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101. Harley MS 1580

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1580
Title:
The first of two volumes with letters and papers concerning state affairs, dated to 1616-1625
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-456v: The first of two volumes with letters and papers concerning state affairs, mostly originals of English and French letters addressed to the Duke and Marquess of Buckingham, organised in alphabetical order; the letters and papers are dated to 1616-1625. The second volume is...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1616-1625
Extent:
1 volume

102. Harley MS 1582

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1582
Title:
State papers, 1553-1596
Scope & Content:
This volume is entitled on the spine, 'Original Letters and Papers on State Affairs'. It contains a wide range of materials on English relations with, and intelligence on, France, the Low Countries and Germany in the late 16th century. It has also been termed, not entirely happily but with a g...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1553-1596
Extent:

1 volume.

103. Harley MS 1584

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1584
Title:
A collection of English letters concerning foreign state affairs, dated to 1625-1628; Charles Cornwallis, The Life and Death of Our Late Noble Prince Henry; A True and Just Relation of Major-General Sir Thomas Morgans Progress in France and Flanders with the Six Thousand English in the Yeares 1657 and 1658
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-204v A collection of drafts and copies of letters with instructions to various addressees concerning foreign state affairs, dated to 1625-1628. ff. 205r-229v: Charles Cornwallis (d. 1629), The Life and Death of Our Late Noble Prince Henry. ff. 230r-240v: Anonymous, A True an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1625-1658
Extent:
1 volume

104. Harley MS 1605/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1605/1
Title:
Fragments of an anonymous Anglo-Norman metrical translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Brittaniae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the first of three volumes that comprise Harley MS 1605 (the others being Harley MS 1605/2 and Harley MS 1605/3). It contains fragments of an anonymous Anglo-Norman verse translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Brittaniae. The text is known as the 'Harley Brut' bu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and English
Date Range:
c 1250
Extent:

1 volume

105. Harley MS 1605/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1605/2
Title:
A collection of Middle English medical, trick and cosmetical recipes; a Latin charm and recipes against vermin; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Liber de modo bene vivendi ad sororem
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second of three volumes that comprise Harley MS 1605 (the others being Harley MS 1605/1 and Harley MS 1605/3). Harley MS 1605/2 contains three parts that were separately produced in the 15th century and brought together at an unknown point in time before or after they reac...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

106. Harley MS 1605/3

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1605/3
Title:
The Forme of Cury (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the third of three volumes that comprise Harley MS 1605 (the others being Harley MS 1605/1 and Harley MS 1605/2). This part of the manuscript contains an imperfect copy of a Middle English collection of cookery recipes known as The Forme of Cury (The Method of Cooking). The te...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1390-early 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

107. Harley MS 1641

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1641
Title:
Accounts of Sir Thomas Heneage, Treasurer of the Queen’s Chamber, 1585-1586
Scope & Content:
Accounts made by Sir Thomas Heneage (b. in or before 1532, d. 1595), courtier and Treasurer of the Queen’s Chamber. From the Feast of St Michael, 27 Elizabeth I, to the Feast of St Michael, 28 Elizabeth I, i.e. 29 September 1585-29 September 1586. f. 1r: Title: ‘Sommes of money Receyved by Sir ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 September 1585-29 September 1586
Extent:
1 volume. Bound with Harley MS 1642.

108. Harley MS 1642

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1642
Title:
Accounts of Sir Thomas Heneage, Treasurer of the Queen’s Chamber, 1593-1594
Scope & Content:
Accounts made by Sir Thomas Heneage (b. in or before 1532, d. 1595), courtier and Treasurer of the Queen’s Chamber. From the Feast of St Michael, 35 Elizabeth I, to the Feast of St Michael, 36 Elizabeth I, i.e. 29 September 1593-29 September 1594. f. 1r: Title: ‘ Somes of monye receyved by the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 September 1593-29 September 1594
Extent:
1 volume. Bound with Harley MS 1641.

109. Harley MS 1644

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1644
Title:
Accounts of Sir Thomas Heneage, Treasurer of the Queen's Chamber, Michaelmas 1581-Michaelmas 1582, with the Queen's New Year cash payments, 1582
Scope & Content:
These are the accounts of Sir Thomas Heneage (b. in or before 1532, d. 1585) as Treasurer of the Queen's Chamber for the year Michaelmas 23 Elizabeth-Michaelmas 24 Elizabeth (i.e 29 Sep 1581-29 Sep 1582). A rich source for the array of officers paid by Heneage for the necessary functioning of th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1581-1582
Extent:

1 volume

110. Harley MS 1647

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1647
Title:
Thomas Busshe, A ledger book for expenses made for the construction of Sandgate Castle by Henry VIII (Volume 1)
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: ‘The fyrst. the iide. iiide. iiiith. vth. vith. viith. viiith. and the .ixth. boke of the leger of the Workes of the Kynges Castell at Sandgate in the tyme of Thomas Corkes and Rychard Keys Esquyres Commyssioners there [...]’. f. 2*recto: A Latin inscription: ‘Castrum dom...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1540
Extent:
1 volume

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