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1. Harley MS 433

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 433
Title:
A collection of papers from the Signet Office, containing registers of grants, diplomatic correspondence and financial records related to the Crown, from the reigns of Edward V and Richard III
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains registers with abstracts of grants that passed the Signet Office, the king’s personal seal, during the reigns of Edward V and Richard III, and related materials. The latter include a list of office holders at the death of Edward IV, a list of the fees due to officers on ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1463-c 1547
Extent:
1 volume

2. Harley MS 487

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 487
Title:
A Psalter with the Hours of the Holy Spirit
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar with astronomical information; featuring additional saints added in the late 15th- or early 16th-century. ff. 7r-177r: The Psalter. ff. 177r-193v: Canticles, hymns and Athanasian creed (Quicumque Vult). ff. 193v-200v: Litany and prayers; featuring St Bridget ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 554

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 554
Title:
Vita Vidualis, a Middle English translation of Girolamo Savonarola's Libro della vita viduale
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A Latin title inscription: 'Vita Vidualis'. ff. 2r-37r: A Middle English translation of the Italian Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola's Libro della vita viduale [The Book on the Life of the Widow](Florence, c. 1490-1500); introduced as follows: ‘Here folowithe the boke of t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1490s
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 955

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 955
Title:
Devotional book with prayers, indulgences and religious instructions
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-26r: Office of the Dead, use of Syon; with English saints listed in the Litany (ff. 8v-11v). ff. 27r-28v: Stabat Mater, with a rubric offering indulgences: 'In honore beate marie virginis magna indulgencia concess a bonefacio papa hanc oracionem dicentibus'; beginning: 'Sal[...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

5. Harley MS 1633

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1633
Title:
Reports of law cases heard at the Queen's Bench (1587-1590)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-188v: Reports of law cases heard at the Queen's Bench (1587-1590).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1587 - c 1590
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 1637

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1637
Title:
Liber contrarotulamenti Hanaperii Cancellariae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-28v: Liber contrarotulamenti Hanaperii Cancellariae (the book of the Clerk of the Hanaper (1564-1565).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1565
Extent:
1 volume

7. Harley MS 1654

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

8. Harley MS 1710

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1710
Title:
A Lectionary, in the earlier Wycliffite version
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-166v: A Lectionary, in the earlier Wycliffite version. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 166r: 'Omnibus omnia non mea / Sompnia dicere possum'; added in the (?) 15th century. Decoration: 1 puzzle initial in red and blue, with pen-flourishing in purple and red, e...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1390 - c 1400
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 1831

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1831
Title:
A register of the burgesses of Westminster
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-39r: A register of the burgesses of Westminster.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1585
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 1864

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1864
Title:
Armorial of Knights of the Order of the Garter
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: Dedication of the manuscript by Sir William Dethick (b. 1543, d. 1612) to Queen Elizabeth I, dated 1588, beginning: 'Serenissima, Augustissima, et ubiuis longe Potentissima Regina'. f. 2r: The achievement of King Henry V, with above: 'Elizabetha potens, iam regnans pace Bryt...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1587
Extent:
1 volume