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241. Harley MS 563

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 563
Title:
John of Worcester, Chronicon ex chronicis; Asser, Vita Alfredi; Aelred of Rievaulx, Vita Sancti Edwardi Regis et Confessoris; Annales sex Regum Angliæ
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-49r: John of Worcester [here attributed to Florence of Worcester], Chronicon ex chronicis; with a continuation; translated into English by Raphael Holinshed [Hollingshead] (b. c. 1525, d. 1580 [?]) for John Stow; dated 1572. ff. 51r-119v: Asser, Vita Alfredi; with a continuat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

242. Harley MS 566

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 566
Title:
Praecedents of Barronyes by wrytte descendinge with the Lands to the heirs males and not the heris Females
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8v: A tract entitled ‘Praecedents of Barronyes by wrytte descendinge with the Lands to the heirs males and not the heris Females’. Decoration: Genealogies in brown and red ink throughout.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

243. Harley MS 567

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 567
Title:
The Statutes of the Order of the Garter
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-24v: The Statutes of the Order of the Garter, beginning ‘The Statutes and ordenaunces of the most noble ordre of Saynte George named the Gartier reformed explaned declared and renewed by the most high most excellent and most puissante Prince Henry theight by the grace of God ki...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1559
Extent:
1 volume

244. Harley MS 568

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 568
Title:
Survey of and tracts relating to the Honor of Tutbury
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-7r: Names of villages and their officials in the Honor of Tutbury, covering parts of Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Warwickshire, here entitled: ‘Nomina Villarum de, aut infra Honor. de Tutbury, Altum-Peccum, et Castle-Dunningtone, cum membris in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

245. Harley MS 569

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 569
Title:
Traveis’s law entries
Scope & Content:
Notebook of Henry Traveis, with entries at each end of the volume. ff. 1-93: ‘The Note of Entries of Henry Traveis Gent. One of the Clerkes of Samuell Wightwicke Esq; Chiefe Clerke etc of Mich[aelmas]Terme 1653’. Entries from Michaelmas Term 1653 to the first year of the reign of Queen Anne (170...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1653-1702
Extent:
1 volume

246. Harley MS 570

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 570
Title:
John Norden, Speculum Britannae
Scope & Content:
A draft autograph manuscript, first published in 1593, with significant alterations, as Speculum Britanniae. The first parte an historicall, & chorographicall discription of Middlesex. This was the beginning of a projected series of county maps of England that was never completed. This manu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1591-1593
Extent:
1 volume

247. Harley MS 573

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 573
Title:
Sir John Davies, Nosce teipsum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-51v: Sir John Davies (b. 1569, d. 1626), Nosce teipsum; dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1598-1599
Extent:
1 volume

248. Harley MS 575

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 575
Title:
Statutes of the English Congregation of St Benedict
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-75r: Statutes of the English Congregation of St Benedict written in Latin, with an index (ff. 74v-75r); imperfect at the beginning. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: A title-page, ‘A Canon Law Manuscript’; added in the 17th century. ff. 1*v-2*verso:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

249. Harley MS 578

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 578
Title:
William Smith, Arms of Smith families in England and Germany
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-13v: William Smith (b. c. 1550, d. 1618), Arms of Smith families in England and Germany. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. [i]verso: A letter concerning an identical manuscript owned by Augustus W. Franks, dated 27 February 1889. f. [ii]recto: A title-page...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

250. Harley MS 580

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 580
Title:
Henrik Jansen Van Barrefelt [Hiël], A Short Instruction according to the Being
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-50r: Henrik Jansen Van Barrefelt [Hiël] (b. c. 1520, d. c. 1594), ‘A Short Instruction according to the Being By Hiel’; beginning ‘Loving disciples of the uniforme Spirit of Christ; I Hiel have by the helpe Command and mind of god; pointed out the true uniforme Spirit of Chris...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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