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241. Harley MS 417

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 417
Title:
The second of two volumes of works and letters belonging to the martyrologist John Foxe
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-220v: The second of two volumes [the first volume is Harley MS 416] with collections of works and correspondence belonging to the martyrologist John Foxe (b. 1516/17, d. 1587). It includes an account of the life and death of Thomas Cranmer, featuring a printed leaf (ff. 92r-92v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1547-1575
Extent:
1 volume

242. Harley MS 1503

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1503
Title:
Collection of coats of arms of English kings, earls, nobility and gentry, and kings of the world
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-92v: Collection of coats of arms (16 per page) of English kings, earls, nobility and gentry; and kings of the world, among whom are many attributed arms such as those of Prester John. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: Coats of arms and ownership inscriptions o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Welsh
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

243. Harley MS 2205

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2205
Title:
Coats of arms recorded in the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Mary the Virgin of Worcester, and the churches of Great Malvern, Little Malvern and Evesham
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-16r: ‘Thease Armes or Monumentes taken out of the discription of the Cathedrall Churche of Worcester are all as they are theare, althoughe not every one as itt shoulde bee ‘ [with the added note: ‘by Mr Habingdon of Henley’]. ff. 17r-19v: ‘Armes in the Churche of Great Malver...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1586-c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

244. Harley MS 3539

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3539
Title:
Jean Germain, Liber de virtutibus Philippi Burgundie et Brabancie ducis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-94r: Jean Germain, Liber de virtutibus Philippi Burgundie et Brabancie ducis; beginning with a list of contents (ff. 1r-3r); and ending: 'A mess[ir]e guil[e]l[m]e De rochefort / Deo gr[aci]as ; de bosco ;'. The manuscript contains a few later additions: Below a paper pastedo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1452-c 1500
Extent:
1 volume

245. Harley MS 2036

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2036
Title:
Collection of law cases argued in Westminster Hall or extracted from the Plea Rolls from the reign of Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-157r: Collection of law cases argued in Westminster Hall or extracted from the Plea Rolls from the reign of Elizabeth I (up to 33 Elizabeth I [1590-1591]); written in Law French. The manuscript contains a few additions: ff. [iv]recto-[iv]verso: Fragment of a (?) Latin legal document, w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1590s-1600s
Extent:
1 volume

246. Harley MS 4406

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4406
Title:
Pierre Choisnet, Le Rosier des guerres, and other texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar. ff. 7r-15v: Prayers to the Virgin Mary, beginning: 'Virgo templum trinitatis deus summe bonitatis et misericordie'. ff. 15v-16r: Memoria of St Michael the Archangel, beginning: 'Archangele Christi Michael princeps mlicie celestis'. f. 16v: Prayer to Holy He...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

247. Harley MS 147

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 147
Title:
Copies of letters concerning the Treaty of the Hague 1614-1615
Scope & Content:
Includes: f. 1: Copy of the King’s Commission to treat, granted to Sir Henry Wooton, Ambassador Extraordinary to the States of the United Provinces, Clement Edmonds Esq., clerk of his Privy Council, Robert Midleton and Morris Abbott, City of London merchants. Dated 29 November 1614. Heading: ‘Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1614-1615
Extent:
1 volume

248. Harley MS 3661

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3661
Title:
The elections of abbesses of Holy Trinity Abbey, Caen
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a guide to the election of abbesses of Holy Trinity Abbey in Caen, France, based upon the procedure followed at Agnès de Thieuville’s election in 1482. The guide is appended with a later account of the appointment of Anne de Montmorency as abbess in 1555, by which time a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1482
Extent:
1 volume

249. Harley MS 5141

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5141
Title:
Transcripts of law cases from the reigns of Edward VI and Philip II and Mary I; descriptions of the men at the court of Queen Elizabeth I; 'Lectura Johannis Bancks super Statutum 21 Jacobi, Cap. 16. Of Limitation of Actions'
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains three parts that were produced separately. The first part (ff.1r-45v) was transcribed in 1569. The second part (ff. 46r-81r) was perhaps written in the second quarter of the 17th century. The third part (ff. 83r-110r) was written in the 17th century, afte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1569-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

250. Harley MS 6892

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6892
Title:
An account of the foundations of Oxford and Cambridge colleges and their coats of arms; blazons of the coats of arms of the Peers of England, and the offices in the Holy Roman Empire
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a miscellany of heraldic works copied at different times in the late 16th and early 17th century. Contents: f. 1r: A catalogue description of the manuscript by an early modern owner: ‘An Account of the ffoundations and the Armes each Colledge bears in England and also...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter 16th century-1st quarter 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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