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141. Harley MS 1327

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1327
Title:
Petitions, political speeches and tracts
Scope & Content:
State letters, tracts, speeches, etc. largely in the hand of Walter Bilmor (or Belmore), steward to Dame Jacoba Van Loor, widow of Peter Van Loor. Includes copies of petitions to the King, parliamentary speeches, biographical notes and speeches etc. Contents: f. 1: Notes, including a copy of J...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

142. Harley MS 1332

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1332
Title:
Appointment of Commissioners for Ireland
Scope & Content:
Commission of King Charles 14 April 1642, constituting Algernon Percy Earl of Northumberland, Robert Devereux Earl of Essex, Philip Herbert Earl of Pembroke, Henry Rich Earl of Holland, William Fiennes Viscount Say and Sele, Edward Lord Kimbolton, John Lord Roberts, Denzil Hollis, Sir Robert Har...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1642
Extent:
1 volume

143. Harley MS 1983

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1983
Title:
Shropshire pedigrees with painted arms
Scope & Content:
Heraldic manuscript volume showing painted arm and pedigrees of Shropshire families, with some church notes and extracts from family deeds. Appears to have been taken from a visitation book, pre-dating the visitation of 1623. Continuations and fresh pedigrees added in the hand of Richard Mundy o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

144. Harley MS 2269

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2269
Title:
Astrological compendium
Scope & Content:
An astronomical compendium with horoscopes and texts relating to the practice of medicine. The manuscript includes: 1. Astrological compendium attributed to 'Frater Rogerius Bacon' (ff. 1r-8r); 2. Astrological diagrams and notes (ff. 8v-10r); 3. Two astrological notes about the moon and the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

145. Harley MS 443

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 443
Title:
English law treatises
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-9v: A report of Shelley’s Case by Edward Coke, with a letter to Sir Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, dated 2 January 1581. ff. 10r-81v: A law commonplace book. ff. 82r-86v: A law treatise concerning copyhold cases. ff. 87r-85v: An index of subjects for the preceding...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

146. Harley MS 1807

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1807
Title:
Statutes of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-11v: 'Lez Tenures'. f. 12r: 'Kalendare Curia Baronis'. ff. 12v-33v: 'Curia Baronis'; written in Anglo-Norman. ff. 34r-36r: 'Kalendare de Natura Brevium' and 'Kalendare de Brevibus Judicialibus'. ff. 36v-105r: 'Natura Brevium'; written in Anglo-Norman. ff. 106r-121v: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

147. Harley MS 2013

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2013
Title:
The Chester Cycle
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: William Newall, Clerk of Chester, Proclamation for Whitsone Playes (1531/2); claiming that the Chester cycle was written by 'Sir Henry Frances sometyme Mooncke there'. ff. 1r-3v: The Banns (‘The Banes which are Reade Bee Fore The Beginninge of the playes of Chester 1600’...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1600
Extent:
1 volume

148. Harley MS 2335

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2335
Title:
The Pore Caitif
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-105v: The Pore Caitif (a popular 14th-century compilation of 14 treatises intended for the religious instruction of the laity). The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: A list of payments: 'Receved of Robert [?] Harman - iis 4d / Due to me from Frances - 3s ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

149. Harley MS 3865

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3865
Title:
Robert Henryson, Fables
Scope & Content:
A series of 13 verse fables with moralisations, and two prologues, containing altogether 2968 lines, arranged in 416 seven-line stanzas and 7 eight-line stanzas. The author, Robert Henryson, is thought to have composed this text during the 1470s (Ward, Catalogue of Romances (1893), II, 354), usi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1571
Extent:
1 volume

150. Harley MS 5036

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5036
Title:
Prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of a prayer-book (ff. 1r-22r) that may have been written in the late 15th or early 16th century, with later additions in the first half of the 16th century (ff. 22r-28r), and second half of the 16th century (ff. 28v-43v). The contents of the latter part suggest...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1475-c 1590
Extent:
1 volume

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