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11. Harley MS 115

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 115
Title:
Arms of Scottish kings, queens and nobility ('Hamilton Armorial')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-81r: The arms of Scottish kings, queens and nobility, a copy of the Hamilton Armorial. All the versos in the manuscript are blank, except for ff. 3v and 28v. Decoration: Coats of arms with crests, and kings and queens with heraldic gowns in colours throughout the manuscrip...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

12. Harley MS 116

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 116
Title:
An English miscellany including Thomas Hoccleve, The Regiment of Princes; The Short Charter of Christ; Benedict Burgh, Parvus Cato and Cato Major; anonymous Middle English poems and poems by John Lydgate; Gottfried von Franken, Godfridus Super Palladium (Middle English translation); Nicholas Bollard, The Book of Planting and Grafting
Scope & Content:
This collection of Middle English and Latin poems and treatises is datable to after 1461 as the anonymous Chronicle presents Edward IV as king of England. A later hand (early 16th century) added a table of contents (f. 1* verso) and a few medical recipes (ff. 167v-168r, 169r). The cataloguing of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

13. Harley MS 133

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 133
Title:
Cuthbert Tunstall, A booke of all the Spyrituall Benifites and Chaunteryes within London and the Dyocesse of the same
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-36v: Cuthbert Tunstall (b. 1474, d. 1559), Bishop of London [r. 1521-1530], ‘A booke of all the Spyrituall Benifites and Chaunteryes within London and the Dyocesse of the same’; beginning ‘Pleaseth it your grace to understande, that where the kinges highnes my sovereigne lorde ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1522
Extent:
1 volume

14. Harley MS 134

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 134
Title:
Itinerary of the commissioners to Flanders, 1587-1588
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-41r: Itinerary of the commissioners to Flanders, 1587-1588, beginning: ‘An Ephemeris or Diarie, conteining the Itinerarie of our Lords Commissioners sent by hir Majestie into Flaunders to treate with the King of Spayne his Comissioners about a Peaux for maintaining the ould and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

15. Harley MS 137

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 137
Title:
Draft treaty between England, Spain and the Spanish Netherlands, 1604
Scope & Content:
Original draft of the Treaty of London (1604) between James I of England, Philip III of Spain, and the Archdukes Albert and Isabella governors of the Spanish Netherlands, with corrections and alterations (ff. 1-26). Followed by individual articles with titles provided by Ralph Starkey, former o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1604
Extent:

1 volume

16. Harley MS 157

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 157
Title:
Queen Anne of Denmark's Household Book
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript, with this title, inscribed on folio 3: 'A Declaration, or a most plaine & undoubted Cours, in what honorable manner the most Excellent, High-borne Queen Ann[e] Queen of Great Britaine etc. may mayntayne & keepe a most Royall-bountifull Howse for one whole Yeare; Her Maj...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1613
Extent:
1 volume

17. Harley MS 167

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 167
Title:
An English miscellany containing texts relating to naval matters
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-202v: A large collection of tracts and letters, primarily concerning naval matters. The manuscript contains documents on the victualling of ships, navigating, shipments, prices of goods, the custom system (taxes for good exported and imported through ports). The manuscript feat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Spanish
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

18. Harley MS 172

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 172
Title:
A devotional miscellany of Middle English prose and verse
Scope & Content:
This devotional manuscript was written by the 'Winchester scribe', the principal scribe of the so-called 'Winchester Anthology' (Add MS 60577), a large compilation of religious prose and verse in Latin and English in which the scribe identifies himself as an anonymous Benedictine monk at St Swit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
last quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

19. Harley MS 180

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 180
Title:
Printed and manuscript tracts on royal marriages, collected by Sir Simonds D'Ewes
Scope & Content:
This is a collection of four tracts, the first two printed and the last two in manuscript, on royal marriages between 1555 and 1624. A Supplicacyon to the quenes maiestie [1555], an attack on the marriage of Queen Mary I to Philip of Spain (later King Philip II), was written by a Protestant ex...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1555-1627
Extent:

1 volume

20. Harley MS 194

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 194
Title:
The Chronicle of Queen Jane
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-93r: A pocket diary known as the 'Chronicle of Queen Jane', covering the period July 1553-1554, here entitled ‘An Annale of Queene Marie her Raigne or a great part of it ab Anonym[ous]’. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. [vi]recto: A note on the manuscript by Sir...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1553-1554
Extent:
1 volume

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