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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 531, ff 163r-172v
Title:: Exafenon, attributed to Richard of Wallingford
Scope & Content:: Exafenon, attributed to Richard of Wallingford (entitled 'Liber fratris Perscrutatoris de impressionibus aeris' in the table of contents). Decoration: Initials in blue.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 10 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 532
Title:: A poem addressed to Queen Elizabeth I, A Discourse of the Buisines of Ambyona in Anno Domini 1624, and other texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: 1. A poem addressed to Queen Elizabeth I, Hymnus pastoralis in laudem serenissimae Reginae Elizabethae, ex Anglico sermone in Latinum traductus (ff. 1r-4r); 2. Correspondence between Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland and Sir Francis de Vere (ff. 6r-9v); 3. A Discourse of the B...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 532, ff 1r-4r
Title:: Poem addressed to Queen Elizabeth I, Hymnus pastoralis in laudem serenissimae Reginae Elizabethae, ex Anglico sermone in Latinum traductus
Scope & Content:: A poem addressed to Queen Elizabeth I, Hymnus pastoralis in laudem serenissimae Reginae Elizabethae, ex Anglico sermone in Latinum traductus, incipit: 'Nymphae, candidulae Nymphae...'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1558-1603
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 532, ff 5r-9v
Title:: Correspondence between Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, and Sir Francis de Vere.
Scope & Content:: Includes a letter from Henry Percy (b. 1564, d. 1632), Earl of Northumberland, to Sir Francis de Vere (b. 1560/61, d. 1609), and De Vere's reply, see Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1601-3: With addenda 1547-65 (1870), Queen Elizabeth - Volume 283: April 1602: Letter from Henry Perc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century, after 1602
Extent:: 4 folios; followed by a flyleaf (f. 10).

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 532, ff 11r-44r
Title:: A Discourse of the Buisines of Ambyona in Anno Domini 1624
Scope & Content:: A Discourse of the Buisines of Ambyona in Anno Domini 1624,relates to the Ambyona massacre of 1623 in which ten Englishmen in the service of the British East India Company were tortured and executed by agents of the Dutch East India Company on Ambon Island (now Indonesia).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century, after 1624
Extent:: 34 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 532, ff 45r-48r
Title:: The History of the reigne of King Henry the 8th, King Edward, Queen Mary and part of Queen Elizabeth
Scope & Content:: A chronicle entitled: The History of the reigne of King Henry the 8th, King Edward, Queen Mary and part of Queen Elizabeth, incipit: 'The books which are written doo in their kinds...'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century-17th century
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 532, ff 49r-52r
Title:: Edward II's confirmation of William the Conqueror's charter for the priory of St. Mary, Andover, Hampshire, and of a charter for St. Martin's, Dover
Scope & Content:: Edward II's confirmation of William the Conqueror's charter for the priory of St. Mary, Andover, Hampshire, and of a charter for St. Martin's, Dover . Edward II's confirmation of the charter for the priory of St. Mary, Andover, Hampshire is published in William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum (L...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 532, ff 53v-60r
Title:: A letter to John Dee describing the destruction of Dunwich by the sea in 1573
Scope & Content:: A letter to John Dee describing the destruction of Dunwich by the sea in 1573.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1573
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 532, ff 61r-64v
Title:: Francis Bacon, A breefe Discourse touching the happy Union of the Kingdoms of Engand and Scotland
Scope & Content:: A breefe Discourse touching the happy Union of the Kingdoms of Engand and Scotland. composed by Francis Bacon in 1603.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century, after 1603
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 532, ff 65r-72r
Title:: The order and form of the entry of Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, into Canterbury before the investiture of William Wharham as archbishop of Canterbury on 9 March 1504
Scope & Content:: The order and form of the entry of Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, into Canterbury before the investiture of William Wharham as archbishop of Canterbury on 9 March 1504 (The order and forme of the comminge of Lord Edwarde Stanfford Duke of Buckingham into Caunterbery the daye before Introni...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century, after 1504
Extent:: 8 folios.

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