Language: English / Digitised Content Platform: BL legacy Universal Viewer (unavailable) - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1760
Title:: A large collection of letters written and signed by English kings and queens, and letters addressed to them by rulers in other countries
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-145v: A large collection of copies of and original letters, written and signed by English kings and queens, including Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I, and Charles II, and kings, queens, princes, dukes, duchesses, landgraves and marquesses from abroad. The latter include (among...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1596-1729
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1927
Title:: Poems by the Chester arms-painters Thomas Chaloner and Randle Holme
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-53v: A collection of English poems and Latin sayings by Thomas Chaloner (d. 1598), dated to 1575-1577. ff. 54r-120v: A collection of English poems and notes by Randle Holme I (b. 1570/71, d. 1655), dated to 1616-1638. One poem on ff. 60v-61r (‘The Songe called the Buttned smo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1575-1638
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2013
Title:: The Chester Cycle
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: William Newall, Clerk of Chester, Proclamation for Whitsone Playes (1531/2); claiming that the Chester cycle was written by 'Sir Henry Frances sometyme Mooncke there'. ff. 1r-3v: The Banns (‘The Banes which are Reade Bee Fore The Beginninge of the playes of Chester 1600’...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2160
Title:: Arraignment and execution of Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex
Scope & Content:: A collection of material relating to the arraignment and execution of Robert Devereux, second earl of Essex, soldier and politician (1565–1601). f. 1*, f. 13: Flyleaves: a 16th-century legal document concerning the lease of the manor of Poulton, and other lands, in Chester. ff. 1r-10v: Accoun...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2284
Title:: Account book of the Great Wardrobe from the reign of Henry VIII (8-12 Henery VIII)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*recto-53r: An account book of the Great Wardrobe from the 8th to the 12th years of the reign of King Henry VIII, with a title inscription on a parchment leaf (f. 1*recto): ‘The boke of Delyveraunce and Discharge of the kinges standyng warderobe of his Robes within the towre of L...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1516-1521
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2303
Title:: The Prevarication of Holy Church Libertyes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-3r: Henry Tichborne, dedication to King James II, beginning: ‘To the Kings most Excellent Majestie These Humbly Presented: The Virtues of your most Illustrious Ancestors have in all Ages since Christianity inlightned our Horizon, and been the Glory of so many Princes as have de...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2308
Title:: Accounts of the coronation of Edward VI and his reign
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-120r: A treatise on ‘The Maner of Coronation of Kinge Edward the Sixth’; followed by abstracts of entries in the Council book of King Edward VI from the beginning of his reign to 6 February 1549-50.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2427
Title:: Psalms. Psalms and Proverbs in English, Latin, Hebrew and Greek in 4 columns on each page
Scope & Content:: Language : Hebrew The Psalms in Hebrew, unpunctuated and accompanied by Greek and Latin translation. Tehilim. תהילים Note: Contains a fragment of Proverbs, 20:14-30:33. Main text in Hebrew with vowel-points and accents, accompanied with a parallel Septuagint and a Latin version. The Psalms h...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Ancient, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:: 1600-1799
Extent:: 161 folios (ii+161+iii)

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3437
Title:: William Teshe, Poem on the Order of the Garter for Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: Contents: William Teshe, Verses on the Mottoes of the Queen, sixteen of the Knights and the Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, 1582 [presentation copy for Queen Elizabeth I]. Decoration: Coats of arms of the members, in colours and gold surrounded by the garter and combined with the Lat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1582
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3444
Title:: Miles Huggarde, ‘A treatise declaring howe Christ…was banished out of this realme’
Scope & Content:: Treatise by Miles Huggarde (fl. 1533–1557), poet and religious polemicist. Titled ‘A treatise declaring howe Christ by perverse preachyng was banished out of this realme, and howe it hath pleased God to bryng Christ home againe by Mary our moost gracious Quene’. With a dedicatory verse epistle ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: July 1553-July 1554
Extent:: 1 volume

Search