Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1655
Title:: Accounts of Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet, Treasurer of the Navy
Scope & Content:: Manuscript volume, containing the accounts for 1632 of Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet, Treasurer of His Majesties Navy. Payments include the ordinary charge of all His Majesties Ships and Vessels in Harbour, as well as 8 gunners serving in His Majesties Castle of Upnor. Also included is the ent...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1632
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1656
Title:: Accounts of the Board of the Kings Works, 1660-1661
Scope & Content:: Manuscript office-book in folio containing monthly accounts of all charges for works and reparations done at the Tower of London, Whitehall, Westminster, St. James’s House, Somerset House, Hampton Court, and for General Monke [George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle], together with the accounts of a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1660-1661
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1657
Title:: Accounts of the Board of the Kings Works, 1662-1663
Scope & Content:: Manuscript office-book in folio containing monthly accounts of all charges for works and reparations done at the Tower of London, Whitehall, Westminster, St. James’s House, Greenwich, and Hampton Court, together with the accounts of all allowances to Officers of the Works, for six months from De...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1662-1663
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1658
Title:: Accounts of the Board of the Kings Works, 1666-1667
Scope & Content:: Manuscript office-book in folio containing monthly accounts of all charges for works and reparations done at the Tower of London, Whitehall, Westminster, St James’s House, Snowell [or Snow-well or Snow-will] near Berkshire House, Hampton Court, and Greenwich, together with the accounts for ridin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1666-1667
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1659
Title:: Willelmus Peraldus, Summa de vitiis et virtutibus
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4r-394v: Willelmus Peraldus [William Perault (d. 1271)], Summa de vitiis et virtutibus. The manuscript features several later additions: ff. 1v-3r: Pope Innocent III, De contemptu mundi; added in the (?) 15th century. ff. 395r-97r: Theological notes in Latin, featuring a few ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1660
Title:: Nicholas de Aquevilla, Sermons
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-246v: Nicholas de Aquevilla, Sermons (Sermones dominicales), with a table of sermons listed alphabetically by subject (ff. 191-194), imperfect at the beginning and the end. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A prayer against the plague: '[...] stella de ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1661
Title:: Bible, without the Psalms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-448v: Bible, without the Psalms. ff. 449r-484v: The Interpretation of Hebrew names (added slightly later). Decoration: Puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours at the beginning of most books (except Esther) and some prologues. Initials in red...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 13th century-13rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1662
Title:: Middle Dutch Book of Hours
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4r-15v: Calendar, including saints related to the dioceses of Utrecht, Liège and Cologne. ff. 17v-62v: The Hours of the Virgin Mary, Unidentified Use. ff. 62v-66v: The Hours of Christ, with a rubric: 'Hijr beginnen die seven getiden van onsen lieven heren ihesu Chrste seer oirb...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1463-c 1476
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1663
Title:: Book of Hours (Use of York)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar. ff. 7r-46v: The Hours of the Virgin Mary. ff. 47r-58v: The Seven Penitential Psalms. ff. 58v-69r: Litany of Saints, followed by several prayers. ff. 70r-122r: Office of the Dead, featuring musical notation: black neumes on four-line red staves. ff. 123r-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1664
Title:: Psalter of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk
Scope & Content:: Volume of 26 psalms and prayers in Latin, with French rubric. Formerly owned by Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk (c. 1484–1545), magnate, courtier and soldier, whose signature appears on f. 22v. ff. 1r-4v: Rubric, ‘de la Louenge, Vertu, et Efficace des Pseames’. French. ff. 5r-9r: Psalms....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: Early 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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