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4261. Harley MS 6360

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6360
Title:
Astrological texts; texts on high treason
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two separate parts. The first part (ff. 3r-31r) contains astrological texts copied in the 16th century; the second part (ff. 4r-133r) contains texts concerning high treason that were most likely copied in the late 16th century. Contents: ff. 3r-8v: Astrol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4262. Harley MS 6362

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6362
Title:
William Roper, The lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r: A title-page: ‘The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore sometyme Chancellor of Englande written by the sonne in lawe William Roper of Eltham in the Counye of Kente esquier’. ff. 3r-47v: William Roper (b. 1495x8, d. 1578), The lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte, here entitled: ‘The Lyfe of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

4263. Harley MS 6363

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6363
Title:
A description of London; with a list of mayors and sheriffs from 1190-1588
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-52r: A ‘Breeff Description of the Famous Cittie of London Capitall Cittie of this Realme of England et caetera Anno 1588’. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 53r: Notes about London, beginning: ‘Shoreditch Place otherwise called Inglerowe’; added in the 17th centur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1588
Extent:
1 volume

4264. Harley MS 6368

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6368
Title:
John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, 'A Treatise towchinge the Right title & intrest of the Most excellent princesse Marie, Queene of Scottland, & of the most Noble Kinge James, her graces sonn to the Succession of the Crowne of England'
Scope & Content:
John Leslie [Lesley] (1527-1596), Bishop of Ross, was the leading polemicist of the right of Mary Queen of Scots to the English throne. His arguments were made in a number of printed versions in English, Latin, French and Spanish, and also survive in significant numbers of manuscript copies. The...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1584
Extent:
1 volume

4265. Harley MS 6369

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6369
Title:
William Davison on the execution of Mary Queen of Scots
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–10r: A late 16th or early 17th-century copy of William Davison's declaration to Francis Walsingham concerning the beheading of Mary Queen of Scots. f. 1r: title page ('Secretarie Davisons declar[ation] to Secretarie Walsingham of his innocencie touching the Skotish Queene beheadinge'). ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

4266. Harley MS 6371

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6371
Title:
The Diariey of Robert Birrell Burgess of Edinburgh - Containing Diverse Passages of State, and uthers Memorable Accidents - From the 1532 Zeir of Our Redemption, Till the Beginning of the Zeir 1605
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-77r: The Diariey of Robert Birrell Burgess of Edinburgh - Containing Diverse Passages of State, and uthers Memorable Accidents - From the 1532 Zeir of Our Redemption, Till the Beginning of the Zeir 1605.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Scots
Date Range:
1605
Extent:
1 volume

4267. Harley MS 6382

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6382
Title:
A Treatise contayninge the lyfe and manner of death of that most holy prelat and constant martyr of christ John ffisher Bishop of Rochester and Cardinall of the holy church of Rome
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-118r: A ‘Treatise contayninge the lyfe and manner of death of that most holy prelat and constant martyr of christ John ffisher Bishop of Rochester and Cardinall of the holy church of Rome’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c. 1536-c. 1599
Extent:
1 volume

4268. Harley MS 6391

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6391
Title:
A Relation of Prince Henryes noble and vertuous Disposition
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8v: An anonymous author's account of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), entitled: ‘A Relation of Prince Henryes noble and vertuous Disposition and of Sundry his wittie and pleasant Speeches diverted to the right honourable the Lord Lumley and his Lady’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1605
Extent:
1 volume

4269. Harley MS 6395

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6395
Title:
Jests and curious stories of Nicholas L’Estrange
Scope & Content:
A book of 606 jests and anecdotes compiled by Nicholas L’Estrange (1604-1655), with unnumbered additions in a different hand. Anecdotes from L’Estrange’s own knowledge are identified by the initials S.N.L., while others are attributed to friends and relatives, including his brothers, Hamon L'Est...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1630s-1650s
Extent:
1 volume

4270. Harley MS 6398

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6398
Title:
Boke of Marchalsi
Scope & Content:
Contains the Boke of Marchalsi, a treatise on horse breeding and veterinary medicine. Decoration: Numerous large initials in blue with red pen-flourishing and small initials in plain blue. Line fillers and paraph marks in blue.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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