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3591. Harley MS 6896

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6896
Title:
An account of the life and death of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester
Scope & Content:
f. 1r: 'A treatise contayninge the maner of lyfe and death of the most holy prelate and constant martir of Christ John Fisher Bishop of Rochester and Cardinall of the holye Church of Rome.' A copy of a life of John Fisher written during the reign of Mary I. An edition was published in 1921, usi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

3592. Harley MS 114

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 114
Title:
Pierre de Langtoft, Chronicle of England in French verse to the beginning of the reign of Edward I (1307)
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–47v: Pierre de Langtoft, Chronicle: opening with a French translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth, De gestis Britonum, ‘Sermo de bruto fit sub dictamine tuto. Culpa datur petro deficiente metro. Deus le tut pussant ke cel et terre creayt …’ ff. 48r–121r: Continuation of Chronicle: Anglo-Saxo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

3593. Harley MS 663

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 663
Title:
Private accounts and sermons preached by William Hull of Ashbourne, Derbyshire, with a list of plague victims of Ashbourne
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume. Contents: ff. 1*-2*v: Notes relating to the private accounts of William Hull, 1606-1621 f. 3*: Two pieces of card, pasted down. The first is inscribed 'The praise of God be ever in my mouth: and the glory of his name'. The second is inscribed 'Baron of St Johns in Oxfor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1605-1621
Extent:
1 volume

3594. Harley MS 1127

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1127
Title:
Table of principal matters contained in the statute laws of England from the 1st year of the reign of King Edward III to the 23rd year of King Henry VI, 1327-1445
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-36r: A table of principal matters contained in the statute laws of England from the 1st year of the reign of King Edward III to the 23rd year of King Henry VI, 1327-1445. The manuscript contains later additions: f. 37v: Practice sentences and pen trials in English, including...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3595. Harley MS 4505

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4505
Title:
Collection of Precedents in the Court of the Queen's Bench, from the 12th to the 37th years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-51v: Collection of Precedents in the Court of the Queen's Bench, from the 12th to the 37th years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I [1569-1595]; written in French with headings in Latin. The manuscript contains a few additions: ff. 52r-54v: English commentaries on biblical te...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1569-1595
Extent:
1 volume

3596. Harley MS 5726

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5726
Title:
Geoponica in 20 Books. Beckh Geoponica. Preceded by (ff. 1-14v) a table of contents and (ff. 14v-15v) prologue. Books 2-19 unnumbered (ff. 29-140).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

3597. Harley MS 7337-7342

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7337-7342
Title:
'A Collection of the most celebrated Services and Anthems used in the Church of England from the Reformation to the Restauration of K. Charles II. Composed by the best masters, and collected by Thomas Tudway, D.M., Musick-Professor to the University of Cambridge, a.d. mdccxv.'
Scope & Content:
Services and anthems collected by Thomas Tudway, D.M., Musick-Professor to the University of Cambridge, 1715, and afterwards brought down to the end of Queen Anne's reign. In score. In six volumes. In a short introduction addressed to Edward, Lord Harley [2nd Earl of Oxford, 1724], for whom the ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1715-1720
Extent:

6 volumes (196, 254, 244, 268, 294, 383 folios)

3598. Harley MS 3906

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3906
Title:
A Latin chronicle of England from Brutus to the murder of James I of Scotland in 1437, with a continuation from 1437 to 1456 with material concerning Sherborne Abbey
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-111r: A Latin chronicle of England which covers the period from Brutus to the murder of James I of Scotland in 1437, with the prophecies of Merlin, an abridgement of the Historia regum Brittaniae, an account of the Heptarchy and post-Conquest monarchs up to 1377 from the Polych...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1456-1460
Extent:
1 volume

3599. Harley MS 1760

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1760
Title:
A large collection of letters written and signed by English kings and queens, and letters addressed to them by rulers in other countries
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-145v: A large collection of copies of and original letters, written and signed by English kings and queens, including Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I, and Charles II, and kings, queens, princes, dukes, duchesses, landgraves and marquesses from abroad. The latter include (among...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1596-1729
Extent:
1 volume

3600. Harley MS 4411

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4411
Title:
Le roman de Renard le Contrefait (only the part in prose); excerpts from Les chroniques de Flandre; Les chroniques de Flandre with excerpts of the Grandes chroniques de France; Charles V's response to the schedule sent by Edward III, king of England.
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-44r: Attributed to a former clerk, Le roman de Renard le Contrefait branch II (see: Le Roman de Renard le Contrefait, ed. by Gaston Reynaud and Henri Lemaitre, 2 vols (Paris: Honoré Champion, 1914), I, pp. xiii-xiv and pp. 227-97). It includes only excerpts of the parts in pros...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
A parchment codex, 184 folios.

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