Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5159
Title:: Year books of King Henry VI
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-279v: Yearbooks of King Henry VI, recording pleas held during the 3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th, 13th, 15th, 18th, 19th, 20th and 35th years of his reign (1424-1426, 1431-1432, 1435-1437, 1440-1442, 1456-1457). Written in Law French by ‘T. Mull[e]’. The manuscript contains a few later...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 1424-1457
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5165
Title:: Index of Letters Patent from the reigns of Richard III, Henry VII and Henry VIII
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-3v: A reference table of counties in England and Wales in the Letters Patent, with page references provided for Essex only. ff. 4r-10r: 'Patents of Concealements in Queene Elizabeths tyme' [up to 31 Elizabeth I], followed by similar documents from the reign of Henry VIII. ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5169
Title:: The Offices and Officers of the Exchequer; 'The Articles of the unitinge of the late Court of first Fruites and Tenths of the Court of thexchequer at Westminster'
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3v: 'Thoffices and officers, names of the court of thexchequer at Westminster and of whose guiste they be 1572 - 1599'. ff. 4r-24r: 'What every of the saide officers att this Daye usually dothe by his said office'. ff. 24v-25v: 'The Articles of the unitinge of the late Court...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5177
Title:: Collection of heraldic and historical texts
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of heraldic and historical texts that were produced separately. The different components date from the late 16th century and early 17th century. Contents: f. 1*recto (parchment pastedown): '1565 Rychmond Herould'. ff. 1r-75r: 'The Plea betweene the Advo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5194
Title:: Book of Forests
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Table of contents: 'The Contents of this Booke'. f. 2r: Letter by William Fletewood to Nicholas Bacon (b. 1510, d. 1579), dated 8 June 1571. ff. 3r-38r: 'A treates upon fforestes, Parkes, Chases and ffree warrens'. ff. 39r-48v: 'A charge of the Justyce of the fforests'. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1571
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5198
Title:: Persius, Satires; Claudian, De raptu Proserpinae; Ovid, De Philomena; Latin epigrams; Virgil, Moretum; Maffeo Vegio, Astyanax; Ovid, Epistula Sapphus ad Phaonem; Homer, Batrachomyomachia; Donatus, De barbarisimo; Agostino Dati, Elegantiolae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-15r: Persius, Satires. ff. 15r-39r: Claudian, De raptu Proserpinae. ff. 39r-40v: Ovid (here attributed), De Philomena. ff. 40v-42r: Latin epigrams, including (among others): 'Maro ad augustum Caesarem'; 'Supplicat Cornelius Gallus ad Augustum ne comburatur Aeneis'; 'Suppl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1430-c 1500
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5201
Title:: Astrological miscellany
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is composed of three parts produced in different periods and locations that originally formed independent manuscripts (ff. 1r-83v; 84r-146v; 147r-183v). Contents: Pars oculi sacerdotis (ff. 1r-50v); Notes in English and Latin (ff. 51r-52v); Verba secundum modum alphabeticum,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1150-1524
Extent:: 183 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5201, f 80v (item 1)
Title:: A note in Latin
Scope & Content:: Incipit: 'Ut iurans possit licite optinere dilacionem vel absolucionem....'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5201, f 82v
Title:: A note in Latin, 'A sentencia excomunicationis'
Scope & Content:: Incipit: 'A sentencia excomunicationis qua ligata est...'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 folio; ff. 83r-83v are blank.

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