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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7009
Title:: Miscellaneous papers addressed to Prince Henry, 1610-1612
Scope & Content:: Miscellaneous petitions, proposals and projects addressed to Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594–1612). Volume 3 of Harley MSS 7007-7009. ff. 1r-2v: Brief list of the yearly pensions paid by Prince Henry. With notes of some occasional expenses. 1610-1612. ff. 3r-4v: Record of several petiti...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1610-1612
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7333
Title:: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, and other Middle English poetic works by Benedict Burgh, John Lydgate, Richard Sellyng, Charles d'Orléans, John Gower and Thomas Hoccleve
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-24v: Middle English Prose Brut. f. 25r: Benedict Burgh, Cato Minor. ff. 25r-30v: Benedict Burgh, Cato Major. ff. 30v-31r: Complaint of a Prisoner against Fortune. ff. 31r-32v: On the English title of Henry VI to the Crown of France. f. 32v: A roundel on the Coronation ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7334
Title:: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400), including the Tale of Gamelyn. See Boffey and Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (2005), no. 4019. For an edition, see Riverside (1987). The tales are in an order which is unique to this manuscript, they lack some headings and r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: c 1410
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7335
Title:: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-163v: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; imperfect. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 139v: a practice alphabet and inscriptions (‘essavyd offe my master’) Decoration: The manuscript is minimally decorated. Occasional small-scale strap-work in brown ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7368
Title:: The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore, by Anthony Munday and others, possibly including William Shakespeare
Scope & Content:: A collaborative manuscript play concerning the life of Sir Thomas More (1478–1535), Lord Chancellor, humanist and martyr. Likely to have been written in the 1590s, primarily by Anthony Munday (bap. 1560, d. 1633), playwright and translator, possibly aided by Henry Chettle (d. 1603-07), printer a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1590-1604
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7376
Title:: An inventory of the jewels of Queen Mary I; accounts on the hundreds of Sussex and Kent
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript contains three parts: an inventory of jewels delivered to Queen Mary I (ff. 1r-42v); an early 14th-century description of the hundreds in Sussex and Kent (ff. 44r-58v); and a 16th-century inventory of tax payments from the hundreds in Kent (ff. 63r-220v). The three part...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1312-c 1553
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7390
Title:: Account book of the Steward of William Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-124v: The account of the Steward of William Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath, of weekly expenses for several years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1 February 1566/7-2 October 1580). The manuscript contains an addition: ff. 125r-125v: A medieval end-leaf, traken from a 15th-cen...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7586 A
Title:: Maimonides' Moreh nevukhim. Moreh nevukhim by Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 מורה נבוכים and 1 other text
Scope & Content:: Language: Hebrew Philosophical writing. Fols 1r-169v Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 (משה בן מימון) Moreh nevukhim מורה נבוכים Note: In the Hebrew translation of (translator) Shemuel ibn Tibbon. Decoration note: 1 decorated letter, in colours. (Fol 2r) Decoration note: 4 arcades fra...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Hebrew
Date Range:: 1283
Extent:: 188 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7632
Title:: David Casley, Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the King’s Library (autograph manuscript)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-156v, 159r-197v: David Casley, original autograph manuscript of his Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the King’s Library [Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Regiae], published in 1734, with the exception of the preliminary matter (written in English, French, and Latin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1734
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7647
Title:: Catalogues of Cotton charters
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-12v: A copy of a Latin catalogue of Cotton charters made by Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726) in 1703. ff. 13r-52r: A copy of an English catalogue of Cotton charters made by Richard Widmore (bap. 1681, d. 1764) after 1750 [according to a note by Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1703-2nd half of the 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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