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221. Harley MS 3978

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3978
Title:
A French translation of the Psalter and Canticles, with Peter Lombard's prologue to the Psalms in French, and other spiritual and moral texts, including 'Les Dits de saint Augustin'; the Office of the Dead in French; 'Les meditations Saint Anseaume'; 'Le Mireoir du monde'
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a French translation of the Psalter and Canticles, with Peter Lombard's prologue to the Psalms in French, and other spiritual and moral texts, dating from the second half of the 14th century. It is written in a dialect that replaces the 'c' sound with 'ch', as in 'cheulx...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century-2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

222. Harley MS 737

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 737
Title:
A collection of political papers, largely concerning the King's right to impose taxes without parliamentary consent
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: ‘A Remonstrance delivered to his Majesty in writeing after the Inhibicion given by him to the lower howse of Parliament as well by word of mouth as by letters not to proceede in the examining his right to impose without essente of Parliament’. ff. 3r-31r: ‘The Questiones ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1637-1641
Extent:
1 volume

223. Harley MS 6707

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6707
Title:
Proceedings in the King's Bench and Exchequer from the time of the reign of Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
The manuscript's former binding is now stored separately as Harley MS 6707/1. Contents: ff. 1r-110v: Proceedings in the King's Bench and Exchequer from the time of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I; written in Law French. The manuscript contains later additions: f. 75v: Latin saying: 'Gutta c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

224. Harley MS 3437

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

225. Harley MS 1864

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1864
Title:
Armorial of Knights of the Order of the Garter
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: Dedication of the manuscript by Sir William Dethick (b. 1543, d. 1612) to Queen Elizabeth I, dated 1588, beginning: 'Serenissima, Augustissima, et ubiuis longe Potentissima Regina'. f. 2r: The achievement of King Henry V, with above: 'Elizabetha potens, iam regnans pace Bryt...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1587
Extent:
1 volume

226. Harley MS 5256

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5256
Title:
Loys Papon, Discours à Lesdiguières
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is an autograph copy of Discours à Lesdiguières, a poem written by Loys Papon (b. 1539, d. 1499), a French playwright and prior of Marcilly. It features a dedication (ff. 3r-4r) from Papon to a certain 'M de Lesdiguières', who can be identified as François de Bonne, (b. 1543, d. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1597
Extent:
1 volume

227. Harley MS 6814

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6814
Title:
Collection of sermons in Latin and French; Quaestiones problematicae; Exemplar epistolae scriptae ad Anglum nobilem Catholicam; Catalogus librorum Sacrae canonicae scripturae veteris testamenti; collection of theological tracts from biblical excerpts; biblical proverbs in Middle English; Moralium dogma philosophorum; Aesop, Fabulae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-38v: A collection of sermons in Latin and French, written between 1650 and 1653. ff. 39v-40r: Quaestiones problematicae [inscribed on f. 39r: ‘in Sidney College’], written around the mid-16th century. ff. 40v-69r: Exemplar epistolae scriptae ad Anglum nobilem Catholicam. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1435-1653
Extent:
1 volume

228. Harley MS 1278

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1278
Title:
Notes on churches and public buildings in Paris by Mr Richard Symonds
Scope & Content:
An octavo manuscript volume by Mr Richard Symonds, containing his notes on the city of Paris, made after a visit there in 1649. The volume contains his observations made on all the churches and public buildings in the city, along with drawings of arms, inscriptions, epitaphs, habits, dials, etc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1649
Extent:
1 volume

229. 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

230. Harley MS 78

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 78
Title:
Collection of English texts, including letters, historical and heraldic works, and poems by Geoffrey Chaucer and John Lydgate
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite miscellany of various 15th- and 16th-century English texts, predominantly letters, historical and heraldic texts and poems. Contents: f. 1r-v: Opinions of Lords on the question 'how goodd myght be had for the settinge forthe of the armes in to Normandye and Guye...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and French
Date Range:
15th century-16th century
Extent:
1 volume

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