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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1847
Title:: De formis veterum deorum and Moralitates in Ovidium ascribed to Thomas Wallensis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-16r: De formis veterum deorum, ascribed to Thomas Wallensis (d. ?1350). ff. 16r-82v: Moralitates in Ovidium, ascribed to Thomas Wallensis.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1855
Title:: A register of the Spanish Company (Society of Merchants of England trading in Spain and Portugal), 1605
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-36v: A register of the Spanish Company (Society of Merchants of England trading in Spain and Portugal) including lists of members admitted to the company (ff. 1r-14r), a copy of the charter granted by King James I to the Company (31 May 1605) (ff. 15r-34v), and an index of topi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1605
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1856
Title:: Collection of writs and legal precedents from the reign of Henry VIII
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-174r: Collection of writs and legal precedents from the reign of King Henry VIII, written in Latin and English and organised alphabetically by 'Rouland Shakelady'. For example, including a licence to Bartholomew Hesketh to wear his bonnet at his own liberty for head infirmities...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1540
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1859
Title:: Registrum brevium
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-217r: Registrum brevium. The manuscript contains several additions: f. 1*verso: 'Sacramentum Servientis ad legem', beginning: 'Ye shall swere that well and truly ye shall serve the kynges People as one of the Sergeantes at the Lawe'; added in the 16th century. f. 1r: Lati...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1862
Title:: Oon of Foure; a treatise on the Ten Commandments, virtues and sins
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 7r-77v: Oon of Foure; a Middle English translation of Clement of Llanthony's Gospel Harmony Unum ex Quattuor, beginning: 'heer bigynneþ a prolog in to o booc maad of þe foure gospelis: Clement a preest of þe chirche of lantony gaderde alle þe sentences of þe foure gospeleris in t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1864
Title:: Armorial of Knights of the Order of the Garter
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1v: Dedication of the manuscript by Sir William Dethick (b. 1543, d. 1612) to Queen Elizabeth I, dated 1588, beginning: 'Serenissima, Augustissima, et ubiuis longe Potentissima Regina'. f. 2r: The achievement of King Henry V, with above: 'Elizabetha potens, iam regnans pace Bryt...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 1587
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1866
Title:: Excerpts from Textus Roffensis, in a modern facsimile by Elizabeth Elstob
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-9v: Excerpts from Textus Roffensis, including a copy of King Æthelberht's charter of the foundation or endowment of the church of Rochester (bearing the date ‘4 kal. Maias, indictione 7’), a facsimile on parchment made by Elizabeth Elstob. Decoration: 1 large historiated in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1700-1719
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1879
Title:: Catalogues of the books of Henry Savile of Banke, Robert Bruce Cotton, and John Dee
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-10r: Catalogue of the library of Henry Savile of Banke (d. 1617) in English and Latin, written in the hand of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician. f. 10v: List of books wanted by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, headed: 'Books I want', fr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1583-c 1612
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1880
Title:: Indenture between King Henry VIII and Sir Andrew Windsor, keeper of the wardrobe, for the sale of the manor of Stanwell (Middlesex) and other estates
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains an indenture, or deed of sale, between King Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547) and Sir Andrew Windsor (b. 1467, d. 1543), an English MP, keeper of the wardrobe, and knight banneret. Dated 14th March 1542, the indenture records Windsor's sale of his ancestral manor house of Stanwe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1542-1543
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1882
Title:: How to perfume gloves, to make perfumes and swete waters with divers other sundrie preservatives as they be made in Spanie and Portugall translated forthe of a written Spannishe booke of the Duches of Ferias
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-22r: A collection of 87 recipes, entitled: 'Howe to perfume gloves, to make perfumes and swete waters with divers other sundrie preservatives as they be made in Spanie and Portugall translated forthe of a written Spannishe booke of the Duches of Ferias'; Jane Dormer (b. 1536, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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