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4361. Harley MS 4557/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4557/2
Title:
Yearbooks of King Henry VI, 1432-1444, volume 2
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the second part of a 2-volume set of the Yearbooks of King Henry VI from Michaelmas Term in the 11th year of his reign until Trinity Term in the 22nd year of his reign (1432-1444). Contents: ff. 238r-414r: Yearbooks of King Henry VI, comprising the 20th, 21st and 22nd...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1444
Extent:
1 volume

4362. Harley MS 4565

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4565
Title:
Statute book for Edward III to Henry VI
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-395v: A statute book for Edward III, Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V and Henry VI. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. [1*a]recto: A Latin wisdom verse: 'Si cur quando fuge veniendi sunt tibi nuge / Frenum vel vestes veniendi sunt tibi testes: quod Magister R[…]'; add...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

4363. Harley MS 4605

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4605
Title:
Christine de Pizan, Le livre des faits d'armes et de chevalerie
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r-v: Table of contents to Le livre des faits d'armes et de chevalerie, with a rubric beginning, 'Cy commence la table des rubriches du livre des fais darmes & de chevalerie le quel dit livre est parti en quatre parties' (f. 2r); the main text beginning, 'La premiere partie de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1434
Extent:

1 volume

4364. Harley MS 4606

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4606
Title:
A survey of the manors of Chewton Keynshem and Queen Charlton
Scope & Content:
Title: ‘A Survey taken of the Manours of Chewton Keinshem and Queene Charleton: in the Month of Februarie Anno Do[mi]ni 1667 By Robert Randall Steward there; With Additions added therein of what was more in the surveigh booke 1674 – And Notes of ye differences between them’ (f. 1r). Contents: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1667-1674
Extent:
1 volume

4365. Harley MS 4617

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4617
Title:
Description of the lands of Roger Wombwell of Wombwell near Barnsley
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-26r: Description of the lands of Roger Wombwell (b. 1460, d. 1520) of Wombwell near Barnsley, South Yorkshire, beginning: 'HERE ENSWIS The bonding of all the Maners, Messez, Landis, Tennementis, Pasturis, Woddes of Roger Wombwell, Lord of Wombwell, and the Hamlettes thereof. Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1516
Extent:
1 volume

4366. Harley MS 4620

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4620
Title:
Inventory of charters granted in Scotland from James I to James III
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r: A note concerning the 'erle of douglas'; with the date '1380'. ff. 4r-123v: Inventory of charters granted in Scotland from James I to James III, beginning: 'A perfyte minute of all the chartours content in the register [?] Papen of beginning .c. candidæ casæ'. However, the li...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1590s
Extent:
1 volume

4367. Harley MS 4629

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4629
Title:
Texts on the wars of Julius Caesar
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: added maxim on humility, late 15th century. f. 2v: table of contents. ff. 3r-4v: Polemius Silvius, list of Roman provinces from his Laterculus. ff. 5r-70r: Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico (Commentaries on the Gallic War). ff. 70r-79v: Aulus Hirtius, Commentarii de bell...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4368. Harley MS 4632

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4632
Title:
Heraldic collections of Sir Christopher Barker
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the heraldic collections of Sir Christopher Barker (d. 1549), Garter King of Arms 1536, who compiled the manuscript between c. 1520-c. 1530. The manuscript also contains later additions, including coats of arms that may have been added in the 17th century. Contents: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
c 1520-c 1530
Extent:
1 volume

4369. Harley MS 4640

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4640
Title:
Two copies of an indenture with the last will of Hugh Denys of Osterley
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two identical copies executed by the same scribe and decorated by the same illuminator an indenture that was made in 1529/1530 for the execution of the last will of Hugh Denys of Osterley (b. c. 1440, d. 1511), a courtier of King Henry VII and King Henry VIII. In his wil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1529-1530
Extent:

1 volume

4370. Harley MS 4656

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4656
Title:
De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae,also known as Bracton
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-100v: De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae, attributed to Henry Bracton. Decoration: Small initials in red. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

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