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1491. Harley MS 245

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 245
Title:
A miscellany of heraldic works by Robert Glover
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3*recto-6*recto: Indices of pedegrees, arms and seals in the manuscript. ff. 2r-168r: A miscellany of heraldic works by Robert Glover (b. 1543/1544, d. 1588), herald of Somerset [the original texts are in two manuscripts in the College of Arms]: see f. 2*recto: ‘Liber miscellana...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1600
Extent:
1 volume

1492. Harley MS 619

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 619
Title:
Miroir du Fleur de la Noblesse du Pays-Bas
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were created at different times. Part 1 (ff. 1r-81v) is dated to 1586. Part 2 (ff. 82r-89v) was copied by Sir Simonds D'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), perhaps (but not necessarily) after he acquired the first part in 1624. Contents: Part 1: f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1586-c 1650
Extent:
1 volume

1493. Harley MS 962

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 962
Title:
The Flores of Senecaes Epistles translated into English
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-185v: ‘The fflores of Senecaes Epistles translated into English’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1494. Harley MS 1147

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1147
Title:
Copy of the Visitation book of Surrey 1623
Scope & Content:
Copy of the Visitation book of Surrey, taken 1623 by Samuel Thompson, Windsor, and Augustine Vincent, Rouge-Croix, Deputies and Marshalls to William Camden, Clarenceux Kings of Arms, with some additions. f. 132: Tricks of the arms and seals of the Borough of Guildford. f. 164: Tricks of t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1495. Harley MS 1149

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1149
Title:
Copy of the Visitation book of Cornwall 1620
Scope & Content:
Fair copy of the 1620 Visitation of Cornwall taken by Henry St George, Richmond and Sampson Lennard, Blue-mantle. Close to Harley MS 1162, but with numerous illustrations. In this copy the drawings of corporation arms and seals, and the names of gentlemen subscribing to their pedigrees, are omit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1496. Harley MS 1281

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1281
Title:
Collections relating to the practice of Common Law
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-624v: Collections relating to the practice of Common Law. The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 1v: Notes in French and Latin, beginning: ‘Virtutem posuere dei sudore parandam’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

1 volume

1497. Harley MS 1399

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1399
Title:
Copy of the Visitation book of Devonshire, 1564
Scope & Content:
Copy of the Visitation book of Devonshire, 1564 by William Hervey, Clarenceux. In narrative form. Includes tricks of: Arms of the City of Exeter (f. 1v) Arms of the Merchant Taylors of Exeter (f. 2)Arms of the Corporation of Smiths, Cutlers, Armorers, Lorimers and Brasiers of Exeter (f. 2v)Arm...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1498. Harley MS 1634

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1634
Title:
Thomas More, A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-232v: Thomas More, A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1499. Harley MS 1782

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1782
Title:
Pascon agan Arluth (The Passion of our Lord)
Scope & Content:
Contents: Pascon agan Arluth, a poem in 259 stanzas containing a detailed description of the Passion of Christ. This is the earliest copy of a full text in the Cornish language to have survived, and the only Cornish manuscript with miniatures (see Murdoch, Cornish Literature (1993), p. 19). It...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cornish and English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
Paper codex

1500. Harley MS 1805

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1805
Title:
Treatise for Catholic novices entering a religious life
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-262r: A treatise for Catholic novices entering a religious life, divided into 37 chapters, beginning with a chapter entitled 'Of the Basenes of all temporall things', beginning: 'The whole drift of religious life and the very essence of yt consisteth in this, whollie to remove ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

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