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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 69
Title:: The booke of certaine triumphes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-63v: A large collection of tracts, letters, and notes in English and French concerning court affairs and entertainment, jousting and the bearing of coats of arms, known as ‘The booke of certaine triumphes’. Decoration: Full-, half-, and quarter-page drawings of knights joust...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 71
Title:: A survey of all royal manors, honours, castles, lordships, tenements and other hereditaments in the counties of Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Warwickshire
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-80r: William Homberton (‘Esquire surveyor of the possessions’) and John Harwar (‘deputie receyvour’), survey of all royal manors, honours, castles, lordships, tenements and other hereditaments in the counties of Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Warwickshire; writte...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1558-1559
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 73
Title:: ‘The Journals of all the Parliaments during the raigne of Queene Elizabeth, both of the Upper Howse & Howse of Commons in three volumes, A.D. 1630’. Volume 1
Scope & Content:: Journals of Parliaments during the reign of Elizabeth I, 1558-1601, compiled from original sources by Sir Simonds D’Ewes. First volume, including preface and tables for all three volumes, as well as the journals for 1558-1571. f. 1: Parchment title page, bearing 16 coats of arms of the D'Ewes a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1630
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 74
Title:: ‘The Journals of all the Parliaments during the raigne of Queene Elizabeth, both of the Upper Howse & Howse of Commons in three volumes, A.D. 1630’. Volume 2
Scope & Content:: Journals of Parliaments during the reign of Elizabeth I, 1558-1601, compiled from original sources by Sir Simonds D’Ewes. Volume 2 includes the journals for 1572-1589.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1630
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 75
Title:: ‘The Journals of all the Parliaments during the raigne of Queene Elizabeth, both of the Upper Howse & Howse of Commons in three volumes, A.D. 1630’. Volume 3
Scope & Content:: Journals of Parliaments during the reign of Elizabeth I, 1558-1601, compiled from original sources by Sir Simonds D’Ewes. Volume 3 includes the journals for 1592-1601.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1630
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 78
Title:: Collection of English texts, including letters, historical and heraldic works, and poems by Geoffrey Chaucer and John Lydgate
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a composite miscellany of various 15th- and 16th-century English texts, predominantly letters, historical and heraldic texts and poems. Contents: f. 1r-v: Opinions of Lords on the question 'how goodd myght be had for the settinge forthe of the armes in to Normandye and Guye...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and French
Date Range:: 15th century-16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

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

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

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

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