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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 130
Title:: A book of medicine
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-4r: An index. ff. 4v-46v: A collection of medical recipes in various hands, beginning ‘A good powder for to Relaxe the bodye’; f. 32r features tables with the symbols of the planets and astrological signs, and a division over the hours of the day, introduced as ‘A perfect tab...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 131
Title:: John Taylor, Sermon on the Gospel of St Luke 2
Scope & Content:: Contents. f. 1r: A title-page: ‘Doctor Taylors sermon’. ff. 2r-9v: John Taylor, Sermon on the Gospel of St Luke 2, dated to 1508, beginning ‘Postquam impleti sunt dies purgationis secundum legem moysi’.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1508
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 132
Title:: Sir Walter Raleigh, 'A Militarie discourse: Whether it be better to geve an Invador present battaile, or to temporize and deferr the same'
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-17v: Sir Walter Raleigh, 'A Militarie discourse: Whether it be better to geve an Invador present battaile, or to temporize and deferr the same'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 133
Title:: Cuthbert Tunstall, A booke of all the Spyrituall Benifites and Chaunteryes within London and the Dyocesse of the same
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-36v: Cuthbert Tunstall (b. 1474, d. 1559), Bishop of London [r. 1521-1530], ‘A booke of all the Spyrituall Benifites and Chaunteryes within London and the Dyocesse of the same’; beginning ‘Pleaseth it your grace to understande, that where the kinges highnes my sovereigne lorde ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1522
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 134
Title:: Itinerary of the commissioners to Flanders, 1587-1588
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-41r: Itinerary of the commissioners to Flanders, 1587-1588, beginning: ‘An Ephemeris or Diarie, conteining the Itinerarie of our Lords Commissioners sent by hir Majestie into Flaunders to treate with the King of Spayne his Comissioners about a Peaux for maintaining the ould and...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 135
Title:: Sir John Smythe, An aunswer to contrarie opynions militarie
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6v: The ‘Epistle to the Reader’. ff. 7r-110r: Sir John Smythe, An aunswer to contrarie opynions militarie.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Spanish
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 136
Title:: Thomas Walsingham, Ypodigma Neustriae; Historia Anglicana; letters of Edward III
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-60v: Thomas Walsingham, Ypodigma Neustriae. ff. 60v-354r: Thomas Walsingham, Historia Anglicana. ff. 355r-360v: Letters between King Edward III and the Pope.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 137
Title:: Draft treaty between England, Spain and the Spanish Netherlands, 1604
Scope & Content:: Original draft of the Treaty of London (1604) between James I of England, Philip III of Spain, and the Archdukes Albert and Isabella governors of the Spanish Netherlands, with corrections and alterations (ff. 1-26). Followed by individual articles with titles provided by Ralph Starkey, former o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1604
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 138
Title:: George Treheyron, Treatise on forest laws
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r*recto: A title (‘The Lawes of a Forreste’) inscribed on a parchment strip. ff. 1r-42v: George Treheyron, Treatise on forest laws.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 139
Title:: Transcripts of historical material relating to Chester written by Laurence Bostocke
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-v: Title page with signature of Ralph Starkey. ff. 2r-11r: Index. ff. 12r-221v: Transcripts of historical material relating to Chester written by Laurence Bostocke between 1566-1575. ff. 222v-228v: Index. f. 228v: Note from the Keeper of Manuscripts that parts of the MS wer...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1566-1575
Extent:: 1 volume

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