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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4198
Title:: Heraldic collection relating to northern England
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2r: Sketches of coats of arms. ff. 3r-8r: Alphabetical index of family names. ff. 9v-10r: Coats of arms (6 per page), tricked in brown ink. ff. 11r-13r: Wapentakes and Bailiwicks of the Ridings of Yorkshire, entitled: 'The trew and Perfect booke of the Visitations of [? ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4206
Title:: William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, The Truth of the Sorde
Scope & Content:: Manuscript volume containing a treatise of fencing by William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle. The treatise is mostly autograph, with parts in the hand of an amanuensis. On f.9 is inscribed 'The nexte This muste bee the mathematicall demonstration off The Sorde', which makes reference to a tre...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1640s-1650s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4222
Title:: Collection of orders and laws for the management of the Royal Mint
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-69r: Collection of orders and laws for the management of the Royal Mint, written in different hands. Includes instructions for making money (ff. 1r-20r), 'An ordinaunce for measures and weightes owte of magna carta' (f. 21r); a document relating to Martin Bowes (b. 1496/7, d....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 16th century-3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4230
Title:: Articles of news in Italian
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-207v: Articles of news in Italian from Rome, Venice, Antwerp, and other places, in the years 1591-1596. On f. 46r, written in Latin, a letter signed by Sir Henry Wotton (b. 1568, d. 1639), English ambassador to Venice, dated to the year 1600.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1591-1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4239
Title:: Leges sive Statuta Cantabrigiensis, Academiae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-25v: 'Leges sive Statuta Cantabrigiensis, Academiae' (dated 26 March 1573); with the names of William Cecil, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1559, Andrew Perne, Vice-Chancellor, and the Masters of the colleges at the end. Decoration: The heraldic achievement o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: between 1628 and 1649
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4242
Title:: Passion of St Vincent of Saragossa; Life and Miracles of St Thomas of Canterbury; Miracles of St Wulfsige of Evesham
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript comprises two different parts. Part 1 (ff. 1r-64v) features a previously unnoticed fragment of the Passion of St Vincent of Saragossa (f. 1r), and a copy of the Life and Miracles of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury (ff. 1v-64v), both from the first half of the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4243
Title:: Collection of historical tracts and letters from the reigns of Henry VIII, Mary I and Philip II, and Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: List of payments. f. 1r: 'The chardge of a toun of wine'. f. 1v: 'The accompt of all the rentes and revenues of King Phillip yerelie due to him as they were given up Anno domini 1562'. f. 1v: The great expenses of King Phillip Anno domini 1562'. ff. 2r-2v: Lists of paym...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1589
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4285
Title:: The Book of Provisions of the city of Piacenza
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-97v: The Book of Provisions of the city of Piacenza.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4294
Title:: Hugh of Campden, Sidrak and Bokkus
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-79v: Sidrak and Bokkus, a Middle English translation by Hugh of Campden of the long rhymed French Sidrac; imperfect at the end; beginning: 'If þat þou vundestonde can / Haþ vij chambrez and no moo' (edited by Burton, Sidrak and Bokkus (1998-1999); see also IMEV 772; NIVEM 772; ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and English, Middle
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4313
Title:: Formulary for legal process in the Court of Arches at London
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-217v: Formula for legal process in the Court of Arches at London ('Formulae Instrumentorum Juris in curia de Arcubus Lonini'), mostly featuring dates from the 1560s-1580s. Largely written in Latin, but also featuring items in English.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1560s-1580s
Extent:: 1 volume

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