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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5442
Title:: John Borough [John de Burgh], Pupilla oculi
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r–4r: Table to John Borough [John de Burgh]'s Pupilla oculi. ff. 5r–201v: John Borough [John de Burgh], Pupilla oculi. The manuscript contains various additions: f. 1v: Theological excerpt attributed to St Gregory the Great; added in the early 16th century. f. 1v (paper past...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6033
Title:: A miscellany of heraldic and historical texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title for a heraldic (?) treatise that was never begun: ‘Compendium or abstracts of all that hath byn written [...] Of the word Arma [...] and signification thereof’. ff. 3r-4r: A list of English monasteries in Latin, incomplete. ff. 5r-5v: An English heraldic treatise on...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1590s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6203
Title:: Transcript of a cartulary of Hereford Cathedral
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-44r: Transcript of a medieval cartulary of Hereford Cathedral, entitled: 'Collections out of an Old Imperfect Registre of the Church of Hereford, on Vellom [sic], Folio MS in the Library of the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Viscount Weymouth [Sir Thomas Thynne (d. 1714), 1st Vis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1718
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6223
Title:: Arthour and Merline (excerpt); History of England
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-2v: A transcript of the first 62 lines of Arthour and Merline by John Stow (b. 1524/1525, d. 1605), beginning: ‘[H]e that made withe his honde / wynde wode watar and londe’. ff. 3r-21r: A transcript of a history of England ‘Taken out of the cronicle that sumtyme belongyd to ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6580
Title:: Speculum Christiani and Oraciones de Saluatore Nostro
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-62r: Speculum Christiani. At the end the scribe writes 'Amen quod Rogerus' and directly after this in red, a rubricator writes 'Explicit liber de speculo christiani quod byrde' (f. 62r). ff. 62v-64v: Oraciones de Saluatore Nostro. Late 14th century Latin text on original flyl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 161
Title:: Collection of tracts and papers on Parliamentary affairs
Scope & Content:: Collection of papers in various hands. Contents: f. 1: List of peers of the realm. Headed: ‘Nomina Dominorum; a[nn]o 18 Jac. a[nn]o 1620. Die martis, die 30 Januarij’. January 1621. f. 2-27: Short notes and papers of Simonds D’Ewes, apparently used in his collected journals of Parliament (l...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1620s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 174
Title:: Cartulary of the church of St Peter, Flawford
Scope & Content:: ff. 1v–13v: Recital of royal and other documents, 1459–78, relating to the foundation of the Babington chantry (in the chapel of St Andrew), given by Sir William Babington (b. c.1370, d. 1454).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 256
Title:: Acts of the Privy Council, 1545 and 1546
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the acts of the Privy Council between 1545 and 1546. Originally, it may have been bound together with Harley MS 169, ff. 1-31, containing the acts of the Privy Council from 1558. Contents: ff. 1r-292r: Acts of the Privy Council, 1545-1546, beginning ‘A Book of the Act...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1550
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 571
Title:: Annals of legal matters under King Edward II
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-184v: Annals of legal matters under King Edward II (reigned 1307-1327), written in French.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 590
Title:: Collection of historical papers compiled by John Foxe
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript of different historical papers was compiled by the martyrologist John Foxe (b. 1516/17, d. 1587). Contents: f. 1r: Part of an old roll, containing a survey of the Kent Marshes with drawings of the manor houses of 'Clyffe', 'Collynge', 'Halstowe', 'St Marys' and 'Alha...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1540-c 1585
Extent:: 1 volume

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