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171. Harley MS 4400

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4400
Title:
Compilations concerning the nobility, magistrates and antiquities of Metz, including Jehan Praillon's Chronique des comtes, des voués et des échevins de Metz
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains compilations written in French, concerning the nobility, magistrates and antiquities of the city of Metz. It includes the Chronique des comtes, des voués et des échevins de Metz, also known as the Chronique de Metz, which records the history of the city between 960 and 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

172. Harley MS 4698

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4698
Title:
Jewels received by Elizabeth I, 1572–1586
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–32v: A descriptive account of jewels received by Queen Elizabeth at New Year and delivered to Mrs Katherine Howard, one of the gentlewomen of her privy chamber, for the 14th–28th years of her reign (1572–1586). Marginal notes record gifts Elizabeth made of these jewels, and if she lost the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1572-1586
Extent:
1 volume

173. Harley MS 4718

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4718
Title:
An inventory of the rarities of King Charles I in the Privy Gallery at Whitehall
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-85v: An inventory of the rarities of King Charles I (b. 1600, d. 1649) in the Privy Gallery at Whitehall, in the King’s new erected Cabinet Room, beginning: ‘By the King’s Especial command his Pictures & rarities which he had kept at St James’ in the Cabbenett Room were tra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1625-1649
Extent:
1 volume

174. Harley MS 4760

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4760
Title:
A Treatise of the true Causes of the Prævarication of Churches Liberties of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*verso: A title inscription: ‘A Treatise of the true Causes of the Prævarication of Churches Liberties of England’; followed by two initials ‘S [?] G’ (perhaps the treatise’s author). ff. 1r-48v: A treatise in five chapters on King Henry VIII’s marriages, jurisdiction over the C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

175. Harley MS 4789

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4789
Title:
Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-286v: Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa; imperfect at the end. Decoration: Historiated initial with author portrait (damaged or erased) in colours and gold combined with a full foliate bar border (f. 1r). Large initial...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

176. Harley MS 4796

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4796
Title:
Cicero, Selected Works, in a Castilian translation by Alonso de Cartagena
Scope & Content:
A selection of Cicero's philosophical and rhetorical works in a Castilian translation by the bishop, diplomat and historian Alonso de Cartagena (b. 1384, d. 1456). Contents: f. 1r-v: Numerous pen trials and inscriptions in different hands, including 'hic Liber est / Maiocenchari', probably ad...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Spanish
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

177. Harley MS 4868

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4868
Title:
Pliny the Younger, De Viris Illustribus and Epistolae
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Suetonius, Vita Plinii. ff. 1r-2v: Johannes Mansionarius ['de Matociis'], Brevis adnotatio de duobus Pliniis. ff. 3r-4r: A table of contents. ff. 5r-27v: Pliny the Younger (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus), De Viris Illustribus; imperfect at the beginning. ff. 28r-152r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1467
Extent:
1 volume

178. Harley MS 4898

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4898
Title:
Inventory of goods owned by King Charles I, sold 1649-1652
Scope & Content:
Inventory of household goods, jewels, plate, and paintings owned by King Charles I and sold by order of the State between 1649 and 1652. With descriptions of items, places, valuations, and buyers. 18th century copy. f. 1r Title page: ‘An Inventory of The Household Goods, Jewells Plate &c, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume.

179. Harley MS 4912

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4912
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-75v: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3327; for an edition, see Riverside Chaucer (1987), pp. 472-585]; beginning: 'The dowble sorowys of Troylus to telle / That was kyng Pryam sone of troye / In lovyng how hys aventuris fe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

180. Harley MS 4943

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4943
Title:
Orders of the Privy Council, 1570-1580
Scope & Content:
Copies of orders of the Privy Council, principally between 1570 and 1580. Mainly letters from Elizabeth I (1533–1603), queen of England and Ireland. f. 1*r: Flyleaf containing pen-trials, notes in Latin and English, and two names: ‘Xtopher Troughton Julij 1624’; ‘Edw: Pynchon’. ff. 1r-14v: Two...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1570-1580
Extent:
1 volume

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