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21. Harley MS 137

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 137
Title:
Draft treaty between England, Spain and the Spanish Netherlands, 1604
Scope & Content:
Original draft of the Treaty of London (1604) between James I of England, Philip III of Spain, and the Archdukes Albert and Isabella governors of the Spanish Netherlands, with corrections and alterations (ff. 1-26). Followed by individual articles with titles provided by Ralph Starkey, former o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1604
Extent:

1 volume

22. Harley MS 157

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 157
Title:
Queen Anne of Denmark's Household Book
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript, with this title, inscribed on folio 3: 'A Declaration, or a most plaine & undoubted Cours, in what honorable manner the most Excellent, High-borne Queen Ann[e] Queen of Great Britaine etc. may mayntayne & keepe a most Royall-bountifull Howse for one whole Yeare; Her Maj...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1613
Extent:
1 volume

23. Harley MS 167

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 167
Title:
An English miscellany containing texts relating to naval matters
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-202v: A large collection of tracts and letters, primarily concerning naval matters. The manuscript contains documents on the victualling of ships, navigating, shipments, prices of goods, the custom system (taxes for good exported and imported through ports). The manuscript feat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Spanish
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

24. Harley MS 172

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 172
Title:
A devotional miscellany of Middle English prose and verse
Scope & Content:
This devotional manuscript was written by the 'Winchester scribe', the principal scribe of the so-called 'Winchester Anthology' (Add MS 60577), a large compilation of religious prose and verse in Latin and English in which the scribe identifies himself as an anonymous Benedictine monk at St Swit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
last quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

25. Harley MS 180

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 180
Title:
Printed and manuscript tracts on royal marriages, collected by Sir Simonds D'Ewes
Scope & Content:
This is a collection of four tracts, the first two printed and the last two in manuscript, on royal marriages between 1555 and 1624. A Supplicacyon to the quenes maiestie [1555], an attack on the marriage of Queen Mary I to Philip of Spain (later King Philip II), was written by a Protestant ex...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1555-1627
Extent:

1 volume

26. Harley MS 194

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 194
Title:
The Chronicle of Queen Jane
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-93r: A pocket diary known as the 'Chronicle of Queen Jane', covering the period July 1553-1554, here entitled ‘An Annale of Queene Marie her Raigne or a great part of it ab Anonym[ous]’. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. [vi]recto: A note on the manuscript by Sir...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1553-1554
Extent:
1 volume

27. Harley MS 235

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 235
Title:
Statutes of the Order of the Garter
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–29r: A mid-16th-century heraldic manuscript. A note opposite f. 1r by Frederic Madden records that this manuscript is written in the same hand as Harley MS 567 (another heraldic manuscript). f. 1r: Names of the knights of the Garter, 1584. f. 1v: Gilbert Talbot, names of the knights of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1561-1592
Extent:

1 volume

28. Harley MS 247

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 247
Title:
A collection of transcripts from various historical works
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–225r: A collection of transcripts from various historical works. ff. 1r–3v: Collections from Book VII of Livy's History by M. Valerio Corvino. ff. 4r–5v: A tattered fragment of a brief and imperfect chronicle, which begins with a translation of Books II––V of Bede's Ecclesiastical Histo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

29. Harley MS 249

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 249
Title:
A collection of papers concerning political and legal affairs in the time of Henry VIII to James I
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-118v: A large collection of papers concerning political and legal affairs in the time of Henry VIII-James I, including transcripts and originals. The originals date to about 1546-1608. The collection opens with 'The confession taken of twentie and thre of th ecrediblest Forsath...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1546-1608
Extent:
1 volume

30. Harley MS 260

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 260
Title:
Letter-Book of Francis Walsingham as Ambassador to France, 26 Jan 1571-1 April 1573, with the reply to the French Ambassador, 20 Aug 1573
Scope & Content:
This is a scribal copy of the letter-book of Francis Walsingham covering most of his period as English Resident in Paris between early 1571 and spring 1573. The period covers the marriage negotiations of Queen Elizabeth I with two of the brothers of the King of France: Henri, Duke of Anjou (late...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1619-1628
Extent:
1 volume

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