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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 486
Title:: English miscellany of historical papers; an alchemical poem; copies from testaments; rentals; a tract on fasting; notes of a sermon
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1v: Ex Fastis Idatianis ab exordio Neronis usque ad Aurelianum. ff. 2r-10v: Descriptio consulum ex quo primum ordinati sunt; followed by another list of Roman consuls ‘Ex Fastis Idatij’. ff. 11r-15r: Historical notes about England, partially in the hand of John Stow, beginning ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: first quarter of the 16th century-first quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 690
Title:: Chronicle of London; The Discourse of John Selden Esquire Or his Sence of Various matters Of weight and high Consequence Relating Especially to Religion and State
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-179v: Chronicle of London [‘Ex Codice MSo in archivis Civitatis Londonensis’]. ff. 180r-276r: The Discourse of John Selden Esquire Or his Sence of Various matters Of weight and high Consequence Relating Especially to Religion and State. ff. 277r-280v: A table of contents.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 850
Title:: John Hoskyns, Directions for Speech and Style (first part); Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes; Peter Heylin, A Summers Journey into France and Observations on it
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-10v: John Hoskyns, Directions for Speech and Style; first part of the work, imperfect at the end. f. 10v: Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes. ff. 11r-83r: Peter Heylin, A Summers Journey into France and Observations on it; imperfect. The manuscript contains several additions: f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2319
Title:: Mrs. Babylon's Looking-glass: or, a Brief Description of the Doings in Satan's Synagogue, otherwise called the Church of England, who is mounted upon the Beasts, and agoing with Speed in the Wide Way of Destruction
Scope & Content:: This manuscript was recorded missing in 1824. The contents according to the printed Harley catalogue (1808) were as follows: 'A thin Book in 8vo. seeming to have been copied, incorrectly enough, by some Lawyers Clerk, toward the end of King Charles the seconds Reign. It is entituled, "Mrs. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 944
Title:: Notebook of Richard Symonds containing movements of the royal army, August 1645 – February following, and church notes
Scope & Content:: Notebook of Richard Symonds written while accompanying the King and the royal army from 17 August 1745 to 11 February. Symonds notes the progress of the army and principal events. Title page: ‘A Continuation of the Marchings and Actions of the Royall Army, his Ma[jes]tie being personally prese...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Aug 1645-Feb 1646
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1651
Title:: Thomas Busshe, ledger book for expenses made for the construction of Sandgate Castle by Henry VIII (Volume 2)
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A Latin inscription on a strip of parchment: ‘thes vi bookes be truly examined’. f. 1r: A Latin inscription: ‘Castrum domini Regis de Sandegate’. f. 1r: A title inscription on a parchment fragment: ‘The .xth. the .xith. xiith. xiiith. xiiiith. xvth. xvith. xviith. xviiith. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1540-1541
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 472
Title:: A collection of arms and mottoes of companies and corporations of London; a fragment from a Book of Hours
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of arms and mottoes of companies and corporations of London, made in England in the 16th century. It includes two leaves from a Book of Hours dating from the 1st quarter of the 15th century which have been re-used as flyleaves. Contents: ff. 1*r-v: A fra...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century-16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6697
Title:: Survey of the manors, lands and tenements of Edmund Tirrell, lord of the manor of Beaches in Rawreth, Essex
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-27r: Survey of the manors, lands and tenements of Edmund Tirrell [Tyrell] (b. c. 1510, d. 1576), lord of the manor of Beaches [Beches] in Rawreth, Essex, made by Israel Amyce [Ames] in 1597, entitled: 'The survaye of all and singular the Manors, Landes, Tenementes (and other H...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1597
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2027
Title:: Randle Holme III, draft drawings and notes for his 'The Academy of Armory'
Scope & Content:: A volume of notes and pen and pencil drawings by Randle Holme III, executed in preparation for his book 'The Academy of Armory' (Chester, 1688). At the beginning of the volume (f. 2v) is a note by Holme introducing the volume as 'This book was my second collection and draughts for the Academy of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1650-1680
Extent:: 1 volume

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

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