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032-002045828 Language English Level [36] Series

1. Harley MS 6727-6744

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6727-6744
Title:
Diary of Mr Hodges
Scope & Content:
Diary spanning the years 1700 to 1709, written chiefly in Latin, partly in English, including accounts of dreams and mystical words related to judicial astrology. British Museum spine label attributes the diary to Mr Hodges, described in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Mus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1700-1709
Extent:
18 volumes

2. Harley MS 7482-7493

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7482-7493
Title:
Survey of Stores, 1693-1694
Scope & Content:
Surveys of the stores in the yards at Deptford, Woolwich, Chatham, Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Sheerness. The first six items in this series are surveys of stores, one for each of the yards listed above, in 1693. They are bound individually. The second six items in this series have been bound to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1693-1694
Extent:
7 volumes (12 items)

3. Harley MS 1713-1714

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1713-1714
Title:
Theological texts from the 16th century and 17th century
Scope & Content:
Two manuscripts, in folio, containing theological texts written or collected by 'F.S.', a Catholic living in Ireland at the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
2 volumes

4. Harley MS 7165-7167

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7165-7167
Title:
‘Jus Parliamentarium’ by William Petit [Petyt]
Scope & Content:
‘Jus Parliamentarium: or the Antient Jurisdiction of the Most high Court [of] Parliament over the Inferior Courts in Westminster Hall, Revived and asserted by William Petit [Petyt] of the Inner Temple’. Manuscript in a single hand. The text was first published posthumously in 1739, with the tit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent:
3 volumes

5. Harley MS 793-805

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 793-805
Title:
History and antiquities of Yorkshire
Scope & Content:
Yorkshire notes extracted from the collections of Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654), which are now in the Bodleian Library. The extracted notes are in English, including those originally transcribed by Dodsworth in other languages, and the contents are arranged by place. Mostly in the hands of two writ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
13 volumes

6. Harley MS 3605-3616

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3605-3616
Title:
John Le Neve's collection of monumental inscriptions
Scope & Content:
Twelve manuscript volumes of monumental inscriptions, dating from 1400 to 1716, collected from various churches in England, by John Le Neve. These are sorted by year, and usually written in the hand of John Le Neve. Some printed sources and letters from Le Neve's friends, informing him of vario...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 18th century
Extent:
12 volumes

7. Harley MS 1122-1124

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1122-1124
Title:
'Practical Perspective', Volumes I-III
Scope & Content:
Three folio manuscript volumes, all in the same hand, containing a translation of the French work 'La Perspective Pratique', written by 'un Religieux de la Compagnie de Jesus', a religious person of the Society of Jesus, identified as Jean Dubreuil, published in Paris between 1647-1651. The fir...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
3 volumes

8. Harley MS 1488-1497

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1488-1497
Title:
The minutes, precepts, and registers, of the Commission of the Public Accounts, 1690-1697
Scope & Content:
A collection of 10 folio manuscript volumes containing the minutes, precepts, and registers, of the Commission of the Public Accounts, 1690-1697. Harley MS 1492 and Harley MS 1493 are bound together. Harley MS 1494 and Harley MS 1495 are bound together.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1690-1697
Extent:
8 volumes (10 items)

9. Harley MS 756-760, 410-411

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 756-760, 410-411
Title:
Thomas Cole’s collections from the Court of Wards and Liveries
Scope & Content:
Abstracts of inquisitions from the records of the Court of Wards and Liveries, compiled by Thomas Cole; with indexes of families and places.. Some volumes bear Cole’s armorial ink stamp, with the motto ‘Cole Deum’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
7 volumes

10. Harley MS 476-480

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 476-480
Title:
Journal of the proceedings of the House of Commons, by John More esq
Scope & Content:
This series of five manuscript volumes consists of volumes 2-6 of John More's Commons Journal. The original foliation of these manuscripts is sequential throughout the volumes, starting at folio 266 in Harley MS 476, and ending with folio 1124 in Harley MS 480. The location of volume 1 is unkno...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1641-1642
Extent:
5 volumes