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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 553
Title:: Histoire des Dignitez honoraires de France
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-17v: Histoire des Dignitez honoraires de France.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 554
Title:: Vita Vidualis, a Middle English translation of Girolamo Savonarola's Libro della vita viduale
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A Latin title inscription: 'Vita Vidualis'. ff. 2r-37r: A Middle English translation of the Italian Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola's Libro della vita viduale [The Book on the Life of the Widow](Florence, c. 1490-1500); introduced as follows: ‘Here folowithe the boke of t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1490s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 555
Title:: John Hales, A Declaration of the Succession of the Crowne Imperiall of Ingland; with a reply by Anthony Browne
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-10v: John Hales (b. 1516?, d. 1572), A Declaration of the Succession of the Crowne Imperiall of Ingland (1563); imperfect at the beginning, but the missing leaves have been supplied and bound together with Harley MS 555 with leaves ff. 50-55 from Harley MS 537. Here, the treati...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1590s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 556
Title:: Excerpts from the Chronicle of John of Worcester, 703-1101
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-122r: Excerpts from the Chronicle of John of Worcester (703-1101) or Chronicon ex chronicis by John of Worcester (fl. 1095–1140), a monk of Worcester Priory; with additional extracts annotated by Laurence Nowell (d. 1576), Archdeacon of Derby and then Dean of Lichfield. The ma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 557
Title:: Copy of a Letere wrytten by a Master of Artes of Cambridge
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-81r: The ‘Copy of a Letere wrytten by a Master of Artes of Cambridge, to his frend in London, concerning some talke past of late betweene twoe worshipfull and grave men, about the presente state and some proceedinges of my Lord of Leicester and his frends in England, Conceved,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 558
Title:: Ralph Starkey, Life of Edward II
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-56r: Ralph Starkey, Life of Edward II, in English verse, beginning with ‘The appearance of the Ghost of King Edward the seconde kinge of England’. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 57v: Latin notes, added in the 16th and/or 17th century.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 559
Title:: Collection of political prophecies
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Three prophecies in Latin verse (Prophetia) written on 12 April 1554, for the years 1550, 1553 and 1554. f. 2r A prophecy (Prophetia) written on 12 April 1554, Lilium regnans (Middle English). f. 2v: An explanation of allegories in Lilium regnans (Explanatio prophetie Ante de...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1500-c 1554
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 560
Title:: Folcard of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis; Liberties and privileges of the church of St John at Beverley
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-14v: Folcard of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis (excerpts), ‘Collectiones de vita et miraculis D. Johannis Berlaci [etc.]’. ff. 14v-43v: Liberties and privileges of the church of St John at Beverley (‘Liberates Ecclesiae sancti Johannis de Beverlie’); featuri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 561
Title:: Pontifical
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of fragments of a Pontifical, for English use and includes: ff. 1r-8v: Order of the consecration of a bishop, fragment, imperfect at the beginning and the end, beginning: 'Benedixisti domine terram tuam' (Psalm 84); ending: 'quam tibi offerimus pro hiis quos regenerare...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 562
Title:: Tractatus de mirabilibus urbis Romanae; indulgences and stations at Rome; itinerary from England to Rome; itinerary of Odoric of Pordenone
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6r: Tractatus de mirabilibus urbis Romanae. ff. 6r-21r: Indulgences at the churches and stations of Rome ff. 21r-22v: Itinerary from England to Rome. ff. 22v-28v: Itinerary of Odoric of Pordenone to the East. Decoration: Small red initials throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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