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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 243/1
Title:: Detached former binding of Harley MS 243
Scope & Content:: Detached brown leather binding; paper pastedowns on the inside of the upper and lower covers. The binding was formerly attached to Harley MS 243 (a collection of theological texts) and is now stored separately.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Former binding of Harley MS 243

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 244
Title:: A collection of legal texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-50r: A report concerning laws that are repealed or expired. ff. 51r-56r: A table of laws that are repealed or expired. ff. 57r-57v: An English treatise entitled ‘Le preamble del Edw. Cooke sur les former lectures sur le Statute de Finibus Anno 27 E. 1’. ff. 58r-60r: A Fren...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 245
Title:: A miscellany of heraldic works by Robert Glover
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3*recto-6*recto: Indices of pedegrees, arms and seals in the manuscript. ff. 2r-168r: A miscellany of heraldic works by Robert Glover (b. 1543/1544, d. 1588), herald of Somerset [the original texts are in two manuscripts in the College of Arms]: see f. 2*recto: ‘Liber miscellana...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 246
Title:: A collection of heraldic and historical notes copied from older manuscripts and rolls
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A brief chronicle of the history of the world in Latin, beginning with an entry for Pope Gregory the Great, who first called himself the ‘servant of the servants of God’ (dated to 592); the source for this information is identified as a chronicle printed at Antwerp by Joha...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1607-c 1625
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 247
Title:: A collection of transcripts from various historical works
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–225r: A collection of transcripts from various historical works. ff. 1r–3v: Collections from Book VII of Livy's History by M. Valerio Corvino. ff. 4r–5v: A tattered fragment of a brief and imperfect chronicle, which begins with a translation of Books II––V of Bede's Ecclesiastical Histo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 248
Title:: Collection of English historical texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-74r: Excerpts from rolls of the reign of Henry III. ff. 75r-95r: An ‘oration perswading a lymittacion of succession to the heires of the French Queene’. ff. 95v-98r: A treatise entitled ‘That the Lymittacion of the Succession of the Crowne, should be for the Queenes majesti...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 249
Title:: A collection of papers concerning political and legal affairs in the time of Henry VIII to James I
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-118v: A large collection of papers concerning political and legal affairs in the time of Henry VIII-James I, including transcripts and originals. The originals date to about 1546-1608. The collection opens with 'The confession taken of twentie and thre of th ecrediblest Forsath...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1546-1608
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 250
Title:: Transcripts of historical tracts and papers
Scope & Content:: ff. 1-94: Life of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, during the reign of Henry VIII. Imperfect. It begins on folio 8v, line 20 of the Arundel MS 152. ff. 95-142: Account of the levying and collecting of the aid for King James I for knighting his son Henry, Prince of Wales. Dated at Whithall, Feb...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 252
Title:: A collection of English historical, political and legal papers
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2v: A fragment concerning the issuing of subpoenas from the Court of Chancery, without Bills of Complaint; imperfect. f. 3r: A crossed-out 17th-century text. ff. 3v-4v: ‘Heare followeth the Coppy of the Assignatyon of suche Landes and Revenewes as weare appoynted for the Su...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1555-1645
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 253
Title:: Volume of historical papers, mostly relating to naval matters, collected by Ralph Starkey
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-9r: 'Certaine reasons to approove the menes that fostered and contynued all the abuses Comitted in the office of the Shippes' ff. 9r-10r: 'The forme of a Privy Seale, for tounage of a Nue Shippes at 5s the tonne, to incourage others to builde Shippes of great Burthen'. f. 10...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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