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481. Egerton MS 3052

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3052
Title:
Roll of New Year's Gifts given and received by Queen Elizabeth I at Westminster, 1 Jan 1584
Scope & Content:
Roll of New Year's Gifts given and received by Queen Elizabeth I at Westminster, 1 Jan, 26 Elizabeth I (1584). The recto contains a list of donors, grouped in order of precedence, with a description of the gifts made by each and a note as to their disposal, the total of money received being gi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1584
Extent:
1 roll

482. Egerton MS 3320

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3320
Title:
Drawings of Queen Elizabeth I's coronation
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–24r: Drawings of Elizabeth I's coronation, 14–15 January 1559, possibly an incomplete draft of the Book of Ceremonies for it. ff. 1r–11v: Diagrammatic drawings of the procession from the Tower of London through the City to Westminster, Saturday 14 January 1559, the day preceding the Coro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

483. Egerton MS 3767

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3767
Title:
TREBLE PART-BOOK containing twenty-one services by twelve English composers, and, reversing the volume, fifty-four anthems by twenty-three of the same (words only of that on ff. 136b-136 rev.,); 16th-18th cent. Copies, early 18th cent. Indexes of services at ff. 2-2b, and of anthems at ff. 174b-173b rev. A connection with Chichester Cathedral is suggested by the binding and by the inclusion of four services and six anthems by Thomas Kelway (d. 1749), organist of Chichester Cathedral 1733, an...
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 4-8, 140-138 (rev.), 156-155b (rev.) Henry Purcell, composer and organist: Service and anthems: 17th cent: Copies, early 18th cent.ff. 8b-15, 86-91, 130-129 (rev.), 143b-143 (rev.), 159-157 (rev.), 162b-161 (rev.) John Blow, composer and organist: Services and anthems: 17th ce...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

484. Harley Ch 83 H 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ch 83 H 1
Title:
Westminster Tournament Challenge
Scope & Content:
Contents: The Westminster Tournament Challenge, an invitation to the Westminster Tournament, the joust held in honour of the birth of a son, Prince Henry, to Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547) and Catherine of Aragon (b. 1485, d. 1536) on New Year's Day, 1511. The document concludes with the signatur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1511
Extent:
1 leaf

485. Harley MS 24

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 24
Title:
Prose Brut
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r–218v: Prose Brut (Chronicle of England; extended version to 1419, in the reign of Henry V (r. 1413–22)). For an edition of the work see The Brut or the Chronicles of England, 2 vols, ed. Friedrich W.D. Brie, Early English Text Society, 131 and 136 (Oxford: 1906–8); contains tex...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

486. Harley MS 41

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 41
Title:
Description of royal ceremonies and related accounts, during the reigns of Edward IV, Richard III, Henry VII and Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
f. 1r: The names of the knights of the Bayn [i.e. Bath] made at the creation of Thomas Grey as Lord Marquis of Dorset in 1475. ff. 2r–11v: The receiving, conveying and coronation of Anne Boleyn. f. 12r: A sketch of the seating plan at Anne Boleyn's coronation. Anne is depicted wearing a closed...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

487. Harley MS 69

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 69
Title:
The booke of certaine triumphes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-63v: A large collection of tracts, letters, and notes in English and French concerning court affairs and entertainment, jousting and the bearing of coats of arms, known as ‘The booke of certaine triumphes’. Decoration: Full-, half-, and quarter-page drawings of knights joust...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

488. Harley MS 71

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 71
Title:
A survey of all royal manors, honours, castles, lordships, tenements and other hereditaments in the counties of Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Warwickshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-80r: William Homberton (‘Esquire surveyor of the possessions’) and John Harwar (‘deputie receyvour’), survey of all royal manors, honours, castles, lordships, tenements and other hereditaments in the counties of Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Warwickshire; writte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1558-1559
Extent:
1 volume

489. Harley MS 73

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 73
Title:
‘The Journals of all the Parliaments during the raigne of Queene Elizabeth, both of the Upper Howse & Howse of Commons in three volumes, A.D. 1630’. Volume 1
Scope & Content:
Journals of Parliaments during the reign of Elizabeth I, 1558-1601, compiled from original sources by Sir Simonds D’Ewes. First volume, including preface and tables for all three volumes, as well as the journals for 1558-1571. f. 1: Parchment title page, bearing 16 coats of arms of the D'Ewes a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1630
Extent:
1 volume

490. Harley MS 74

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 74
Title:
‘The Journals of all the Parliaments during the raigne of Queene Elizabeth, both of the Upper Howse & Howse of Commons in three volumes, A.D. 1630’. Volume 2
Scope & Content:
Journals of Parliaments during the reign of Elizabeth I, 1558-1601, compiled from original sources by Sir Simonds D’Ewes. Volume 2 includes the journals for 1572-1589.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1630
Extent:
1 volume

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