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741. Harley MS 837

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 837
Title:
Miscellaneous collection of poetry and historical texts
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume. Contents: ff. 1*-48v: Extracts from Plutarch's Lives. ff. 49-61v: A letter of Mr John Goodwin, Minister in Coleman Street, at the request of a friend, concerning points of religion. f. 62: Inscription: 'A Booke of versee', in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’. Above thi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

742. Harley MS 838

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 838
Title:
Collection of heraldic and genealogical works, including Mirabilia Orientis, Mirabilia Anglie, and a Middle English translation of Christine de Pizan's Epistre d'Othéa; Annales Cambriae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of two distinct parts that were copied separately and joined together at an unknown point before the manuscript reached the Harleian Library. The first part (ff. 1r-95r) contains heraldic works, chronicles and other historical items, and one of the two extant independen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

743. Harley MS 840

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 840
Title:
Genealogies of aristocratic families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-43v: Genealogies of aristocratic families, several of which contain blazons or tricks for their arms. ff. 44r-45v: A table of contents. Decoration: Coats of arms in brown ink (‘tricks’) in the genealogies throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

744. Harley MS 842

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 842
Title:
John Leland, Itinerary in England and Wales (excerpts)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-93v: Excerpts from John Leland's Itinerary in England and Wales (1539-1543); in Stillingfleet’s catalogue entitled 'Dodderige's Geographical Description of several Counties in England'. Decoration: A drawing of a cross purporting to be King Arthur’s gravestone (‘Hic iacet ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 16th century-4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

745. Harley MS 844

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 844
Title:
Copies of charters and exemplifications of orders concerning Congleton (Cheshire), 1518-1595
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Charters & Exemplificacions of Orders concerning Congleton. W: S:’. ff. 1r-29v: Collection of copies of charters and exemplifications of orders concerning Congleton in Cheshire, dated 1518-1595.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1595
Extent:
1 volume

746. Harley MS 850

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 850
Title:
John Hoskyns, Directions for Speech and Style (first part); Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes; Peter Heylin, A Summers Journey into France and Observations on it
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-10v: John Hoskyns, Directions for Speech and Style; first part of the work, imperfect at the end. f. 10v: Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes. ff. 11r-83r: Peter Heylin, A Summers Journey into France and Observations on it; imperfect. The manuscript contains several additions: f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

747. Harley MS 854

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 854
Title:
William Stamford, Exposition of the King's Prerogative
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘Stamfordes boke of the prerogatyffe’. ff. 2r-72v: William Stamford (fl. 16th century), Exposition of the King's Prerogative (1567); here entitled ‘Prerogative of the kynge and Crowne of England’; introduced as ‘An exposicion of the kyngs prerogative collected o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1574-1575
Extent:
1 volume

748. Harley MS 856

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 856
Title:
A treatise on common law in England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-52r: A treatise of grounds and rules, maxims of the common law of England; dedicated to Elizabeth I, A. D. 1596.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1596
Extent:
1 volume

749. Harley MS 857

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 857
Title:
List of Acts of Parliament
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume containing a list of the titles of Acts of Parliament from 1 Richard III [1483] to 21 James I [1623/1624], either enrolled, or removed by writs of certiorari.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1624
Extent:
1 volume

750. Harley MS 858

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 858
Title:
Vetera Statuta, Registrum Brevium
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes the statutes of the English kings from Magna Cartato the end of the reign of Edward II, known as the Vetera Statuta (ff. 1r-73v), followed by two copies of the Registrum Brevium (ff. 74r-119v and 120r-191v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

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