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211. Harley MS 5908/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5908/1
Title:
Fragment of 'The Clerk's Tale', from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
This single leaf contains a fragment of 'The Clerk's Tale' from The Canterbury Tales by the poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400), comprising ll. 808-891 of the text, beginning, 'Takeþ it aȝen I ȝeue ȝew leue of my grace'. The leaf was formerly f. 61 in Harley MS 5908, a 17th-century co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 leaf

212. Harley MS 6018

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6018
Title:
A catalogue of the manuscripts and printed books of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-146r: A catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631): ‘Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca Roberti Cottoni - 1621’. The heading and a number of later entries are in the hand of Robert Cotton (see Tite, The Early Records...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1621-1653
Extent:
1 volume

213. Harley MS 6035

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6035
Title:
Journal of Sir Francis Walsingham's office, 1583-1585
Scope & Content:
Journal or memorandum book of Sir Francis Walsingham, principal secretary of state (c. 1532-1590). In the hands of Sir Francis Walsingham, Francis Mylles, Thomas Lake, Robert Beale, and others. f. i: Parchment fragment: ‘A leiger took out of the Secretaries office 1583’. ff. 1r-118v: Daily mem...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1583-1585
Extent:
1 volume

214. Harley MS 6041

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6041
Title:
William Langland, Vision of Piers Plowman
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-96r: William Langland, Vision of Piers Plowman. ff. 97r-102v: A form of confession in Middle English prose; added below the text is ‘Explycit pere [p] Symele’. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 96v: Latin sayings: ‘ego sum bonus puer quem Deus amat’ and 'Equore ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

215. Harley MS 6057

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6057
Title:
Verse miscellany compiled by Thomas Crosse
Scope & Content:
A quarto verse miscellany in various hands. Compiled mainly by Thomas Crosse in the 1630s, whose name appears in a poem, ‘An Acrostick upon my name’, at f. 1r. Later additions at ff. 63r-65r are dated 1677-1681. Contents include: f. 1*r: An acrostic poem on the name ‘Edward’ [deleted]. f. 1r: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1630-c 1681
Extent:
1 volume

216. Harley MS 6101

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6101
Title:
A Scots heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A full-page coat of arms with crest (quarterly of nine): arms of Jermyn. f. 2r: The ‘Armes of the Balliam’. ff. 3r-17r: Royal arms, from King Malcolm III (‘Malcum Camoir’) to Mary I of Scotland [Mary, Queen of Scots] (r. 1542-1567). ff. 18r-71r: The arms of Scots peerage...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Scots
Date Range:
1567-1578
Extent:
1 volume

217. Harley MS 6149

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6149
Title:
A collection of Scots and Latin heraldic and chivalric treatises
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: An untitled Scots heraldic treatise on the different rights and privileges of the kings of arms and heralds, and the sergeants of arms in service of the king, beginning: ‘Arthour son to the duke of Bertaingnie erle of Richmont lord of partynay Counstable of ffrance Till all...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Scots
Date Range:
c 1494
Extent:
1 volume

218. Harley MS 6205

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6205
Title:
François Desmoulins de Rochefort, Les Commentaires de la guerre gallique (Book I)
Scope & Content:
Les Commentaires de la guerre gallique (Commentaries on the Gallic War) was written by François Desmoulins de Rochefort (d. 1526), a Franciscan friar, almoner and preceptor to Francis I of France. Composed as a dialogue between Julius Caesar and the king of France, on the responsibilities of an ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1519
Extent:

1 volume

219. Harley MS 6253

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6253
Title:
Nicholas Harpsfield's Life of Sir Thomas More
Scope & Content:
Harpsfield's Life of More was written during Queen Mary I's reign and dedicated to More's son-in-law William Roper, who supplied him with notes. The dedication is signed N. H: L: D. (Nicholas Harpsfield, f. 5*v). ff. 2*v–109r: 'The life and death of Sir Thomas Moore knight, sometymes Lord high ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

220. Harley MS 6345

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6345
Title:
Copybook of Cardinal Wolsey's letters
Scope & Content:
ff. 1*r–216v: A copybook of Cardinal Wolsey's letters. It also includes a copy of Princess Mary's confession (ff. 211r–v) along with unrelated material from the 17th century. f. 1*r: Note about Lady De La Warr's ownership of the volume, with the original ownership note pasted on. f. 5*v: The b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1627
Extent:
1 volume

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