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1331. Harley MS 6781

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6781
Title:
Indices of English family names for heraldic manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-31v, 32r-33v, 34r-52v: indices of family names, organized in columns by county and in alphabetical order; undoubtedly originally belonging to or intended for heraldic manuscripts. ff. 53v-72v: A large index of family names, organized alphabetically. f. 73r: A note: ‘I would ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1332. Harley MS 6816

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6816
Title:
A collection of English medical texts
Scope & Content:
This collection predominantly features medical texts in Latin and English. It contains a section (ff. 97r-133v) of Middle English recipes that ends with Latin prayers against the plague and an indenture from Sempringham Priory in Lincolnshire, suggesting that the recipes may originate from this ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 18th century
Extent:

1 volume

1333. Harley MS 6824

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6824
Title:
A compilation of early modern historical and scientific papers; Edward of Norwich, The Master of Game
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a compilation of different historical and scientific papers, mostly originating from the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries. It also contains a 15th-century copy of the Middle English The Master of Game, composed by Edward of Norwich (b. c. 1373, d. 1415), 2nd Duke of York, in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, English, Middle, French, Greek, Ancient, Latin, Malay, and Russian
Date Range:
c 1400-1738
Extent:
1 volume

1334. Harley MS 6830

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6830
Title:
Pedigrees and coats of arms of Cambridgeshire families
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A leaf from another manuscript with the title: ‘These are the Ancient Coate of Armes of Collings of Shropshier of [...] Robe[r]t Collings of Stapleton [...] Anno Domini 1615’ (inscribed in red pencil). ff. 2r-3v: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscrip...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1335. Harley MS 6848

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6848
Title:
English miscellany of religious tracts, letters and historical papers
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Two notes in English about ‘Instructions for Mr Thomas Bodley sent into the United Provinces in January 1594’; and ‘July 1595’. ff. 2r-4v: An English religious treatise entitled ‘A Tretise conteyning motions touching Mercie and Unitie Sent by a few of those whoe are falslie a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

1336. Harley MS 6858

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6858
Title:
Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
The Elements of Law, a treatise on political theory and the origins of the state, was completed by Thomas Hobbes on 9 May 1640 (see f. 2v), dedicated to William Cavendish, 1st duke of Newcastle, and distributed in manuscript copies produced by professional scribes. This manuscript includes a t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1640-1699
Extent:
1 volume

1337. Harley MS 6864

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6864
Title:
Copies of inscriptions on tombstones in the city of Bath
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-19r: Copies of inscriptions on tombstones in the city of Bath of citizens who died in the 1720s and 1730s; the latest year of death is 1738.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1738
Extent:
1 volume

1338. Harley MS 6882

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6882
Title:
Geographical description of the four parts of the world and of the state and trade of the countries therein; prophecies of Paul Grebner
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a description of the world in English and an account of the prophecies of Paul Grebner (fl. b. c. 1563, d. 1582) that were most likely written between c. 1625 and c. 1650. The manuscript also includes a late Elizabethan indenture that has been folded and added to create ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1625-c 1650
Extent:
1 volume

1339. Harley MS 6883

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6883
Title:
'The States of Poland's Letter', concerning the election of Sigismund III Vasa as King of Poland
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-19v: 'The States of Polands Letter, written and directed by them, to all Princes Christian, containing both the Election of their modern Prince King Sigismund the 3. and also all their present State; at the day of the date herof, being the xijth of October anno 1587 [Krakow]'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1587
Extent:
1 volume

1340. Harley MS 6892

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6892
Title:
An account of the foundations of Oxford and Cambridge colleges and their coats of arms; blazons of the coats of arms of the Peers of England, and the offices in the Holy Roman Empire
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a miscellany of heraldic works copied at different times in the late 16th and early 17th century. Contents: f. 1r: A catalogue description of the manuscript by an early modern owner: ‘An Account of the ffoundations and the Armes each Colledge bears in England and also...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter 16th century-1st quarter 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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