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971. Harley MS 283

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 283
Title:
An English collection of letters, mostly from the time of Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-375r: A large collection of more than two hundred letters and papers in English, French, and Latin relating to state affairs, mostly from the reign of King Henry VIII (originals and transcripts). Includes letters by Henry VIII (with his signature), Mary Tudor, Jane Seymour, an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1524-1546
Extent:
1 volume

972. Harley MS 422

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 422
Title:
Papers of John Foxe relating to Protestant and Catholic persecutions in England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-172v: A collection of papers relating to Protestant and Catholic persecutions in 16th-century England, including the second and third debates of the Jesuit Edmund Campion (b. 1540, d. 1581) at the Tower of London in 1581 (ff. 136r-173v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1531-1581
Extent:
1 volume

973. Harley MS 557

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 557
Title:
Copy of a Letere wrytten by a Master of Artes of Cambridge
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-81r: The ‘Copy of a Letere wrytten by a Master of Artes of Cambridge, to his frend in London, concerning some talke past of late betweene twoe worshipfull and grave men, about the presente state and some proceedinges of my Lord of Leicester and his frends in England, Conceved,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

974. Harley MS 904

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 904
Title:
An English translation of Tommaso Fazello's De Rebus Siculis Decades Duae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-396v: An English translation of Tommaso Fazello's De Rebus Siculis Decades Duae (History of Sicily).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

975. Harley MS 1479

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1479
Title:
Coats of arms of Knights of the Garter and the English peerage
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: An unfinished ink sketch of the arms of Charles II. ff. 1r-24r: Full-page drawings of coats of arms of Knights of the Garter, including those of King Charles II, all circumscribed by the Garter; also featuring supporters, crowns, crests and mottoes. f. 25v: A note on t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

976. Harley MS 7632

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7632
Title:
David Casley, Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the King’s Library (autograph manuscript)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-156v, 159r-197v: David Casley, original autograph manuscript of his Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the King’s Library [Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Regiae], published in 1734, with the exception of the preliminary matter (written in English, French, and Latin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1734
Extent:
1 volume

977. Harley MS 5680

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5680
Title:
Avicenna's Kanon.
Scope & Content:
Language: Hebrew Medical work. Author: Avicenna, 980-1037 (אבן סינא, אלחסין בן עבדאללה, 980-1037) Ḳanon. קאנון Note: A copy of Books 3 and 5 of the Canon Medicinae by Ibn Sina, Abú 'Ali Al-Husain ibn 'Abd Allah (d. 1037), known in the West as Avicenna, in the Hebrew translation composed in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Hebrew
Date Range:
1450-1499
Extent:
213 folios

978. Harley MS 473

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 473
Title:
John Dee, Notes on a journey in Chester and Wales made in 1574
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*recto-26v: John Dee, Notes on a journey in Chester and Wales made in 1574. The manuscript contains two additions: f. 1*recto: A title: ‘Certaine verie rare observations of Chester and some parts of Wales with divers Epitaphes Coat armours and other monuments verie orderlie a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

979. Harley MS 986

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 986
Title:
Richard Symonds, Notes on ensigns and officers during the First English Civil War
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. i recto: A note from the British Museum, dated to 30 October 1856: 'Memorandum: In the printed Harleian Catalogue, Vol. 1. 499, art. 4, of the present volume is described as "Original Passe from Sir John Needham Governor of Leicester, to Richard Symonds, dated Leicester, 5 March, 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1643-1644
Extent:
1 volume

980. Harley MS 1899

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1899
Title:
‘Advice to His Majestie touching a new modell of Fortification’ by Thomas Colepeper
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume, identified as being by Thomas Colepepr by study of the hand and draughtsmanship. Contains many illustrations. Includes sections on the out works, canons, lines, traverses, redouts, stars, forts, artillery, encamping, trenches, batteries, provision, and mortars.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

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