4381. Harley MS 6997
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4382. Harley MS 621
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 621
- Title:
- Du cas des nobles hommes et femmes: a translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium by Laurent de Premierfait
- Scope & Content:
- Du cas des nobles hommes et femmes: a translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium by Laurent de Premierfait. Imperfect. The beginning of Book I, chapter 1 is lost. Incipit (f. 1r): 'premiers partus fut grant et telle que a elle aucune aultre ne se compare'. Fol...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French, Old
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4383. Harley MS 116
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 116
- Title:
- An English miscellany including Thomas Hoccleve, The Regiment of Princes; The Short Charter of Christ; Benedict Burgh, Parvus Cato and Cato Major; anonymous Middle English poems and poems by John Lydgate; Gottfried von Franken, Godfridus Super Palladium (Middle English translation); Nicholas Bollard, The Book of Planting and Grafting
- Scope & Content:
- This collection of Middle English and Latin poems and treatises is datable to after 1461 as the anonymous Chronicle presents Edward IV as king of England. A later hand (early 16th century) added a table of contents (f. 1* verso) and a few medical recipes (ff. 167v-168r, 169r). The cataloguing of...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
4384. Harley MS 367
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 367
- Title:
- Historical notes, documents and poems written or copied by John Stowe and others, including poems by George Ripley, John Lydgate, Humphrey Brereton, John Skelton, John Heywood, William Vallans, William Drummond of Hawthornden, Robert Herrick, John Denham, Paul D'Ewes, Tom Coryate, John Hoskyns and others
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-3v: John Stowe's paper against Richard Grafton and his chronicle. f. 4r: Proceedings of John Stowe in surveying the measures in the Ward of Baynard's Castle, 1584. ff. 5r-5v: Declaration of the absues done to John Stowe by William Ditcher, alias Tatford, and his wife. ff....
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
- Date Range:
- mid 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4385. Harley MS 3869
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3869
- Title:
- John Gower, Confessio amantis, Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz, pageant verses, and some short Latin verse; Marian hymns in English and Latin
- Scope & Content:
- Confessio amantis by John Gower (d. 1408), along with his French Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz, and some of his short Latin verse. Also includes (in the hand of another scribe), pageant verses by John Lydgate and Marian hymns in English and Latin. Contents: ff. 2r–4v: John Lydgat...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
- Date Range:
- Mid 15th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
4386. Harley MS 1582
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1582
- Title:
- State papers, 1553-1596
- Scope & Content:
- This volume is entitled on the spine, 'Original Letters and Papers on State Affairs'. It contains a wide range of materials on English relations with, and intelligence on, France, the Low Countries and Germany in the late 16th century. It has also been termed, not entirely happily but with a g...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Cipher, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
- Date Range:
- 1553-1596
- Extent:
-
1 volume.
4387. Harley MS 7578
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7578
- Title:
- Middle English verse, including ballads by Chaucer and Lydgate; 'The Flyting of Montgomerie and Polwart' by Alexander Montgomerie; 'Nebuchadnezzar's Fierie Furnace'; the 'Annals of Oskell'; grammatical exercises in Latin and Greek; Old songs of Durham
- Scope & Content:
- Miscellany compiling pages from a number of other manuscripts, which vary greatly in size and period. Major sections within the miscellany are f. 1 (verse and prose on the Ten Commandments and Seven Deadly Sins), ff. 2-20 (various ballads and other verse, some by Chaucer and Lydgate), f. 21 (a s...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, English, Middle, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1400-1700
- Extent:
-
1 volume
4388. Harley MS 6989
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6989
- Title:
- Letters and state warrants, 1377-1557
- Scope & Content:
- Letters and state warrants, from the years 1377-1557. f. 1r-1v Letter from Johannes Haukewood, Capitanus Defensoribus Civitates Senarum. 3 February 1377. Latin. f. 2r-2v Letter from Matheus Beccharis, Thomae Cardinali Eboracensi. Abinton, 30 May 1518. Latin. ff. 3r-4v Letter from L. Campegiu...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1377-1557
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4389. Harley MS 6994
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6994
- Title:
- Letters on state affairs, 1586–1589
- Scope & Content:
- ff. 1r–216v: Letters on state affairs from many prominent individuals, including Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester; William Cecil, Lord Burghley; John Puckering; Sir Walter Mildmay, and Francis Walsingham, 1586–1589. ff. 1r–v: Original complimentary letter in Latin from Hieronymus Groslotiu...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1586-1589
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4390. Harley MS 7008
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7008
- Title:
- Correspondence of Prince Henry, 1611-1612
- Scope & Content:
- Letters, state warrants and correspondence of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594–1612). Volume 2 of Harley MSS 7007-7009. ff. 1r-2v: Letter from Wilhelm Kettler, Duke of Courland, to Prince Henry. Goldinga, 1 January 1611. Latin. ff. 3r-4v: Letter from François de Lorraine, Duke of Vaudemo...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, Italian, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1611-1612
- Extent:
- 1 volume