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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1732
Title:: A collection of various theological texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-174v: A collection of various theological and polemical texts.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1740
Title:: Middle English account of and meditation on the Passion; Sermon, possibly for the Second Sunday after Trinity
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 5r-22r: Account of the Passion of Christ in Middle English, entitled: 'Passio domini nostri Ihesu Cristi'. ff. 22r-24r: Meditation on the Passion in Middle English, entitled: 'Item de passione Christi bona contemplacio' (see Marx, 'British Library Harley MS 1740 and Popular Dev...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1741
Title:: Richard Robinson, A Breaf Collection of the Queenes Majestis H. Courts of Recorde kept in and aboute the Cities of London and Westmister
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-23v: Richard Robinson (fl. c. 1575-c. 1600) of London, freeman of the Leathersellers' Company, ‘A Breaf Collection of the Queenes Majestis H. Courts of Recorde kept in and aboute the Cities of London and Westmister [sic]. What Magistrates, meaner officers, and manner of proceed...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1580s-1590s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1742
Title:: Collection of grammatical, rhetorical and moral texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-11r: Collection of grammatical rules for young students of the Latin language, beginning: 'How mani maner of ways schall thou begynne to make laten and counstru v maner off wayes // The first att the Vocayve case'; written by 'F. Framton' (f. 35r). ff. 12r-38v: Treatise on La...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 16th century-3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1746
Title:: A treatise on the use and application of English law
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-153v: A treatise on the use and application of English law.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1748
Title:: A Bible-Missal
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-170r, 174r-346v: A Bible. The manuscript contains various additions: Marginal notes throughout the Bible, some relate to the standardisation of the order of the books on the Bible, e.g.: '[…] Ita q[uo]d lib[er] apocal[ipsis] sit u[l]tim[us] lib[er] totius biblie s[ecundum] n...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1805
Title:: Treatise for Catholic novices entering a religious life
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-262r: A treatise for Catholic novices entering a religious life, divided into 37 chapters, beginning with a chapter entitled 'Of the Basenes of all temporall things', beginning: 'The whole drift of religious life and the very essence of yt consisteth in this, whollie to remove ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1807
Title:: Statutes of England
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-11v: 'Lez Tenures'. f. 12r: 'Kalendare Curia Baronis'. ff. 12v-33v: 'Curia Baronis'; written in Anglo-Norman. ff. 34r-36r: 'Kalendare de Natura Brevium' and 'Kalendare de Brevibus Judicialibus'. ff. 36v-105r: 'Natura Brevium'; written in Anglo-Norman. ff. 106r-121v: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1827
Title:: English translation of Savonarola's Compendium of Revelations; 'An admirable epistle lately brought from Rome to Paris'; 'Of the seales of the crosse, on the very garments of the Jewes'; letter from King Louis II of Hungary to Pope Leo X, 2 July 1521
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-70v: An English translation of Savonarola's Compendium of Revelations. ff. 71r-74r: 'An admirable epistle lately brought from Rome to Paris'. ff. 74v-77v: 'Of the seales of the crosse, on the very garments of the Jewes'. ff. 77v-79r: A letter from King Louis II of Hungary to...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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