Detached former leather 19th century half-bound binding with three flyleaves, previously attached to Harley MS 603 (the 'Harley Psalter') and now stored separately.
Contents: f. 1r: A title for a heraldic (?) treatise that was never begun: ‘Compendium or abstracts of all that hath byn written [...] Of the word Arma [...] and signification thereof’. ff. 3r-4r: A list of English monasteries in Latin, incomplete. ff. 5r-5v: An English heraldic treatise on...
Journal of Sir Francis Walsingham's office, 1583-1585
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Journal or memorandum book of Sir Francis Walsingham, principal secretary of state (c. 1532-1590). In the hands of Sir Francis Walsingham, Francis Mylles, Thomas Lake, Robert Beale, and others. f. i: Parchment fragment: ‘A leiger took out of the Secretaries office 1583’. ff. 1r-118v: Daily mem...