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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1597
Title:: Collection of writs, oaths, warrants and fees from the reign of Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1v-3r: 'Tabula pro demonstratione nominum et naturarum presidencium, tam Brevium confessionum et finium, quam aliorum in hoc libro contentorum'. ff. 5r-50r: A collection of legal writs in Latin, entitled 'Presidencia diversorum generum', most of which date to 20-25 Elizabeth I, b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1580
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1598
Title:: Elegies on the death of William Gurdon, and other poems
Scope & Content:: ff. 1-9r: Narration of the death of William Gurdon, 1620, and elegies on his decease. f. 9v-11r: Elegy on the death of Richard Rogers (1550?–1618), minister of Wethersfield. ff. 11v-13: Verses by Adam Winthrop (1548-1623) to the Lady Mildmay at the birth of her son Henry, 1620, and verses to H...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1620
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1599
Title:: Relation of a voyage to Constantinople and Smyrna, by Belval
Scope & Content:: Journal by Belval of his travels from Paris to Contantinople, 1626-1627, a description of Constantinople, and a further voyage from Constantinople to Smyrna. With a Turkish French vocabulary list. f. 1*: Title and other marks of ownership: ‘Relation de mon Voiage faict par moy Belval L’an 1626’...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1626-1627
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1600
Title:: Collection of medical recipes and charms
Scope & Content:: A collection of medical and surgical recipes and charms from the late 14th century or early 15th century with added recipes and charms that date to the late 15th and/or early 16th century. Two of the charms refer to the Earl of Hereford (f. 35r) and the Infirmary of Killyngworth (f. 35v). The re...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1601
Title:: House of Commons diary
Scope & Content:: House of Commons diary 1626-1628, 1640-1641. Contemporaneous brief notes of proceedings by an unknown writer. ff. 1-4r: 1626. ff. 4v-5: 1627. ff. 6-41v: March-May 1628. ff. 42-56: Long Parliament, 1640-1641.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1626-1641
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1602
Title:: Collection of medical treatises, alchemical recipes and charms
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript is formed of four separate codicological units with materials added to the beginning and the end, when the units appear to have been bound or kept together. Part 1 (ff. 3r-4v) contains a collection alchemical recipes that was written in the 15th century. Part 2 (ff. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century-16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1604
Title:: History and theology tracts
Scope & Content:: Composite volume of historical extracts relating to Westminster Abbey, notes on the history of England, and theological tracts. Contents: f. 1: Notes on the building of Westminster Abbey by Henry III, taken from the history of Thomas Walsingham. Latin. ff. 2-4: Account of the founding of the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1605/1
Title:: Fragments of an anonymous Anglo-Norman metrical translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Brittaniae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the first of three volumes that comprise Harley MS 1605 (the others being Harley MS 1605/2 and Harley MS 1605/3). It contains fragments of an anonymous Anglo-Norman verse translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Brittaniae. The text is known as the 'Harley Brut' bu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and English
Date Range:: c 1250
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1605/2
Title:: A collection of Middle English medical, trick and cosmetical recipes; a Latin charm and recipes against vermin; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Liber de modo bene vivendi ad sororem
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the second of three volumes that comprise Harley MS 1605 (the others being Harley MS 1605/1 and Harley MS 1605/3). Harley MS 1605/2 contains three parts that were separately produced in the 15th century and brought together at an unknown point in time before or after they reac...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1605/3
Title:: The Forme of Cury (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the third of three volumes that comprise Harley MS 1605 (the others being Harley MS 1605/1 and Harley MS 1605/2). This part of the manuscript contains an imperfect copy of a Middle English collection of cookery recipes known as The Forme of Cury (The Method of Cooking). The te...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1390-early 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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