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51. Harley MS 425

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 425
Title:
John Foxe's papers, Volume 10
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–145v: The tenth volume of the ecclesiastical historian John Foxe's papers. ff. 1r–2v: Part of a notable discourse for having the Bible in English, written about the time of Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury, c. 1410, taken ex fragmenta quodam Ecclesiae Wigorniensis. f. 3r: Subscr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
15th century-16th century
Extent:
1 volume

52. Harley MS 442

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 442
Title:
A collection of royal proclamations by Kings Edward IV, Henry VII and Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–182v: A collection of royal proclamations by Kings Edward IV, Henry VII and Henry VIII, followed by an index (ff. 182r–v). f. 1r: notes by Peter le Neve. ff. 2r–v: A proclamation for the raising of the price of silver bullion, from 29 s the pound weight to 33 s the pound weight, 13 Augu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

53. Harley MS 494

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 494
Title:
Anne Bulkeley's prayer-book
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r-v: Elevation prayer, beginning ‘I do salute the moste holy body’. ff. 2r-4r: Latin prayers on the Five Joys, beginning ‘laudo amo adoro’, based on the Liber Specialis Gratiae, I.19. ff. 4r-4*r: Latin prayers for the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, beginning ‘Veni sancte spiritus’....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1532-1535
Extent:

1 volume

54. Harley MS 523

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 523
Title:
Letters of Sir Philip Hoby, 1548-1553
Scope & Content:
Collection of copied letters dating from 1548-1553. Concerning Sir Philip Hoby (1504/5–1558), diplomat and administrator, the Privy Council, and others. f. 1*r: Pasted title page. ‘Sir Phillip Hobby & otheres Ambasages with the Emperore. R:S: 1616’. f. 2*r: ‘Sir Phillipe hobes letters dat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c. 1616
Extent:
1 volume

55. Harley MS 525

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 525
Title:
The Seege of Troy; Robert of Cisyle; Speculum Gy de Warewyke
Scope & Content:
The manuscript's former binding is now stored separately as Harley MS 525/1. Contents: ff. 1r-34v: The Seege of Troye [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3139; for an edition, see Seege or Batayle of Troye, ed. by Barnicle (1927)]; beginning: ‘Sithyn that god this worlde wroghte’...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

56. Harley MS 542

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 542
Title:
English historical miscellany
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A note about the foundation of a hospital in Ingastone. ff. 1v-10r: John Taxtor of Bury St Edmunds, excerpts from his chronicle. ff. 11r-12v: A list of nobles who came to England with William the Conqueror. f. 13r: John Lydgate, The order of Fools, extract only. f. 14r: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

57. Harley MS 565

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 565
Title:
Chronicle of London; an English poem on the expedition of Henry V into France; John Lydgate, King Henry VI's Triumphal Entry into London
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: A list of the kings of England, from Alfred [Aelfred] (b. 848/9, d. 899), King of the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons, to Henry VI (b. 1421, d. 1471), King of England and Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine. Title (f. 1r): 'Nomina Regum & quot Annis regnarunt'. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1444
Extent:

1 volume

58. Harley MS 570

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 570
Title:
John Norden, Speculum Britannae
Scope & Content:
A draft autograph manuscript, first published in 1593, with significant alterations, as Speculum Britanniae. The first parte an historicall, & chorographicall discription of Middlesex. This was the beginning of a projected series of county maps of England that was never completed. This manu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1591-1593
Extent:
1 volume

59. Harley MS 599

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 599
Title:
An inventory of Cardinal Wolsey’s household goods
Scope & Content:
A manuscript, in folio, titled ‘An Inventorie of Cardinall Woolsie’s rich Househould stuffe. Temp H. 8. The Originall Booke as it seems, Kept by his owne Officers’. This may be one of the books which, at the time of Cardinal Wolsey’s fall [1530], contained an inventory of all his goods. After 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1527-1530
Extent:
1 volume

60. Harley MS 600

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 600
Title:
Account book from the time of Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-19r: A treatise entitled ‘Therreccion of the Courte of Thaugmentations and Revenuez of the kings majesties Crowne’; dated to 1546. ff. 20r-48r: Declaratio brevis omnium et singulorum Feodorum Collectorum ac Aliorum; ff. 47r-47v contains additions made in the 16th century. D...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1546
Extent:
1 volume

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