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1091. Harley MS 308

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 308
Title:
‘Reeve’ or ‘Melford’ Register of Bury St Edmunds Abbey
Scope & Content:
f. 1*: Inserted slip of parchment, perhaps from a former cover; on the verso in faint red 16th-century book-hand, ‘Dompnus Edmundus Bury vestiarius – 1529; dompnus Edmundus Bury pitanciarius. 1530’. ff. 1r–139r: Indentures (1527–40), in chronological order. Later additions to 1546: leases, manu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1517-1546
Extent:

1 volume

1092. Harley MS 379

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 379
Title:
Correspondence of Simonds D’Ewes with family and friends, 1615-1647
Scope & Content:
Correspondence between Simonds D'Ewes and his family and close friends, including a few letters written by them to others. Includes correspondence with his first and second wives, Anne (1613-1641) and Elizabeth (d. 1656), and his brother Richard who died at the Siege of Reading in 1642/3. The le...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1615-1647
Extent:
1 volume

1093. Harley MS 2372

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2372
Title:
A Mirror for Recluses
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an imperfect copy of A Mirror for Recluses, a Middle English translation of the Speculum inclusorum, an early 15th-century rule or guide for male anchorites. A complete copy of the text (the only other in existence) survives in a manuscript sold at Christie's, London, 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

1094. Harley MS 4785

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4785
Title:
Rental of Tandridge Priory
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–21v: Transcriptions from a rental created in 1451 (f. 1r), when John Hammond was prior. Includes rentals and court-rolls concerning rents of assize and farm rents in Tandridge. ff. 22r–38v: Copies of documents relating to Tandridge Hall and manors in Surrey, to the time of James I.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:

Paper codex

1095. Harley MS 4786

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4786
Title:
Charters relating to Tandridge
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–8v: Copies of royal letters patent relating to the former lands of Tandridge Priory, from the time of Henry VIII–Elizabeth I. ff. 9r–11r: ‘Copyes of deedes belonging to Turner, that marryed Elizabeth Cantler of his Lands in Tandridge bordering upon my Farme of Jewells, & the Lords la...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:

Paper codex

1096. Harley MS 3696

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3696
Title:
Survey of Bromfield and Yale by John Norden
Scope & Content:
Survey of the lordship of Bromfield and Yale, Denbighshire, by John Norden, for Charles, Prince of Wales, 1620. Includes a drawing and plan of Holt Castle, and other maps and plans. Most of the individual manor surveys are preceded by a name index. ff. 1-2: Letter from Thomas Bowen to Mr Willia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1620
Extent:
1 volume

1097. Harley MS 3709

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3709
Title:
Peter of Blois, Epistolarum collectio
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-135r: Peter of Blois, Epistolarum collectio. The manuscript contains several later additions: ff. 111v-112v: An index of theological subjects added by an early 16th-century hand that also made marginal annotations throughout the manuscript. ff. 113r-116v: A (?) list of cont...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

1098. Harley MS 157

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 157
Title:
Queen Anne of Denmark's Household Book
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript, with this title, inscribed on folio 3: 'A Declaration, or a most plaine & undoubted Cours, in what honorable manner the most Excellent, High-borne Queen Ann[e] Queen of Great Britaine etc. may mayntayne & keepe a most Royall-bountifull Howse for one whole Yeare; Her Maj...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1613
Extent:
1 volume

1099. Harley MS 4899

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4899
Title:
Flute sonatas, songs, liturgical and instrumental music
Scope & Content:
ff. 1, 13. Sonatas for 2 Flutes. Single parts.1-6. Six, in three, four, and five movements (Adagio, Allegro, Poco largo, Presto, Vivace, Grave). 'Rafaello Cortevil,' London, 1686. ff. 1-3b.7-9. Three, in three, four, and five movements (Adagio, Allegro, etc.); with a bass. '[? Gottfried] Keller....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1697
Extent:
1 volume

1100. Harley MS 419

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 419
Title:
A volume of treatises and letters on theological matters belonging to the martyrologist John Foxe
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-179r: A volume of treatises and letters on theological matters belonging to the martyrologist John Foxe, including 16th-century letters to Cardinal Wolsey and King Henry VIII. The manuscript also features some early materials, including: a chronicle of England going up to 133...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1350-c 1680
Extent:
1 volume

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