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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6698
Title:: Copies of indentures for leases of estates let and taken by John Wylde of Canterbury
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-15v: Copies of indentures in English and Latin, recording leases of estates let and taken by John Wylde of Canterbury (fl mid-16th century), a surveyor and auditor, during the reigns of Edward VI (r. 1547-1553) and Mary I (r. 1553-1558). f. 16r: an added inscription in a lat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6700
Title:: Copies of the Book of Knights’ Fees of Leicestershire; catalogue of the market and fair towns; Spiritual Receipts and Escheators and Inquisitors of Leicestershire
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-17r: ‘Computus Johannis Saunderstedd, vicecomitis Leicestrensis, Philippi Polwill, et Willielmi Nevill de Rearefbie, collectorum rationabilis auxilii in comitatu praedicto, domino regi Edwardo tertio concessi ad primogenitum filium suum militem faciendum, anno regni ejusdem reg...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1601
Extent:: 1 volume

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6725
Title:: Lists of judges, counts, lords and bishops of England; a treatise in law French
Scope & Content:: f. 1r: A table of contents. ff. 2r-3v: Catalogus summorum Angliae Justiciarorum a conquestu eiusdem anno 1066 ad obitum regis Henrici tercij anno domini 1272, quo tempore eorum auctoritas cessavit deinde. ff. 3v-5v: Capitalium Justiciariorum ad placita coram rege tenenda ad annum dominum 159...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 1590-c 1625
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6746
Title:: Collection of letters, grants, indentures and accounts concerning trading goods
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Copies of bonds and obligations in English and Latin, beginning: ‘Be it knowne to all men by theise present that I ffrancis Th. of London ydoun have remised released’, dated 16, 20, 22, 28 Elizabeth I. f. 4v: A list of payments, beginning ‘ffor the warrant of attourney’, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1580s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6776
Title:: A genealogy of the De Vere family
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-16v: A genealogy of the De Vere family in English and Latin, entitled: 'The Genalogy of the most Ancient and Illustrious Family of the Veres, Earles of Guisnes in Normandy, and of Oxford, and Lord great Chamberlands of England, being descended from the Kings of the Argives, Duk...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1676
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6792
Title:: Canon law; sermons on confession; excerpts from Gregory the Great, Dialogi
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-60v: Definitions of canon law. ff. 56v-61v: Sermons on confession. ff. 62r-133r: Excerpts from Gregory the Great, Dialogi. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: A title inscription: ‘Canones Ecclesiastici’. Decoration: Small (one-line) capitals and rubrics...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6816
Title:: A collection of English medical texts
Scope & Content:: This collection predominantly features medical texts in Latin and English. It contains a section (ff. 97r-133v) of Middle English recipes that ends with Latin prayers against the plague and an indenture from Sempringham Priory in Lincolnshire, suggesting that the recipes may originate from this ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6824
Title:: A compilation of early modern historical and scientific papers; Edward of Norwich, The Master of Game
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a compilation of different historical and scientific papers, mostly originating from the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries. It also contains a 15th-century copy of the Middle English The Master of Game, composed by Edward of Norwich (b. c. 1373, d. 1415), 2nd Duke of York, in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, English, English, Middle, French, Greek, Ancient, Latin, Malay, and Russian
Date Range:: c 1400-1738
Extent:: 1 volume

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