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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1161
Title:: Pedigrees of Shropshire
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-21r: Pedigrees of Shropshire, copied and tricked by Thomas Knight (d. 1618); probably from the 1584 Visitation of Shropshire. f. 22v: An index of surnames.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1593
Title:: The Soule Knell
Scope & Content:: Short devotional tracts in prose and verse, prayers, and one larger treatise entitled the Soule-Knell. Probably written by Thomas Harland, whose name appears at the beginning and end of the volume (ff. 1, 7r, 97v) Dated ‘T. H. 1646’ (f. 7v). f. 2: Overall title of volume: ‘The Soule Knell, fo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1646
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1627
Title:: Collection of precedents
Scope & Content:: Collection of precedents or reports of law pleadings under the following heads FormedonIngressuPartitionProhibitionQuare impeditReplevinTransgressionUtlaryWast Front flyleaf includes ownership inscriptions of Richard Palmer, Richard Harison (1647) and others (f. 1).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1698
Title:: Judicature in Parliament
Scope & Content:: Judicature in Parliament. Table of contents at beginning of volume (f. 1*).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1989
Title:: Antiquities of Chester
Scope & Content:: Composite manuscript in several hands, on the subject of the antiquities of Chester from several authors and books. Contents: f. 1: Title cut from former back cover: ‘the Antiquity’s; the Earles, the Bishops, Maiors &c of the Citty of Chester’. ff. 2-3: ‘Things of most note in this Booke....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Mid 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 181
Title:: Ars Notoria
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains three texts of the Ars Notoria, including a set of prayers, holy and angelic names, diagrams and rituals used to gain knowledge and understanding by supernatural revelation, apparently as revealed by God to Solomon. Contents: ff. 1r-17v: Ars Memorativa, beginning: 'Yf ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1776
Title:: Heraldic miscellany
Scope & Content:: Manuscript, in a single hand, on the Order of the Garter and other heraldry topics including precedence, funeral ritual, livery, ranks, etc. For a detailed description of the contents, see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, vol 2 (1808), pp. 225-226.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2973
Title:: Prayer book
Scope & Content:: A composite prayer book with materials from two 16th-century prayer books that were produced produced but contain identical prayers: ff. 4r-64v and ff. 65r-121v respectively. It is possible that one is a copy of the other. Contents: Part 1: f. 4r: 'A prayer called Ave rex'. f. 4v: 'A praye...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1530s-1550s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4742
Title:: Legal treatises
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-16v: 'Consultationes tres de quæstionibus legis feudalis'. ff. 17r-32r: 'Rerum criminalium tractatus continens expositionem titulorum quadragesimi octavi ff[orum], Libri, cum interpretatione philosophicæ l[is]. Respiciendum [ff] de pœnis in qua quid præstare judex, aut quomod...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1588-1589
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1058
Title:: Parliamentary transactions, 1621
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume. Contents: ff. 1-19v: Notes concerning the principle transactions of Parliament which began on 30 January 1620 [1621]. ff. 20-40v: Notes concerning the proceedings of the second sitting of the same Parliament, 20 November 1621-18 December 1621 ff. 41v-51v (starting from ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1621
Extent:: 1 volume

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