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212. Harley MS 513
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 513
- Title:
- A treatise of tripartite exchange by Gerard de Malynes, merchant
- Scope & Content:
- Quarto manuscript volume, titled: ‘A Treatise of Tripartite exchaung, According to the Three Essentiall Parts of Trafficque: Comodities for Money; Comodities for Comodities; Comodities for exchang of Money. Shewing the efficient Cause of the Decrease of ye wealth of the Realme of England. And of...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1610
- Extent:
- 1 volume
213. Harley MS 519
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 519
- Title:
- A treatise on the institution and discipline of a soldier
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-96r: The ‘institucion and dysepline of a souldier gathered oute of dyverse auntyent histories very necessarye to be perused in theis perilous tymes of all good harttes and worthye myndes’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
214. Harley MS 521
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 521
- Title:
- An English heraldic manuscript
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 3r-50v: The arms of English nobility and gentry (6 per page). ff. 51v-55r: A fragment of a heraldic manuscript with arms of Cheshire families (12 per page). ff. 56r-59r: Arms, displaying the types of crosses in heraldry (4 per page); with some marginal additions in brown ink. ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1450
- Extent:
- 1 volume
215. Harley MS 522
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 522
- Title:
- Gildas, De excidio Britanniae
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 4r-77v: Gildas, De excidio Britanniae [English translation]. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. [i]recto-2r: Notes about Gildas, printed works and history, added in the 16th century. f. 3r: A title-page added by Sir Simonds D’Ewes, added in the 17th century. ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- c 1550
- Extent:
- 1 volume
216. Harley MS 523
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 523
- Title:
- Letters of Sir Philip Hoby, 1548-1553
- Scope & Content:
- Collection of copied letters dating from 1548-1553. Concerning Sir Philip Hoby (1504/5–1558), diplomat and administrator, the Privy Council, and others. f. 1*r: Pasted title page. ‘Sir Phillip Hobby & otheres Ambasages with the Emperore. R:S: 1616’. f. 2*r: ‘Sir Phillipe hobes letters dat...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- c. 1616
- Extent:
- 1 volume
217. Harley MS 524
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 524
- Title:
- Collection of sermons and theological tracts (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
- The collection includes (f. 66) two contemporary additions relating to medicine, a charm (item 1) and a short verse on humours (item 2). Two short chapters (ff. 84, 119-11v; items 3-4) discuss the formation of the fetus and birth in theological rather than medical terms. The cataloguing of the m...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman, English, French, Old, and Latin
- Date Range:
- Mid 13th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
218. Harley MS 530
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 530
- Title:
- A miscellany of transcripts and original copies of historical works
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript is a miscellany largely containing early modern transcripts from medieval historical works, mostly dating to the second half of the 16th century. Several entries were copied by the antiquaries John Stow [Stowe] (b. 1524/5, d. 1605) and William Camden (b. 1551, d. 1623). However, ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, English, Middle, and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1450-c 1626
- Extent:
- 1 volume
219. Harley MS 532
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 532
- Title:
- A poem addressed to Queen Elizabeth I, A Discourse of the Buisines of Ambyona in Anno Domini 1624, and other texts
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: 1. A poem addressed to Queen Elizabeth I, Hymnus pastoralis in laudem serenissimae Reginae Elizabethae, ex Anglico sermone in Latinum traductus (ff. 1r-4r); 2. Correspondence between Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland and Sir Francis de Vere (ff. 6r-9v); 3. A Discourse of the B...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 16th century-17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
220. Harley MS 532, f 82v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 532, f 82v
- Title:
- List of the Knights of the Golden Fleece
- Scope & Content:
- A list of the Knights of the Golden Fleece, beginning with Archduke Albert of Austria.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- Between 1598 and 1621
- Extent:
- 1 folio.