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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 605
Title:: Transcripts of surveys of the properties of guilds, colleges and chantries granted to Edward VI
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-84r: Transcripts of surveys of the properties of guilds, colleges and chantries granted to Edward VI.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1550
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 606
Title:: The proceedings of a royal commission in the sale of royal estates
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-151v: The proceedings of a royal commission in the sale of royal estates, followed by an incomplete index of the estates (ff. 152v-153r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1555-1557
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 607
Title:: The second of two volumes from the Court of Augmentations and the Augmentation Office, containing certificates concerning the value of lands sold by Mary and Philip during the 3rd and 4th years of their reign
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A parchment strip with the title: ‘Liber secundus de lez Rates’; a second parchment strip with a Latin inscription: ‘[...] lave p[ar]cell[e] de de [sic] Scyton’] f. 2v: An alphabetical index of counties included in this manuscript. ff. 3r-191r: The second of two volumes from...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1555-1557
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 608
Title:: Certificates from the Court of Augmentations and the Augmentation Office concerning the value of lands sold by Mary and Philip during the 4th and 5th years of their reign
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*r: An alphabetical table of counties included in this manuscript. ff. 2*recto-3*verso, An introduction with ‘Instruccions gyven by the kinge and Quenes Majesties unto their trustie and right welbelovyd counsaillours’. ff. 1r-97v: Certificates from the Court of Augmentations a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1558-1559
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 609
Title:: Queen Elizabeth I's household expenses, 1576
Scope & Content:: An account of Queen Elizabeth I's expenses on food ('ordinarye dyett') for the year 1576, along with 'Estimates of the Board Wages, Bouche of the Court, Wast & other Incidents.' It has been annotated in several places by William Cecil.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1576
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 610
Title:: Liber Niger Domus Regis Edwardi IV
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-77r: Liber Niger Domus Regis Edwardi IV or 'The Coppye of the Blacke Book of the Orders of the Kinges Howshould kepte in the custodye of the Comptroler'.
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 611
Title:: Jewels and other treasures delivered to Mary Tudor
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-1v: A letter to William Paulet, Lord High Treasurer, 1st Marques of Winchester, concerning jewels, gold, silver and books delivered by him to Lady Jane Grey, dated 1 September 1553; with an autograph signature of Queen Mary I [Mary Tudor]: ‘Mary the quene’. f. 2r: A declarat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1553-1558
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 612
Title:: Birgitta of Sweden, Liber Celestis Revelacionum, with tracts and documents relating to her canonisation
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of texts from and about St Birgitta of Sweden, divided into 14 books, and copied by Thomas Colyngbourn for the Bridgettine abbey of St Saviour, St Mary the Virgin and St Bridget of Syon [Syon Abbey], Isleworth, Middlesex. It is one of three surviving Latin m...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: between 1435 and 1457
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 613
Title:: Bible
Scope & Content:: Bible, imperfect: begins in Genesis 34:23; incipit: '[ha]bitantes simul unum efficiemus populum'. Includes: Genesis (ff. 1r-6v); Exodus (ff. 6v-18v); Leviticus (18v-24v); Numbers (ff. 24v-36r); Deuteronomy (ff. 36r-47r); Jerome's prologue to Judges (ff. 47r-47v); Joshua (ff. 47v-55v); Judges (f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 614
Title:: Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-242r: Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa. Decoration: 1 historiated initial of St Christopher carrying the Christ Child with a bar-border and sprays with foliate motifs in gold and colours (f. 5r). 2 decorated initials ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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