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1051. Harley MS 6882

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6882
Title:
Geographical description of the four parts of the world and of the state and trade of the countries therein; prophecies of Paul Grebner
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a description of the world in English and an account of the prophecies of Paul Grebner (fl. b. c. 1563, d. 1582) that were most likely written between c. 1625 and c. 1650. The manuscript also includes a late Elizabethan indenture that has been folded and added to create ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1625-c 1650
Extent:
1 volume

1052. Harley MS 1065

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1065
Title:
On the offices of Lord Steward, Lord High Constable, and Earl Marshall, and their jurisdictions; and a collection of extracts from records in the Tower of London 1323-1327
Scope & Content:
Composite volume of antiquarian tracts in several professional hands, belonging to John Anstis (1669-1744), Garter King of Arms. In two main parts. f. 1*: Dedication from John Anstis to Robert Harley. Latin. Part 1 (ff. 1-90). Collected extracts on the office of Lord Steward, Lord High Consta...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

1053. Harley MS 6700

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6700
Title:
Copies of the Book of Knights’ Fees of Leicestershire; catalogue of the market and fair towns; Spiritual Receipts and Escheators and Inquisitors of Leicestershire
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-17r: ‘Computus Johannis Saunderstedd, vicecomitis Leicestrensis, Philippi Polwill, et Willielmi Nevill de Rearefbie, collectorum rationabilis auxilii in comitatu praedicto, domino regi Edwardo tertio concessi ad primogenitum filium suum militem faciendum, anno regni ejusdem reg...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1601
Extent:
1 volume

1054. Harley MS 1226

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1226
Title:
Treatise concerning the court of the Star Chamber
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume containing a treatise written by William Hudson of Gray's Inn, in the hand of his son Christopher Hudson, concerning the court of the Star Chamber. The treatise is divided into three parts: Concerning the court itself i.e. the judges, officers and ministers. Concerning t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1621-1635
Extent:
1 volume

1055. Harley MS 7505

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7505
Title:
Humfrey Wanley, Facsimile copies of charters and inscriptions
Scope & Content:
f. 1v: Alphabet by Wanley, imitating two biblical fragments (which originally followed the page, according to his note, but are no longer present). f. 2r–v: Charters copied by Wanley in facsimile of the originals. ff. 3r–8v: Inventory of goods (including some books), 1464, of the Collegiate Ch...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1689-1691
Extent:

Parchment codex

1056. Harley MS 1270

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1270
Title:
Mostly Italian Songs, suspected from Operas, in score, by various composers, including: Aleso Scarlatti, Bero Pasquini, Filippo Colonnesi, Giacomo Charissimi, Henry Purcell
Scope & Content:
The MS is said by Humphrey Wanley to be 'written partly by Mr. Bernard Martin Berenclow, and partly by Doctor Berenclow, his father.' It also contains songs from Operas and Guitar Instructions. passim. 'Ariette Italiane ' for a soprano voice, with a bass (frequently figured) for harpsichord, in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
17th century - 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (57 folios)

1057. Harley MS 1949

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1949
Title:
A collection of medical recipes in Welsh, and a genealogy of British kings and princes in English
Scope & Content:
Two manuscripts in the same hand. Outer folios ff. 1-2 and 39-40 (probably former wrappers), are constructed from manuscript waste. ff. 4-31: A collection of medicinal recipes, in Welsh. Section ff. 22-24 includes drawings of urns or apothecary jars. At the end of the manuscript the writer’s na...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Welsh
Date Range:
1604
Extent:
1 volume

1058. Harley MS 6883

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6883
Title:
'The States of Poland's Letter', concerning the election of Sigismund III Vasa as King of Poland
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-19v: 'The States of Polands Letter, written and directed by them, to all Princes Christian, containing both the Election of their modern Prince King Sigismund the 3. and also all their present State; at the day of the date herof, being the xijth of October anno 1587 [Krakow]'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1587
Extent:
1 volume

1059. Harley MS 7168

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7168
Title:
'Jus Regis et Regni'. 39 texts on various rights and powers of the Monarch and of Parliament.
Scope & Content:
List of contents on folios 3-4. This has previously been identified as a continuation of William Petyt's 'Jus Parliamentarium' (Harley MS 7165-7167). However, these texts do not appear in the published volumes of Petyt's 'Jus Parliamentarium' (1739). Manuscript in two different hands.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume

1060. Harley MS 1041

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1041
Title:
Copies of the Visitation Books of Gloucestershire of 1583 and 1623, and other pedigrees and documents relating to Gloucestershire
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Letter of King Edward II, followed by a description of the hundreds of Gloucester. ff. 7r-8v: 'A pedegree of all the severall houses whereof Sir William Wynter knight is lineally descended made by Clarenceux Cooke 30 April Anno 1589'. ff. 9v-11r: A pedigree of the Poynt...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1623
Extent:
1 volume

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