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571. Harley MS 4898

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4898
Title:
Inventory of goods owned by King Charles I, sold 1649-1652
Scope & Content:
Inventory of household goods, jewels, plate, and paintings owned by King Charles I and sold by order of the State between 1649 and 1652. With descriptions of items, places, valuations, and buyers. 18th century copy. f. 1r Title page: ‘An Inventory of The Household Goods, Jewells Plate &c, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume.

572. Harley MS 4943

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4943
Title:
Orders of the Privy Council, 1570-1580
Scope & Content:
Copies of orders of the Privy Council, principally between 1570 and 1580. Mainly letters from Elizabeth I (1533–1603), queen of England and Ireland. f. 1*r: Flyleaf containing pen-trials, notes in Latin and English, and two names: ‘Xtopher Troughton Julij 1624’; ‘Edw: Pynchon’. ff. 1r-14v: Two...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1570-1580
Extent:
1 volume

573. Harley MS 4955

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4955
Title:
Verse compilation (‘The Newcastle MS’)
Scope & Content:
Collection of poetry and drama compiled by William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1592-1676), between 1620 and 1634. In the hand of Cavendish’s secretary John Rolleston (1597?-1681) (Kelliher, ‘Donne, Jonson, Richard Andrews and the Newcastle Manuscript’, 1993). Contains poems and entertainm...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1620-1634
Extent:
1 volume

574. Harley MS 5008

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5008
Title:
The first of two volumes of copies of letters to and from the Privy Council
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title inscribed on parchment: ‘Copies of the Counsailes Letters – August 1550’. ff. 2r-195r: The first of two volumes of copies of letters to and from the Privy Council, mainly from France and Italy relating to state affairs: volume 1 covers the years 1550-1553. f. 196v: A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1550-1553
Extent:
1 volume

575. Harley MS 5009

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5009
Title:
The second of two volumes of copies of letters to and from the Privy Council
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title inscribed on a parchment pastedown: 'The Copies of the Quenes maiesties, and Her Counsailes lettres October 1553'. ff. 2r-197r: The second of two volumes of copies of letters to and from the Privy Council, mainly from France and Italy relating to state affairs: volume...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1553-1556
Extent:
1 volume

576. Harley MS 5110

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5110
Title:
Composite volume of miscellaneous verse, drama and orations
Scope & Content:
A composite volume of miscellaneous verse, drama, orations and other texts in various hands. Cited in the Index of English Literary Manuscripts as the 'Harley Satires MS'. ff. 1r–3v: A Latin oration given at Merton College, Oxford, entitled ‘In collegio Merton Oxon. […], 16 October 1725. ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

577. Harley MS 5680

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5680
Title:
Avicenna's Kanon.
Scope & Content:
Language: Hebrew Medical work. Author: Avicenna, 980-1037 (אבן סינא, אלחסין בן עבדאללה, 980-1037) Ḳanon. קאנון Note: A copy of Books 3 and 5 of the Canon Medicinae by Ibn Sina, Abú 'Ali Al-Husain ibn 'Abd Allah (d. 1037), known in the West as Avicenna, in the Hebrew translation composed in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Hebrew
Date Range:
1450-1499
Extent:
213 folios

578. Harley MS 6018

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6018
Title:
A catalogue of the manuscripts and printed books of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-146r: A catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631): ‘Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca Roberti Cottoni - 1621’. The heading and a number of later entries are in the hand of Robert Cotton (see Tite, The Early Records...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1621-1653
Extent:
1 volume

579. Harley MS 6035

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6035
Title:
Journal of Sir Francis Walsingham's office, 1583-1585
Scope & Content:
Journal or memorandum book of Sir Francis Walsingham, principal secretary of state (c. 1532-1590). In the hands of Sir Francis Walsingham, Francis Mylles, Thomas Lake, Robert Beale, and others. f. i: Parchment fragment: ‘A leiger took out of the Secretaries office 1583’. ff. 1r-118v: Daily mem...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1583-1585
Extent:
1 volume

580. Harley MS 6057

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6057
Title:
Verse miscellany compiled by Thomas Crosse
Scope & Content:
A quarto verse miscellany in various hands. Compiled mainly by Thomas Crosse in the 1630s, whose name appears in a poem, ‘An Acrostick upon my name’, at f. 1r. Later additions at ff. 63r-65r are dated 1677-1681. Contents include: f. 1*r: An acrostic poem on the name ‘Edward’ [deleted]. f. 1r: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1630-c 1681
Extent:
1 volume

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