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151. Harley MS 3444

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3444
Title:
Miles Huggarde, ‘A treatise declaring howe Christ…was banished out of this realme’
Scope & Content:
Treatise by Miles Huggarde (fl. 1533–1557), poet and religious polemicist. Titled ‘A treatise declaring howe Christ by perverse preachyng was banished out of this realme, and howe it hath pleased God to bryng Christ home againe by Mary our moost gracious Quene’. With a dedicatory verse epistle ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
July 1553-July 1554
Extent:

1 volume

152. Harley MS 3450

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3450
Title:
An atlas of 17 sea charts by Joan Martines
Scope & Content:
This atlas consists of a collection of sea charts, executed by the Italian cartographer and cosmographer Joan Martines (d. 1591) in 1578. The atlas's 17 charts are laid down on a plane scale and span each verso and its opposing recto. A similar collection of charts by Martines, also executed i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1578
Extent:
1 volume

153. Harley MS 3499

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3499
Title:
'The State of Christendom'
Scope & Content:
An essay on Christendom, by an ‘exile’ (f. 2r). Printed in 1657 as ‘The State of Christendom’, attributed to Sir Henry Wotton, diplomat and writer (1568-1639). Composed c. 1594, as indicated by references to King Philip II of Spain, the plot of Roderigo Lopez to poison Queen Elizabeth I, her a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

154. Harley MS 3642

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3642
Title:
The process against the Anglican bishops Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley and Thomas Cranmer
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-30r: The process against the Anglican bishops Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley and Thomas Cranmer, copied from the original and attested by William Whyte, with his notary signature (ff. 29r-30r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1555-c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

155. Harley MS 3724

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3724
Title:
Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae, the bull Laudabiliter, and other texts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of miscellaneous texts in Latin and Middle English, written in Ireland during the 13th century. They include a copy of the Topographia Hiberniae (Topography of Ireland), an account of the landscape, history and people of Ireland, written by the historian Ger...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 volume

156. Harley MS 3821

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3821
Title:
The Vocation of John Bale
Scope & Content:
Copy of The vocacyon of Johan Bale, by John Bale (1495–1563), bishop of Ossory, evangelical polemicist, and historian. First published in 1553. f. 1r: Title, partly cut off. ‘The Vocation of John Bale to the bishopricke of ossorie in Irelande his preservations in the same and finall deliverance...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1552-1553
Extent:
1 volume

157. Harley MS 3838

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3838
Title:
John Bale, Anglorum Heliades, and other works on the Carmelite Order
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains three works by John Bale (b. 1495, d. 1563) relating to his time as a Carmelite Friar (1506-in or after 1536). The works relate to the history of the Carmelite Order’s English province, biographies of the Order’s founders, and the history of Carmelite historical scholars...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1530s
Extent:
1 volume

158. Harley MS 3862

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3862
Title:
John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-107r: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 2574; for an edition of the text, see A Critical Edition (1961)]; beginning: 'O Thoughtful hert plonged in gret dystresse / with slombre of slowth thys long wynters nyght'; ending: 'To þe seru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

159. Harley MS 3869

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3869
Title:
John Gower, Confessio amantis, Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz, pageant verses, and some short Latin verse; Marian hymns in English and Latin
Scope & Content:
Confessio amantis by John Gower (d. 1408), along with his French Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz, and some of his short Latin verse. Also includes (in the hand of another scribe), pageant verses by John Lydgate and Marian hymns in English and Latin. Contents: ff. 2r–4v: John Lydgat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

160. Harley MS 3918

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3918
Title:
Manuscript miscellany of treatises and poems by Robert Whitehall and Mary More
Scope & Content:
An octavo manuscript miscellany containing treatises and poems by Robert Whitehall (bap. 1624-d. 1685), fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and the writer and artist Mary More (d. c. 1713). Also includes other miscellaneous verses and recipes for 'Jelly of Hartshorn' (ff. 39v and 45v) and a treatm...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1670-c 1674
Extent:
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