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1441. Harley MS 7395

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7395
Title:
Transcripts of documents and letters relating to Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a large number of 17th-century transcripts of documents and letters relating to Elizabeth I, Queen of England, and Mary, Queen of Scots, particularly the latter's execution in 1587. These contents originally seem to have been divided over five separate volumes, and bound...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1442. Harley MS 7398/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7398/1
Title:
Psalter, Use of Sarum, with a Calendar, imperfect
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-125v: Psalter, Use of Sarum, with a Calendar (ff. 1r-6v), imperfect. The calendar features a few 15th-century additions, including St Damasus and the possible consecration of an abbey (‘[...]ysy[n]g of þe abbey of [...]’). The psalms (ff. 7r-112r) begin with the end of psalm 5....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century or 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1443. Harley MS 7401

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7401
Title:
Commentary on Revelation
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-117v: Commentary on Revelation, imperfect at the end. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: A title inscription: ‘Tractatus in Apocalypsis xij Capita priora’; added in the 17th century. Decoration: Partial bar border in red and blue with a large puzzle initia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

1444. Harley MS 7507

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7507
Title:
Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (Bk. III), in an anonymous English translation
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an anonymous English translation of the third book of Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio (Discourses on the First Ten of Titus Livy) by the Italian writer and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli (b. 1469, d. 1527). The work is a commentary on the first ten boo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1445. Harley MS 7554

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7554
Title:
An English theological miscellany
Scope & Content:
This English manuscript is a miscellany of theological works written in Latin and English. The four parts (ff. 1-[38a]; ff. 39-55; ff. 56-66; ff. 67-90) were separately produced at different moments in time and bound together at an unknown point in time before entering or at the Harleian Library...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1400-c 1700
Extent:
1 volume

1446. Harley MS 7555

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7555
Title:
List of Parliamentary summons; assizes from the reign of King Edward III; grant and charters relating to the chapel and college of St Mary in the Fields, Norwich
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of parts that were written at different times. Part 1 (ff. 1-32) was written in the 16th century. Part 2 (ff. 33r-64v) was written in the middle or 2nd half of the 14th century. Part 3 (ff. 66r-72r) was written in 1546. Part 4 (ff. 74r-77v) was written in t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1350-1546
Extent:
1 volume

1447. Harley MS 7567

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7567
Title:
Collection of fragments, copies and originals of historical and religious texts, including the Old English edicts of Æthelberht; Old English laws of Æthelred; Decretum Gratiani; Cronica de Anglia; William of St Alban, Passio Sancti Albani
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of fragments, copies and originals of medieval and early modern texts that were produced separately and may have been kept together as a loose collection in the Harleian Library. The manuscript contains at least 38 separate sections ranging from the late 12th c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1175-c 1734
Extent:
1 volume

1448. Harley MS 7581

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7581
Title:
Collection of religious texts and letters relating to English Puritanism
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of texts relating to English Puritanism. These include letters from the theologian Thomas Cartwright (b. c. 1535, d. 1603) and Henoch Clapham (fl. 1585-1614), a preacher of an English church in Amsterdam, as well as a petition directed to Elizabeth I (r. 155...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1449. Harley MS 7584

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7584
Title:
Law texts from the 28th to 38th years of the reign of King Edward III
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-29v: Law texts in French from the reign of King Edward III, from the years 1354-1365, with the added (? 17th-century) title: ‘entitled ‘Annales les Reg. Edwardi 28-38’. Decoration: Large (3-line) red initials and red or yellow initials in blue frames.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1354-1365
Extent:
1 volume

1450. Harley MS 7640

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7640
Title:
Psalter (fragment)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-23v: Fragment of a Psalter; the surviving text consists of Psalms 80-150, with gaps, and the Canticles. The manuscript contains several additions: f. i recto: A note by Sir Frederick Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873), Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum, that the volume was...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:
1 item

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