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451. Harley MS 297/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 297/1
Title:
Detached former binding of Harley MS 297
Scope & Content:
Detached brown half-leather binding, with marbled paper, tooled in gold, and the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers, and two unfoliated paper flyleaves. The binding was previously attached to Harley MS 297 and is now stored separately.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
Former binding of Harley MS 297

452. Harley MS 300

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 300
Title:
Answer by John Bowdiche to a Bill of Complaint of Sir Simonds D'Ewes, with a catalogue of historical manuscripts in the collection of Sir Simonds D'Ewes
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume. On the rectos is the answer of John Bowdiche [Bowditch?] the younger, gentleman, to the Bill of Complaint of Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Knight, Complainant. Starting from the back of the volume, on the versos, is a selected index of historical manuscripts found within the col...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

453. Harley MS 302

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 302
Title:
Notes and memoranda relating to abuses in the Royal Navy
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume containing, under various headings, a large number of facts, notes and memoranda relating to abuses done and committed in the Royal Navy. The manuscript appears to have been used by the House of Commons, or Committees within the House, when drawing out charges, either dur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

454. Harley MS 303

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 303
Title:
Patents granted to Anne Boleyn as Marquess of Pembroke
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a series of patents granted by Henry VIII (r. 1509–1547), King of England, to Anne Boleyn as Marquess of Pembroke. It was made for her after she was created Marquess of Pembroke on 1 September 1532, but before she became Queen of England in March 1533. The parchment, sil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1532-1533
Extent:

1 volume

455. Harley MS 306

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 306
Title:
Collection of tracts relating to trade in England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-16r: Copy of '[t]he victuellinge of the Kinge and the Queenes Majesties Shippes there [Portesmowth, London and Dovar], beginninge the firste of Januarie, 1556 / And ending the laste of Marche followinge, as well for the Seas as in Harborowe, which Victuallinge was made by Edw...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1580-c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

456. Harley MS 307

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 307
Title:
Printed copy of William Lambarde's 'Archaionomia' with manuscript annotations
Scope & Content:
Printed copy of William Lambarde, Archaionomia, Sive De Priscis Anglorum Legibus libri, Cambridge, 1644, a collection of Anglo-Saxon laws in Latin and Old English, with manuscript annotations. This copy is the second edition, edited by Abraham Whelock (1593-1653). The annotations consist of vari...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

457. Harley MS 308

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 308
Title:
‘Reeve’ or ‘Melford’ Register of Bury St Edmunds Abbey
Scope & Content:
f. 1*: Inserted slip of parchment, perhaps from a former cover; on the verso in faint red 16th-century book-hand, ‘Dompnus Edmundus Bury vestiarius – 1529; dompnus Edmundus Bury pitanciarius. 1530’. ff. 1r–139r: Indentures (1527–40), in chronological order. Later additions to 1546: leases, manu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1517-1546
Extent:

1 volume

458. Harley MS 314

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 314
Title:
Andrew Horne, Mirroir des justices: vel Speculum justiciariorum
Scope & Content:
Transcript by Simonds D’Ewes of Andrew Horne’s Mirroir des justices, from Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS 258. In D’Ewes hand, with a title page dated 1624: ‘La Somme apell Mirroir aux Justices, vel Speculum Justitiariorum, des droit leies de Persons solon les auncient usages d’angliterre, f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1624
Extent:
1 volume

459. Harley MS 315

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 315
Title:
The Canterbury Passionale; a text on the Eucharist refuting John Wycliffe; verses and a fragment from the cartulary of St Swithun's, Winchester; a fragment from the accounts of the royal wardrobe of Edward II
Scope & Content:
Contents: This manuscript includes four parts made at different times: ff. 1r-39v: a fragment of the third volume of the Canterbury Passionale, containing Osbern's Vita Sancti Dunstani and Eadmer's Vita Sancti Anselmi originally bound with Cotton Nero MS C VII, ff. 29r-79r, and Harley MS 624,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half 12th century-1st half 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

460. Harley MS 315 ff 1r-39v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 315 ff 1r-39v
Title:
Fragment of the Canterbury Passionale
Scope & Content:
Contents: These folios come from a Passionale (Lives of Saints) written at Christ Church, Canterbury. It was originally bound with Cotton MS Nero C VII, ff. 29r-79r, and Harley MS 624, ff. 84r-143v. ff. 1r-15v: Osbern's Vita Sancti Dunstani (Life of St Dunstan), imperfect. f. 15v: The miracl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
A part of Harley MS 315

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