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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7001
Title:: Letters and state warrants
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–475r: A volume of original letters and copies, including correspondence on public foreign and domestic affairs, and private family matters, 1633–1724. It includes letters addressed to King Charles II and the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. ff. 1r–2v: Original letter from Secretary...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1633-1724
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7004
Title:: Miscellaneous papers and correspondence, c. 1532-1687, primarily of Scottish, Anglo-Scottish, Irish and Welsh matters
Scope & Content:: This is a miscellaneous collection. It includes some items which relate largely or wholly to England, such as the Elizabethan papers on harquebusiers and trained bands (ff. 175r-176v, 177r-179r). There are also outlying documents either side of the heart of the collection in the late 16th- and e...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:: 1532-1687
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7007
Title:: Correspondence of Prince Henry, 1601-1610
Scope & Content:: Letters, state warrants and correspondence of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594–1612). Volume 1 of Harley MSS 7007-7009. ff. 1r-2v: Letter from George Paul, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, to Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford. Cambridge, 1 July 1713. Latin. ff. 3r-4v: Letter from George P...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1601-1610
Extent:: 1 volume.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7008
Title:: Correspondence of Prince Henry, 1611-1612
Scope & Content:: Letters, state warrants and correspondence of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594–1612). Volume 2 of Harley MSS 7007-7009. ff. 1r-2v: Letter from Wilhelm Kettler, Duke of Courland, to Prince Henry. Goldinga, 1 January 1611. Latin. ff. 3r-4v: Letter from François de Lorraine, Duke of Vaudemo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1611-1612
Extent:: 1 volume

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

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

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

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

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

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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