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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 468
Title:: The Book of St Gilbert
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-128v: The Book of St Gilbert, written after c. 1202. Gilbert of Sempringham (b. 1083, d. 1189) was canonized by Innocent III in 1202 and the 'Liber sancti Gilberti' (in this manuscript headed by the rubric '(...) vita sancti gilberti confessoris') was probably assembled as a 'c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 469
Title:: William of Wycombe, Vita Roberti Herefordensis Episcopis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-105v: William of Wycombe, Vita Roberti Herefordensis Episcopis.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1550
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 472
Title:: A collection of arms and mottoes of companies and corporations of London; a fragment from a Book of Hours
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of arms and mottoes of companies and corporations of London, made in England in the 16th century. It includes two leaves from a Book of Hours dating from the 1st quarter of the 15th century which have been re-used as flyleaves. Contents: ff. 1*r-v: A fra...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century-16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 473
Title:: John Dee, Notes on a journey in Chester and Wales made in 1574
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*recto-26v: John Dee, Notes on a journey in Chester and Wales made in 1574. The manuscript contains two additions: f. 1*recto: A title: ‘Certaine verie rare observations of Chester and some parts of Wales with divers Epitaphes Coat armours and other monuments verie orderlie a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 474
Title:: A Booke of the Justices of Peace and other Commissioners
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A page with the title ‘A Booke of the Justices of Peace and other Commissioners’. ff. 2r-67r: A list of names entitled ‘The Highe Sheriffs of the Severall Counties 1585’. ff. 68r-69r: A list of names entitled ‘The Lieuetenants and their Deputies in the severall Counties’. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1585
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 475
Title:: Latin questions and answers, moral sentences; notes on charges and costs of Paul D'Ewes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-17v: A Latin treatise organised according to questions and answers, beginning ‘Quod est precipuum Officium Hominis Christiani in hac vita’. ff. 18r-19r: A collection of moral sentences, beginning ‘divitiarum et forme gloria fluxa atque fragilis esta virtus vero clara’. ff....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 476
Title:: Journal of the proceedings of the House of Commons, by John More esq, Volume 2
Scope & Content:: Manuscript notebook containing John More’s Journal of the House of Commons, Volume 2. The location of Volume 1 is unknown. The original foliation of this volume begins at folio 266, which indicates that the first volume contains 265 folios. The journal begins on 23 February 1640 [1641], and end...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1641
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 476-480
Title:: Journal of the proceedings of the House of Commons, by John More esq
Scope & Content:: This series of five manuscript volumes consists of volumes 2-6 of John More's Commons Journal. The original foliation of these manuscripts is sequential throughout the volumes, starting at folio 266 in Harley MS 476, and ending with folio 1124 in Harley MS 480. The location of volume 1 is unkno...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1641-1642
Extent:: 5 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 477
Title:: Journal of the proceedings of the House of Commons, by John More esq, Volume 3
Scope & Content:: Manuscript notebook containing John More’s Journal of the House of Commons, Volume 3. The journal begins on 22 April 1641, and ends 3 June 1641. There is a signature on folio 133 ‘John More esquire, 22 Aprill 1641’. It appears that this notebook and Harley MS 478 were in use by John More at th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1641
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 478
Title:: Journal of the proceedings of the House of Commons, by John More esq, Volume 4
Scope & Content:: Manuscript notebook containing John More’s Journal of the House of Commons, Volume 4. The journal begins on 16 April 1641, and ends 25 June 1641. It appears that this notebook and Harley MS 477 were in use by John More at the same time as they largely cover the same time period. The content of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1641
Extent:: 1 volume

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