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92. Harley MS 115
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 115
- Title:
- Arms of Scottish kings, queens and nobility ('Hamilton Armorial')
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-81r: The arms of Scottish kings, queens and nobility, a copy of the Hamilton Armorial. All the versos in the manuscript are blank, except for ff. 3v and 28v. Decoration: Coats of arms with crests, and kings and queens with heraldic gowns in colours throughout the manuscrip...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
93. Harley MS 116
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 116
- Title:
- An English miscellany including Thomas Hoccleve, The Regiment of Princes; The Short Charter of Christ; Benedict Burgh, Parvus Cato and Cato Major; anonymous Middle English poems and poems by John Lydgate; Gottfried von Franken, Godfridus Super Palladium (Middle English translation); Nicholas Bollard, The Book of Planting and Grafting
- Scope & Content:
- This collection of Middle English and Latin poems and treatises is datable to after 1461 as the anonymous Chronicle presents Edward IV as king of England. A later hand (early 16th century) added a table of contents (f. 1* verso) and a few medical recipes (ff. 167v-168r, 169r). The cataloguing of...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
94. Harley MS 133
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 133
- Title:
- Cuthbert Tunstall, A booke of all the Spyrituall Benifites and Chaunteryes within London and the Dyocesse of the same
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-36v: Cuthbert Tunstall (b. 1474, d. 1559), Bishop of London [r. 1521-1530], ‘A booke of all the Spyrituall Benifites and Chaunteryes within London and the Dyocesse of the same’; beginning ‘Pleaseth it your grace to understande, that where the kinges highnes my sovereigne lorde ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1522
- Extent:
- 1 volume
95. Harley MS 134
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 134
- Title:
- Itinerary of the commissioners to Flanders, 1587-1588
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-41r: Itinerary of the commissioners to Flanders, 1587-1588, beginning: ‘An Ephemeris or Diarie, conteining the Itinerarie of our Lords Commissioners sent by hir Majestie into Flaunders to treate with the King of Spayne his Comissioners about a Peaux for maintaining the ould and...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
96. Harley MS 137
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 137
- Title:
- Draft treaty between England, Spain and the Spanish Netherlands, 1604
- Scope & Content:
- Original draft of the Treaty of London (1604) between James I of England, Philip III of Spain, and the Archdukes Albert and Isabella governors of the Spanish Netherlands, with corrections and alterations (ff. 1-26). Followed by individual articles with titles provided by Ralph Starkey, former o...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1604
- Extent:
-
1 volume
97. Harley MS 157
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 157
- Title:
- Queen Anne of Denmark's Household Book
- Scope & Content:
- Folio manuscript, with this title, inscribed on folio 3: 'A Declaration, or a most plaine & undoubted Cours, in what honorable manner the most Excellent, High-borne Queen Ann[e] Queen of Great Britaine etc. may mayntayne & keepe a most Royall-bountifull Howse for one whole Yeare; Her Maj...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1613
- Extent:
- 1 volume
98. Harley MS 167
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 167
- Title:
- An English miscellany containing texts relating to naval matters
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-202v: A large collection of tracts and letters, primarily concerning naval matters. The manuscript contains documents on the victualling of ships, navigating, shipments, prices of goods, the custom system (taxes for good exported and imported through ports). The manuscript feat...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, and Spanish
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
99. Harley MS 172
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 172
- Title:
- A devotional miscellany of Middle English prose and verse
- Scope & Content:
- This devotional manuscript was written by the 'Winchester scribe', the principal scribe of the so-called 'Winchester Anthology' (Add MS 60577), a large compilation of religious prose and verse in Latin and English in which the scribe identifies himself as an anonymous Benedictine monk at St Swit...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- last quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
100. Harley MS 180
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 180
- Title:
- Printed and manuscript tracts on royal marriages, collected by Sir Simonds D'Ewes
- Scope & Content:
- This is a collection of four tracts, the first two printed and the last two in manuscript, on royal marriages between 1555 and 1624. A Supplicacyon to the quenes maiestie [1555], an attack on the marriage of Queen Mary I to Philip of Spain (later King Philip II), was written by a Protestant ex...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
- Date Range:
- 1555-1627
- Extent:
-
1 volume