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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 826
Title:: Theological miscellanea relating to the Council of Basel (1431)
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*r: a parchment fragment containing notes about St Ælfheah of Canterbury and the consecration of a cemetery near the Charterhouse in London in 1349 during the Black Death. ff. 1r-70v: Theological miscellanea relating to the Council of Basel (1431). f. 71r: notes relating to ecum...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Middle of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 827
Title:: Tracts on prohibitions, statutes and law cases
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-1v: ‘The Civilians Peticion to his Maiestie touching Prohibitions’. f. 1v: 'The clergies Peticion to his Majestie touchinge Prohibitions’. ff. 2r-16v: ‘Certaine Articles of Abuses which are desired to be reformed in graunting of Prohibitions with the Judges severall Answear...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 834
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4r-44v, 46v-51vr: Part of an ordinary of arms, organised according to heraldic device. ff. 52r-58v: ‘The whole discourse of Thomas Duke of Norffolke his arrainement the xijth day of January 1571’. ff. 59r-62v: ‘The arraygnement of Philip Howard Late Earle of Arundell [1589]’. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 838
Title:: Collection of heraldic and genealogical works, including Mirabilia Orientis, Mirabilia Anglie, and a Middle English translation of Christine de Pizan's Epistre d'Othéa; Annales Cambriae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of two distinct parts that were copied separately and joined together at an unknown point before the manuscript reached the Harleian Library. The first part (ff. 1r-95r) contains heraldic works, chronicles and other historical items, and one of the two extant independen...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 844
Title:: Copies of charters and exemplifications of orders concerning Congleton (Cheshire), 1518-1595
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Charters & Exemplificacions of Orders concerning Congleton. W: S:’. ff. 1r-29v: Collection of copies of charters and exemplifications of orders concerning Congleton in Cheshire, dated 1518-1595.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1595
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 847
Title:: English poems and historical papers
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: An English poem by ‘W. C.’ to Henry Fradsham. ff. 2r-35r: 'A Communicacion or Discourse of the Queenes highness Mariage debated betwixt some Gentlemen of the Court at Northhawt [crossed out: ‘Montharile’] in Essex and reported by syr Thomas Smythe knight to his neyghboure ffr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 850
Title:: John Hoskyns, Directions for Speech and Style (first part); Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes; Peter Heylin, A Summers Journey into France and Observations on it
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-10v: John Hoskyns, Directions for Speech and Style; first part of the work, imperfect at the end. f. 10v: Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes. ff. 11r-83r: Peter Heylin, A Summers Journey into France and Observations on it; imperfect. The manuscript contains several additions: f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 851
Title:: Letters from Henry Hastings and William Bowes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2v: A letter from Henry Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon and Lord Lieutenant of all the Northern Counties, to Thomas Scrope, 10th Baron Scrope of Bolton, Lord Warden of the Western Marches concerning the inconveniences relating to his wardenship, Scots abroad and subjects at home;...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1590s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 860
Title:: Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-197r: An Alphabet of Arms; with the arms of English gentry and aristocracy, blazoned.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 861
Title:: Compilation of texts relating to English claims to the French throne
Scope & Content:: A compilation of texts detailing English claims to the French throne and Anglo-French treaties during the Hundred Years War, compiled by Thomas Beckington (c. 1390-1465), bishop of Bath and Wells. The manuscript dates to sometime after 1443, when Beckington became bishop. The focus on the claims...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1443-1461
Extent:: 1 volume

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