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41. Harley MS 296

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 296
Title:
A collection of original letters and transcripts, concerning Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Russia and Morocco
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: A discourse in French, concerning the enterprise that could be arranged for Don Antonio (b. 1531, d. 1595), a claimant for the Portuguese throne, for the recovery of his kingdom, and the effect and usefulness of this for the Netherlands and England. ff. 3r-4v: An original letter...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

42. 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 Forsathos at...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1546-1608
Extent:
1 volume

43. Harley MS 737

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 737
Title:
A collection of political papers, largely concerning the King's right to impose taxes without parliamentary consent
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: ‘A Remonstrance delivered to his Majesty in writeing after the Inhibicion given by him to the lower howse of Parliament as well by word of mouth as by letters not to proceede in the examining his right to impose without essente of Parliament’. ff. 3r-31r: ‘The Questiones whether...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1637-1641
Extent:
1 volume

44. Harley MS 4744

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4744
Title:
A collection of prophecies and testimonies concerning Christ drawn from the Old and New Testaments
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-138r: A collection of prophecies and testimonies concerning Christ drawn from the Old and New Testaments. f. 141r: Pen trials (?) in a figure drawn in brown ink: ‘and for the use of my god master and to and for [...]’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

45. Harley MS 442

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 442
Title:
A collection of royal proclamations by Kings Edward IV, Henry VII and Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–182v: A collection of royal proclamations by Kings Edward IV, Henry VII and Henry VIII, followed by an index (ff. 182r–v). f. 1r: notes by Peter le Neve. ff. 2r–v: A proclamation for the raising of the price of silver bullion, from 29 s the pound weight to 33 s the pound weight, 13 August 146...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

46. Harley MS 2348

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2348
Title:
A collection of sermons
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2*r-195v: A collection of 69 sermons in Latin, from the first Sunday of Advent to Pentecost. ff. 196r-196v: A table of contents in a 14th-century hand, listing the sermons contained in the manuscript with detail added in a later hand and the folio reference in yet another hand. The man...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 volume

47. Add MS 38818, ff 191-262

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 38818, ff 191-262
Title:
A collection of sermons; Robert of Basevorn, Forma predicandi; Isidore of Seville, Synonyma de lamentatione animae peccatricis (excerpt)
Scope & Content:
Formerly bound in a different order. This part was originally prefaced by Robert of Basevorn (fl. 14th century), Forma predicandi (Form of Preaching). Contents: ff. 191r-255v: A collection of sermons in several hands. The original order of this collection is given at the end in a list of contents (f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
Part of Add MS 38818

48. Harley MS 785

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 785
Title:
A collection of the laws of England and Normandy
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-198r: A collection of the laws of England and Normandy including a French translation of Summa de legibus Normannie in curia laicali.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

49. Harley MS 788

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 788
Title:
A collection of transcripts relating to the history of Christ Church Priory, Canterbury
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-321v: A collection of transcripts relating to the history of the priory of Christ Church, Canterbury.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

50. Harley MS 941

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941
Title:
A collection of treatises relating to history, astrology, magic, astronomy, geography and rhetoric, comprising John Lydgate's Dietary and other verses and medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*v: An added abbreviated list of contents. ff. 1r-3v: De origine gigantum, an abbreviated version of the Anglo-Norman French Des Grantz Geanz, written in Latin. The short narrative tells the Story of Albina and her sisters often used as a preface to the Brut Chronicle. The leaves may h...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

51. Harley MS 1338

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1338
Title:
A collection of university determinationes, once including a fair copy of material relating to King Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-85v: A collection of university determinationes. It once included a fair copy of material relating to King Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

52. Harley MS 1732

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1732
Title:
A collection of various theological texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-174v: A collection of various theological and polemical texts.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

53. Harley MS 6824

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6824
Title:
A compilation of early modern historical and scientific papers; Edward of Norwich, The Master of Game
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a compilation of different historical and scientific papers, mostly originating from the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries. It also contains a 15th-century copy of the Middle English The Master of Game, composed by Edward of Norwich (b. c. 1373, d. 1415), 2nd Duke of York, in 13...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, English, Middle, French, Greek, Ancient, Latin, Malay, and Russian
Date Range:
c 1400-1738
Extent:
1 volume

54. Harley MS 6403

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6403
Title:
A conference between a Fellow of the University of Cambridge and a Catholic lawyer
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-52v: An untitled work in English, describing a conference between a Fellow of the University of Cambridge and a lawyer, a Roman catholic, in the time of Elizabeth I. Beginning: 'The epistle dedicatorie: to Mr G.M. in gracious streate in London'. Touching on the subjects of the publi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1580-c 1603
Extent:
1 volume

55. Harley MS 5001

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5001
Title:
A copy of the household expenses of Edward Prince of Wales (the future King Edward II)
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A later (17th- or 18th-century) title inscription: ‘The account of the Wardrobe, or of the Household of Edward Prince of Wales, (after King Edward the second) in the xxxvth or last year of his ffather King Edward the ffirst.’ ff. 2r-63r: A copy of the household expenses of Edward Pr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

56. Harley MS 1231

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1231
Title:
A copy of the testament of John Rudston, Lord Mayor of London, with an inventory of his goods, funeral expenses, and other arrangements made following his death
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6r: A copy of the testament of John Rudston (b. 1480, d. 1531), Lord Mayor of London in 1528-1529, dated 1530. ff. 7v-13v: The ‘bying of pewkes and blakes Clothes for gownes whiche were gevyn And bequethede be Sir John Rudstone late knyght And Alderman of London whiche disceased fro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1530s
Extent:
1 volume

57. Harley MS 1093

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1093
Title:
A copy of the Visitation-book of Derbyshire of 1611
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: ‘Darbysheire 1611’. ff. 1r-129r: A copy of the Visitation-book of Derbyshire made by Richard St George (b. 1554/5, d. 1635) in 1611, including various additions; here entitled: ‘The Visitation of Darbysheire made by Richard St George Esquire Norroy LKing of Armes anno 1611 toge...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1611-1639
Extent:
1 volume

58. Harley MS 6065

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6065
Title:
A copy of the Visitation Book of Essex by John Raven in 1612
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-149r: A copy of the Visitation Book of Essex by John Raven (1597-1615), Richmond Herald, in 1612, with continuations up to 1627; and later additions, including a patent of arms dated to 1660 (f. 22v); a copy from the Visitation Book of the Count of Essex in 1634 [Henry Lily], and an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1627
Extent:
1 volume

59. Harley MS 1083

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1083
Title:
A copy of the Visitation-book of Essex of 1634
Scope & Content:
Contents; ff. 1*verso-2*recto: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-82r: Pedigrees and arms copied from the Visitation-book of Essex of 1634 by George Owen (b. c. 1598, d. 1665) and Henry Lilly (b. 1588/89, d. 1638). Decoration: Coats of arms, tricked, drawn in b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

60. Harley MS 1075

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1075
Title:
A copy of the Visitation-book of Huntingdonshire of 1613
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2*recto-3*recto: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-60r: A copy of the Visitation-book of Huntingdonshire of 1613 by Nicholas Charles, Lancaster Herald; copied by John Saunders from a book of John Philipot in the custody of Arthur Annesley (b. 161...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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