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4511. Harley MS 7368

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7368
Title:
The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore, by Anthony Munday and others, possibly including William Shakespeare
Scope & Content:
A collaborative manuscript play concerning the life of Sir Thomas More (1478–1535), Lord Chancellor, humanist and martyr. Likely to have been written in the 1590s, primarily by Anthony Munday (bap. 1560, d. 1633), playwright and translator, possibly aided by Henry Chettle (d. 1603-07), printer a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1590-1604
Extent:
1 volume

4512. Harley MS 7371

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7371
Title:
Miscellany of English historical papers
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a miscellany of historical papers in English, French and Latin, written in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. They were part of two separate manuscripts (ff. 1-77; and ff. 80r-184v) that were joined together at a later point. The volume also contains fragments of a 13th-c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4513. Harley MS 7376

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7376
Title:
An inventory of the jewels of Queen Mary I; accounts on the hundreds of Sussex and Kent
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains three parts: an inventory of jewels delivered to Queen Mary I (ff. 1r-42v); an early 14th-century description of the hundreds in Sussex and Kent (ff. 44r-58v); and a 16th-century inventory of tax payments from the hundreds in Kent (ff. 63r-220v). The three part...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1312-c 1553
Extent:
1 volume

4514. Harley MS 7382

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7382
Title:
Robert Cooke, A Baronage of England from the Conquest
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 8r-44r: Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms (1567-1592/3), A Baronage of England from the Conquest; up to the 14th year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, 1572 [English]. ff. 44v-46r: A continuation of the Baronage of England for King James VI and I [Latin]. The manuscript ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4515. Harley MS 7389

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7389
Title:
Monastic lands donated and exchanged, 1545-1549
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-51v: An account of ‘Monastery lands given and exchanged to and with sundry persons by the king Henry 8 and Edward 6 - vidilicet a 16 Novembris Anno 37 Henrici 8 usque 27 Junij Anno 2. Edwardi 6’. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 52r: A note and the coats of arms o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1550
Extent:
1 volume

4516. Harley MS 7390

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7390
Title:
Account book of the Steward of William Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-124v: The account of the Steward of William Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath, of weekly expenses for several years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1 February 1566/7-2 October 1580). The manuscript contains an addition: ff. 125r-125v: A medieval end-leaf, traken from a 15th-cen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

4517. Harley MS 7395

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7395
Title:
Transcripts of documents and letters relating to Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a large number of 17th-century transcripts of documents and letters relating to Elizabeth I, Queen of England, and Mary, Queen of Scots, particularly the latter's execution in 1587. These contents originally seem to have been divided over five separate volumes, and bound...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4518. Harley MS 7397

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7397
Title:
Baronage of England to the time of Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-45v: Baronage of England to the time of Queen Elizabeth I.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4519. Harley MS 7398/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7398/1
Title:
Psalter, Use of Sarum, with a Calendar, imperfect
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-125v: Psalter, Use of Sarum, with a Calendar (ff. 1r-6v), imperfect. The calendar features a few 15th-century additions, including St Damasus and the possible consecration of an abbey (‘[...]ysy[n]g of þe abbey of [...]’). The psalms (ff. 7r-112r) begin with the end of psalm 5....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century or 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4520. Harley MS 7398/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7398/2
Title:
Breviary, Use of Sarum, with a Calendar, imperfect
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 132r-359r: Breviary, Use of Sarum, with a Calendar (ff. 145r-150v), imperfect. The Calendar has various later 15th-century additions, including the feast days of Sts Cadoc, Anasasia, Cyriac and Julitta, Desiderius, Etheldreda, Louis of France, Mathurin of Larchant, Osmund and his ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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