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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1848
Title:: A register of English possessions written by Peter Bales
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-50v: Lists of English titles, offices and possessions written by Peter Bales.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1593
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1856
Title:: Collection of writs and legal precedents from the reign of Henry VIII
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-174r: Collection of writs and legal precedents from the reign of King Henry VIII, written in Latin and English and organised alphabetically by 'Rouland Shakelady'. For example, including a licence to Bartholomew Hesketh to wear his bonnet at his own liberty for head infirmities...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1540
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1859
Title:: Registrum brevium
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-217r: Registrum brevium. The manuscript contains several additions: f. 1*verso: 'Sacramentum Servientis ad legem', beginning: 'Ye shall swere that well and truly ye shall serve the kynges People as one of the Sergeantes at the Lawe'; added in the 16th century. f. 1r: Lati...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1860
Title:: Mary Bassett, translation of Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–8v: Mary Bassett, Dedicatory epistle to Mary Tudor. ff. 9r–58r: Mary Bassett, Latin translation of Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, book 1. Mary states in the epistle that she abandoned this version because ‘a greate learned man had the whole translacion therof fully fynysshed all ready...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1544-1553
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1862
Title:: Oon of Foure; a treatise on the Ten Commandments, virtues and sins
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 7r-77v: Oon of Foure; a Middle English translation of Clement of Llanthony's Gospel Harmony Unum ex Quattuor, beginning: 'heer bigynneþ a prolog in to o booc maad of þe foure gospelis: Clement a preest of þe chirche of lantony gaderde alle þe sentences of þe foure gospeleris in t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1865
Title:: Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-102v: Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia. Decoration: Large puzzle initials in blue and red with pen-flourished decoration in red, some in form of birds or creatures (ff. 1r, 8v, 13v, 25r, 36r, 46r, 56r). Two initials in blue with penwork decoration in red (f. 1r). Rubrics in r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1866
Title:: Excerpts from Textus Roffensis, in a modern facsimile by Elizabeth Elstob
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-9v: Excerpts from Textus Roffensis, including a copy of King Æthelberht's charter of the foundation or endowment of the church of Rochester (bearing the date ‘4 kal. Maias, indictione 7’), a facsimile on parchment made by Elizabeth Elstob. Decoration: 1 large historiated in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1700-1719
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1867
Title:: The Creation of the World [Cornish play]; and John Davies, ‘Adagia Britannica’. With other papers.
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1: Letter from Edward Lhwyd to Nathaniel Lloyd. 29 November 1708. ff. 2-58: The Creation of the World: Cornish play, copied from the manuscript written out by William Jordan, 1611, in the Bodleian Library Oxford (MS Bodl. 219), with parallel English translation by John Keigwyn, da...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Cornish, English, Latin, and Welsh
Date Range:: Mid 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1869
Title:: Giustificazione dei veneziani per la pace fatta col turco
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is bound together with Harley MS 1870, Harley MS 1871, Harley MS 1872, Harley MS 1873, Harley MS 1874. Contents: ff. 1r-1v, 90r-91v: leaves from an unidentified 13th/14th-century breviary, used as flyleaves in this manuscript and related to those in Harley MS 1870, ff. 37-38, H...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MSS 1869-1874 (bound together as 1 volume)

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