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881. Harley MS 3187-3188

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3187-3188
Title:
Short instrumental pieces. Two part books for 'mean-viall' and 'base-viall'.
Scope & Content:
A collection of instrumental pieces without titles and (with one exception) anonymous. The 'Mean-Viall' and 'Base-Viall' parts. Owing to the fragmentary character of many of the compositions and the fact that a considerable number of leaves has been torn out in each volume, it is impossible to gi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
2 volumes (28, 32 folios)

882. Harley MS 2292

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2292
Title:
An English translation of Niccolò Machiavelli’s Il Principe
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title page: ‘The Prince of Nicholas Machiavill Citizen and Secretarie of Florence dedicated to the noble Prince Lawrence sonn of Peeter de medices – Translated out of Italian into English – Welcome to mee, in measure, and in meane, too much is naught, yet doe not leave mee cl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

883. Harley MS 139

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 139
Title:
Transcripts of historical material relating to Chester written by Laurence Bostocke
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-v: Title page with signature of Ralph Starkey. ff. 2r-11r: Index. ff. 12r-221v: Transcripts of historical material relating to Chester written by Laurence Bostocke between 1566-1575. ff. 222v-228v: Index. f. 228v: Note from the Keeper of Manuscripts that parts of the MS wer...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1566-1575
Extent:
1 volume

884. Harley MS 987

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 987
Title:
Notes on the Bible; The whole booke of Psalmes [London, 1586]
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-260v: Notes on the Bible in Latin and English, featuring memoranda dated to 1605 and 1616 (f. 7r), with the added title: ‘Short Notes upon several Places of Scripture’ (f. 2r). ff. 261r-316v: A printed text with a title-page: ‘The whole booke of Psalmes, collected into Engli...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1586-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

885. Harley MS 4030

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4030
Title:
The arms of the kings and nobility of England and Scotland
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-117r: The arms of the kings and nobility of England and Scotland up to the reign of King James VI and I. Decoration: Coats of arms in colours throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

886. Harley MS 5061

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5061
Title:
Accounts of the estates of the Honour of Clare in Essex
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-66r: Accounts of the estates of the Honour of Clare in Essex (Villae, Maneria, Terrae, Tenta in Comitatum Essex, tenta de honore de Clare), up to the time of the 45th year of the reign of Elizabeth I (1603). The manuscript contains several additions: ff. 1*recto, 3*recto-3*v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

887. Harley MS 1581

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1581
Title:
The second of two volumes with letters concerning state affairs, dated 1612-1625
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-412v: The second of two volumes with letters concerning state affairs, featuring 129 letters, mostly originals in English addressed to the Duke and Marquess of Buckingham, but also Charles, Prince of Wales, King James I, the Lord Treasurer, and others; also featuring originals ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Spanish
Date Range:
1612-1625
Extent:
1 volume

888. Harley MS 6134

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6134
Title:
Collection of texts relating to the de Vere family, Earls of Oxford
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4r: A Latin chronicle of the Lord Chamberlains of England (‘Camerarij Angliae’), from William the Conqueror until Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (4th year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I [1561/2]). ff. 5v-12v, 15r-21v: 17th-century collections relating to the de Vere f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century-2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

889. Harley MS 159

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 159
Title:
Parliamentary journal for 1623-1624, with other papers
Scope & Content:
Manuscript parliamentary journal compiled for Simonds D’Ewes, with preliminary pages constructed from a printed broadside, and two folios of unrelated notes. f. 1: Fragment (from an earlier flyleaf?) with manuscript Latin quotations on bravery in adversity and honourable defeat, from Tacitus, W...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1623-1624
Extent:
1 volume

890. Harley MS 454

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 454
Title:
Diary and accounts of Sir Humphrey Mildmay
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume containing the diary and expenses of Sir Humphrey Mildmay of Danbury, Essex. Contents: f. 1: Memorandum acknowledging receipt of money, signed by Jane Mildmay and Cisilya Mildmay, wife and daughter of Sir Humphrey Mildmay. f. 2: Accounts of his son, John Mildmay, 1642. f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1631-1652
Extent:
1 volume

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