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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6745
Title:: Proceedings in the Queen's Bench, 35-38 Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-216v: Proceedings in the Queen's Bench from the 35th, 36th, 37th and 38th years of the reign of Elizabeth I; written in Law French. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 1*recto-2*recto: Alphabetical index of cases; written in the late 16th or early 17th centur...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1592-1596
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6746
Title:: Collection of letters, grants, indentures and accounts concerning trading goods
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Copies of bonds and obligations in English and Latin, beginning: ‘Be it knowne to all men by theise present that I ffrancis Th. of London ydoun have remised released’, dated 16, 20, 22, 28 Elizabeth I. f. 4v: A list of payments, beginning ‘ffor the warrant of attourney’, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1580s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6747
Title:: Legal precedents
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-27r: A collection of legal precedents in French. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: An indenture in French; written in the (?) 17th century.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6753
Title:: Description of the city of Tivoli by Pirro Ligorio
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume, titled 'All Illustrissimo et Reverendissimo Sr. Hippolito Cardenali Amplissimo de Ferrara [Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este of Ferrara]. Descrizione della Città de Tivoli Di Pirro Ligorio'. Pirro Ligorio was a painter, architect and antiquarian who was employed by Cardinal I...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: c 1650
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6773
Title:: Two letters from Peterhouse, Cambridge
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2v: Two letters in Latin sent from Peterhouse, Cambridge, to its patron; undated but probably written in the 15th century. The printed Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), III, p. 394, suggests a date from the reign of Mary or Elizabeth, in the 16th century.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6776
Title:: A genealogy of the De Vere family
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-16v: A genealogy of the De Vere family in English and Latin, entitled: 'The Genalogy of the most Ancient and Illustrious Family of the Veres, Earles of Guisnes in Normandy, and of Oxford, and Lord great Chamberlands of England, being descended from the Kings of the Argives, Duk...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1676
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6780
Title:: Indices of English family names for heraldic manuscripts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-63v: A large index of family names, organized in columns by county and in alphabetical order [featuring the dates 1634 and 1635 on f. 60r]; undoubtedly originally belonging to or intended for a heraldic manuscript. ff. 64r-8r: A large index of families with ‘quartred coats’, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1635
Extent:: 1 volume

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