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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 457
Title:: Minutes of the proceedings of the Treaty of London (1641) and other papers
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume containing minutes of the proceedings of the Treaty between the Commissioners of England and Scotland, known as the Treaty of London (1641), and other papers relating to the same treaty and the Treaty of Ripon (1640). These minutes were taken by Sir John Burroughs or Boro...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1640-1641
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 466
Title:: Journal of William Hawke on board HMS Woolf
Scope & Content:: Manuscript journal of William Hawke on board HMS Woolf, under the command of Captain George Purvis, 20 December 1690-14 November 1691. In this time HMS Woolf sailed from England to Virginia, from Virginia back to England, and then from England to Ireland. Contents: f. 1 (upside down): Extra ent...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1690-1691
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 467
Title:: Journal of John Fairman on board HMS Woolf
Scope & Content:: Manuscript journal of John Fairman on board HMS Woolf, under the command of Captain George Purvis, 19 August 1690-19 December 1691. Contents: ff. 1-44v: Jounral of John Fairman on board HMS Woolf, 19 August 1690-19 December 1691. f. 45v: Short notes of tobacco sold by the Captain of the ship, a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1690-1694
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 509, ff 1v-4v
Title:
Scope & Content:: Dedication of elegies by Wye Saltonstall to Sir Thomas Middleton.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1640
Extent:: 4 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 526, ff 1r-27v
Title:: Bede, Vita Cuthberti Metrica (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2020)
Scope & Content:: This work contains a late 9th century copy of Bede's verse Life of Cuthbert, written in the region which is now northern France. It was in England by the mid-10th century, given the Old English names inscribed in the margin and the Old English glosses in the text (see, for example, ff. 2r, 15r)....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of 9th century
Extent:: 27 folios, part of a parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 526, ff 28r-37v
Title:: Vita Venerabilis Bedae (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 1069)
Scope & Content:: This item contains prose life of Bede (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 1069), copied in France or England in the first half of the 12th century. The preface begins 'Inter catholicos sacrae Scripturae expositores...' Decoration: 2 coloured initials (f. 28r-v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of 12th century
Extent:: 10 folios, part of a parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 526, ff 38r-57v
Title:: Anonymous Vita Ædwardi Regis (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2421)
Scope & Content:: This item contains the sole surviving copy of the Vita Ædwardi, a life of Edward the Confessor (b. c 1003, d. 1066) written by an anonymous author with sections in prose and verse. The text is imperfect, possibly missing two folios each from the first and last quire. Decoration: Painted initial...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1100
Extent:: 19 folios, part of a parchment codex

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