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232. Harley MS 541
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 541
- Title:
- English miscellany of historical and devotional writings, containing Middle English poems
- Scope & Content:
- This composite manuscript contains English historical and religious writings, and Middle English poems, that were written in the late 15th century, late 16th century, and early 17th century. Contents: ff. 1r-44r: John Davies, Adagia Brittanica; sent to Sir Simonds D’Ewes from Mallwyd in 1641....
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
233. Harley MS 542
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 542
- Title:
- English historical miscellany
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: f. 1r: A note about the foundation of a hospital in Ingastone. ff. 1v-10r: John Taxtor of Bury St Edmunds, excerpts from his chronicle. ff. 11r-12v: A list of nobles who came to England with William the Conqueror. f. 13r: John Lydgate, The order of Fools, extract only. f. 14r: ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and English, Middle
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
234. Harley MS 543
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 543
- Title:
- Collection of English historical texts
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-24v: Annals from the reign of Edward III. ff. 25r-30v: Henry Knighton, Chronicon, excerpt about John Wycliffe. ff. 31r-49r: A history with the title ‘The Historie of the arrivall of K. Edward IV. in England and the finall recoverie of his kingdomes from Henry VI. in Anno D...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
235. Harley MS 545
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 545
- Title:
- A collection of English historical texts, largely translated and copied by John Stow
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page by Sir Simonds D’Ewes: ‘Robert of Avesburie Keeper of The Reigster of the Court of Canterburie his historie of King E.3 Concerning his marveilous geste and wonderfull victories’. f. 2r*recto: A table of contents, added by Sir Simonds D’Ewes. ff. 1r-40v: Ro...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
236. Harley MS 551
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 551
- Title:
- Gerald of Wales, Itinerarium Kambriae; Topographia Hiberniae; Expugnatio Hibernica; Descriptio Kambriae
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-2r: An index of place-names. ff. 3r-37v: Gerald of Wales, Itinerarium Kambriae; translated into English and written by John Stow [Stowe] in 1575. ff. 38r-62v: Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae; translated into English and written by John Stow [Stowe] in 1575. ff. 63r...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1575-1576
- Extent:
- 1 volume
237. Harley MS 555
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 555
- Title:
- John Hales, A Declaration of the Succession of the Crowne Imperiall of Ingland; with a reply by Anthony Browne
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-10v: John Hales (b. 1516?, d. 1572), A Declaration of the Succession of the Crowne Imperiall of Ingland (1563); imperfect at the beginning, but the missing leaves have been supplied and bound together with Harley MS 555 with leaves ff. 50-55 from Harley MS 537. Here, the treati...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1590s
- Extent:
- 1 volume
238. Harley MS 557
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 557
- Title:
- Copy of a Letere wrytten by a Master of Artes of Cambridge
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-81r: The ‘Copy of a Letere wrytten by a Master of Artes of Cambridge, to his frend in London, concerning some talke past of late betweene twoe worshipfull and grave men, about the presente state and some proceedinges of my Lord of Leicester and his frends in England, Conceved,...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and French
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
239. Harley MS 558
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 558
- Title:
- Ralph Starkey, Life of Edward II
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-56r: Ralph Starkey, Life of Edward II, in English verse, beginning with ‘The appearance of the Ghost of King Edward the seconde kinge of England’. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 57v: Latin notes, added in the 16th and/or 17th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
240. Harley MS 561
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 561
- Title:
- Pontifical
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript consists of fragments of a Pontifical, for English use and includes: ff. 1r-8v: Order of the consecration of a bishop, fragment, imperfect at the beginning and the end, beginning: 'Benedixisti domine terram tuam' (Psalm 84); ending: 'quam tibi offerimus pro hiis quos regenerare...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume