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1. Harley MS 235

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 235
Title:
Statutes of the Order of the Garter
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–29r: A mid-16th-century heraldic manuscript. A note opposite f. 1r by Frederic Madden records that this manuscript is written in the same hand as Harley MS 567 (another heraldic manuscript). f. 1r: Names of the knights of the Garter, 1584. f. 1v: Gilbert Talbot, names of the knights of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1561-1592
Extent:

1 volume

2. Harley MS 2302

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Harley MS 2302
Title:
A Replicacion in further meintenaunce of free will to an answere of a Protestant devyne to the treatis in that behalf first made by a Romish Catholicke Priest; a treatise written in answer to a book against the existence of witches
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a 17th-century miscellany containing two English treatises written separately at different moments in time. Contents: ff. 1*recto-56r: ‘A Replicacion in further meintenaunce of free will to an answere of a Protestant devyne to the treatis in that behalf first made by a Romi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 2303

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Harley MS 2303
Title:
The Prevarication of Holy Church Libertyes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-3r: Henry Tichborne, dedication to King James II, beginning: ‘To the Kings most Excellent Majestie These Humbly Presented: The Virtues of your most Illustrious Ancestors have in all Ages since Christianity inlightned our Horizon, and been the Glory of so many Princes as have de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 2307

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2307
Title:
A view of Devonshire, by Thomas Westcote
Scope & Content:
History and topographical account of Devonshire by ThomasWestcote (c 1567-c 1637). Published as A View of Devonshire 1630, ed. George Oliverand Pitman Jones (1845). Manuscript includes marginal notes, additions, andcorrections. The author’s postscript apology for the work, addressed ‘To thegener...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1630
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 2308

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2308
Title:
Accounts of the coronation of Edward VI and his reign
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-120r: A treatise on ‘The Maner of Coronation of Kinge Edward the Sixth’; followed by abstracts of entries in the Council book of King Edward VI from the beginning of his reign to 6 February 1549-50.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 2316

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Harley MS 2316
Title:
Scope & Content:
Collections of Theological, Hagiographical and Legendary Prose and Verse; 14th cent., 2nd half. Latin. Copies. The manuscript is a composite miscellany of theological, hagiographical and legendary prose and verse, including verses on plague (f. 16; item 1) and a medical recipes (f. 26v; item ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Harley MS 2318

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2318
Title:
Arthur Capell's prayers and devotional texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: ‘Made by Docter Willet of Barle and by him sent to Sir Arthure Capell in his long sicknes’. ff. 2r-7v: ‘A frughtfull exhortation to a sicke person to prepare against his end’. ff. 8r-10r: ‘A prayer for one that is sick’. ff. 11r-13v: English prayers with biblical citatio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1600-1638
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 2319

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2319
Title:
Mrs. Babylon's Looking-glass: or, a Brief Description of the Doings in Satan's Synagogue, otherwise called the Church of England, who is mounted upon the Beasts, and agoing with Speed in the Wide Way of Destruction
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was recorded missing in 1824. The contents according to the printed Harley catalogue (1808) were as follows: 'A thin Book in 8vo. seeming to have been copied, incorrectly enough, by some Lawyers Clerk, toward the end of King Charles the seconds Reign. It is entituled, "Mrs. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 2320

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2320
Title:
Miscellany of treatises relating to prognostication, astrology and braiding in verse and prose
Scope & Content:
The miscellany comprises texts on prognostication, astrology and braiding. Medical recipes and other notes were added at a later stage to the endleaves (ff. 71r, 74r). Contents include: 1. Calendar (ff. 1r-4v); 2. Prognostication attributed to Bartholomew of Parma (ff. 5r-30v); 3. A lunar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 2320, ff 73v-74r

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Harley MS 2320, ff 73v-74r
Title:
Medical recipes for mothers
Scope & Content:
Two medical recipes for mothers (f. 74r). Title 'A medecyn for the moder', incipit: 'Take grene ferne that growing / in the feylde'; title 'Anodyr for the same', incipit: 'Take the levys of / an elme'. A 17th-century hand produced another copy of the recipes on the facing page (f. 73v). Also i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
Late 15th century-17th century
Extent:
2 folios.