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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 955
Title:: Devotional book with prayers, indulgences and religious instructions
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-26r: Office of the Dead, use of Syon; with English saints listed in the Litany (ff. 8v-11v). ff. 27r-28v: Stabat Mater, with a rubric offering indulgences: 'In honore beate marie virginis magna indulgencia concess a bonefacio papa hanc oracionem dicentibus'; beginning: 'Sal[...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1633
Title:: Reports of law cases heard at the Queen's Bench (1587-1590)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-188v: Reports of law cases heard at the Queen's Bench (1587-1590).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1587 - c 1590
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1637
Title:: Liber contrarotulamenti Hanaperii Cancellariae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-28v: Liber contrarotulamenti Hanaperii Cancellariae (the book of the Clerk of the Hanaper (1564-1565).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1565
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1654
Title:: Account book for the wages of artificers and labourers paid by the Board of Ordnance, January 1572-December 1573
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A title inscription: ‘The Booke of wages of Artificers Woorkmen and Laborers in theoffice of thordinaunce anno xvito’. ff. 1r-53v: Accounts for wages paid to artificers and labourers by the Board of Ordnance, Tower of London, for the months of January-March 1572, and Ap...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1572-1573
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1710
Title:: A Lectionary, in the earlier Wycliffite version
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-166v: A Lectionary, in the earlier Wycliffite version. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 166r: 'Omnibus omnia non mea / Sompnia dicere possum'; added in the (?) 15th century. Decoration: 1 puzzle initial in red and blue, with pen-flourishing in purple and red, e...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1390 - c 1400
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1831
Title:: A register of the burgesses of Westminster
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-39r: A register of the burgesses of Westminster.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1585
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1864
Title:: Armorial of Knights of the Order of the Garter
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1v: Dedication of the manuscript by Sir William Dethick (b. 1543, d. 1612) to Queen Elizabeth I, dated 1588, beginning: 'Serenissima, Augustissima, et ubiuis longe Potentissima Regina'. f. 2r: The achievement of King Henry V, with above: 'Elizabetha potens, iam regnans pace Bryt...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 1587
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2251
Title:: Collection of poems by John Lydgate, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Benedict Burgh
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains poems by some of the most renowned poets from Late Medieval England, including John Lydgate (b. c. 1370, d. c. 1451), Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400), and Benedict Burgh (b. 1413, d. 1483). The collection of poems by John Lydgate is believed to be derived from a ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1460-1483
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2336
Title:: The Pore Caitif
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-137v: The Pore Caitif. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A letter in Englsh dated to 1536: 'Bettar it ys for all howsold ffor to hold ffor the [nigt]ly yn brestyn in ffetars off gold cosyn Rosa [...] yn my best [...] I hartely Recom[m]en [sic] me wonto ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2887
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hours of the Earls of Ormond')
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 21r-26v: Calendar. ff. 29v-32v, 34r-54v: The Hours of the Virgin Mary. ff. 54v, 59r-64r: The Fifteen Oes ['Quindecim Oos']. ff. 64r-66r: Prayer to the Virgin Mary, beginning: 'O Intemerata et in eternum benedicta singularis atque incomparabilis virgo dei'. ff. 66r-67v: Pr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1460
Extent:: 1 volume

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