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2651. Harley MS 784

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 784
Title:
Extracts from rolls concerning concessions of the kings of England to merchants of the Hanseatic League in London
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-60r: Extracts from rolls concerning concessions of the kings of England to merchants of the Hanseatic League in London, with the title, written on a parchment pastedown on f. 1r: ‘Touchinge the Haunse’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

2652. Harley MS 791

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 791
Title:
Instructions for monastic visitations and ecclesiastical properties by Henry VIII; account book of George Montaigne of the Hospital of Savoy; account of the baptism of Charles I; Articles of the Church of England; William Austen, Poem on the Passion; John Milton, Hobson's Epitaph; Sir Walter Raleigh, Speech on the Scaffold; English poems by William Herbert, John Donne, Richard Corbett, Ben Jonson and John Grange; Francis Bacon, Upon the Death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of at least eight parts that were produced at separate times in the 16th and 17th centuries, and were bound together at an unknown stage before reaching the Harleian Library. Only the first three parts date to the 16th century. Contents: Part 1: ff. 1r-4v: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1540-c 1630
Extent:
1 volume

2653. Harley MS 1323

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1323
Title:
Political tracts including speeches of King James, copies of Elizabethan letters, and documents related to the Spanish match
Scope & Content:
Composite volume of political tracts in different hands. Contents: ff. 1-12: King James’s speeches on the state of the kingdom, supply in warfare and the defence of the kingdom, etc. Declaration of the Lords and Commons delivered to the King by the Archbishop of Canterbury, 13 March 1633, on ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1580s-1630s
Extent:
1 volume

2654. Harley MS 3329

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3329
Title:
In Sacra Biblia Graeca ex versione LXX. Interpretum Scholia, London 1653, profusely annotated on interleaved sheets by Abednego Seller (1646?-1705; see DNB li.226). In Sacra Biblia was printed as an appendix to Ἡ Παλαία Διαθήκη. Vetus Testamentum Graecum, London 1653 (e.g. BL 218.k.8,9 and 1509/1042).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1653-1705
Extent:
1 item

2655. Harley MS 1870

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1870
Title:
Risposta alle Giustificazioni della Serenissima Signoria di Venezia per la pace fatta col turco
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is bound together with Harley MS 1869, Harley MS 1871, Harley MS 1872, Harley MS 1873, Harley MS 1874. Contents: ff. 1r-36v: Risposta alle Giustificazioni della Serenissima Signoria di Venezia per la pace fatta col turco. ff. 37r-38v: leaves from an unidentified 13th/14th-cent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

Part of Harley MSS 1869-1874 (bound together as 1 volume)

2656. Harley MS 3627

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3627
Title:
George Owen, Of the Antiquity, Ampleness, and Excellency of the Common Laws of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-116r: George Owen (b. c. 1573, d. 1617), Of the Antiquity, Ampleness, and Excellency of the Common Laws of England; chapters 1-6 (out of 20 chapters), here anonymous, but with the title: 'Of fhe Antiquitie, Amplenes, and Excellencie of the Common Lawes of England'. Owen wrote t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1614-c 1625
Extent:
1 volume

2657. Harley MS 4004

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4004
Title:
Collection of English law cases; indentures of John Estrete; formulary of English Civil Law
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of three parts that were produced separately and written by different hands. Contents: Part 1: ff. 1r-107v: Collection of English law cases; written in Law French in the last quarter of the 15th century or 1st quarter of the 16th century. Part 2: ff. 108...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2658. Harley MS 5417

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5417
Title:
Jean Poingdestre, Caesarea or A Discourse of the Island of Jersey in two Parts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-44v: Jean Poingdestre (b. 1609, d. 1691), Caesarea or A Discourse of the Island of Jersey in two Parts: The First, An Accompt of It as It Is at Present; The second, Some Historical Observations Relating to Antiquity.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2659. Harley MS 339

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 339
Title:
Papers of Sir Simonds D'Ewes
Scope & Content:
Quarto manuscript volume containing various papers of Sir Simonds D'Ewes. Contents: ff. 1-2v: 'A breife meaning of God's law', seemingly written by Simonds D'Ewes as a school boy to his mother, along with other notes in English and Latin. ff. 3-3v: Part of a letter from Simonds D'Ewes to a cler...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1547-1650?
Extent:
1 volume

2660. Harley MS 1986

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1986
Title:
‘Breviat of the Bishops of England’
Scope & Content:
Manuscript extracts from Francis Godwin, Catalogue of Bishops (1615), perhaps written by Randle Holme II (c1601–1659). Includes Archbishops of Canterbury, Bishops of London, Winchester, Ely, Lincoln, Coventry and Lichfield with Chester, Sherborne and Salisbury. Title (f. 4): ‘A breviat of the bu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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