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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 318
Title:: History and genealogy of the kings of Wessex, Essex, East Anglia, Northumbria, Mercia and England (to Henry VI)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a diagrammatic history and genealogy of the kings of Wessex, Essex, East Anglia, Northumbria, Mercia and England (to Henry VI). The manuscript is bound with Harley MSS 1632 and 6270. Henry VI (r. 1422, d. 1461), who married Margaret of Anjou in 1445, was in forced reti...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1445-1461
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 319
Title:: Liber Recepta Liberationes et expensas in Hospicio Regis Henrici 4; Liber Jocalium ejusdem Regis Henrici IV tempore Ricardi Kyngestone Thesaurii Hospicij Regalis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-52v: Liber Recepta Liberationes et expensas in Hospicio Regis Henrici .4. ab ultimo die Septembris anno 7o finiente usque octavum diem Decembris anno 8o Regis eiusdem factas complectens. ff. 53r-58r: Liber Jocalium ejusdem Regis Henrici IV tempore Ricardi Kyngestone Thesaurii ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 427
Title:: List of soldiers under Edward Whalley; valuations of the possessions of Charles I and Henrietta Maria of France
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-24r: An alphabetical list of soldiers, organised according to surname and rank. ff. 25r-34v: A ‘list of Collonel Whalleys Troops with the severall summes of Arreares due to every respectinve person as they were delivered to Worster house and received againe from thence with t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1650
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1288
Title:: Speculum Christiani; a collection of Latin exempla; Richard of Lavenham, De Septem Peccatis Mortalibus (Litil Tretys on the Seven Deadly Sins); a form of confession in Middle English; The Chastising of God's Children (chapters 24 and 25); Pro natura pollucionis valde salubris; De solempnitate sancti nominis Jhesu Amen; John Mirk, Festial (excerpts); Nicholas Bozon, Contes moralisés; Middle English and Latin poems
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-33r: Speculum Christiani (Middle English prose and verse), imperfect. ff. 34r-60r: A collection of Latin exempla. f. 63r: A table of contents. ff. 64r-75v: Richard of Lavenham, De Septem Peccatis Mortalibus (Litil Tretys on the Seven Deadly Sins), beginning ‘the sevene ded...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2189
Title:: Hugh Cotgrave, Descents of Devonshire nobility and gentry, with continuations and additions by Ralph Brooke and William Segar
Scope & Content:: This manuscript was recorded missing in 1824. The contents according to the printed Harley catalogue (1808) were as follows: 'An Heraldic Book in folio, written by the hand of Mr. Hugh Cotgrave Richmond-Herald, for the far greater part ; as was affirmed by Sir Henry St. George Garter King of A...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3596
Title:: Prévostin of Cremona, Summa theologica; Peter the Chanter, De tropis loquendi and Summa de sacramentis et animae consiliis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2r: added theological notes, 14th century. f. 3r: an alphabetical index. ff. 4r-66v: Prévostin of Cremona, Summa theologica. ff. 67r-83r: Peter the Chanter, De tropis loquendi. ff. 84r-143v: Peter the Chanter, Summa de sacramentis et animae consiliis. ff. 144r-v:added ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1210-c 1250
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6643
Title:: The Counterfeit vertu of Sectes together with their entangled discord, about the Ceremonies and other thinges nakedly Uncovered and Declared dialogue Wise in Eight sonder and familiar Parlings or Communications
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-200v: An English treatise, translated from an unidentified German treatise, entitled: ‘The Counterfeit vertu of Sectes together with their entangled discord, about the Ceremonies and other thinges nakedly Uncovered and Declared dialogue wise in Eight sonder and familiar Parling...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 966
Title:: A political treatise about the governing of the State; Generalis temporum descriptio; Praecepta politica ac rhetorica
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-12r: a political treatise about the governing of the State. ff. 13r-21r: Generalis temporum descriptio. ff. 22r-25v: Praecepta politica ac rhetorica.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1592
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1313
Title:: A collection of Relazioni, final reports presented by Venetian ambassadors of their service in foreign states
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-448v: a collection of Relazioni, final reports presented by Venetian ambassadors of their service in foreign states.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2185
Title:: Tracts relating to and orations held in Parliament in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, 1558-1563
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-1v: A table of contents, indicating that the current manuscript was originally part of a much larger volume of 322 pages, which ran up to the year 1587 (29 Elizabeth I). ff. 2r-48v: Tracts relating to and orations held in Parliament in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, 1558-1563.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1587-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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