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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1652
Title:: Port of London Customs officers and servants
Scope & Content:: List of officers and servants in the Port of London Customs, with their salaries for the quarter to midsummer 1685. Approved and signed by Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester, Lord High Treasurer.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1685
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1653
Title:: Board of Works accounts
Scope & Content:: Board of Works accounts 1614. Money received and disbursed by Andrew Kerwin, Paymaster, for six months 1 April - 30 September 1614. Formerly a single volume, now rebound in two parts.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1614
Extent:: 1 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1654
Title:: Account book for the wages of artificers and labourers paid by the Board of Ordnance, January 1572-December 1573
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A title inscription: ‘The Booke of wages of Artificers Woorkmen and Laborers in theoffice of thordinaunce anno xvito’. ff. 1r-53v: Accounts for wages paid to artificers and labourers by the Board of Ordnance, Tower of London, for the months of January-March 1572, and Ap...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1572-1573
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1655
Title:: Accounts of Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet, Treasurer of the Navy
Scope & Content:: Manuscript volume, containing the accounts for 1632 of Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet, Treasurer of His Majesties Navy. Payments include the ordinary charge of all His Majesties Ships and Vessels in Harbour, as well as 8 gunners serving in His Majesties Castle of Upnor. Also included is the ent...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1632
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1656
Title:: Accounts of the Board of the Kings Works, 1660-1661
Scope & Content:: Manuscript office-book in folio containing monthly accounts of all charges for works and reparations done at the Tower of London, Whitehall, Westminster, St. James’s House, Somerset House, Hampton Court, and for General Monke [George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle], together with the accounts of a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1660-1661
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1657
Title:: Accounts of the Board of the Kings Works, 1662-1663
Scope & Content:: Manuscript office-book in folio containing monthly accounts of all charges for works and reparations done at the Tower of London, Whitehall, Westminster, St. James’s House, Greenwich, and Hampton Court, together with the accounts of all allowances to Officers of the Works, for six months from De...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1662-1663
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1658
Title:: Accounts of the Board of the Kings Works, 1666-1667
Scope & Content:: Manuscript office-book in folio containing monthly accounts of all charges for works and reparations done at the Tower of London, Whitehall, Westminster, St James’s House, Snowell [or Snow-well or Snow-will] near Berkshire House, Hampton Court, and Greenwich, together with the accounts for ridin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1666-1667
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1659
Title:: Willelmus Peraldus, Summa de vitiis et virtutibus
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4r-394v: Willelmus Peraldus [William Perault (d. 1271)], Summa de vitiis et virtutibus. The manuscript features several later additions: ff. 1v-3r: Pope Innocent III, De contemptu mundi; added in the (?) 15th century. ff. 395r-97r: Theological notes in Latin, featuring a few ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1660
Title:: Nicholas de Aquevilla, Sermons
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-246v: Nicholas de Aquevilla, Sermons (Sermones dominicales), with a table of sermons listed alphabetically by subject (ff. 191-194), imperfect at the beginning and the end. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A prayer against the plague: '[...] stella de ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1661
Title:: Bible, without the Psalms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-448v: Bible, without the Psalms. ff. 449r-484v: The Interpretation of Hebrew names (added slightly later). Decoration: Puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours at the beginning of most books (except Esther) and some prologues. Initials in red...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 13th century-13rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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