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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 140
Title:: Catalogue of rolls from the time of Henry VIII
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-344v: Calendarium literarum patentium Regis Henrici VIII. f. 348v: An inventory of possessions, beginning ‘A greate Chest’. ff. 349r-392r: Calendarium concessionum plurimarum Regis Henrici VIII. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 393r: A ‘memorandum’ about blan...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 141
Title:: Description of and treatises related to Wales
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page, ‘Discription of the Dominion of Wales & 2 other treatises of it’. f. 1r: Pen-trialling, added in the 16th century. ff. 1r-21v: ‘Description of the Dominion of Wales’. ff. 25r-27r: A treatise entitled ‘Cornwalls Case’ [French]. ff. 28r-85r: ‘Dialo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 142
Title:: Account of the lands belonging to Glastonbury Abbey concealed from the Crown
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-23v: A title-page, ‘A Booke of Concealed landes belonginge to the late Monastery of Glastonbury’; beginning on f. 2r: ‘An abstract or brief noat taken owt of Mr Nicholas Raies Courte bookes and Courte rolles The laste of November in the xxiiijth yere of the raigne of our sovere...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1581
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 143
Title:: Liber computorum et conventionum Roberti Ashefelde de Stowe Langtoft, tempore Henrici VI
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r- 23v: Liber computorum et conventionum Roberti Ashefelde de Stowe Langtoft, tempore Henrici VI.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 144
Title:: Rental of Kirkstead Abbey
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2r: ‘Rental of the demeanes late belongyng to the monastery of Kirksted and letten to diverse persons as hereafter doth folowe from the first day of May anno xxix h viij unto the first day of May thence next folowyng’. ff. 3r-4r: ‘Demaynes of Kirkestedde’. ff. 5r-24r: ‘Surve...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1538-1539
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 145
Title:: John de Fordun, Scoticronicon
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-56r: John de Fordun (b. 1360, d. c. 1384), Scoticronicon.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 146
Title:: Account book of Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Two titles written on parchment strips: ‘This booke contaynethe T'entries of everye privie seale passing from the Quenes majestie for divers hir officers for money that hath byne dewe unto them begonne the 8th or Maye 1568 in the tenthe yeare of hir majesties Raigne’; and ‘Exp...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 147
Title:: Copies of letters concerning the Treaty of the Hague 1614-1615
Scope & Content:: Includes: f. 1: Copy of the King’s Commission to treat, granted to Sir Henry Wooton, Ambassador Extraordinary to the States of the United Provinces, Clement Edmonds Esq., clerk of his Privy Council, Robert Midleton and Morris Abbott, City of London merchants. Dated 29 November 1614. Heading: ‘Th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1614-1615
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 149
Title:: Dives et Pauper; Jacques Legrand, The Book of Good Manners; Cena domini; The Gospel of Nichodemus; Miracles of Christ; Legend of the Vernicle; A tretyse betwene Saynt Petre and Symon Magus; The Obyte of Pylat; The decollacyoun of Saynt Petre and Saynt Poule; Signs before Doomsday
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-182v: Dives et Pauper, imperfect at the beginning. ff. 183-252r: Jacques Legrand (Jacobus Magnus), The Book of Good Manners. ff. 252v-255v: A Middle English treatise entitled Cena domini. ff. 255r-263r: The Gospel of Nicodemus in Middle English. ff. 263r-279r: Miracles...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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