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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2279
Title:: Brut Chronicle
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-146r: The Brut Chronicle down to King Edward III, imperfect at the end. [ff. 1v, 2r, 2v, 146v are blank]. The manuscript contains later additions: f. 2r: a dedicatory note in verse, beginning: 'Liber in excusatione Mittensis et defensione ipsius'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2280
Title:: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-98r: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde (see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3327; for an edition, see Riverside Chaucer (1987), pp. 472-585), beginning: 'The double sorowe of troilus to tellen / Þat was þe kynge Priamus sone of Troye / In lovynge how hise avent...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2281
Title:: Prick of Conscience
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-64v: Prick of Conscience (Southern Recension). Decoration: Blue initials.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2284
Title:: Account book of the Great Wardrobe from the reign of Henry VIII (8-12 Henery VIII)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*recto-53r: An account book of the Great Wardrobe from the 8th to the 12th years of the reign of King Henry VIII, with a title inscription on a parchment leaf (f. 1*recto): ‘The boke of Delyveraunce and Discharge of the kinges standyng warderobe of his Robes within the towre of L...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1516-1521
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2290
Title:: Robert Persons, Leicester's Commonwealth
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-49v: Robert Persons [Parsons] (b. 1546, d. 1610), Leicester's Commonwealth (1584).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1584-c 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2292
Title:: An English translation of Niccolò Machiavelli’s Il Principe
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title page: ‘The Prince of Nicholas Machiavill Citizen and Secretarie of Florence dedicated to the noble Prince Lawrence sonn of Peeter de medices – Translated out of Italian into English – Welcome to mee, in measure, and in meane, too much is naught, yet doe not leave mee cl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2293
Title:: Discourse on geomancy dedicated to King James II
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-57r: A discourse on geomancy dedicated to King James II (r. 1685-1688), beginning: 'Most Gratious and Dread Soveraigne, before I can discover the Inchanted Island the Garment Shem and Iapheth cast over the Father of Mankind when they went backwards must be taken of And the vai...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1685-1700
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2302
Title:: A Replicacion in further meintenaunce of free will to an answere of a Protestant devyne to the treatis in that behalf first made by a Romish Catholicke Priest; a treatise written in answer to a book against the existence of witches
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a 17th-century miscellany containing two English treatises written separately at different moments in time. Contents: ff. 1*recto-56r: ‘A Replicacion in further meintenaunce of free will to an answere of a Protestant devyne to the treatis in that behalf first made by a Romi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2303
Title:: The Prevarication of Holy Church Libertyes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-3r: Henry Tichborne, dedication to King James II, beginning: ‘To the Kings most Excellent Majestie These Humbly Presented: The Virtues of your most Illustrious Ancestors have in all Ages since Christianity inlightned our Horizon, and been the Glory of so many Princes as have de...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2307
Title:: A view of Devonshire, by Thomas Westcote
Scope & Content:: History and topographical account of Devonshire by ThomasWestcote (c 1567-c 1637). Published as A View of Devonshire 1630, ed. George Oliverand Pitman Jones (1845). Manuscript includes marginal notes, additions, andcorrections. The author’s postscript apology for the work, addressed ‘To thegener...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1630
Extent:: 1 volume

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