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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 594
Title:: The first of two volumes with episcopal returns in the diocesan population census of 1563 and 1603
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the first of two volumes with original certificates from bishops concerning the state of their dioceses in reply to requests for information from the Privy Council for the diocesan population census of 1563 and 1603. In the first census, the Privy Council requested information...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1533-1603
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 595
Title:: The second of two volumes with episcopal returns in the diocesan population census of 1563 and 1603
Scope & Content:: The second of two volumes with original certificates from bishops concerning the state of their dioceses in reply to requests for information from the Privy Council for the diocesan population census of 1563 and 1603. In the first census, the Privy Council requested information on the number of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1563-1603
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 598
Title:: Account of prize ships taken by Charles Howard, Lord High Admiral
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-69r: The account of the officer of Charles Howard (b. 1536, d. 1624), 1st Earl of Nottingham, Lord High Admiral, of all prize ships taken from the Spanish, 1587-1598. ff. 70v-74r: Notes of payments, dated to 1611-1612.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1587-1612
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 599
Title:: An inventory of Cardinal Wolsey’s household goods
Scope & Content:: A manuscript, in folio, titled ‘An Inventorie of Cardinall Woolsie’s rich Househould stuffe. Temp H. 8. The Originall Booke as it seems, Kept by his owne Officers’. This may be one of the books which, at the time of Cardinal Wolsey’s fall [1530], contained an inventory of all his goods. After 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1527-1530
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 600
Title:: Account book from the time of Henry VIII
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-19r: A treatise entitled ‘Therreccion of the Courte of Thaugmentations and Revenuez of the kings majesties Crowne’; dated to 1546. ff. 20r-48r: Declaratio brevis omnium et singulorum Feodorum Collectorum ac Aliorum; ff. 47r-47v contains additions made in the 16th century. D...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1546
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 601
Title:: An account of the foundations and endowments of chantries in London and Middlesex
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘The Foundation of all the Chauntires in London and Middlesex’. ff. 2r-49v: An account of the foundations and endowments of chantries in London and Middlesex.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 602
Title:: Register of St Albans Abbey
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Added charters in Latin and English. f. 1v: Ownership inscriptions. ff. 2r–95r: Miscellaneous register of St Albans Abbey, containing rentals, leases, acquittances etc., made before 1396.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 603
Title:: Psalter (the 'Harley Psalter')
Scope & Content:: Psalter, known as the 'Harley Psalter', imperfect. The illustration of the manuscript is copied from the Utrecht Psalter (Utrecht, Universiteitsbibliotheek, MS 32). The text is mostly the Roman version, except Psalms 100-105 which are Gallican (see Abbot Gasquet and Edmund Bishop, The Bosworth P...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 603/1
Title:: Detached former binding of Harley MS 603
Scope & Content:: Detached former leather 19th century half-bound binding with three flyleaves, previously attached to Harley MS 603 (the 'Harley Psalter') and now stored separately.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Detached former leather binding

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 604
Title:: A collection of tracts and papers relating to the monasteries, chantries, and other religious institutions from before and after the Dissolution of the Monasteries
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-279r: A collection of tracts and papers relating to the monasteries, chantries, and other religious institutions from before and after the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1489-c 1650
Extent:: 1 volume

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