Project / Collection: Harley Collection / Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 851
Title:: Letters from Henry Hastings and William Bowes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2v: A letter from Henry Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon and Lord Lieutenant of all the Northern Counties, to Thomas Scrope, 10th Baron Scrope of Bolton, Lord Warden of the Western Marches concerning the inconveniences relating to his wardenship, Scots abroad and subjects at home;...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1590s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 852
Title:: Various papers, many of which relate to Sir Thomas Bodley or Sir Walter Raleigh
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume. Contents: ff. 1-2: A speech to Queen Elizabeth I, given when the citizens of London presented Mr Cuthbert Buckle, their Mayor-elect, to her majesty for her approbation. ff. 2-4: A speech from when Mr John Spencer, Lord Mayor-elect of London, was brought to be sworn and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 853
Title:: English historical and alchemical miscellany
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-21v: George Ripley, The Twelve Gates or The Compende of Alkemye; ending with an added Latin poem written and signed by Thomas Knight (d. 1618). ff. 22r-25r: ‘A Compend upon the Phylosopher's Stone, sent unto Kinge Edward the IV from Lovayne’. ff. 25r-26r: An alchemical tract...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1575
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 854
Title:: William Stamford, Exposition of the King's Prerogative
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘Stamfordes boke of the prerogatyffe’. ff. 2r-72v: William Stamford (fl. 16th century), Exposition of the King's Prerogative (1567); here entitled ‘Prerogative of the kynge and Crowne of England’; introduced as ‘An exposicion of the kyngs prerogative collected o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1574-1575
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 855
Title:: Pierre Jeannin, Lettre de Monsieur Le Duc du Mayne Au Roy d’Espagne touchant Les guerres dernieres faute; A la Memoire perpetuelle de Henry quatriesme surnomme le Grand, Roy tres Chrestien de France et de Navarre
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-39v: ‘Lettre de Monsieur Le Duc du Mayne [‘Charles de Loraine’] Au Roy d’Espagne touchant Les guerres dernieres faute; Par Monsieur le President Jeannin [Pierre Jeannin (b. 1542, d. 1623)]’; dated to 31 December 1594. ff. 40r: ‘A la Memoire perpetuelle de Henry quatriesme su...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1594
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 856
Title:: A treatise on common law in England
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-52r: A treatise of grounds and rules, maxims of the common law of England; dedicated to Elizabeth I, A. D. 1596.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1596
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 857
Title:: List of Acts of Parliament
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume containing a list of the titles of Acts of Parliament from 1 Richard III [1483] to 21 James I [1623/1624], either enrolled, or removed by writs of certiorari.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1624
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 858
Title:: Vetera Statuta, Registrum Brevium
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes the statutes of the English kings from Magna Cartato the end of the reign of Edward II, known as the Vetera Statuta (ff. 1r-73v), followed by two copies of the Registrum Brevium (ff. 74r-119v and 120r-191v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: Early 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 858, ff 1r-73v
Title:: Vetera Statuta
Scope & Content:: 1. Carta de libertatibus Angliae, known as the Magna Carta, confirmed by Edward on 28 March 1999 (29th year of his reign) (ff. 1r-2r). 2. Carta de libertatibus foreste (Carta de Foresta) (ff. 2r-4r). 3. Sentencia lata super cartas (of 1293) (f. 4v). 4. Statute of Merton (ff. 4v-7r). 5. Statu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: Early 14th century
Extent:: 73 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 858, ff 74r-119v
Title:: Registrum brevium
Scope & Content:: Registrum brevium with an added copy of the privileges granted by Edward II to the Knights of Rhodes in England (ff. 100r-101v). Decoration: Large initial in colours and gold with red ivy leaves with pen-flourishing in red and blue extending in the margins (f. 74r). Initials in blue or red wi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Early 14th century
Extent:: 46 folios.

Search