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4221. Harley MS 4185

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4185
Title:
Lazare François Dagobert, Collection of poems in praise of Charles II
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is an autograph copy of a collection of poems written in praise of King Charles II (r. 1660–1685). The volume was written and decorated by Lazare François Dagobert, a French writing master who was journeying in England at the time of its composition. Dagobert produced a similar c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
October 1683
Extent:
1 volume

4222. Harley MS 4186

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4186
Title:
Journal of the Privy Council, 1579
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-137v: Journal of the Privy Council, 1579, beginning: 'An open Commission to all vice admirals, Justices of Peace, Commissioners, Formatters of piracies, and all the officers of her majesties portes for the apprehending and makeinge staie of one Philpot with his ship, beinge lat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1579
Extent:
1 volume

4223. Harley MS 4196

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4196
Title:
Expanded Northern Homily Cycle; Tractatus de legenda Sanctorum; The Gospel of Nicodemus; The Prick of Conscience
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-132r: Expanded Northern Homily Cycle. ff. 133r-205r: Tractatus de legenda Sanctorum [Sermons for saints’ days]. ff. 206r-215r: The Gospel of Nicodemus. ff. 215v-258v: The Prick of Conscience, imperfect [7 leaves missing between f. 228 and f. 229]. Decoration: Large ini...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4224. Harley MS 4197

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4197
Title:
John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes (translation of Giovanni Boccaccio, De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-102v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes, imperfect; an English translation [with Latin marginal notes] of Laurent de Premierfait’s Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes, which is a French translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (‘On the Fates of Famous M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

4225. Harley MS 4198

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4198
Title:
Heraldic collection relating to northern England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: Sketches of coats of arms. ff. 3r-8r: Alphabetical index of family names. ff. 9v-10r: Coats of arms (6 per page), tricked in brown ink. ff. 11r-13r: Wapentakes and Bailiwicks of the Ridings of Yorkshire, entitled: 'The trew and Perfect booke of the Visitations of [? ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4226. Harley MS 4203

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4203
Title:
John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-181v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes; an English translation of Laurent de Premierfait’s Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes, which is a French translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (‘On the Fates of Famous Men’); featuring Latin rubrics, and a co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4227. Harley MS 4205

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4205
Title:
'Sir Thomas Holme's Book of Arms': anonymous verses on the kings of England, to Henry VI; Military Roll of Arms; Legh's Men of Arms
Scope & Content:
'Sir Thomas Holme's Book of Arms'. This manuscript, together with two other manuscripts (London, British Library, Add. 45133 and London, Guildhall Library, Print Room (s.n.)) is known as 'Sir Thomas Holme's Book' because his arms appear in two of these manuscripts (the present volume (f. i recto...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1445-1524
Extent:
1 paper codex, 112 + i folios

4228. Harley MS 4206

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4206
Title:
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, The Truth of the Sorde
Scope & Content:
Manuscript volume containing a treatise of fencing by William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle. The treatise is mostly autograph, with parts in the hand of an amanuensis. On f.9 is inscribed 'The nexte This muste bee the mathematicall demonstration off The Sorde', which makes reference to a tre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1640s-1650s
Extent:
1 volume

4229. Harley MS 4217

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4217
Title:
An inventory of King Henry VIII’s wardrobe at London
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-25r: An inventory of King Henry VIII’s wardrobe at London (12 Henry VIII), with a title inscription on a parchment pastedown on f. 1r: ‘The boke of all the Kynges reche stuf remaignyng in his standinge warderobe of robes within the Towre of London delyvered unto the sure and sa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1520-1521
Extent:
1 volume

4230. Harley MS 4222

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4222
Title:
Collection of orders and laws for the management of the Royal Mint
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-69r: Collection of orders and laws for the management of the Royal Mint, written in different hands. Includes instructions for making money (ff. 1r-20r), 'An ordinaunce for measures and weightes owte of magna carta' (f. 21r); a document relating to Martin Bowes (b. 1496/7, d....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 16th century-3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

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