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291. Harley MS 6171

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6171
Title:
Fragment of an Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-30v: A fragment of an Alphabet of Arms, with the arms of English families (‘A’ to ‘B’) blazoned with French heraldic terminology. Decoration: Heraldic elements drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

292. Harley MS 6201

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6201
Title:
Le Livre de la Magie et Astrologie des Anciens Philosophes
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2*recto: A title-page: ‘Le Livre de la Magie et Astrologie des Anciens [Philosophes] - Descouvers & Experimenté Par les Auteurs les plus celebres en cette science secrete. Mise en Francois Par J. H Ace les Figures Necessaire’. ff. 3*recto-8*verso: A table of contents. pp. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

293. Harley MS 6206

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6206
Title:
Letters and tracts concerning Emperor Charles V
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A table of contents: ‘Les tiltres de ce que est contenui en ce livre’. ff. 2r-7r: ‘Une Epistre de la tressacree maieste Imperialle aux elateurs de saint empire de Romme’. ff. 7r-13r:‘Apollogie ou contradiction du Roy de France alemontre du tractat entre luy faict et Limperi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1526-1527
Extent:
1 volume

294. Harley MS 6222

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6222
Title:
Petition of Richard Troughton, Bailiff of South Witham, Lincolnshire, to the Privy Council in the reign of Queen Mary, relating to the share taken by him in the Duke of Northumberland's Plot
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: A letter by Richard Throughton, beginning: ‘To the Kinge and Quenes maiesties moste honorabili councell’; ending ‘Uppon mundaye beffor The Duke of Suffolk’; ending with a declaration: ‘I was never in any commocion or otherwise against the Crowne of Englond in all my liffe b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1555
Extent:
1 volume

295. Harley MS 6308

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6308
Title:
Scope & Content:
Collection of Pharmacopeial and Scientific Texts; 16th cent., 1st half. French. Copy. Imperfect at the end. A miscellaneous collection of pharmacopeial and scientific texts in French, with mention (f. 116v) of the date 14 April 1525. The date and circumstances of the arrival of the MS. in t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

296. Harley MS 6345

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6345
Title:
Copybook of Cardinal Wolsey's letters
Scope & Content:
ff. 1*r–216v: A copybook of Cardinal Wolsey's letters. It also includes a copy of Princess Mary's confession (ff. 211r–v) along with unrelated material from the 17th century. f. 1*r: Note about Lady De La Warr's ownership of the volume, with the original ownership note pasted on. f. 5*v: The b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1627
Extent:
1 volume

297. Harley MS 6395

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6395
Title:
Jests and curious stories of Nicholas L’Estrange
Scope & Content:
A book of 606 jests and anecdotes compiled by Nicholas L’Estrange (1604-1655), with unnumbered additions in a different hand. Anecdotes from L’Estrange’s own knowledge are identified by the initials S.N.L., while others are attributed to friends and relatives, including his brothers, Hamon L'Est...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1630s-1650s
Extent:
1 volume

298. Harley MS 6561

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6561
Title:
George Boleyn, translation of Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples’s Epistres et Evangiles des cinquante et deux sepmaines de l'an, made for his sister Anne Boleyn
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-202v: Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (b. c. 1450, d. 1536), Epistres et Evangiles des cinquante et deux sepmaines de l'an [Epistles and Gospels for the Fifty-two Weeks of the Year], translated into English and French by George Boleyn (b. c. 1504, d. 1536), Viscount Rochford, for his...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1532-1533
Extent:
1 volume

299. Harley MS 6572

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6572
Title:
Collection of Protestant sermons
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-288v: A collection of French Protestant sermons. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. [289]recto: A list of books ('Virgill - Tulijs - Horace - Virgill - Testamenta - Grammar') and payments, added in pencil.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1550-1650
Extent:
1 volume

300. Harley MS 6592

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6592
Title:
Copies of William Flower, Visitation of Northumberland (1575), and William Flower and Robert Glover, Visitation of Derbyshire (1569); pedigrees and arms from Cheshire, Durham, Northumberland, Staffordshire and Yorkshire
Scope & Content:
This heraldic manuscript predominantly contains pedigrees and arms of families in Durham, Derbyshire, Northumberland and Nottinghamshire. The main part (ff. 2r-67v) was written by William Wyrley (b. 1565, d. 1613) between 1590 and 1592; the additions (ff. 68r-116r) appear to have been made a few...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1590s
Extent:
1 volume

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