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421. Harley MS 5240

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5240
Title:
A Latin formulary with indentures on various legal subjects for persons in Oxfordshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-66v, 68r-100v: A formulary with indentures on various legal subjects for persons in Oxfordshire. The formulary is mostly written in Latin, but various indentures in English were added at the end. The manuscript contains several additions: ff. 1*verso-3*recto: Practice inden...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

422. Harley MS 5241

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5241
Title:
Theological treatises
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-42v: ‘Incipit material de beneficijs’. ff. 43r-74r: ‘De causis ob quas clerici religiossi circa bona ecclesiastica .l. peccant .l. tur restutere’. ff. 75r-111v: ‘Materia de Donatione’. ff. 112r-163r: ‘Sequitur materia de Vectigalibus’. The manuscript contains a later addi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

1 volume

423. Harley MS 5247

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5247
Title:
An English miscellany including a treatise on oaths; theological questions; a catechism
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3v: Miscellaneous notes and sayings in English or Latin. ff. 4r-33v: ‘A Briefe Treatise of Oathes exacted by Ordinances and Ecclesiastical Judges to answer generally to all such articles or Interrogatories as pleaseth them to propound and of their forced and constrayned oathe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

424. Harley MS 5265

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5265
Title:
Notes on law lectures; law treatises
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite miscellany, consisting of one part (ff. 1-234) with lecture notes in French and English, produced in the 2nd half of the 16th century, and another part (ff. 235-264) with law texts in Latin, produced in the 13th century. Contents: ff. 1r-234v: A collection of no...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-16th century
Extent:
1 volume

425. Harley MS 5330

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5330
Title:
Notes on Logic
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-20v: Notes on Logic (Latin). The manuscript contains several later additions: Inside of the upper cover: Lists of payments for various products to ‘Mr Bysh.’, dated to January 1697. f. 1r: A list of names of persons who have been paid. ff. 21r-21v: A list of payments, da...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

426. Harley MS 5339

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5339
Title:
A collection of medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-113v ( + the insides of the upper and lower cover): Medical recipes in Latin; with an English recipe at the beginning: ‘To Rectified Sp[irit] of Wine per Robert Boyle Armiger’ [Robert Boyle (b. 1627, d. 1691), natural philosopher]. Decoration: A drawing of an arch with two ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

427. Harley MS 5350

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5350
Title:
Of the Court called the Starr Chamber
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-168r: A tract ‘Of the Court called the Starr Chamber’. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 2r: A title-page: ‘A tract on the Star-chamber, entitled: 'A Compendium and briefe discourse of the Antiquitye, and iurisdiction of the Court of Starchamber, togeather with a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

428. Harley MS 5363

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5363
Title:
A Prosopoeia, fiction, or devise, bringing in the Piramis or pillar of the Pallace of Parris, speaking for itself, and advertisinge others
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a previously unnoticed work by Thomas Wilcox (b. c. 1549, d. 1608), Church of England clergyman, dedicated to Henry Frederick (b. 1594, d. 1612), Prince of Wales. Wilcox also revised Sir Philip Sidney's English translation of Philippe de Mornay's Traité de la vérité de l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1605
Extent:
1 volume

429. Harley MS 5417

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5417
Title:
Jean Poingdestre, Caesarea or A Discourse of the Island of Jersey in two Parts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-44v: Jean Poingdestre (b. 1609, d. 1691), Caesarea or A Discourse of the Island of Jersey in two Parts: The First, An Accompt of It as It Is at Present; The second, Some Historical Observations Relating to Antiquity.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

430. Harley MS 5798

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5798
Title:
Account of the English nobility from before the Norman Conquest to Queen Elizabeth I; tracts regarding English and French arms and titles of peerage
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page for the manuscript: ‘[1] Creaton of Nobility; [2] The Ordenances and Statutes whiche were made by the right High and puissante Prince Thomas of Lancaster son and Brother to right Noble Kings of England and of France, Duke of Clarence, Counte D’Aumarle, Great S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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