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4401. Harley MS 4943

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4943
Title:
Orders of the Privy Council, 1570-1580
Scope & Content:
Copies of orders of the Privy Council, principally between 1570 and 1580. Mainly letters from Elizabeth I (1533–1603), queen of England and Ireland. f. 1*r: Flyleaf containing pen-trials, notes in Latin and English, and two names: ‘Xtopher Troughton Julij 1624’; ‘Edw: Pynchon’. ff. 1r-14v: Two...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1570-1580
Extent:
1 volume

4402. Harley MS 180

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 180
Title:
Printed and manuscript tracts on royal marriages, collected by Sir Simonds D'Ewes
Scope & Content:
This is a collection of four tracts, the first two printed and the last two in manuscript, on royal marriages between 1555 and 1624. A Supplicacyon to the quenes maiestie [1555], an attack on the marriage of Queen Mary I to Philip of Spain (later King Philip II), was written by a Protestant ex...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1555-1627
Extent:

1 volume

4403. Harley MS 1728

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1728
Title:
Polychronicon with a continuation to the reign of Richard II (c. 1398), vol. 1
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is the first of two related volumes, Harley MS 1729 being the second. The text is primarily a copy of Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon. An apparatus of slightly later date has been added to the beginning, in a different hand (items 1-3). Contents: 1. (f. 1v): List of the kings fr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4404. Harley MS 2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2
Title:
Collection of historical and theological texts, including Elias of Evesham, ‘Quadrilogus’ of materials relating to Thomas Becket; Eustace of Faversham, Vita sancti Edmundi Cantuariensis;and William of Malmesbury, De Gesta Pontificum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains ten parts written in England during the 2nd half of the 12th century or the 1st half of the 13th century. Most likely they were once part of different manuscripts (as suggested by a quire mark (‘III’) on f. 257v). A (? late) 13th-century table of contents that lists all...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

4405. Harley MS 6995

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6995
Title:
Letters on state affairs, 1590–1593
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–184v: Letters on state affairs from many prominent individuals, including William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Sir Thomas Heneage, John Puckering, the Stanhope brothers, and Francis Walsingham, 1590–1593. The bulk of these letters are addressed to John Puckering, in his capacity as Lord Keeper o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1590-1593
Extent:
1 volume

4406. Harley MS 6996

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6996
Title:
Letters on state affairs, 1593–1595
Scope & Content:
Letters on state affairs from many prominent individuals, including William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Sir Thomas Heneage, John Puckering, the Stanhope brothers, and Francis Walsingham, for the years 1593–1595. The majority are addressed to Puckering in his capacity as Lord Keeper. There is a list of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1593-1595
Extent:
1 volume

4407. Harley MS 6997

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6997
Title:
Letters on state affairs, 1595–1596
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–184v: Letters on state affairs from many prominent individuals, including William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Sir Thomas Heneage, John Puckering, the Stanhope brothers, and Francis Walsingham, for the years 1595–1596. The majority are addressed to Puckering in his capacity as Lord Keeper. ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1595-1596
Extent:
1 volume

4408. Harley MS 621

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 621
Title:
Du cas des nobles hommes et femmes: a translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium by Laurent de Premierfait
Scope & Content:
Du cas des nobles hommes et femmes: a translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium by Laurent de Premierfait. Imperfect. The beginning of Book I, chapter 1 is lost. Incipit (f. 1r): 'premiers partus fut grant et telle que a elle aucune aultre ne se compare'. Fol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4409. Harley MS 116

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 116
Title:
An English miscellany including Thomas Hoccleve, The Regiment of Princes; The Short Charter of Christ; Benedict Burgh, Parvus Cato and Cato Major; anonymous Middle English poems and poems by John Lydgate; Gottfried von Franken, Godfridus Super Palladium (Middle English translation); Nicholas Bollard, The Book of Planting and Grafting
Scope & Content:
This collection of Middle English and Latin poems and treatises is datable to after 1461 as the anonymous Chronicle presents Edward IV as king of England. A later hand (early 16th century) added a table of contents (f. 1* verso) and a few medical recipes (ff. 167v-168r, 169r). The cataloguing of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

4410. Harley MS 367

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 367
Title:
Historical notes, documents and poems written or copied by John Stowe and others, including poems by George Ripley, John Lydgate, Humphrey Brereton, John Skelton, John Heywood, William Vallans, William Drummond of Hawthornden, Robert Herrick, John Denham, Paul D'Ewes, Tom Coryate, John Hoskyns and others
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3v: John Stowe's paper against Richard Grafton and his chronicle. f. 4r: Proceedings of John Stowe in surveying the measures in the Ward of Baynard's Castle, 1584. ff. 5r-5v: Declaration of the absues done to John Stowe by William Ditcher, alias Tatford, and his wife. ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
mid 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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