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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 432
Title:: An Senchas Már
Scope & Content:: A detailed description of this manuscript is provided by O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts, i, pp. 146-47. Contents: f. 1*r: A paper leaf, containing brief and inaccurate notes on the manuscript's presumed age, and the titles of other Irish manuscripts in the Harley collection...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Irish
Date Range:: c. 1578
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 789
Title:: Controversies against Papists
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: 'Controversies Against Papistes'; erased: 'Controversies Against Papists alias Roman Catholics'. ff. 1r-112v: The ‘sixte questione of the firste controversye which is of the perfectione of the scripture againste mennes traditiones’ [17 Chapters]. ff. 113r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 828
Title:: Miscellaneous ecclesiastical texts
Scope & Content:: ‘Collections and Compositions out of diverse Authors, of sundry Pointes, specially the Controversies of the Church of England’. Contents: ff. 1*-1*v, 43r-43v: Fragments of a glossary of plant names (‘B’-‘C’), written in the 13th century. ff. 1-15: Excerpts from Matthew Sutcliffe’s De vera Chris...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 13th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1051
Title:: Alphabet of arms
Scope & Content:: Quarto manuscript volume containing an alphabet of arms, coloured.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1161
Title:: Pedigrees of Shropshire
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-21r: Pedigrees of Shropshire, copied and tricked by Thomas Knight (d. 1618); probably from the 1584 Visitation of Shropshire. f. 22v: An index of surnames.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1590
Title:: Law commonplace book
Scope & Content:: Law commonplace book compiled from statutes during the reign of James I. In a single hand. Arranged under alphabetical heads. ff. 2-3: Partial contents in another hand (letters A-H only).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1593
Title:: The Soule Knell
Scope & Content:: Short devotional tracts in prose and verse, prayers, and one larger treatise entitled the Soule-Knell. Probably written by Thomas Harland, whose name appears at the beginning and end of the volume (ff. 1, 7r, 97v) Dated ‘T. H. 1646’ (f. 7v). f. 2: Overall title of volume: ‘The Soule Knell, fo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1646
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1627
Title:: Collection of precedents
Scope & Content:: Collection of precedents or reports of law pleadings under the following heads FormedonIngressuPartitionProhibitionQuare impeditReplevinTransgressionUtlaryWast Front flyleaf includes ownership inscriptions of Richard Palmer, Richard Harison (1647) and others (f. 1).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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