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61. Harley MS 68

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 68
Title:
Richard Birkhead, A brief discourse for the mayntenaunce, exercise, and trayning of a convenient nombre of Englishemen wherby they may be the Soner made Souldiours for the redier diffence of this realme of Englande
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-7v: Richard Birkhead, A brief discourse for the mayntenaunce, exercise, and trayning of a convenient nombre of Englishemen wherby they may be the Soner made Souldiours for the redier diffence of this realme of Englande.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

62. Harley MS 69

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 69
Title:
The booke of certaine triumphes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-63v: A large collection of tracts, letters, and notes in English and French concerning court affairs and entertainment, jousting and the bearing of coats of arms, known as ‘The booke of certaine triumphes’. Decoration: Full-, half-, and quarter-page drawings of knights joust...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

63. Harley MS 70 and 7369

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 70 and 7369
Title:
Harley MS 70 and Harley MS 7369
Scope & Content:
Two unrelated manuscripts bound together.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

64. Harley MS 71

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 71
Title:
A survey of all royal manors, honours, castles, lordships, tenements and other hereditaments in the counties of Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Warwickshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-80r: William Homberton (‘Esquire surveyor of the possessions’) and John Harwar (‘deputie receyvour’), survey of all royal manors, honours, castles, lordships, tenements and other hereditaments in the counties of Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Warwickshire; writte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1558-1559
Extent:
1 volume

65. Harley MS 72

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 72
Title:
Legal treatises
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-8r: An index. ff. 8r-57r: A ‘reading or declaration of the Auctorytis, Libertis, and offices of a fforest, made upon the Statut called Carta de fforesta by one Treherne’. ff. 58r-75v: ‘Tretice of the Institutes of Peace by Mr ffletwood [but not in printe]’. ff. 76v-106v:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

66. Harley MS 73-75

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 73-75
Title:
‘The Journals of all the Parliaments during the raigne of Queene Elizabeth, both of the Upper Howse & Howse of Commons in three volumes, A.D. 1630’
Scope & Content:
Journals of Parliaments during the reign of Elizabeth I, for the years 1558-1601, compiled from original sources by Sir Simonds D’Ewes. Volume 1 includes an introduction and tables.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1630
Extent:
3 volumes

67. Harley MS 76

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 76
Title:
The ‘Bury Gospels’
Scope & Content:
ff. 1v–5r: Jerome, Letter to Damasus (‘Novum opus’) and prologue to the Gospels. ff. 6r–12v: Canon Tables. ff. 13r–126v: Four Gospels (opening leaf excised). ff. 126v–137v: Capitula to the Gospels. The remainder of the leaves (ff. 137v–141v) were originally left blank, and filled in at a lat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1020-c 1030
Extent:

Parchment codex

68. Harley MS 77

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 77
Title:
Registrum brevium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-222v: Registrum brevium.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

69. Harley MS 78

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 78
Title:
Collection of English texts, including letters, historical and heraldic works, and poems by Geoffrey Chaucer and John Lydgate
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite miscellany of various 15th- and 16th-century English texts, predominantly letters, historical and heraldic texts and poems. Contents: f. 1r-v: Opinions of Lords on the question 'how goodd myght be had for the settinge forthe of the armes in to Normandye and Guye...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and French
Date Range:
15th century-16th century
Extent:
1 volume

70. Harley MS 79

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 79
Title:
Statuta Angliae; Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is composed of two parts (ff. 1r-26r and 27r-46v) and includes: 1. Correspondence relating to Osney Abbey at Oxford, 1302 (ff. 1r-1v); 2. Statuta Angliae (ff. 2r-26r); 3. Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus (ff. 27r-46r). 4. Medical recipes (f. 46v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1300-1499
Extent:

1 volume

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