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2801. Harley MS 7009

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7009
Title:
Miscellaneous papers addressed to Prince Henry, 1610-1612
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous petitions, proposals and projects addressed to Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594–1612). Volume 3 of Harley MSS 7007-7009. ff. 1r-2v: Brief list of the yearly pensions paid by Prince Henry. With notes of some occasional expenses. 1610-1612. ff. 3r-4v: Record of several petiti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1610-1612
Extent:
1 volume

2802. Harley MS 7026/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7026/1
Title:
A lectionary (the 'Lovell Lectionary'), with added pages from a Missal and a genealogy of the barons of Holland
Scope & Content:
Contents: This is the first volume of a composite manuscript. The second volume is now Harley 7026/2, and contains modern calligraphical collections; the binding is Harley MS 7026/3. ff. 2v-3r: A genealogy of the barons of Holland accompanied by three obits written into banners, commissioned b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1400-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

2803. Harley MS 7026/1, ff 1-20

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7026/1, ff 1-20
Title:
Lectionary, imperfect ('Lovell Lectionary').
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2v-3r: A genealogy of the barons of Holland accompanies with three obits written into banners. This family tree was certainly commissioned by Joseph Holland, previous owner of this volume as the last banner specifies (f. 3v): 'Joseph Holand, de interiori Templo London, natus apud ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1400-c 1410
Extent:

A part of Harley MS 7026/1.

2804. Harley MS 7026/1, ff 21-22

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7026/1, ff 21-22
Title:
Pages from a Missal (imperfect).
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 21r-22v: Two folios from a Missal (imperfect). Decoration: Large initials with foliate decoration and full borders in colours and gold (ff. 21r, 22r). Small initials in gold with penwork decoration and pen-flourishing in blue, or in blue with penwork decoration and pen-flourishi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

A part of Harley MS 7026/1.

2805. Harley MS 7333

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7333
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, and other Middle English poetic works by Benedict Burgh, John Lydgate, Richard Sellyng, Charles d'Orléans, John Gower and Thomas Hoccleve
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-24v: Middle English Prose Brut. f. 25r: Benedict Burgh, Cato Minor. ff. 25r-30v: Benedict Burgh, Cato Major. ff. 30v-31r: Complaint of a Prisoner against Fortune. ff. 31r-32v: On the English title of Henry VI to the Crown of France. f. 32v: A roundel on the Coronation ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2806. Harley MS 7334

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7334
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400), including the Tale of Gamelyn. See Boffey and Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (2005), no. 4019. For an edition, see Riverside (1987). The tales are in an order which is unique to this manuscript, they lack some headings and r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1410
Extent:

1 volume

2807. Harley MS 7335

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7335
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-163v: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; imperfect. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 139v: a practice alphabet and inscriptions (‘essavyd offe my master’) Decoration: The manuscript is minimally decorated. Occasional small-scale strap-work in brown ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

2808. Harley MS 7353

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7353
Title:
Typological life and genealogy of King Edward IV
Scope & Content:
Five pairs of large colour miniatures, pairing an event of Edward's career on the right with its biblical type or precedent on the left, including an allegorical representation of Edward's success and the fulfilment of all prophecies. At the foot, a genealogical tree of Edward IV, including kin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1461-c 1470
Extent:

1 roll

2809. Harley MS 7368

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7368
Title:
The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore, by Anthony Munday and others, possibly including William Shakespeare
Scope & Content:
A collaborative manuscript play concerning the life of Sir Thomas More (1478–1535), Lord Chancellor, humanist and martyr. Likely to have been written in the 1590s, primarily by Anthony Munday (bap. 1560, d. 1633), playwright and translator, possibly aided by Henry Chettle (d. 1603-07), printer a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1590-1604
Extent:
1 volume

2810. Harley MS 7376

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7376
Title:
An inventory of the jewels of Queen Mary I; accounts on the hundreds of Sussex and Kent
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains three parts: an inventory of jewels delivered to Queen Mary I (ff. 1r-42v); an early 14th-century description of the hundreds in Sussex and Kent (ff. 44r-58v); and a 16th-century inventory of tax payments from the hundreds in Kent (ff. 63r-220v). The three part...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1312-c 1553
Extent:
1 volume

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