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1501. Harley MS 2387

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2387
Title:
Walter Hilton, Scala perfectionis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-129v: Walter Hilton, Scala perfectionis (Ladder of Perfection); imperfect, the first two parts only. With the opening rubric: ‘Here bygynyth þe boke þat is I clepyde scale perfeccionis and it haþ twey partes’; beginning: ‘Gostly broþer in Ihesu crist I preye þe þat in þe cally...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1502. Harley MS 6573

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6573
Title:
Walter Hilton, Scale of Perfection (Books 1 and 2)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*r-114v: Walter Hilton, Scale of Perfection (Books 1 and 2). Decoration: Numerous large initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Paraph marks in blue (ff. 1*r-2*v); paraph marks in red (ff. 3r-114r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1503. Harley MS 993

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 993
Title:
Walter Hilton, The Eight Chapters on Perfection; Treatise of Discretion of Spirits
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-23v: Walter Hilton, The Eight Chapters on Perfection, English translation of a work by written by the Aragonese Franciscan Luis de Fontibus (fl. 1383-1394); beginning: ‘Heere bigynneþ a tretis of viij chapitres necessarie for men þat ʒiven hem to perfection . whiche was founden...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

1504. Harley MS 2415

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2415
Title:
Walter Hilton, The Prickynge of Love
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains The Prickynge of Love, an English translation, perhaps made by the Augustinian canon and mystic Walter Hilton, of the late 13th-century Stimulus Amoris by the Franciscan friar James of Milan. The translation survives in 16 manuscripts. Other copies can be found in Harley...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

1505. Harley MS 6579

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6579
Title:
Walter Hilton, The Scale of Perfection
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-140r: Walter Hilton (d. 1396), an Austin monk at Thurgarton, Nottinghamshire, The Scale of Perfection.Beginning: 'Ghostly sister in ihesu crist I preie þe þat in þe calling whilke oure lord hath callid þe to his servise: þou halde þe paied and stond stedfastly þerinne'; opening...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

1506. Sloane MS 809

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 809
Title:
Walter of Bibbesworth, Tretiz de langage
Scope & Content:
Contents: Walter of Bibbesworth ('Biblesworth'), Tretiz de langage, a poem in Anglo-Norman French verse with an English glossary, composed in the mid 13th century as a tool for teaching useful French vocabulary to English landowners. It exists in a long and a short version. This text resembles...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, and French
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:

1 roll

1507. Add MS 35294

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 35294
Title:
Wardrobe account of Eleanor of Castile
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the wardrobe account, or Liber Garderobe, of Eleanor of Castile, (b. c. 1240, d. 1290), Queen consort to King Edward I (r. 1272-1307). The account was compiled by Queen Eleanor's treasurer, John of Berewyk (fl. 1279-1312), and records a set of her receipts and expenses...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
[29 Sep 1289-30 Dec 1290]
Extent:
1 volume

1508. Add MS 37656

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 37656
Title:
Wardrobe account of Thomas of Brotherton and Edmund of Woodstock, sons of Edward I and Margaret of France
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the wardrobe account of Thomas of Brotherton (b. 1300, d. 1338), and Edmund of Woodstock (b. 1301, d. 1330), afterwards Earls of Norfolk and Kent. Princes Thomas and Edmund were the fifth and sixth sons of King Edward I (r. 1272-1307), and the oldest by his second marria...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1305
Extent:
1 volume

1509. Harley MS 4780

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4780
Title:
Wardrobe accounts of King Edward IV from 18 April to 29 September 1480
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-59v: Wardrobe accounts of King Edward IV from 18 April to 29 September 1480, beginning: 'The Parcelles of the Accomptes of Peers Courteys whome the kinges highnesse and goode grace hath assigned and ordeigned by his high commaundement to rule gouverne and kepe his grete warder...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1480
Extent:
1 volume

1510. WD3676

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3676
Title:
Water meadows with cows, England. Artist(s): Brown, Percy (1872-1955)
Scope & Content:
Water meadows with cows, England. Inscribed: ‘Percy Brown’. Water-colour; 24 by 34.5 cm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1909-1929
Extent:
1 Item

1511. Harley MS 6102

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6102
Title:
Welsh coats of arms and pedigrees
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-27r: Coats of arms of Welsh nobility and gentry (4 per page) with descriptions of their houses in English, entitled: ‘Welsh Armes – The Auncient descents of divers Noble howses and gentlemen of Wales’; on f. 26v: ‘Heare endes the Coppie of a welshe booke of Armes and descentes...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1512. Harley Ch 83 H 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ch 83 H 1
Title:
Westminster Tournament Challenge
Scope & Content:
Contents: The Westminster Tournament Challenge, an invitation to the Westminster Tournament, the joust held in honour of the birth of a son, Prince Henry, to Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547) and Catherine of Aragon (b. 1485, d. 1536) on New Year's Day, 1511. The document concludes with the signatur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1511
Extent:
1 leaf

1513. Add Ch 60433

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Ch 60433
Title:
Will and probate certificate of Margaret Hervy of Ryburgh
Scope & Content:
Will and probate certificate of Margaret Hervy of Ryburgh [Norfolk]. She leaves her body to Ryburgh Church, makes bequests to her children Robert, Thomas and Elizabeth, and appoints Robert Hempton and Elizabeth Hervy as her executors; given 1508. Dorse: probate certificate by the official of th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1508
Extent:
1 leaf

1514. Cotton Ch IV 29

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Ch IV 29
Title:
Will of David Cyssell of Stamford, esquire
Scope & Content:
The will of David Cyssell of Stamford (Lincolnshire), esquire. Cyssell leaves his body to be buried in the choir of St George's church, Stamford, and makes many bequests, including money to two altars, plate, horses, sheep, furniture, land and other property to Jane, his wife, clothes, furniture...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1537
Extent:
1 leaf

1515. Add Ch 17295

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Ch 17295
Title:
Will of Gunnilda atte Denne
Scope & Content:
Will of Gunnilda atte Denne, leaving her body to be buried in the churchyard of St Peter Newdigate [Surrey], and making bequests to that church for her obit mass, to the poor, her family and friends, and appointing executors; dated 12 April 1318. Probate certificate by John, rector of Lanihook,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1318
Extent:
1 leaf

1516. Add Ch 28766

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Ch 28766
Title:
Will of Isabella Russell, widow of John Churchhay of Frome
Scope & Content:
Will of Isabella Russell, widow of John Churchhay of Frome, leaving bequests to Langley Priory, Langley Chapel, Merston Church [all Somerset], her friends, relatives, and the chapel of St Katherine; dated 24 February 1361. Endorsed: in a 14th-century hand, ‘Certander’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1361
Extent:
1 leaf

1517. Add Ch 77153

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Ch 77153
Title:
Will of Isabella Storke
Scope & Content:
Will of Isabella Storke, wife of William Denton, squire, of the diocese of Ely. Isabella leaves her body to be buried in the chancel of Babraham, Cambridgeshire, and she leaves to William, her husband, all her possessions and a messuage in Soper Lane, the parish of St Pancras, London. She asks t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
25 Mar 1496
Extent:
1 leaf

1518. Add Ch 26317

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Ch 26317
Title:
Will of Joanna Lane, widow of Nicholas Lane of Snape
Scope & Content:
Will of Joanna Lane, widow of Nicholas Lane of Snape, Suffolk. She asks to be buried in the churchyard of Snape Church, and makes bequests to her daughters, her goddaughter, and her goddaughter’s family, and appoints executors. Dated 20 November 1500. Dorse: Probate certificate by Roger Church...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1500-1501
Extent:
1 leaf

1519. Add Ch 76275

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Ch 76275
Title:
Will of Johanna, wife of John Godfrey of South Creake
Scope & Content:
Will of Johanna, wife of John Godfrey of South Creake, Norfolk. Joan leaves her body to be buried in the cemetery of South Creake church and makes bequests of 40d to the church’s altar, 6s 13d for repairs to the church, 1d for the church’s processions, 2 marks for church’s lights, and the rest o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1368
Extent:
1 leaf

1520. Add Ch 18791

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Ch 18791
Title:
Will of Katherine Cook of St Andrew’s parish, Lewes
Scope & Content:
Will of Katherine Cook of St Andrew’s parish, Lewes [Sussex], leaving her body to St Mary’s Chapel in St Michael the Archangel’s Church, Lewes, next to the tomb of her husband John Cooke, leaving money to that and other churches, for her tomb, masses for her soul, and to her daughter Agnes Chamb...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1504-1505
Extent:
1 leaf

1521. Add Ch 70581

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Ch 70581
Title:
Will of Margaret Canon, granting to John Lye and Thomas Russell of Hythe all of her lands and tenements in Hythe
Scope & Content:
Will of Margaret Canon, granting to John Lye and Thomas Russell of Hythe all of her lands and tenements in Hythe, Kent, once held by her feoffees John Chilton, John Prylle and Robert Combe; given 12 October 1424. Endorsed: in a 15th-century hand, ‘Test[amentum] Marg[eret]ie / Canon sup[er] / el...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1424
Extent:
1 leaf

1522. Add Roll 17253

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Roll 17253
Title:
Will of Margaret Paston
Scope & Content:
Will of Margaret Paston (1422-84), widow, wife of John Paston senior and daughter and heir of John Mautby. She leaves her body to be buried in the aisle of Mautby Church, Norfolk, before the image of the Virgin Mary and beside the bodies of her ancestors, and gives 20s to the church. She makes...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1482
Extent:
1 roll

1523. Add Ch 19146

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Ch 19146
Title:
Will of Margaret, widow of John de Covert
Scope & Content:
Will of Margaret, widow of John de Covert, knight, leaving her body to be buried in the chapel of St Mary Sullington [Sussex], and leaving money for her burial, obituary mass, and the poor, and making bequests to friends and family, the friars of several towns, Sullington Church, and appointing ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1367
Extent:
1 leaf

1524. LFC Ch III 1

Reference (shelfmark):
LFC Ch III 1
Title:
Will of Margery de Crek
Scope & Content:
Will of Margery de Crek, widow of Bartholomew de Crek, leaving her body to be buried in the church of Flixton Priory, the nunnery that she founded in 1258, making other bequests to the priory, the bishop of Norwich, her family, and others; dated the morrow of St Luke the Evangelist [19 October],...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1282
Extent:
1 leaf

1525. Add Ch 24243

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Ch 24243
Title:
Will of Margery, widow of John Todenham, knight
Scope & Content:
Will of Margery, widow of John Todenham, knight, leaving her body to be buried in the chancel of the Austin Friars, Thetford [Norfolk], next to the tomb of her daughter Elizabeth Homgrave, and leaving bequests to that and other churches, and appointing executors, with the signature of Thomas Mar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1411-1416
Extent:

1 document

1526. Harley MS 1031

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1031
Title:
Willelmus Peraldus, Summa de vitiis et virtutibus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-186r: Willelmus Peraldus [William Perault (d. 1271)], Summa de vitiis et virtutibus. The manuscript contains several additions: Theological notes added throughout the manuscript. f. 1*recto: A title inscription: 'Tractatus moralis de virtutibus'; added in the (?) 17th centu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

1527. Harley MS 1659

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1659
Title:
Willelmus Peraldus, Summa de vitiis et virtutibus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-394v: Willelmus Peraldus [William Perault (d. 1271)], Summa de vitiis et virtutibus. The manuscript features several later additions: ff. 1v-3r: Pope Innocent III, De contemptu mundi; added in the (?) 15th century. ff. 395r-97r: Theological notes in Latin, featuring a few ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

1528. Stowe MS 594

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 594
Title:
William Bruges’ Garter Book
Scope & Content:
The first armorial for the Order of the Garter, containing portraits of the knights founder: f. 5v: Saint George, as patron of the order of the Garter, together with another knight, possibly William Bruges. f. 7v: Edward III of England. f. 8r: Henry Duke of Lancaster. f. 8v: Jean de Grailly...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
1430s
Extent:

1 volume

1529. Cotton MS Faustina F X

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina F X
Title:
William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha (fragments, including entries for the years 1573–1587, 1589–1592)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin; English (250v, 252r, 254r–256r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1530. Cotton MS Faustina F I

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina F I
Title:
William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha (1558–1572)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1531. Cotton MS Faustina F II

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina F II
Title:
William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha (1573–1586, 1588–1590)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1532. Cotton MS Faustina F III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina F III
Title:
William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha (1592–1603)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1533. Cotton MS Faustina F IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina F IV
Title:
William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha (1558–1572)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1534. Cotton MS Faustina F IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina F IX
Title:
William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha (1598–1603)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1535. Cotton MS Faustina F V

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina F V
Title:
William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha (1573–1582)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1536. Cotton MS Faustina F VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina F VI
Title:
William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha (1589–1596)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1537. Cotton MS Faustina F VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina F VII
Title:
William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha (1597–1603)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1538. Cotton MS Faustina F VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina F VIII
Title:
William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha (1589–1597)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1539. Harley MS 6104

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6104
Title:
William Dugdale, Visitation of Staffordshire, 1663-64, and Visitation of Derbyshire, 1662-63
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1**recto: A title-page: ‘The Visitation of Staffordshire Taken in the year of our Lord on Thousand six hundred sixty three by William Dugdale Esquire Norroy King at Armes – Received in Anno 1664’. ff. 2*recto-2**recto: An alphabetical index of the names of families included in th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1664
Extent:
1 volume

1540. Harley MS 1703

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1703
Title:
William Forrest, Poems
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3v: A ‘Prologe in the warke followinge’. ff. 3v-22v: A ‘Treatyse uppon the Salutation of the moste gloryous virgyn Marye, and that all praysinges that eaver hathe beene saide of her (After the sayinge of saincte Augustyne) are farre Insuffycient to her worthynes, and honoure:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1572
Extent:
1 volume

1541. Harley MS 2352

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2352
Title:
William Lyndwood, Provinciale
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r–118r: William Lyndwood, Provinciale, with an index (ff. 113r–118r). Decoration: Full bar border in red and blue with 1 large initial in blue (f. 1r). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Rubrics in red. Smaller plain initials in red. Paraphs in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

1542. Harley MS 3219

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3219
Title:
William of Auxerre, Summa aurea (abbreviated version)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-266v: William of Auxerre, Summa aurea (abbreviated version); preceded by a table of contents (ff. 1r-2v). Decoration: Large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours, including j-borders, at the beginning of each book (ff. 3r, 31v, 95r, 211r). I...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

1543. Harley MS 3207

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3207
Title:
William of Pagula, Oculus Sacerdotis; Arnold of Liège, Alphabetum narrationum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-14r: William of Pagula (d. 1332), Oculus Sacerdotis, beginning: 'Cum ecclesiae quibus preficistuntur [sic: preficiuntur] persone minus ydonee Sciencia moribus'; imperfect, ends abruptly on f. 14r, leaving f. 14v blank. ff. 15r-248v: Arnold of Liège (fl. 1290-1310), Alphabetum...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

1544. Harley MS 5014

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5014
Title:
William of Pagula, Summa summarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-254v: William of Pagula, Summa summarum. Decoration: 1 historiated initial and a three-sided bar-border in gold and colours with some foliage, a bird and a hybrid creature (f. 1r). 3 large decorated initials and bar-borders in gold and colours with foliate motifs, a grotesque...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

1545. Cotton MS Nero C VII, ff 2–9

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero C VII, ff 2–9
Title:
William of St Albans, Passio Sanctorum Albani et Amphibali
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-9r: William of St Albans, Passio Sanctorum Albani et Amphibali (The Passion of Saints Alban and Amphibalus), preceded by a prologue (f. 2r); beginning of the prologue: 'Quisquis beatorum martyrum gloriosa certamina'; beginning of the Vita (Life): 'Incipit passio sancti Albani a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero C VII

1546. Harley MS 337, ff 12r-31v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 337, ff 12r-31v
Title:
William of Waddington, Manuel de Pechiez (‘The Harleian Roll’)
Scope & Content:
ff. 12r-31v: William of Waddington, Manuel de Pechiez, imperfect, also known as 'The Harleian Roll' for the series of shields painted around 1314 in the upper margins of the leaves (only 161 surviving). Decoration: The shields may have been painted in the upper margins around 1314, according t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

Part of Harley MS 337

1547. Cotton MS Claudius E III, ff 308–333

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Claudius E III, ff 308–333
Title:
William Rishanger, Opus Chronicorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 308r-333r: William Rishanger (b. 1250, d. 1312), Opus Chronicorum (Chronicle Work), beginning: '[A]nno gracie millesimo ducentesimo quinquagesimo nono rex Anglorum Henricus'. [f. 333v is blank]. Decoration: Spaces for initials have been left unfilled.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Claudius E III

1548. Harley MS 6362

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6362
Title:
William Roper, The lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r: A title-page: ‘The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore sometyme Chancellor of Englande written by the sonne in lawe William Roper of Eltham in the Counye of Kente esquier’. ff. 3r-47v: William Roper (b. 1495x8, d. 1578), The lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte, here entitled: ‘The Lyfe of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

1549. Harley MS 684

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 684
Title:
William Somner, Commentary and glossary on the laws of Henry I
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Gulielmi Somneri Commentarius in Leges Henrici I cum Glossario’. ff. 1r-55r: William Somner (bap. 1598, d. 1669), antiquary and Anglo-Saxon scholar, Commentary on the laws of Henry I; dedicated to Roger Twysden (b. 1597, d. 1672), second baronet, antiquar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1550. Harley MS 3437

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3437
Title:
William Teshe, Poem on the Order of the Garter for Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Contents: William Teshe, Verses on the Mottoes of the Queen, sixteen of the Knights and the Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, 1582 [presentation copy for Queen Elizabeth I]. Decoration: Coats of arms of the members, in colours and gold surrounded by the garter and combined with the Lat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1582
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