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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6563
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum(?)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4v: the Hours of the Virgin, probably Use of Sarum (imperfect); ff. 5r-9v: the Office of the Dead (imperfect); ff. 10r-25v: the Hours of the Virgin, probably Use of Sarum (imperfect), followed by the hymn Salve Regina (continued on f. 32r); ff. 27r-31v, 33r-35r: the Hours...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c. 1320-c. 1330
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6635
Title:: Poem on King James VI and I’s right of succession
Scope & Content:: A decorative presentation copy of an anonymous English poem on the right of succession of King James VI and I. With a prose dedicatory address signed ‘A.H. Boreabritannus’. The poem was originally composed in 1595; this copy dates from 'manye yeares' later (f. 2v). ff. 1r-5r Dedicatory address...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1595
Extent:: 1 volume.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6896
Title:: An account of the life and death of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester
Scope & Content:: f. 1r: 'A treatise contayninge the maner of lyfe and death of the most holy prelate and constant martir of Christ John Fisher Bishop of Rochester and Cardinall of the holye Church of Rome.' A copy of a life of John Fisher written during the reign of Mary I. An edition was published in 1921, usi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6910
Title:: Elizabethan poetry miscellany
Scope & Content:: Elizabethan poetry miscellany, compiled between 1596 and 1600. Includes copies and extracts of works by: Michael Drayton; Edmund Spenser; George Chapman; Robert Southwell; Sir John Harington; Nicholas Breton; Sir Walter Ralegh; Thomas Lodge; Thomas Nashe; Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford; Wi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 1596-1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6946
Title:: Five sermons by John Donne
Scope & Content:: Five sermons by John Donne, each transcribed by a different scribe. Sermons 2-5 have been corrected at a later date. f. 1*r reads ‘IV Excellent Sermons Preachd & wrote in the 17. Cent’. ff. 1r-11r: ‘Prou: 8: 17: I love them that love mee and they that seeke mee earlie shall finde mee’. Beg...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1620-1630
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6986
Title:: Letters and state papers of English sovereigns, from King Henry VI to King James I
Scope & Content:: Letters and state papers of English sovereigns, from the reign of King Henry VI to the reign of King James I. ff. 1r-2r Letters patent, sent from King Henry VI to Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. Containing a list of demands, and the King's answer to each article. Kennington, 11 May [1437]. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: c. 1485-c 1625
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6987
Title:: Royal letters and warrants, 1621-1624
Scope & Content:: Royal letters and warrants, from the end of the reign of King James VI and I, 1621-1624. ff. 1r-2v: Letter from King James VI and I to Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex and Lord Treasurer. Sending a reminder to furnish George Villiers, Marquess of Buckingham, with 10,000 l. for his wife’s...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1621-1624
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6988
Title:: Royal letters and warrants, 1625-1655
Scope & Content:: Royal letters and warrants from the reign of King Charles I and the Interregnum, from 1625 to 1655. ff. 1r-2v: Letter from King Charles I to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. Concerning the Queen’s attendants. Hampton Court, 20 November 1625. ff. 3r-4v: Letter from King Charles I to George ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1625-1655
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6989
Title:: Letters and state warrants, 1377-1557
Scope & Content:: Letters and state warrants, from the years 1377-1557. f. 1r-1v Letter from Johannes Haukewood, Capitanus Defensoribus Civitates Senarum. 3 February 1377. Latin. f. 2r-2v Letter from Matheus Beccharis, Thomae Cardinali Eboracensi. Abinton, 30 May 1518. Latin. ff. 3r-4v Letter from L. Campegiu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1377-1557
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6990
Title:: Letters and state warrants, 1560-1570
Scope & Content:: Letters and state warrants, from the years 1560-1570. ff. 1r-4v: Copy of a letter from Sir William Cecil, later 1st Baron Burghley, to Francis Russell, Earl of Bedford and Captain of Berwick. On the favour of Queen Elizabeth I, and his honour. No date. ff. 5r-6v: Copy of a letter to Robert Dud...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1560-1570
Extent:: 1 volume

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