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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6280
Title:: ‘Liber statutorum’ of St Davids Cathedral
Scope & Content:: ff. 1v–2r: Notes on the use of the manuscript for legal purposes in the early 19th century. f. 3v: Ownership inscriptions. ff. 4r–110v: ‘Liber Statutorum’. Includes copies of episcopal, royal, papal and related documents and grants. f. 111r: Added notes on events in St Davids (18th century). ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1509-1520s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6281
Title:: A transcript of a Latin census of the names of cities, boroughs, villages, hundreds and the lords of manors throughout England
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-239r: A transcript of a Latin census of the names of cities, boroughs, villages, hundreds and the lords of manors throughout England. The manuscript contains later additions: f. 1r: A note: ‘A transcript of the booke called Nomina Villarum – Kept in the Office of the Treasur...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6285
Title:: George Puttenham, A defence of Queen Elizabeth I's actions in executing Mary Queen of Scots
Scope & Content:: This justification of the execution of Mary Queen of Scots (8 Feb 1587) here appears with neither title nor author. It begins, "There hath not happened sithence the memorie of man nor peradventure in any age beyond so straunge a case on very behalf to be considered as this of that unfortunate La...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1587-c 1620
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6286
Title:: The trial and examinations relating to the marriage of Lady Katherine Grey and Edward Seymour in 1561
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A note on the scribe’s source: ‘Written at the beginning of the Book out of which this was transcribed: This Booke of Actes was delivered by one Mr Milles late Steward of Household to Sir Henry Unton, unto the Lord Beauchamp: Examined and agreeinge with the Originalls delivere...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1734
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6289
Title:: Lincolnshire records from the time of Henry III
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-223r: The names of villages, manors, lands, tenements and heredities in Lincolnshire during the reign of King Henry III. ff. 224r-235v: Names of freeholds ('liberorum tenencium') in Lincolnshire. The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 236r-262v: Indices of place names...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6290, ff 146v-151
Title:: Ps.-Moschopoulos, Περὶ τοῦ (sic) τῶν πέντε διαλέκτων ἰδιότητος. Cengarle Rec. E.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6291
Title:: John Gower, Vox Clamantis (beginning imperfectly), Cronica Tripertita, and shorter poems
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains works by the English poet John Gower (d. 1408). The version of Vox Clamantis found in this manuscript suggests it was completed c.1383 - c.1390 and the Cronica Tripertita after the death of Richard II (b. 1367, d. 1400), with Vox Clamantis having been revised to account ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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