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911. Harley MS 1986

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1986
Title:
‘Breviat of the Bishops of England’
Scope & Content:
Manuscript extracts from Francis Godwin, Catalogue of Bishops (1615), perhaps written by Randle Holme II (c1601–1659). Includes Archbishops of Canterbury, Bishops of London, Winchester, Ely, Lincoln, Coventry and Lichfield with Chester, Sherborne and Salisbury. Title (f. 4): ‘A breviat of the bu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

912. Harley MS 3669

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3669
Title:
Cartulary of St Mary’s Church, Crich
Scope & Content:
f. 1v: Added list of fees to be discharged at Pentecost (?). ff. 2r–4r: Added account in English of a grant of King Edward III to William of Wakebridge, headed ‘Out of the Registre of Chriche’ (paper, 16th century). f. 5v: Verses derived from Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, A Paraphrase of Part ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

913. Harley MS 4698

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4698
Title:
Jewels received by Elizabeth I, 1572–1586
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–32v: A descriptive account of jewels received by Queen Elizabeth at New Year and delivered to Mrs Katherine Howard, one of the gentlewomen of her privy chamber, for the 14th–28th years of her reign (1572–1586). Marginal notes record gifts Elizabeth made of these jewels, and if she lost the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1572-1586
Extent:
1 volume

914. Harley MS 1082

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1082
Title:
Mixed heraldry book, with extracts from visitation books for Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, and accounts of painter-stainers’ work
Scope & Content:
Book in various hands containing several kinds of heraldical matter, including arms painters’ work for funerals, extracts from Visitations, and accounts of funeral work supplied by the arms painter John Saunders, 1677-1680. Contents: ff. 1-7: Alphabetical table of surnames of families in the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

915. Harley MS 7169

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7169
Title:
'Theatrum Criminalium' and other texts, mostly on various rights and powers of the Monarch and of Parliament
Scope & Content:
This has previously been identified as a continuation of William Petyt's 'Jus Parliamentarium' (Harley MS 7165-7167), and is referred to as such on the spine of the volume. However, these texts do not appear in the published volumes of Petyt's 'Jus Parliamentarium' (1739). Manuscript written la...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

916. Harley MS 357

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 357
Title:
John of Worcester, Chronicon; Eadmer, Historiae novorum in Anglia; Ordo succesionis archiepiscoporum Canutariensis ecclesiae a sancto Augustino Anglorum apostolo; Thomas Stubbes, Historia archiepiscopourm Ebarocensium ad Thomam Wolsey; John Philippson (Sleidanus), Latin abridgement of Jean Froissart’s Chronicles
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-17v, 99*recto-107v: John of Worcester, Chronicon (1057-1118); this copy may originally have been part of the same manuscript as Harley MS 96, ff. 121-180; Harley MS 397, ff. 2-8r; and Harley MS 359, ff. 9-14 (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D’Ewes (1966), p. 217 [X.75])....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

917. Harley MS 1177

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1177
Title:
Copies of the Visitation-books of Suffolk and Norfolk by William Harvey, Clarenceux King of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘The Visitation of Suffolke made by William Harvey Clarenceux King of Armes 1561 – Transcripta per Samuel Lennard Blew-mantle .1618.’. ff. 2r-5r: The surnames of families included in the Visitation-book of Suffolk. ff. 93v: William Harvey, Clarenceux King of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1618
Extent:
1 volume

918. Harley MS 1290

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1290
Title:
'The life of Mahomet, The Conquest of Spaine and The ruine of the Sarazine Empire'
Scope & Content:
Quarto manuscript volume. Contents: ff. 2-6v: A short abstract of a larger work on the Life of Mahomet [Muhammad]. ff. 7-33: Writing on the Arab conquest of Spain, including a large account of the life and character of the Caliph Almanzor. An abridgement of an account from two Arabic authors fr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

919. Harley MS 1224

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1224
Title:
Alphabet of Acts of Parliament, with an index to the journals of the House of Lords
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume. Contents: ff. 2-91: Alphabet to the calendar of the Acts of Parliament in the Parliament Office, containing acts from 12 Henry VII [1496/1497] to 32 Charles II [1680/1681]. ff. 92-117: Index to the journals of the Lords, for the first, second and third Parliaments of Ch...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1680?
Extent:
1 volume

920. Harley MS 5859

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5859
Title:
Alphabets of Arms for English families, emperors, kings, saints and the Knights of the Round Table
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title inscription: ‘Alphabett in Blazon’; followed by the note: ‘att the Later end Armes of Emperour Kings Duckes and Saintes etcaetera’. ff. 1r-198r:An Alphabet of Arms, with the coats of arms of English families, blazoned in French heraldic terminology; and some illu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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