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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1121, f 156r (item 2)
Title:: La vie nostre dame seinte marie, incipit: 'Sachez que nostre dame fui de xii annzet vi mois...'
Scope & Content:: La vie nostre dame seinte marie, incipit: 'Sachez que nostre dame fui de xii annzet vi mois...'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1/2 column

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1319
Title:: Jean Creton, Histoire rimée de Richard II (La Prinse et mort du roy Richart)
Scope & Content:: La Prinse et mort du roy Richart (ff. 1r-78v). Added descriptions of the miniatures written in 1767 by Dr Thomas Percy (ff. 79r-80v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1401-1767
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1319, ff 1r-78v
Title:: Jean Creton, Histoire rimée de Richard II (La Prinse et mort du roy Richart)
Scope & Content:: La Prinse et mort du roy Richart (Book of the Capture and Death of King Richard II) also known as La Prinse et mort du roy Richart (the Capture and Death of king Richard), the Account of the Fall of Richard II, or the Chronicle of Jean Creton), composed by Jean Creton (fl. 1386–1420), historian ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1401-c 1405
Extent:: 78 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1580
Title:: The first of two volumes with letters and papers concerning state affairs, dated to 1616-1625
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-456v: The first of two volumes with letters and papers concerning state affairs, mostly originals of English and French letters addressed to the Duke and Marquess of Buckingham, organised in alphabetical order; the letters and papers are dated to 1616-1625. The second volume is...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1616-1625
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1582
Title:: State papers, 1553-1596
Scope & Content:: This volume is entitled on the spine, 'Original Letters and Papers on State Affairs'. It contains a wide range of materials on English relations with, and intelligence on, France, the Low Countries and Germany in the late 16th century. It has also been termed, not entirely happily but with a g...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Cipher, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1553-1596
Extent:: 1 volume.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1664
Title:: Psalter of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk
Scope & Content:: Volume of 26 psalms and prayers in Latin, with French rubric. Formerly owned by Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk (c. 1484–1545), magnate, courtier and soldier, whose signature appears on f. 22v. ff. 1r-4v: Rubric, ‘de la Louenge, Vertu, et Efficace des Pseames’. French. ff. 5r-9r: Psalms....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: Early 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1760
Title:: A large collection of letters written and signed by English kings and queens, and letters addressed to them by rulers in other countries
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-145v: A large collection of copies of and original letters, written and signed by English kings and queens, including Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I, and Charles II, and kings, queens, princes, dukes, duchesses, landgraves and marquesses from abroad. The latter include (among...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1596-1729
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3437
Title:: William Teshe, Poem on the Order of the Garter for Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: Contents: William Teshe, Verses on the Mottoes of the Queen, sixteen of the Knights and the Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, 1582 [presentation copy for Queen Elizabeth I]. Decoration: Coats of arms of the members, in colours and gold surrounded by the garter and combined with the Lat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1582
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3749
Title:: John Norden, Survey of the Honor of Windsor
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a survey of the Honor of Windsor that was made by the cartographer John Norden (b. c. 1547, d. 1625) for King James I in 1607. The manuscript contains 17 maps that are the result of a survey conducted on foot by Norden. The maps in this volume show communication routes, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1607
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4324
Title:: Guy du Faur, Les Quatrains and Les Cinquante octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, written by Esther Inglis
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains Les Quatrains and Les Cinquante octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, two poetic works by Guy de Faur (b. 1529, d. 1584), Seigneur de Pibrac, written by the English calligrapher and artist Esther Inglis (b. 1570/71, d. 1624) in 1614. The manuscript features...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1614
Extent:: 1 volume

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