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101. Harley MS 5363

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5363
Title:
A Prosopoeia, fiction, or devise, bringing in the Piramis or pillar of the Pallace of Parris, speaking for itself, and advertisinge others
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a previously unnoticed work by Thomas Wilcox (b. c. 1549, d. 1608), Church of England clergyman, dedicated to Henry Frederick (b. 1594, d. 1612), Prince of Wales. Wilcox also revised Sir Philip Sidney's English translation of Philippe de Mornay's Traité de la vérité de l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1605
Extent:
1 volume

102. Harley MS 2438

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2438
Title:
A Psalter
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-187v: A Psalter, including a calendar. Among the feasts: Aldegundis (30 January), Oswald (28 February), Walburga (1 May), Elevatio Mecharii (9 May), Médard (Soissons), Bartini abbatis (5 September), Willibrord (7 November); the added (?) entry for Thomas Becket (29 December) ha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

103. Harley MS 1719

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1719
Title:
A Psalter
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: A Calendar, including English saints such as Alban, Aldhelm of Sherborne, Ælfheah of Canterbury, Æthelthryth, Cuthbert, Cuthburga, Dunstan, Edith of Wilton, Edmund the Martyr, Edmund of Abingdon, Edward the Martyr, Hugh of Lincoln, Richard of Chichester, Thomas Becket and h...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

104. Harley MS 1888

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1888
Title:
A record of parliamentary proceedings for 1592
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-118r: A record of parliamentary proceedings for 1592, titled 'A Journall of the Parliament holden at Westminster in Anno 35 Reginae Elizabethae Anno Domini 1592' (f. 1*r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1592-1593
Extent:
1 volume

105. Harley MS 1855

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1855
Title:
A register of the Spanish Company (Society of Merchants of England trading in Spain and Portugal), 1605
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-36v: A register of the Spanish Company (Society of Merchants of England trading in Spain and Portugal) including lists of members admitted to the company (ff. 1r-14r), a copy of the charter granted by King James I to the Company (31 May 1605) (ff. 15r-34v), and an index of topi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1605
Extent:
1 volume

106. Harley MS 6391

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6391
Title:
A Relation of Prince Henryes noble and vertuous Disposition
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8v: An anonymous author's account of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), entitled: ‘A Relation of Prince Henryes noble and vertuous Disposition and of Sundry his wittie and pleasant Speeches diverted to the right honourable the Lord Lumley and his Lady’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1605
Extent:
1 volume

107. Harley MS 3880

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3880
Title:
A rental of the Crown lands and revenues of 1552-1553
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-189v: A rental of the Crown lands and revenues of 1552-1553.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1553
Extent:
1 volume

108. Harley MS 6077

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6077
Title:
A rental of the Diocese of St Davids
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4r: Rental of St Davids' Pembrokeshire advowsons, 1594. f. 5r: Full-page drawing of St Davids cathedral. f. 5v: Rental of St Davids' recotries, tithes, and vicarages, 1558-59. ff. 6r-22r: Valuations and patronage in St Davids' diocese from records in the Office of First F...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1594
Extent:
1 volume

109. Harley MS 1765

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1765
Title:
A short register of bills and privy seals from the reign of Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-84r: A short register of bills and privy seals from the reign of Henry VIII. ff. 85r-85v: various notes and accounts.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

110. Harley MS 5072

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5072
Title:
A statute book
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-153v: A collection of English statutes in Latin and Anglo-Norman. Decoration: Numerous small initials in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

111. Harley MS 949

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 949
Title:
A subject index for a work on canon law
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-131r: A subject index for a work on canon law.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

112. Cotton MS Vespasian B XI, ff 145–158

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XI, ff 145–158
Title:
A theological treatise concerning vices and virtues
Scope & Content:
Other portions of the same medieval manuscript are now Cotton MS Claudius C VI, ff. 1, 205, Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff. 157–164, Cotton MS Cleopatra E I, ff. 184, 188, 312, and Cotton MS Cleopatra E IV, ff. 1, 475 Contents: ff. 145r-158v: A theological treatise concerning vices and virtues...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B XI

113. Add MS 89067

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89067
Title:
A Traictise declaryng and plainly prouyng, that the pretensed marriage of Priestes, and professed persones, is no marriage, but altogether vnlawful, and in all ages, and al countreies of Christendome bothe forbidden and also punyshed, published under the name of Thomas Martin (London, Robert Caly, 1554). ESTC S112322; STC 17517. With extensive manuscript annotations.
Scope & Content:
In 1549, John Ponet published a treatise in favour of clerical marriage, entitled A Defence for Mariage of Priestes, by Scripture and aunciente wryters. Add. 89067 is Ponet’s personal copy of Stephen Gardiner’s refutation of his treatise, published in 1554 under the name of Thomas Martin. Ponet ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
1554-1556
Extent:

1 volume

114. Harley MS 6281

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6281
Title:
A transcript of a Latin census of the names of cities, boroughs, villages, hundreds and the lords of manors throughout England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-239r: A transcript of a Latin census of the names of cities, boroughs, villages, hundreds and the lords of manors throughout England. The manuscript contains later additions: f. 1r: A note: ‘A transcript of the booke called Nomina Villarum – Kept in the Office of the Treasur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

115. Harley MS 441

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 441
Title:
A transcript of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 121
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Various notes by Edmund Gibson. f. 2r: The Nicene Creed in Old English written by Edmund Gibson. ff. 3r-96r: A 'palaeographical' transcript of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 121 (Ecclesiastical Institutes, Homilies associated with Archbishop Wulfstan).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c 1688
Extent:
1 volume

116. Harley MS 1249

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1249
Title:
A transcript of the cartulary of St David's Cathedral
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a transcript of the St David's cartulary in Harley MS 6280. Contents: ff. 1*r: letter from the office of the Bishop of St David's addressed to Humphrey Wanley concerning the loan of the manuscript to the former, dated 11 June 1714. ff. 2*r: letter of Richard Smalbroke...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

117. Harley MS 6078

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6078
Title:
A treatice concernynge the Nobilitie accordinge to the Lawe of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*verso: A table of contents. ff. 1r-74r: ‘A treatice concernynge the Nobilitie accordinge to the Lawe of England [added:] By Will[iam] Bird’; and ‘Much Enlarged by Sir John Doderidge’. The additional information apparently comes from ‘Cat. MSS Angl. tom. 2. inter Cod. Thomas Bar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

118. Harley MS 5876

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5876
Title:
A treatise concerninge the Nobillitie of England accordinge to the Lawes of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-136v: ‘A treatise concerninge the Nobillitie of England accordinge to the Lawes of England’; a 17th-century copy of Harley MS 6078. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A title inscription: 'The Magazen of Honour or A treatise concerninge the Nobillitie of E...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

119. Harley MS 5757

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5757
Title:
A treatise on jurisprudence
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-93v: A treatise on jurisprudence.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
17th century (before 1652)
Extent:
1 volume

120. Harley MS 2199

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2199
Title:
A treatise on mortification
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-60v: An English treatise on mortification. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1r: A title 'The maner and method to true mortification'; added in the 16th century; with another inscription added in a different 16th- or 17th-century hand: 'By the Godly Father He...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

121. Harley MS 1716

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1716
Title:
A treatise on the Court of Chancery
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-50v: A treatise on the Court of Chancery.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

122. Harley MS 6176

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6176
Title:
A treatise on the inheritance of baronies and earldoms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-18v: A treatise on the question ‘Whether a Barony by Writt being one involved into an Earledome, may be afterwards transferred into an-other family by a daughter and heire and the Earldome continue in the male heire’; with examples dated to 1640. The manuscript contains a la...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1640
Extent:
1 volume

123. Harley MS 1746

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1746
Title:
A treatise on the use and application of English law
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-153v: A treatise on the use and application of English law.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

124. Harley MS 5375

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5375
Title:
A treatise on theological subjects, organised alphabetically
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-154v: A treatise on theological subjects, organised alphabetically (‘C’-‘U’). ff. 155r-170v: A table of contents. Decoration: Small blue initials with red pen-work and pen-flourishing. Small (one line) initials in yellow. Blue and red paraphs. Underlining in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

125. Cotton MS Vespasian B XI, ff 138–144

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XI, ff 138–144
Title:
A verse chronicle
Scope & Content:
This part of Cotton MS Vespasian B XI contains an anonymous verse chronicle, originally in roll form. Contents: ff. 139r-144r: An anonymous verse-chronicle, with a later addition of a memorandum of the chronicle on ff. 139r-144r in a 17th-century hand. ff. 138r, 139v, 140v, 141v, 142v, 143v, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century-2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B XI

126. Harley MS 419

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 419
Title:
A volume of treatises and letters on theological matters belonging to the martyrologist John Foxe
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-179r: A volume of treatises and letters on theological matters belonging to the martyrologist John Foxe, including 16th-century letters to Cardinal Wolsey and King Henry VIII. The manuscript also features some early materials, including: a chronicle of England going up to 133...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1350-c 1680
Extent:
1 volume

127. Cotton MS Tiberius B II, ff 2–85

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius B II, ff 2–85
Title:
Abbo of Fleury, Passio Sancti Edmundi; Herman the Archdeacon, Miracula Sancti Edmundi
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-19v: Abbo of Fleury, Passio Sancti Edmundi (Passion of St Edmund), beginning: 'Dorobernensium aecclesiae archiepiscopo Dunstano, vere moribus et aetate maturo'; ending: 'ut nos cum sibi digne famulantibus expiet a peccatis quibus meremur supplicium per eum qui vivit et regnat i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A part of Cotton MS Tiberius B II

128. Cotton MS Claudius C IX, ff 204–209

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Claudius C IX, ff 204–209
Title:
Abingdon indices, notes and letters
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 204r-209v: Indices for and notes on Abingdon’s Liber Terrarum, added in several hands, primarily that of Sir Simonds D’Ewes (d. 1650); this section also includes two letters to Sir Simonds D’Ewes, one written by Roger Dodsworth (d. 1654), dated 16 January 1645/6 (sealed); the oth...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Claudius C IX

129. Harley MS 4133

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4133
Title:
Account book of Elizabeth I's Courts and Offices
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: Register of accounts of Queen Elizabeth I's Courts and Offices, entitled: 'A Register of the Offices of her Maiesties Courte, her Courte of Revenew, and Courtes of Iustice and Record: As also of other offices of her highness chamber, housholde, and stable: with the offyces ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1593
Extent:
1 volume

130. Harley MS 626

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 626
Title:
Account-book of Richard de Bremesgrave, keeper of stores at Berwick
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-19v: The account-book of Richard de Bremesgrave, keeper of stores at Berwick, with a title page (f. 1r): 'Compotus Ricardi de Bremsegrave de Anno Vicesimo Octavo - Berewyk - intratur et examinatur totum per [manton]'. Beginning (f. 2r): ‘Compotus Ricardi de Bremesgrave tam de ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1299-1300
Extent:
1 volume

131. Harley MS 2284

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2284
Title:
Account book of the Great Wardrobe from the reign of Henry VIII (8-12 Henery VIII)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*recto-53r: An account book of the Great Wardrobe from the 8th to the 12th years of the reign of King Henry VIII, with a title inscription on a parchment leaf (f. 1*recto): ‘The boke of Delyveraunce and Discharge of the kinges standyng warderobe of his Robes within the towre of L...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1516-1521
Extent:
1 volume

132. Harley MS 3813

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3813
Title:
Account of the counties of England, Ireland and Scotland, with engraved maps by Pieter van den Keere
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-188v: Account of the counties of England, Ireland and Scotland, written in English, with printed and coloured maps of counties (with their names in Latin and English) engraved by the Flemish engraver Pieter van den Keere ['Peter Kerius'] (b. 1571, d. c. 1646) in 1599. Decorat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

133. Harley MS 5798

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5798
Title:
Account of the English nobility from before the Norman Conquest to Queen Elizabeth I; tracts regarding English and French arms and titles of peerage
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page for the manuscript: ‘[1] Creaton of Nobility; [2] The Ordenances and Statutes whiche were made by the right High and puissante Prince Thomas of Lancaster son and Brother to right Noble Kings of England and of France, Duke of Clarence, Counte D’Aumarle, Great S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

134. Harley MS 4782

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4782
Title:
Account of the household expenses of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-196v: Account of the household expenses of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury (b. c. 1522, d. 1590), at Handsworth, 21 December 1588-6 March 1590. The manuscript contains an addition: ff. 1*recto-1*verso, 197r-197v originally formed a single parchment leaf from a late 12th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1588-1590
Extent:
1 volume

135. Harley MS 3874

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3874
Title:
Account of the manors, lands and tenements held by the Crown from Henry III to Edward IV
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-425v: Account of the manors, lands and tenements held by the Crown from Henry III to Edward IV, divided into four parts: Henry III to Edward II (ff. 2r-71v); Edward III to Richard II (ff. 72r-242v); Henry IV to Henry V (ff. 243r-315v); Henry VI to Edward IV (ff. 316r-425v). Eac...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1470
Extent:
1 volume

136. Harley MS 7025

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7025
Title:
Accounts of military operations; lists and other papers relating to Christ Church Oxford, Trinity College Cambridge, and Westminster School; letter by Pope Eugenius IV (1447); original grants of arms; 'Catalogue of the most famous orders of knighthood throughout Christendome both Ecclesiasticall and Secular'
Scope & Content:
The larger part of this manuscript contains 17th-century materials. It also features an original letter by Pope Eugenius IV (1383–1447) and original grants of arms dating to the reign of King Henry VIII (ff. 199r, 202r). Contents: ff. 1*recto-1*verso: A table of contents. ff. 2*recto-65v: 'A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1447-1738
Extent:
1 volume

137. Harley MS 2308

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2308
Title:
Accounts of the coronation of Edward VI and his reign
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-120r: A treatise on ‘The Maner of Coronation of Kinge Edward the Sixth’; followed by abstracts of entries in the Council book of King Edward VI from the beginning of his reign to 6 February 1549-50.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

138. Harley MS 5061

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5061
Title:
Accounts of the estates of the Honour of Clare in Essex
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-66r: Accounts of the estates of the Honour of Clare in Essex (Villae, Maneria, Terrae, Tenta in Comitatum Essex, tenta de honore de Clare), up to the time of the 45th year of the reign of Elizabeth I (1603). The manuscript contains several additions: ff. 1*recto, 3*recto-3*v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

139. Harley MS 1361

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1361
Title:
Achievements, coats of arms and badges of the Earls of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-55r: The achievements of most of the earls of England, the last being Hay Earl of Carlisle (with mottos in French and Latin), intersected with tables containing coats of arms belonging to them, and their heraldic badges. Decoration: Full-page achievements, coats of arms of a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

140. Harley MS 1426

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1426
Title:
Achievements of English families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-32v, 35r-111r: The achievements of the English nobility from the time of James I or Charles I, with mottoes in Latin and French. f. 33v: The arms, and descents of noble persons written and painted circularly, and concentring on William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke. f. 34r: Thr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1625-c 1629
Extent:
1 volume

141. Harley MS 1098

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1098
Title:
Achievements of London Companies
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: The achievement of Chaloner. ff. 1v-83r: The achievement of Westminster (with two added drawings of the arms of Westminster in brown ink), followed by the achievements of the Livery Companies and other companies of London; with historical notes, banners and pennons; dated to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1640
Extent:
1 volume

142. Stowe Ch 305

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 305
Title:
Acknowledgement by Agnes, widow of Bartholomew le Heyward of Flixton, that she has received lands in Flixton from Beatrice of Ratlesden, prioress of Flixton, as a dowry
Scope & Content:
Acknowledgement by Agnes, widow of Bartholomew le Heyward of Flixton, that she has received as a dowry from Beatrice of Ratlesden, prioress of Flixton, two and a half acres and five roods of land acquired by Bartholomew, with houses and other lands in Flixton, for the term of her life in return ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1263
Extent:
1 leaf

143. Cotton Ch IV 30

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Ch IV 30
Title:
Acquittance by Thomas, duke of Clarence, earl of Albemarle, and son of Henry IV, to Henry V of £830 5s 7d
Scope & Content:
Acquittance by Thomas, duke of Clarence, earl of Albemarle (1387-1421), and son of Henry IV, to King Henry V of England (r. 1413-1422) of £830 3s 7d, paid to Thomas and Margaret, his wife, by Thomas Fitzalan, 5th earl of Arundel and Treasurer (1381-1415). Given 29 November 1413. Endorsed: 'Tho...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1413
Extent:
1 leaf

144. Cotton Ch I 15

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Ch I 15
Title:
Acquittance of Elizabeth Parsons of Bridgewater and Ann Parsons, wife of Thomas Campion, of any debt owed to them by Sir Robert Cotton
Scope & Content:
Acquittance of Elizabeth Parsons of Bridgewater (Somerset), widow, and Ann Parsons, wife of Thomas Campion, minister, of any debt owed to them by Sir Robert Cotton of Westminster (1571-1631), knight and baronet. The pair also denounce any false rumours about their past connection to Cotton. Giv...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1629
Extent:
1 leaf

145. Harley MS 3252

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3252
Title:
Acts of the Apostles, James, Peter I and II, John I-III, Jude, Revelation, with gloss
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a number of biblical books and was probably part of a set, comprising the entire Bible. Contents: ff. 1r-131r: Acts of the Apostles (ff. 1r-59r), Catholic Epistles, including James, Peter I and II, John I-III, and Jude (ff. 59r-99r), and Revelation (ff. 99v-131r), with glo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

146. Harley MS 643

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 643
Title:
Acts of the Privy Council, 1553-1558
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-316r: Acts of the Privy Council, 1553-1558. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*r: A title-page: ‘Extract of the Acts of Counsell during the bloudy Raignes of King Philip and Queene Marie from the 13th day of August anno Domini 1553 to the 15th day of November ann...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

147. Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 26-84

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 26-84
Title:
Adam Marsh, Epistolae
Scope & Content:
These folios contain the largest collection of letters of Adam Marsh or Adam de Marisco (d. 1259), a Franciscan friar and biblical scholar. The last letter ends imperfectly. Decoration: Initials and rubrics in red or brown (f. 26r, 61v). Text in three columns (f. 57r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd third of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII

148. Cotton MS Caligula A VIII, ff 129–209

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula A VIII, ff 129–209
Title:
Adrevald of Fleury, Aduentus et Exceptio Sancti Benedicti et Scholastice; Adrevald of Fleury, Miracula Sancti Benedicti, book I (imperfect); Thierry of Fleury (Amorbach), Translatio Corporis Sancti Benedicti, §ii; Adrevald of Fleury, Miracula Sancti Benedicti, book i (continued); Aimoin of Fleury, Miracula Sancti Benedicti; Vita Sancte Marie Magdalene; Translatio Sancte Marie Magdalene; arms of Robert Steward, prior of Ely (1522–1539), with the date 1531; Passio Sancte Katerine Virginis; Vis...
Scope & Content:
These folios contain various hagiographical texts. All of these folios were copied in the 1st half of the 12th century, apart from Translatio Sancte Marie Magdalene (Translation of St Mary Magdalene), copied in the 2nd quarter of the 12th century and the account of the vision of the monk of Eyns...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century-1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Caligula A VIII

149. Cotton MS Vespasian B XI, ff 84–125

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XI, ff 84–125
Title:
Aelred of Rievaulx, Vita S. Edwardi Regis et Confessoris; De Genealogia Regum Anglorum
Scope & Content:
This part of the manuscript contains the Vita S. Edwardi Regis et Confessoris (The Life of Saint Edward the Confessor) and the De Genealogia Regum Anglorum (On the Genealogy of the Kings of England) by the English historian Aelred of Rievaulx (b. 1109, d. 1167). The rest of the initial manuscrip...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B XI

150. Cotton MS Otho A VI, ff 130–168

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho A VI, ff 130–168
Title:
Aelred of Rievaulx, Vita Sancti Edwardi Regis et Confessoris
Scope & Content:
These folios contain the Life of St Edward the Confessor by Aelred of Rievaulx (b. 1109, d. 1167). This manuscript includes a table of chapters and prefatory letters addressed to King Henry II of England (r. 1154-1189) and Laurence, abbot of Westminster (d. 1173). All these text are listed in Bi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Otho A VI

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