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Language Greek, Ancient Name Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Ireland, 1533-1603, http://isni.org/isni/000000... Level [40] File

1. Add MS 4155

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Add MS 4155
Title:
English political and diplomatic papers, 1587-1689
Scope & Content:
This is a miscellaneous collection of papers, including Elizabethan political and military matters; the parliamentary politics of the 1620s; and a number of early 17th-century diplomatic letters. There are probably some originals amongst the collection, but it is evidently mainly a collection of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1587-1740
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 46367

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Add MS 46367
Title:
Harington Papers, volume II
Scope & Content:
ff. i–143v: Harington Papers, ‘Prose No. II’, comprising copies of letters, etc., c. 1544–1581, with later additions mainly in the hand of John Harington, MP (d. 1564). One of the two main hands (ff. 7–17 and throughout) is the same as that in Add MS 46366, ff. 1–78. Contents: f. i: Notes on ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1544-1653
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 48047

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Add MS 48047
Title:
Treatises on politics and economics
Scope & Content:
This volume is part of the Yelverton Manuscripts. The initial pasted on the front, H', points to it belonging to the early core of the collection, the library of Robert Beale (1541-1601), administrator and diplomat. It contains some headings and notes, and one text and (probably) one transcripti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1565-1600
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 48049

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Add MS 48049
Title:
Papers relating to Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots, 1565-c. 1600
Scope & Content:
This volume is made up of copies and drafts relating to Mary Queen of Scots and more broadly to Scottish politics in the reign of King James VI (up to c. 1600). The volume forms part of the papers collected by Robert Beale, Clerk of the Council, and there are many endorsements, memoranda and dra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, Greek, Ancient, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
1560-1605
Extent:
1 volume

5. Cotton MS Julius F VI

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Cotton MS Julius F VI
Title:
Historical and topographical collections, 1529-1640
Scope & Content:
Collection of historical letters and papers, principally from the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and King James VI and I. From the collection of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician. Partly assembled by Cotton and William Camden (1551–1623), historian an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1529-1640
Extent:

1 volume

6. Cotton MS Titus B VII

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Cotton MS Titus B VII
Title:
Letters to the Earls of Leicester, Sussex and others
Scope & Content:
Letters to the earls of Leicester, Sussex, and others, mainly from the reign of Elizabeth I and James I (1558-1625). f. 1r partial contents list of letters. ff. 2r-3v Letter from Robert Zinzan to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Reporting his delivery of the Queen’s present of horses to King ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
1558-1625
Extent:
1 volume

7. Cotton MS Vitellius C VII

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Cotton MS Vitellius C VII
Title:
Works of John Dee
Scope & Content:
Collection of works by John Dee (1527-1609), mathematician, astrologer, and antiquary. Including his autobiographical ‘Compendious Rehearsal of John Dee’, geometric and mathematical observations, and his work ‘Of Famous and Rich Discoveries’. f. 1r Table of contents. ff. 2r-13r John Dee, ‘The...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

1 volume.

8. Harley MS 180

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Harley MS 180
Title:
Printed and manuscript tracts on royal marriages, collected by Sir Simonds D'Ewes
Scope & Content:
This is a collection of four tracts, the first two printed and the last two in manuscript, on royal marriages between 1555 and 1624. A Supplicacyon to the quenes maiestie [1555], an attack on the marriage of Queen Mary I to Philip of Spain (later King Philip II), was written by a Protestant ex...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1555-1627
Extent:

1 volume

9. Harley MS 5110

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Harley MS 5110
Title:
Composite volume of miscellaneous verse, drama and orations
Scope & Content:
A composite volume of miscellaneous verse, drama, orations and other texts in various hands. Cited in the Index of English Literary Manuscripts as the 'Harley Satires MS'. ff. 1r–3v: A Latin oration given at Merton College, Oxford, entitled ‘In collegio Merton Oxon. […], 16 October 1725. ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Lansdowne MS 813

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Lansdowne MS 813
Title:
Lord Henry Howard (later Earl of Northampton), 'A dutiful defence of the lawful regiment of women'
Scope & Content:
Lord Henry Howard (later Earl of Northampton), 'A dutifull defence of the lawfull Regiment of Weomen devided into three books. The first conteyneth reasons and examples grownded on the lawe of nature. The second reasons and examples grownded on the Civile lawes. The third reasons and examples gr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1590-1603
Extent:
1 volume

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