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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6401
Title:: Certayne observacions upon a libell published this present yeare of 1502 Intituled A declaracion of the true causes of the great troubles presupposed to be intended against the Realme of England
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-64r: ‘Certayne observacions upon a libell published this present yeare of 1502 Intituled A declaracion of the true causes of the great troubles presupposed to be intended against the Realme of England’.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1502
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6403
Title:: A conference between a Fellow of the University of Cambridge and a Catholic lawyer
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-52v: An untitled work in English, describing a conference between a Fellow of the University of Cambridge and a lawyer, a Roman catholic, in the time of Elizabeth I. Beginning: 'The epistle dedicatorie: to Mr G.M. in gracious streate in London'. Touching on the subjects of the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1580-c 1603
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6453
Title:: A collection of English alchemical treatises, including Bernard Trevisan’s Liber de Alchemiae, George Ripley’s The Mystery of Alchymysts, Bloomfield's Blossoms, and Roger Bacon’s Speculum Alchemiae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-21r: Bernard Trevisan, Liber de Alchemiae, here entitled ‘The worke [Alchymie]of the Lord Barnard Erle of the Marchis of Trevisan’. ff. 21r-25r: George Ripley, The Mystery of Alchymysts, here entitled ‘The worke of an unknowen Author, havinge no name to yt but Jesus’. ff. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6485
Title:: The Rosie Crucian Secrets, attributed to John Dee
Scope & Content:: The manuscript contains the only surviving copy of the alchemical treatise The Rosie Crucian Secrets, divided into three parts and attributed here to John Dee (b. 1527, d. 1609), mathematician and astrologer: each quire of 4 folios contains an inscription 'the first [second, etc] sheet Dr Dee.' ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1713
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6526
Title:: Collection of grammatical works
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: 'The forme to construe' a sentence out of one language into another. ff. 2r-3r: 'Annotationes in Ciceronis officia'. ff. 4r-41v: 'Phrases ex Terentiij'; with English commentary; inscribed 'Andriae finis' on f. 24r. ff. 42r-43r: 'Annotationes de Fabula'. ff. 44r-45v: 'De a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1575-c 1625
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6531
Title:: Notebook of Humfrey Wanley
Scope & Content:: Notebook of Humfrey Wanley, containing a Greek-Latin lexicon, a dictionary of mathematical terms, and miscellaneous notes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1683-1687
Extent:: 1 volume

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