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341. Harley MS 359

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 359
Title:
Gerald of Wales, Descriptio Cambriae; Expugnatio Hibernica; Topographia Hibernica; and Itinerarium Cambriae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8r: Gerald of Wales [Giraldus Cambrensis], Descriptio Cambriae. ff. 9r-14r: Gerald of Wales [Giraldus Cambrensis], Descriptio Cambriae; excerpts; including references to an exemplar on f. 11r: ‘Ex libro quodam veteri in quo continentur aliqua scripta Gyraldi Cambrensis et nun...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

342. Harley MS 361

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 361
Title:
The queries of Sir Edmund Plowden, lawyer, and other legal texts
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume. Contents: ff. 1-67v: 'Les Quæres dle Monseiur Edmond Plowden, Apprentice dle Melieu Temple'. The queries of Sir Edmund Plowden, lawyer and legal theorist, of Middle Temple. ff. 68-74v: A judges charge to the jury, on the arraignment of some authors of the Martin Marprel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

343. Harley MS 364

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 364
Title:
Anselm of Canterbury, Epistolae; transcripts of charters from the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI; English translation of Niccolò Machiavelli, Il Principe; 'Of Predestinacion and the Providence of God'; English translation of Pierre Boitel's Défaite du faux amour par l'unique des braves de ce temps;Paul D'Ewes, theological discourses
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a large composite miscellany, consisting of historical papers and literary works that were copied separately at different periods of time from the late 16th to the early 18th century. Contents: f. 1r: A tract, entitled: 'Howe a man shal be armed at his ease when he shall fi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

344. Harley MS 367

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 367
Title:
Historical notes, documents and poems written or copied by John Stowe and others, including poems by George Ripley, John Lydgate, Humphrey Brereton, John Skelton, John Heywood, William Vallans, William Drummond of Hawthornden, Robert Herrick, John Denham, Paul D'Ewes, Tom Coryate, John Hoskyns and others
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3v: John Stowe's paper against Richard Grafton and his chronicle. f. 4r: Proceedings of John Stowe in surveying the measures in the Ward of Baynard's Castle, 1584. ff. 5r-5v: Declaration of the absues done to John Stowe by William Ditcher, alias Tatford, and his wife. ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
mid 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

345. Harley MS 368

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 368
Title:
Collection of documents on Nottinghamshire, Wales, Clun, and regulating English ports; [Edward Stradling], The Winning of the Lordship of Glamorgan and Morgannok
Scope & Content:
A composite manuscript of 16th century transcripts and original documents on England and Wales. Contents: ff. [i-ii]: Modern list of old and new foliation. ff. 1r-3v: Transcripts and original documents of 16th century relating to the commons of Enfield. ff. 5r-20v: Transcripts and original d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century - 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

346. Harley MS 369

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 369
Title:
The Liber Niger of Edward IV; collection of texts relating to the reigns of various English kings; French glossary
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Liber Niger (Black Book) of Edward IV (r. 1461-1470, 1471-1483). The text is a management manual, containing a detailed outline of the workings of the the royal household. The volume also contains a number of additional texts that relate to the reigns of ot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-Mid 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

347. Harley MS 370

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 370
Title:
Account book of Suffolk
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-25r: Account book of knight’s fees during the reign of Edward III (1346-1347) and Henry VIII (1539-1540). ff. 25r-40r: Fiefs of Huntingfield, Suffolk. ff. 40v-44v: Rental of knight’s fees of Bury St Edmunds in possession of Henry VIII, dated 1541. f. 45r: A list of ‘Nomin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

348. Harley MS 372

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 372
Title:
John Lydgate, The Life of St Edmund and St Fremund; Advice to an old gentleman who wished for a young wife; John Lydgate, The Kings of England; John Lydgate, Complaint þat Crist maketh of his Passioun; Geoffrey Chaucer, Anelida and Arcite; Sir Richard Roos, La Belle Dame sans Mercy; John Lydgate, Prayer on the Five Joys of the Virgin Mary; Thomas Hoccleve, Regiment of Princes; anonymous prayers and poems
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-44v: John Lydgate, The Life of St Edmund and St Fremund. ff. 45r-51r: Advice to an old gentleman who wished for a young wife, ‘A philisophre a good clerk seculer’. ff. 51r-53v: John Lydgate, The Kings of England (revised edition). ff. 54r-55r: John Lydgate, Complaint þat ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

349. Harley MS 375

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 375
Title:
Letters from Albertus Joachim to Simonds D’Ewes
Scope & Content:
Letters in Latin from Albertus Joachim, ambassador of the United Provinces, to Sir Simonds D’Ewes on English and continental affairs. Chiefly written from London, Chester and other places in England, with some from abroad, 1627-1641. Arranged chronologically. Interspersed with copies and extract...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1625-1641
Extent:
1 volume

350. Harley MS 376

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 376
Title:
Letters to Simonds D'Ewes
Scope & Content:
Collection of original letters from political leaders, nobles and scholars written to Simonds D’Ewes from England and the Continent, 1620-1649. Chiefly in Latin, and a few in English, French, and German. With a small number of other documents at the beginning of the volume, dated 1585-1642. Ta...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:
1585-1649
Extent:
1 volume

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