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721. 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

722. Harley MS 571

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 571
Title:
Annals of legal matters under King Edward II
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-184v: Annals of legal matters under King Edward II (reigned 1307-1327), written in French.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

723. Harley MS 572

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 572
Title:
Juridical annals from the reign of Edward II, 1308-1314
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-201v: Juridical annals from the reign of Edward II, 1308-1314.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

1 volume

724. Harley MS 573

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 573
Title:
Sir John Davies, Nosce teipsum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-51v: Sir John Davies (b. 1569, d. 1626), Nosce teipsum; dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1598-1599
Extent:
1 volume

725. Harley MS 574

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 574
Title:
Year Book of King Henry IV, 1409/10
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-101r: Year Book of King Henry IV; the Michaelmas and Hilary terms of the year 1409/10. The manuscript contains later additions: f. [iii]recto: A prayer ‘Jhesus help me Amen’; written in the 15th century. f. 101v: A price: 'xvs vd [? et] vjs xjd'; added in the 15th or 16th ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and French
Date Range:
1409-1410
Extent:
1 volume

726. Harley MS 575

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 575
Title:
Statutes of the English Congregation of St Benedict
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-75r: Statutes of the English Congregation of St Benedict written in Latin, with an index (ff. 74v-75r); imperfect at the beginning. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: A title-page, ‘A Canon Law Manuscript’; added in the 17th century. ff. 1*v-2*verso:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

727. Harley MS 577

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 577
Title:
Narrationes placitorum veterum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-64r: Narrationes placitorum veterum, in French. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 12r and f. 65r: A Middle English prayer, ‘Jhesu Cryst lady helpe’; written in the 15th or 16th century. ff. 63v-64r: Account of payments; added in the early 17th century. f....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

728. Harley MS 578

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 578
Title:
William Smith, Arms of Smith families in England and Germany
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-13v: William Smith (b. c. 1550, d. 1618), Arms of Smith families in England and Germany. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. [i]verso: A letter concerning an identical manuscript owned by Augustus W. Franks, dated 27 February 1889. f. [ii]recto: A title-page...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

729. Harley MS 579

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 579
Title:
‘De Jure et Justitia’
Scope & Content:
Treatise on law and justice, dated Brussels 1668. f. 1: Preliminary page inscribed ‘De Jure et Justitia’. ff. 2-89: Series of ‘dubia’ and ‘resolutiones’ on questions of law and justice. f. 89v: Conclusion, signed ‘fine coronato nobilitatur opus. Brux: 12 Jun 1668’. Followed by ‘Index praecipu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Undetermined
Date Range:
1688
Extent:
1 volume

730. Harley MS 580

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 580
Title:
Henrik Jansen Van Barrefelt [Hiël], A Short Instruction according to the Being
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-50r: Henrik Jansen Van Barrefelt [Hiël] (b. c. 1520, d. c. 1594), ‘A Short Instruction according to the Being By Hiel’; beginning ‘Loving disciples of the uniforme Spirit of Christ; I Hiel have by the helpe Command and mind of god; pointed out the true uniforme Spirit of Chris...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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