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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 591
Title:: Taxatio Beneficiorum Ecclesiasticorum authoritate Papae Nicholae Quarti; bills, inventories and indentures related to the belongings of colleges and chantries
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-81v: Taxatio Beneficiorum Ecclesiasticorum authoritate Papae Nicholae Quarti facta A. D. 1291 H. 20. E.i; written in the 16th century. ff. 84r-91v: An 'Inventorie [...] of all the Plate and Juelles of all the the Colliges, Chauntries, Freechappelles, Fraternities, Brotherhedds...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 580
Title:: Henrik Jansen Van Barrefelt [Hiël], A Short Instruction according to the Being
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-50r: Henrik Jansen Van Barrefelt [Hiël] (b. c. 1520, d. c. 1594), ‘A Short Instruction according to the Being By Hiel’; beginning ‘Loving disciples of the uniforme Spirit of Christ; I Hiel have by the helpe Command and mind of god; pointed out the true uniforme Spirit of Chris...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1488-1497
Title:: The minutes, precepts, and registers, of the Commission of the Public Accounts, 1690-1697
Scope & Content:: A collection of 10 folio manuscript volumes containing the minutes, precepts, and registers, of the Commission of the Public Accounts, 1690-1697. Harley MS 1492 and Harley MS 1493 are bound together. Harley MS 1494 and Harley MS 1495 are bound together.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1690-1697
Extent:: 8 volumes (10 items)

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1626
Title:: Richard Lloyd: A Dictionarie in English and Brittish, commonly called the Welsh tongue
Scope & Content:: Manuscript draft English Welsh dictionary by Richard Lloyd. Incomplete, with annotations and corrections. Loose notes pasted in at front of volume. Although never apparently printed, it includes a printed title page (f. 12), followed by a manuscript title page (f. 12*).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Welsh
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1839
Title:: Account of gunpowder received and delivered at the Tower of London and Portsmouth
Scope & Content:: Manuscript volume, from the Office of Ordnance. Contents: ff. 1v-2v: Proportions of gunpowder allowed to each great ordnance, 4 November 1638. ff. 3v-28: Account of gunpowder received and delivered at the Tower of London, June 1636-May 1638 ff. 29v-31 (upside down): Account of gunpowder receive...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1636-1638
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6224
Title:: Extracts from letters relating to occurrences in the Low Countries and Germany, 1562-1566
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-41v: Extracts from letters relating to occurrences in the Low Countries and Germany, dated 1562-1566. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘Breviats of lettore sente out of the Lowe Contreys and Jarmany of Accorrants about Anno 1615’; added by Ralph ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7506
Title:: An Account of the Quakers’ Sufferings, upon Statutes made against the Papists, 1676-1679
Scope & Content:: An account of Quakers’ sufferings 1676-1679, addressed to the King, and marked as having belonged to King James. Provenance inscription at head of f. 1: ‘This did belong to King James. I had it from Coll. Grahame’. f.1: ‘To the King. The Case of the People called Quakers who are still sufferers...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1680
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4557/2
Title:: Yearbooks of King Henry VI, 1432-1444, volume 2
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the second part of a 2-volume set of the Yearbooks of King Henry VI from Michaelmas Term in the 11th year of his reign until Trinity Term in the 22nd year of his reign (1432-1444). Contents: ff. 238r-414r: Yearbooks of King Henry VI, comprising the 20th, 21st and 22nd...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1444
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4998
Title:: Law reports from 31 to 40 Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-303v: Law reports from 31 to 40 Elizabeth I [1588-1598] 'per Mr Pennyman, et aux per Mr Ware'; written in English, French and Latin; with later additions from the reign of King James I, and a report dated to 'Aprill 1639 at York'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1588-1598
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5219
Title:: Thomas Hobbes, The Mathematical Demonstration of the Sword
Scope & Content:: Autograph manuscript volume containing a treatise on fencing by Thomas Hobbes, with two printed plates. Hobbes titled the treatise 'To compare the strength of two swords that presse each other', which he inscribed on f.2. The title 'The Mathematicall demonstrastion off The Sorde' is inscribed ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1640s
Extent:: 1 volume

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