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4201. Harley MS 4125

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4125
Title:
Copy of the 1579 charter of the Eastland Company
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto (parchment pastedown): 'Coppie of the Eastland companie their Charter dated the 17th of August the xxjth of Queen Elizabeth Anno Domini .1568. [sic: should be 1579]'. ff. 2*recto-2*verso: 'The Principall Heads, and Contents of the Charter'. ff. 1r-21v: The 'Eastland Chart...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1579-c 1625
Extent:
1 volume

4202. Harley MS 4131

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4131
Title:
Register of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford; rental of King Henry VIII's lands in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire; jury presentments for Gloucestershire
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-363v: Register of the Causes of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1628 to 1633. ff. 364v-477v: Rental of the royal lands in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire in the 30th year of the reign of King Henry VIII (1538/9). ff. 478r-571v: Jury presentments at quarter ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1538-1633
Extent:
1 volume

4203. Harley MS 4132

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4132
Title:
Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-109v: Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica; heavily annotated by various later hands. Decoration: Several puzzle initials in red and blue with penwork decoration. Numerous simple initials in red or blue, frequently with penwork decoration in the alternate colour. Running he...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

4204. Harley MS 4133

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4133
Title:
Account book of Elizabeth I's Courts and Offices
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: Register of accounts of Queen Elizabeth I's Courts and Offices, entitled: 'A Register of the Offices of her Maiesties Courte, her Courte of Revenew, and Courtes of Iustice and Record: As also of other offices of her highness chamber, housholde, and stable: with the offyces ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1593
Extent:
1 volume

4205. Harley MS 4136

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4136
Title:
Essex indentures and wills; accounts from a merchant of the Company of the Staple at Calais
Scope & Content:
A composite collection of indentures and last wills relating to Essex, compiled between 1580 and 1612, inter-mixed with copies of account rolls in an earlier hand, and leaves from an English cloth merchant's account book from the early 1540s. The latter's notes indicate that they were a merchant...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1540-c 1612
Extent:
1 volume

4206. Harley MS 4138

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4138
Title:
English translation of Bernardino de Mendoza's Theorica y Practica de la Guerra
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r, 4r-228r: English translation of Bernardino de Mendoza (b. c. 1540, d. 1604), Theorica y Practica de la Guerra [1595], here entitled: 'The Theorick and Practick of warre written for the Prince Don Phillip of Spayne by Don Bernardino de Mendosa'; perhaps the English translation ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1600-c 1630
Extent:
1 volume

4207. Harley MS 4142

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4142
Title:
Words of English anthems
Scope & Content:
Words of Anthems (verse, unless the contrary is stated), alphabetically arranged.1. 'Aboue the Starrs.' '[T.] Tomkins.' f. 1. 2. 'Allmightie God, which by the leading of a Starr.' 'Dr. Bull.' f. 1. 3. 'Arise, Lord, why sleepest thou' (full). 'Bird.' f. 1 4. 'Allmightie God, the fountaine' (full)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1630-1685
Extent:
1 volume (31 folios)

4208. Harley MS 4144

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4144
Title:
Lorenzo Valla, Select works
Scope & Content:
A copy of Lorenzo Valla's (1407-1457) three orations possibly from 15th-century Naples, written by Giovanmarco Cinico. Contents: ff. 1r-38r: Lorenzo Valla, Apology to Pope Eugen IV, begins 'Aequius erat summe pontifex....'. f. 38v: blank. ff. 39r-57r: Lorenzo Valla, Aliud Siculum aliud Neap...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1470
Extent:
1 volume

4209. Harley MS 4145

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4145
Title:
Thomas St George, A law treatise dedicated to William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Newcastle
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3v: A preface by Thomas St George to William Cavendish, beginning: ‘To the right honourable William Lord Cavendish knight of the Bath, Baron of Bowlsover, Vicount of Mansfeild and Earle of Newecastle’. ff. 3r-33r: Thomas St George, treatise on law, beginning: ‘The Power to t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1628-1643
Extent:
1 volume

4210. Harley MS 4146

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4146
Title:
An English Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-242r: An Alphabet of Arms with blazons of English coats of arms in French heraldic terminology. Decoration: Heraldic elements and coats of arms drawn and tricked in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1572
Extent:
1 volume

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