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581. Harley MS 6253

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6253
Title:
Nicholas Harpsfield's Life of Sir Thomas More
Scope & Content:
Harpsfield's Life of More was written during Queen Mary I's reign and dedicated to More's son-in-law William Roper, who supplied him with notes. The dedication is signed N. H: L: D. (Nicholas Harpsfield, f. 5*v). ff. 2*v–109r: 'The life and death of Sir Thomas Moore knight, sometymes Lord high ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

582. Harley MS 6345

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6345
Title:
Copybook of Cardinal Wolsey's letters
Scope & Content:
ff. 1*r–216v: A copybook of Cardinal Wolsey's letters. It also includes a copy of Princess Mary's confession (ff. 211r–v) along with unrelated material from the 17th century. f. 1*r: Note about Lady De La Warr's ownership of the volume, with the original ownership note pasted on. f. 5*v: The b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1627
Extent:
1 volume

583. Harley MS 6355

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6355
Title:
Leaves from a 14th-century missal; a treatise on making gunpowder and the use of cannons and mortars
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Leaves from a 14th-century missal or other liturgical manuscript, with music notation. ff. 5r-24v: A treatise on making gunpowder and the use of cannons and mortars, with illustrations of weapons and tables; written in the 16th century. The manuscript contains a later a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-16th century
Extent:
1 volume

584. Harley MS 6360

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6360
Title:
Astrological texts; texts on high treason
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two separate parts. The first part (ff. 3r-31r) contains astrological texts copied in the 16th century; the second part (ff. 4r-133r) contains texts concerning high treason that were most likely copied in the late 16th century. Contents: ff. 3r-8v: Astrol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

585. Harley MS 6368

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6368
Title:
John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, 'A Treatise towchinge the Right title & intrest of the Most excellent princesse Marie, Queene of Scottland, & of the most Noble Kinge James, her graces sonn to the Succession of the Crowne of England'
Scope & Content:
John Leslie [Lesley] (1527-1596), Bishop of Ross, was the leading polemicist of the right of Mary Queen of Scots to the English throne. His arguments were made in a number of printed versions in English, Latin, French and Spanish, and also survive in significant numbers of manuscript copies. The...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1584
Extent:
1 volume

586. Harley MS 6369

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6369
Title:
William Davison on the execution of Mary Queen of Scots
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–10r: A late 16th or early 17th-century copy of William Davison's declaration to Francis Walsingham concerning the beheading of Mary Queen of Scots. f. 1r: title page ('Secretarie Davisons declar[ation] to Secretarie Walsingham of his innocencie touching the Skotish Queene beheadinge'). ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

587. Harley MS 6391

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6391
Title:
A Relation of Prince Henryes noble and vertuous Disposition
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8v: An anonymous author's account of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), entitled: ‘A Relation of Prince Henryes noble and vertuous Disposition and of Sundry his wittie and pleasant Speeches diverted to the right honourable the Lord Lumley and his Lady’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1605
Extent:
1 volume

588. Harley MS 6561

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6561
Title:
George Boleyn, translation of Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples’s Epistres et Evangiles des cinquante et deux sepmaines de l'an, made for his sister Anne Boleyn
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-202v: Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (b. c. 1450, d. 1536), Epistres et Evangiles des cinquante et deux sepmaines de l'an [Epistles and Gospels for the Fifty-two Weeks of the Year], translated into English and French by George Boleyn (b. c. 1504, d. 1536), Viscount Rochford, for his...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1532-1533
Extent:
1 volume

589. Harley MS 6635

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6635
Title:
Poem on King James VI and I’s right of succession
Scope & Content:
A decorative presentation copy of an anonymous English poem on the right of succession of King James VI and I. With a prose dedicatory address signed ‘A.H. Boreabritannus’. The poem was originally composed in 1595; this copy dates from 'manye yeares' later (f. 2v). ff. 1r-5r Dedicatory address...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1595
Extent:
1 volume.

590. Harley MS 6896

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6896
Title:
An account of the life and death of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester
Scope & Content:
f. 1r: 'A treatise contayninge the maner of lyfe and death of the most holy prelate and constant martir of Christ John Fisher Bishop of Rochester and Cardinall of the holye Church of Rome.' A copy of a life of John Fisher written during the reign of Mary I. An edition was published in 1921, usi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

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