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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 278
Title:: Statutes and Ordinances of the Order of the Garter
Scope & Content:: The Statutes and Ordinances of the Order of the Garter, revised under Henry VIII in 1522; for the printed edition see Elias Ashmole, The Institution, Laws, and Ceremonies of the Most Noble Order of the Garter (London 1672). Incipit: 'The statutis and ordynancys of the meoste noble ordre of say...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1522-c 1530
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 279
Title:: Culinary treatises
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-5r: Tables of contents for the manuscript’s culinary treatises. ff. 6r-26r: Potage Dyvers. ff. 27v-36r: Vyaunde Leche. ff. 37v-43v: Vyaunde Furnez. ff. 45r-49r: Menus for various feasts. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 44r: A table of contents for menus at...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1430s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 280
Title:: A collection of miscellaneous tracts, including accounts of the naval expeditions of Sir Francis Drake and Sir George Clifford
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*r: Added pen-trials. f. 1*v: A note by Sir Simonds D'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650) concerning the first item in the manuscript (ff. 1r-30v); dated 1637. ff. 1r-30v: A collection of notes made by Mr Paul D'Ewes on sermons preached by a certain Mr Chatterton, living in Cambridge. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 281
Title:: Miscellany of musical treatises compiled by Guy of Saint-Denis
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–2v: Added notes on the tones (16th-century). ff. 3r: Added diagram of Guidonian hand. f. 4r–v: Added table of contents. ff. 5r–16v: Guido of Arezzo, Micrologus. ff. 16v–24v: Guido of Arezzo, Trocaicus. ff. 25r–34r: Pseudo-Odo (here attributed to Guido of Arezzo), Dialogus de musica. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 293
Title:: An English miscellany of historical texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*recto-18v: Francis Thynne, The names and armes of the Earles Marshall of England, here entitled 'This book as Mr Robert Hare informed me was made in the tyme of Edward the ffourth', beginning 'Domus regis magni est Domus Coelestes dapiferi’ [not listed in Carlson, Francis Thynne...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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 origina...
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 297
Title:: Transcripts of letters and papers concerning state and foreign affairs, mostly during the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains transcripts of letters and other documents originally written during the reigns of Henry VII (r. 1485-1509), Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547), and Edward VI (r. 1547-1553). Many of the items are written in the hand of the archivist and merchant Ralph Starkey (d. 1628) and the v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 297/1
Title:: Detached former binding of Harley MS 297
Scope & Content:: Detached brown half-leather binding, with marbled paper, tooled in gold, and the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers, and two unfoliated paper flyleaves. The binding was previously attached to Harley MS 297 and is now stored separately.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Former binding of Harley MS 297

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 300
Title:: Answer by John Bowdiche to a Bill of Complaint of Sir Simonds D'Ewes, with a catalogue of historical manuscripts in the collection of Sir Simonds D'Ewes
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume. On the rectos is the answer of John Bowdiche [Bowditch?] the younger, gentleman, to the Bill of Complaint of Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Knight, Complainant. Starting from the back of the volume, on the versos, is a selected index of historical manuscripts found within the col...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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