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2. 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
3. Harley MS 542
- 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
4. Harley MS 194
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 194
- Title:
- The Chronicle of Queen Jane
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-93r: A pocket diary known as the 'Chronicle of Queen Jane', covering the period July 1553-1554, here entitled ‘An Annale of Queene Marie her Raigne or a great part of it ab Anonym[ous]’. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. [vi]recto: A note on the manuscript by Sir...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1553-1554
- Extent:
- 1 volume
5. 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
6. 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
7. Harley MS 134
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 134
- Title:
- Itinerary of the commissioners to Flanders, 1587-1588
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-41r: Itinerary of the commissioners to Flanders, 1587-1588, beginning: ‘An Ephemeris or Diarie, conteining the Itinerarie of our Lords Commissioners sent by hir Majestie into Flaunders to treate with the King of Spayne his Comissioners about a Peaux for maintaining the ould and...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
8. Harley MS 2303
- 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
9. Harley MS 7647
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7647
- Title:
- Catalogues of Cotton charters
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 2r-12v: A copy of a Latin catalogue of Cotton charters made by Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726) in 1703. ff. 13r-52r: A copy of an English catalogue of Cotton charters made by Richard Widmore (bap. 1681, d. 1764) after 1750 [according to a note by Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1703-2nd half of the 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
10. Harley MS 1703
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1703
- Title:
- William Forrest, Poems
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-3v: A ‘Prologe in the warke followinge’. ff. 3v-22v: A ‘Treatyse uppon the Salutation of the moste gloryous virgyn Marye, and that all praysinges that eaver hathe beene saide of her (After the sayinge of saincte Augustyne) are farre Insuffycient to her worthynes, and honoure:...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1572
- Extent:
- 1 volume