Various state papers and parliamentary journals bound together. ff. 1-107: Journal of the House of Lords, 26 November 1696 to 23 January 1697, with reference to the attainder of Sir John Fenwick. Also includes the following business: Charles Mordaunt, then Earl of Monmouth, later of Peterbor...
Collection of treaties between France and Scotland 791-1587, privileges accorded to the Scots by French kings, and Scotland’s renunciation of the alliance with France in 1292 and 1296. Chiefly in French with some Latin. Written in a single italic hand. Contents: f. 1*: Title: ‘Traittez entre l...
John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes; Defence of Holy Church
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Contents: ff. 1r-182v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes [Books 1-9], imperfect; an English translation of Laurent de Premierfait’s Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes, which is a French translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (‘On the Fates of Famous Men’). ff. 182v...
Contents: f. 1v: A table of content of the collection of sermons contained in this manuscript. ff. 2r-141r: A collection of 63 homilies mainly excerpted from the commentaries on the Four Gospels by the Church Fathers and Doctors of the Church, arranged for the liturgical year, beginning with B...
Book in several hands on navigation, with diagrams, and English navy matters 1658-1665. Contents: ff. 1-14: Short geometrical tract for learners, with diagrams. ff. 15-32: Explanation of some problems in the art of navigation. ff. 33-37: The doctrine of spherical triangles. f. 38v: Li...
Book of court precedents, largely manorial courts. For a selected list of contents, see the 1808 printed catalogue of Harley MSS (Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, vol. 1, pp. 628-630). Includes extracts from the Court-Leat and Court-Baron for the manors of Clacton Mag...
A transcript of the cartulary of St David's Cathedral
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This manuscript contains a transcript of the St David's cartulary in Harley MS 6280. Contents: ff. 1*r: letter from the office of the Bishop of St David's addressed to Humphrey Wanley concerning the loan of the manuscript to the former, dated 11 June 1714. ff. 2*r: letter of Richard Smalbroke...
Folio manuscript volume. Contents: f. 1: Incomplete table of contents. ff. 2-27: An Act to punish mutiny, sedition and desertion in soldiers; for preventing false musters; and concerning soldiers’ pay. To take effect from 10 January 1691 [1692?]. ff. 29v-74: Copy of a Bill for regulating the co...
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('Hours of Eleanor Worcester')
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Contents: f. 1: Added paper fragment of a printed 15th- or 16th-century book concerning canon law, inscribed on the recto with a book curse in Middle English verse, ‘Thys boke ys one and godes kors ys anoder they that take the ton god gef them the toder’ (DIMEV no. 5660-3), late-15th/16th cent...