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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 587/1
Title:: Breviary, use of Sarum (Volume 1)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the first of two volumes, which comprise Harley MS 587 (the other being Harley MS 587/2), a Breviary, of Sarum use. This volume contains the Temporale, Dedication of the Church, and the Calendar. The Breviary was adapted for the diocese of Worcester. The Calendar includes a ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1415-c 1420
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 587/2
Title:: Breviary, use of Sarum (Volume 2)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the second of two volumes which comprise Harley MS 587 (the first being Harley MS 587/1), a Breviary, of Sarum use. This volume contains a Psalter with the Litany, Blessings for the lessons of Matins, the Common of the Saints, the Sanctorale, and the Office of the Dead. The ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1415-c 1420
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 590
Title:: Collection of historical papers compiled by John Foxe
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript of different historical papers was compiled by the martyrologist John Foxe (b. 1516/17, d. 1587). Contents: f. 1r: Part of an old roll, containing a survey of the Kent Marshes with drawings of the manor houses of 'Clyffe', 'Collynge', 'Halstowe', 'St Marys' and 'Alha...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1540-c 1585
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 591
Title:: Taxatio Beneficiorum Ecclesiasticorum authoritate Papae Nicholae Quarti; bills, inventories and indentures related to the belongings of colleges and chantries
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-81v: Taxatio Beneficiorum Ecclesiasticorum authoritate Papae Nicholae Quarti facta A. D. 1291 H. 20. E.i; written in the 16th century. ff. 84r-91v: An 'Inventorie [...] of all the Plate and Juelles of all the the Colliges, Chauntries, Freechappelles, Fraternities, Brotherhedds...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 592
Title:: Extracts from records from the time of King Edward I to King Edward VI
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-79r: Extracts from records from the time of King Edward I to King Edward VI. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*r: ‘Dutchy Lancast[er]’, added in the late 16th or early 17th century.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 593
Title:: Historical and theological notes of Simonds D’Ewes
Scope & Content:: Collection of notes relating to history and theology, almost all in the hand of Simonds D’Ewes, with a few in other hands annotated by D’Ewes. Separate papers, mounted and bound together.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 594
Title:: The first of two volumes with episcopal returns in the diocesan population census of 1563 and 1603
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the first of two volumes with original certificates from bishops concerning the state of their dioceses in reply to requests for information from the Privy Council for the diocesan population census of 1563 and 1603. In the first census, the Privy Council requested information...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1533-1603
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 595
Title:: The second of two volumes with episcopal returns in the diocesan population census of 1563 and 1603
Scope & Content:: The second of two volumes with original certificates from bishops concerning the state of their dioceses in reply to requests for information from the Privy Council for the diocesan population census of 1563 and 1603. In the first census, the Privy Council requested information on the number of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1563-1603
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 598
Title:: Account of prize ships taken by Charles Howard, Lord High Admiral
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-69r: The account of the officer of Charles Howard (b. 1536, d. 1624), 1st Earl of Nottingham, Lord High Admiral, of all prize ships taken from the Spanish, 1587-1598. ff. 70v-74r: Notes of payments, dated to 1611-1612.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1587-1612
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 599
Title:: An inventory of Cardinal Wolsey’s household goods
Scope & Content:: A manuscript, in folio, titled ‘An Inventorie of Cardinall Woolsie’s rich Househould stuffe. Temp H. 8. The Originall Booke as it seems, Kept by his owne Officers’. This may be one of the books which, at the time of Cardinal Wolsey’s fall [1530], contained an inventory of all his goods. After 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1527-1530
Extent:: 1 volume

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