimonies concerning Christ drawn from the Old and New Testaments
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-138r: A collection of prophecies and testimonies concerning Christ drawn from the Old and New Testaments. f. 141r: Pen trials (?) in a figure drawn in brown ink: ‘and for the use of my god master and to and for [...]’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1212. Harley MS 4748

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4748
Title:
Index of the ‘Red Book’ of the Barons Segrave
Scope & Content:
Index of ‘the evidences copied in the boke cleped the Redeboke of þe lordshipe of Segrave’ (f. 3r). ff. 1*v: Fragment of a list of churches. ff. 1r–2r: List of holdings with summaries of how they are held by the Baron Segrave. f. 3r: Preface explaining the methodology, in English. ff. 3r–7r:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:

Paper codex

1213. Harley MS 4749

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4749
Title:
Tracts on baronies
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-29r: A collection of tracts on baronies, with an account of the 'controversy touching the Descent of the Dignity and Name of the Baronie of Abergaveny', and pedigrees, entitled: 'Presidents Collected out of a Number of Others and Titles of Honours Created by Writt to descend in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1598
Extent:
1 volume

1214. Harley MS 4754

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4754
Title:
History, arms and genealogies of the English peerage
Scope & Content:
Contents: Part 1 (c. 1600): f. 2r: A title-page: 'The Baronage of England, viz. The Modern Stemms of the Peeres of this Kingdome Delineated for the Finding of the Kinred and Affinityes by their Severall Matches - The Armes of each particular family with his Creast for onarment being added unt...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1597-c 1663
Extent:
1 volume

1215. Harley MS 4760

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4760
Title:
A Treatise of the true Causes of the Prævarication of Churches Liberties of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*verso: A title inscription: ‘A Treatise of the true Causes of the Prævarication of Churches Liberties of England’; followed by two initials ‘S [?] G’ (perhaps the treatise’s author). ff. 1r-48v: A treatise in five chapters on King Henry VIII’s marriages, jurisdiction over the C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1216. Harley MS 4775

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4775
Title:
Gilte Legende (Middle English prose translation of the Legenda Aurea)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the so-called Gilte Legende. This is a complete Middle English prose translation of the Legenda Aurea: a Latin collection of almost 200 saints' lives compiled by the French Dominican chronicler Jacobus de Voragine [Jean de Vignay] (b. c. 1230, d. 1298), and completed aro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1217. Harley MS 4776

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4776
Title:
Liber Terrarum of Wales
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains land surveys and letters patent relating to Wales. Other copies of these materials can be found in Harley MS 696. Although '1565' is inscribed in an initial on f. 53v, this date may only apply to ff. 1*recto-2*recto, and ff. 41r-54r. While the texts on ff. 129v-131v we...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1500-c 1565
Extent:
1 volume

1218. Harley MS 4780

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4780
Title:
Wardrobe accounts of King Edward IV from 18 April to 29 September 1480
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-59v: Wardrobe accounts of King Edward IV from 18 April to 29 September 1480, beginning: 'The Parcelles of the Accomptes of Peers Courteys whome the kinges highnesse and goode grace hath assigned and ordeigned by his high commaundement to rule gouverne and kepe his grete warder...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1480
Extent:
1 volume

1219. Harley MS 4781

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4781
Title:
Survey of the estate of John Neville, 4th Baron Latimer
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-43v: A survey of the estate of John Neville (b. 1520, d. 1577), 4th Baron Latimer, of the lands of the late abbey of Nun Monkton, Yorkshire, and the manors of Green Hammerton, Yorkshire; Bolton in Allerdale, Cumberland; and Heversham, Westmoreland, entitled: 'A Surveie: there m...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1572
Extent:
1 volume

1220. Harley MS 4782

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4782
Title:
Account of the household expenses of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-196v: Account of the household expenses of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury (b. c. 1522, d. 1590), at Handsworth, 21 December 1588-6 March 1590. The manuscript contains an addition: ff. 1*recto-1*verso, 197r-197v originally formed a single parchment leaf from a late 12th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1588-1590
Extent:
1 volume

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