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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6359
Title:: Des Grantz geanz (Octosyllabic version); Brut Chronicle (Short Version)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4r: Des Grantz geanz (Octosyllabic version). ff. 4r-84v: Brut Chronicle (Short Version) down to 1329.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6360
Title:: Astrological texts; texts on high treason
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of two separate parts. The first part (ff. 3r-31r) contains astrological texts copied in the 16th century; the second part (ff. 4r-133r) contains texts concerning high treason that were most likely copied in the late 16th century. Contents: ff. 3r-8v: Astrol...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6362
Title:: William Roper, The lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 2r: A title-page: ‘The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore sometyme Chancellor of Englande written by the sonne in lawe William Roper of Eltham in the Counye of Kente esquier’. ff. 3r-47v: William Roper (b. 1495x8, d. 1578), The lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte, here entitled: ‘The Lyfe of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6363
Title:: A description of London; with a list of mayors and sheriffs from 1190-1588
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-52r: A ‘Breeff Description of the Famous Cittie of London Capitall Cittie of this Realme of England et caetera Anno 1588’. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 53r: Notes about London, beginning: ‘Shoreditch Place otherwise called Inglerowe’; added in the 17th centur...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1588
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6368
Title:: John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, 'A Treatise towchinge the Right title & intrest of the Most excellent princesse Marie, Queene of Scottland, & of the most Noble Kinge James, her graces sonn to the Succession of the Crowne of England'
Scope & Content:: John Leslie [Lesley] (1527-1596), Bishop of Ross, was the leading polemicist of the right of Mary Queen of Scots to the English throne. His arguments were made in a number of printed versions in English, Latin, French and Spanish, and also survive in significant numbers of manuscript copies. The...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1584
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6369
Title:: William Davison on the execution of Mary Queen of Scots
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–10r: A late 16th or early 17th-century copy of William Davison's declaration to Francis Walsingham concerning the beheading of Mary Queen of Scots. f. 1r: title page ('Secretarie Davisons declar[ation] to Secretarie Walsingham of his innocencie touching the Skotish Queene beheadinge'). ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6371
Title:: The Diariey of Robert Birrell Burgess of Edinburgh - Containing Diverse Passages of State, and uthers Memorable Accidents - From the 1532 Zeir of Our Redemption, Till the Beginning of the Zeir 1605
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-77r: The Diariey of Robert Birrell Burgess of Edinburgh - Containing Diverse Passages of State, and uthers Memorable Accidents - From the 1532 Zeir of Our Redemption, Till the Beginning of the Zeir 1605.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Scots
Date Range:: 1605
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6382
Title:: A Treatise contayninge the lyfe and manner of death of that most holy prelat and constant martyr of christ John ffisher Bishop of Rochester and Cardinall of the holy church of Rome
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-118r: A ‘Treatise contayninge the lyfe and manner of death of that most holy prelat and constant martyr of christ John ffisher Bishop of Rochester and Cardinall of the holy church of Rome’.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c. 1536-c. 1599
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6391
Title:: A Relation of Prince Henryes noble and vertuous Disposition
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-8v: An anonymous author's account of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), entitled: ‘A Relation of Prince Henryes noble and vertuous Disposition and of Sundry his wittie and pleasant Speeches diverted to the right honourable the Lord Lumley and his Lady’.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1605
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6395
Title:: Jests and curious stories of Nicholas L’Estrange
Scope & Content:: A book of 606 jests and anecdotes compiled by Nicholas L’Estrange (1604-1655), with unnumbered additions in a different hand. Anecdotes from L’Estrange’s own knowledge are identified by the initials S.N.L., while others are attributed to friends and relatives, including his brothers, Hamon L'Est...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1630s-1650s
Extent:: 1 volume

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