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281. Harley MS 289

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 289
Title:
Sixteenth-century letters and papers relating to Scotland and England
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–211v: A collection of letters and papers, originals and contemporary copies, including information about Scotland; relations between Scotland and England, and diplomacy during the reigns of Tudor monarchs. f. 1r: A genealogy of the Hamiltons. f. 1v: Unfinished note beginning 'Of this ho...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

282. Harley MS 290

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 290
Title:
Papers relating to Mary Queen of Scots
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–283v: A collection of papers, some original, relating to Mary Queen of Scots and William Davison. ff. 1r–5v: Tract in Latin on the marriage between Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VI), and Mary Queen of Scots (undated, but must date from around the time of the Treaty of Greenwich i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 16th century-mid 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

283. Harley MS 292

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 292
Title:
Collection of English papers concerning Scotland and Ireland from the reign of King Henry VIII to Charles I
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-188r: A large collection of English papers (mostly originals) concerning Scotland and Ireland, from the reign of Henry VIII to Charles I. The collection features original letters to Sir Francis Walsingham, one of which is written by King James VI. Another by David Lindsay, min...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1536-c 1650
Extent:
1 volume

284. Harley MS 293

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 293
Title:
An English miscellany of historical texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*recto-18v: Francis Thynne, The names and armes of the Earles Marshall of England, here entitled 'This book as Mr Robert Hare informed me was made in the tyme of Edward the ffourth', beginning 'Domus regis magni est Domus Coelestes dapiferi’ [not listed in Carlson, Francis Thynne...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

285. Harley MS 295

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 295
Title:
An English collection of letters concerning Spain and the Spanish Netherlands
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-261v: A large collection of papers relating to Spain, Portugal, the Spanish Netherlands, and England’s affairs and trade with these regions; originals and transcripts in English, French, Italian and Latin dated to 1518-1623, including letters to Sir Thomas Walsingham, Cardinal ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1518-1623
Extent:
1 volume

286. Harley MS 296

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 296
Title:
A collection of original letters and transcripts, concerning Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Russia and Morocco
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: A discourse in French, concerning the enterprise that could be arranged for Don Antonio (b. 1531, d. 1595), a claimant for the Portuguese throne, for the recovery of his kingdom, and the effect and usefulness of this for the Netherlands and England. ff. 3r-4v: An origina...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

287. Harley MS 303

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 303
Title:
Patents granted to Anne Boleyn as Marquess of Pembroke
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a series of patents granted by Henry VIII (r. 1509–1547), King of England, to Anne Boleyn as Marquess of Pembroke. It was made for her after she was created Marquess of Pembroke on 1 September 1532, but before she became Queen of England in March 1533. The parchment, sil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1532-1533
Extent:

1 volume

288. Harley MS 306

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 306
Title:
Collection of tracts relating to trade in England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-16r: Copy of '[t]he victuellinge of the Kinge and the Queenes Majesties Shippes there [Portesmowth, London and Dovar], beginninge the firste of Januarie, 1556 / And ending the laste of Marche followinge, as well for the Seas as in Harborowe, which Victuallinge was made by Edw...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1580-c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

289. Harley MS 307

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 307
Title:
Printed copy of William Lambarde's 'Archaionomia' with manuscript annotations
Scope & Content:
Printed copy of William Lambarde, Archaionomia, Sive De Priscis Anglorum Legibus libri, Cambridge, 1644, a collection of Anglo-Saxon laws in Latin and Old English, with manuscript annotations. This copy is the second edition, edited by Abraham Whelock (1593-1653). The annotations consist of vari...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

290. Harley MS 308

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 308
Title:
‘Reeve’ or ‘Melford’ Register of Bury St Edmunds Abbey
Scope & Content:
f. 1*: Inserted slip of parchment, perhaps from a former cover; on the verso in faint red 16th-century book-hand, ‘Dompnus Edmundus Bury vestiarius – 1529; dompnus Edmundus Bury pitanciarius. 1530’. ff. 1r–139r: Indentures (1527–40), in chronological order. Later additions to 1546: leases, manu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1517-1546
Extent:

1 volume

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