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251. Harley MS 297

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 297
Title:
Transcripts of letters and papers concerning state and foreign affairs, mostly during the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains transcripts of letters and other documents originally written during the reigns of Henry VII (r. 1485-1509), Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547), and Edward VI (r. 1547-1553). Many of the items are written in the hand of the archivist and merchant Ralph Starkey (d. 1628) and the v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

252. 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

253. 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

254. Harley MS 318

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 318
Title:
History and genealogy of the kings of Wessex, Essex, East Anglia, Northumbria, Mercia and England (to Henry VI)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a diagrammatic history and genealogy of the kings of Wessex, Essex, East Anglia, Northumbria, Mercia and England (to Henry VI). The manuscript is bound with Harley MSS 1632 and 6270. Henry VI (r. 1422, d. 1461), who married Margaret of Anjou in 1445, was in forced reti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1445-1461
Extent:
1 volume

255. Harley MS 323

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 323
Title:
Richardus de Pofis, Summa dictaminis; Pope Clement V, Constitutiones Clementinae; Raymund de Peñafort, Decretals of Gregory IX (fragment); Ranulf de Glanvill, Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Anglie; laws from the reign of Henry III; Registrum Brevium (fragment); Pope Innocent III, De miseria humanae conditionis; Bernardus Parmensis, Casus longi quinque libros decretalium
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of eight parts that were written separately at different moments in time and joined together at a later stage, before or after reaching the library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650). Contents: Part 1: ff. 1r-12v: Richardus de Pofis, Summa dictaminis,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century-15th century
Extent:
1 volume

256. Harley MS 324

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 324
Title:
John le Breton, The Treatise on the Laws of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2*v-204r: John le Breton, The Treatise on the Laws of England (also known as Britton, and the Proposiciones digestorum) with a table of contents (ff. 2*v-4*v). Decoration: Numerous drawings in the lower margin including animals, hybrid creatures and hunting scenes (ff. 4*v-31r),...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
c 1305
Extent:
1 volume

257. Harley MS 325

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 325
Title:
Alexander Nequam, Sermones; Lotharius (Pope Innocent III), De contemptu mundi; William de Montibus, Numerale, Speculum penitentis; St Jerome, De Hebraicis Nominibus; Priscian, About Greek prepositions; Hildebert, Poem on the Mass
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8v, 34r-37v, 59v-64r: Alexander Nequam, Sermones. ff. 9r-29r: Lotharius (Pope Innocent III), De contemptu mundi. f. 29r: an unidentified letter. ff. 29v-33v: Hildebert, Poem on the Mass. ff. 39r-82r: William de Montibus, Numerale. ff. 82v-86v: Sermones. ff. 87r-94r: Will...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century - 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

258. Harley MS 327

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 327
Title:
The Pauline Epistles, Acts of the Apostles, Catholic Epistles, and Apocalypse in the later Wycliffite version
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-64v: The Pauline Epistles, in the later Wycliffite version. ff. 64v-98v: The Acts of the Apostles, in the later Wycliffite version. ff. 98v-112r: The Catholic Epistles, in the later Wycliffite version. ff. 112r-128v: Apocalypse, in the later Wycliffite version. The manuscri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

259. Harley MS 335

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 335
Title:
A collection of ecclesiastical constitutions and statutes mainly issued by the Archbishops of Canterbury from 1201 to 1413
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-111v: A collection of ecclesiastical constitutions and statutes mainly issued by the Archbishops of Canterbury from 1201 to 1413, and written in several hands. Decoration: Initials in blue with pen-flourished decoration in red. 'Champ' initial in colours and gold with spray a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

260. Harley MS 336

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 336
Title:
Giovanni Gigli, Questiones de observantia quadragesimali; poems on the marriage between King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, and their first son, Prince Arthur
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-67r: Giovanni Gigli, Questiones de observantia quadragesimali; addressed to John Russell, bishop of Lincoln (1480-1494), and Keeper of the Privy Seal. ff. 67v-69v: Giovanni Gigli, Introductory letter to Richard Fox. ff. 70r-82r: Giovanni Gigli, Poem on the marriage between ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1487
Extent:
1 volume

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