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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 775
Title:: A catalogue of rolls in the library of Simonds D'Ewes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-9r: A catalogue of rolls in the library of Simonds D'Ewes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4344
Title:: A chronicle of England to the reign of King Henry VI (r. 1422-1461, 1470-1471)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-76r: A chronicle of England to the reign of King Henry VI (r. 1422-1461 and again from 1470-1471) beginning: 'Britannia que et Anglia dicitur a Bruto nomen sortita que ante ipsius adventum albion [dice]batur'. The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 76v: A fragment of th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 990
Title:: A collection of abridged English statutes; a tract about dowry; the Assize of Weights and Measures; the verdict returned in a lawsuit in Guildford in 1396; De natura brevium; Les excepciouns ad brevia cassanda; Fet asaver; Registrum brevium
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-19r: a collection of abridged English statutes. f. 19r: a tract about dowry. ff. 19v-21r: The Assize of Weights and Measures. f. 21v: the verdict returned in a lawsuit in Guildford in 1396. ff. 22r-29v: De natura brevium. ff. 30r-35v: Les excepciouns ad brevia cassanda. f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1365
Title:: A collection of Alphabets of Arms in blazon
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A blazon of the arms of 'Laurence Breterghe of Bretegheholt' in French heraldic terminology. ff. 1r-21v: An Alphabet of Arms in blazon (French heraldic terminology), including English families and attributed arms such as those of of King Arthur, Godfrey of Bouillon, and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 920
Title:: A collection of Catholic prayers
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-1v: Commendatio Matutina, qua post nos omnes Christi fideles Deo commendamus. ff. 1v-2r: Ad B. Virginem. f. 2r: Ad omnes Sanctos, et ad S. Angelum Custodem. ff. 2r-3v: Oratio S. Augustini a Spiritu Sancto sibi revelata. f. 4r: Oratio ad Jesum. ff. 4v-5r: Oratio B. Thoma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 335
Title:: A collection of ecclesiastical constitutions and statutes mainly issued by the Archbishops of Canterbury from 1201 to 1413
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-111v: A collection of ecclesiastical constitutions and statutes mainly issued by the Archbishops of Canterbury from 1201 to 1413, and written in several hands. Decoration: Initials in blue with pen-flourished decoration in red. 'Champ' initial in colours and gold with spray a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 252
Title:: A collection of English historical, political and legal papers
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2v: A fragment concerning the issuing of subpoenas from the Court of Chancery, without Bills of Complaint; imperfect. f. 3r: A crossed-out 17th-century text. ff. 3v-4v: ‘Heare followeth the Coppy of the Assignatyon of suche Landes and Revenewes as weare appoynted for the Su...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1555-1645
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 545
Title:: A collection of English historical texts, largely translated and copied by John Stow
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page by Sir Simonds D’Ewes: ‘Robert of Avesburie Keeper of The Reigster of the Court of Canterburie his historie of King E.3 Concerning his marveilous geste and wonderfull victories’. f. 2r*recto: A table of contents, added by Sir Simonds D’Ewes. ff. 1r-40v: Ro...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1584
Title:: A collection of English letters concerning foreign state affairs, dated to 1625-1628; Charles Cornwallis, The Life and Death of Our Late Noble Prince Henry; A True and Just Relation of Major-General Sir Thomas Morgans Progress in France and Flanders with the Six Thousand English in the Yeares 1657 and 1658
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-204v A collection of drafts and copies of letters with instructions to various addressees concerning foreign state affairs, dated to 1625-1628. ff. 205r-229v: Charles Cornwallis (d. 1629), The Life and Death of Our Late Noble Prince Henry. ff. 230r-240v: Anonymous, A True an...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1625-1658
Extent:: 1 volume

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