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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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 599
Title:: An inventory of Cardinal Wolsey’s household goods
Scope & Content:: A manuscript, in folio, titled ‘An Inventorie of Cardinall Woolsie’s rich Househould stuffe. Temp H. 8. The Originall Booke as it seems, Kept by his owne Officers’. This may be one of the books which, at the time of Cardinal Wolsey’s fall [1530], contained an inventory of all his goods. After 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1527-1530
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 600
Title:: Account book from the time of Henry VIII
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-19r: A treatise entitled ‘Therreccion of the Courte of Thaugmentations and Revenuez of the kings majesties Crowne’; dated to 1546. ff. 20r-48r: Declaratio brevis omnium et singulorum Feodorum Collectorum ac Aliorum; ff. 47r-47v contains additions made in the 16th century. D...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1546
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 603/1
Title:: Detached former binding of Harley MS 603
Scope & Content:: Detached former leather 19th century half-bound binding with three flyleaves, previously attached to Harley MS 603 (the 'Harley Psalter') and now stored separately.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Detached former leather binding

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 604
Title:: A collection of tracts and papers relating to the monasteries, chantries, and other religious institutions from before and after the Dissolution of the Monasteries
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-279r: A collection of tracts and papers relating to the monasteries, chantries, and other religious institutions from before and after the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1489-c 1650
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 605
Title:: Transcripts of surveys of the properties of guilds, colleges and chantries granted to Edward VI
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-84r: Transcripts of surveys of the properties of guilds, colleges and chantries granted to Edward VI.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1550
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 606
Title:: The proceedings of a royal commission in the sale of royal estates
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-151v: The proceedings of a royal commission in the sale of royal estates, followed by an incomplete index of the estates (ff. 152v-153r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1555-1557
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 607
Title:: The second of two volumes from the Court of Augmentations and the Augmentation Office, containing certificates concerning the value of lands sold by Mary and Philip during the 3rd and 4th years of their reign
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A parchment strip with the title: ‘Liber secundus de lez Rates’; a second parchment strip with a Latin inscription: ‘[...] lave p[ar]cell[e] de de [sic] Scyton’] f. 2v: An alphabetical index of counties included in this manuscript. ff. 3r-191r: The second of two volumes from...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1555-1557
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 608
Title:: Certificates from the Court of Augmentations and the Augmentation Office concerning the value of lands sold by Mary and Philip during the 4th and 5th years of their reign
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*r: An alphabetical table of counties included in this manuscript. ff. 2*recto-3*verso, An introduction with ‘Instruccions gyven by the kinge and Quenes Majesties unto their trustie and right welbelovyd counsaillours’. ff. 1r-97v: Certificates from the Court of Augmentations a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1558-1559
Extent:: 1 volume

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