Search

Archive Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 1-7661 Digitised Content No

4021. Harley MS 7365

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7365
Title:
General survey of the Post Office 1685, by T. Gardiner
Scope & Content:
T. Gardiner’s general survey of the Post Office, 1685, presented by the author to James, Duke of York. Includes route diagrams. Inscribed by Lord Oxford: ‘This Book did belong to King James, I had it from Coll. Grahame’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1685
Extent:
1 volume

4022. Harley MS 7367

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7367
Title:
'The Humorous Lovers, A Comedy' by William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle
Scope & Content:
Fair copy manuscript of the play 'The Humorous Lovers, A Comedy' by William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle. This play was first performed in 1667 by the Duke of York's company, and the text was first printed in 1677. In the lower right corner of folio 1 is inscribed 'Humores, Mores, Res, jud...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1667
Extent:
1 volume

4023. Harley MS 7371

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7371
Title:
Miscellany of English historical papers
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a miscellany of historical papers in English, French and Latin, written in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. They were part of two separate manuscripts (ff. 1-77; and ff. 80r-184v) that were joined together at a later point. The volume also contains fragments of a 13th-c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4024. Harley MS 7382

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7382
Title:
Robert Cooke, A Baronage of England from the Conquest
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 8r-44r: Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms (1567-1592/3), A Baronage of England from the Conquest; up to the 14th year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, 1572 [English]. ff. 44v-46r: A continuation of the Baronage of England for King James VI and I [Latin]. The manuscript ...
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

4025. Harley MS 7389

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7389
Title:
Monastic lands donated and exchanged, 1545-1549
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-51v: An account of ‘Monastery lands given and exchanged to and with sundry persons by the king Henry 8 and Edward 6 - vidilicet a 16 Novembris Anno 37 Henrici 8 usque 27 Junij Anno 2. Edwardi 6’. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 52r: A note and the coats of arms o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1550
Extent:
1 volume

4026. Harley MS 7395

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7395
Title:
Transcripts of documents and letters relating to Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a large number of 17th-century transcripts of documents and letters relating to Elizabeth I, Queen of England, and Mary, Queen of Scots, particularly the latter's execution in 1587. These contents originally seem to have been divided over five separate volumes, and bound...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4027. Harley MS 7397

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7397
Title:
Baronage of England to the time of Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-45v: Baronage of England to the time of Queen Elizabeth I.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4028. Harley MS 7398/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7398/1
Title:
Psalter, Use of Sarum, with a Calendar, imperfect
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-125v: Psalter, Use of Sarum, with a Calendar (ff. 1r-6v), imperfect. The calendar features a few 15th-century additions, including St Damasus and the possible consecration of an abbey (‘[...]ysy[n]g of þe abbey of [...]’). The psalms (ff. 7r-112r) begin with the end of psalm 5....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century or 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4029. Harley MS 7398/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7398/2
Title:
Breviary, Use of Sarum, with a Calendar, imperfect
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 132r-359r: Breviary, Use of Sarum, with a Calendar (ff. 145r-150v), imperfect. The Calendar has various later 15th-century additions, including the feast days of Sts Cadoc, Anasasia, Cyriac and Julitta, Desiderius, Etheldreda, Louis of France, Mathurin of Larchant, Osmund and his ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4030. Harley MS 7399

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7399
Title:
A collection of French 'airs de cour'
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-63v: A collection of French 'airs de cour'. Decoration: Initials with zoomorphic, anthropomorphic and grotesque features and interlace decoration in colours. Drawings of flowers, plants and farm animals in colours. Small initials with foliate decoration in colours.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

Limit your search

more »
more »
more »
more »