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1271. Harley MS 5219

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5219
Title:
Thomas Hobbes, The Mathematical Demonstration of the Sword
Scope & Content:
Autograph manuscript volume containing a treatise on fencing by Thomas Hobbes, with two printed plates. Hobbes titled the treatise 'To compare the strength of two swords that presse each other', which he inscribed on f.2. The title 'The Mathematicall demonstrastion off The Sorde' is inscribed ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1640s
Extent:
1 volume

1272. 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

1273. 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

1274. 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

1275. 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

1276. Harley MS 5273

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5273
Title:
Book of Job, glossed
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-99r: The Book of Job, glossed. The manuscript contains several later additions: f. 1r: An English note: ‘This Book belong’d to the Abbey of Rival or Rievaux in the County of York. Which Abbey of Cistertians was founded in the Year 1132. There ys a Book mention’d in Capleys ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

1277. Harley MS 5280

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5280
Title:
Collection of Irish historical, mythological and religious texts
Scope & Content:
A collection of Irish texts from the Ulster, Finn and mythological cycles. Also some religious and glossarial material. A detailed catalogue description is provided in O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts, II, pp. 298-323. Contents: ff. 1-10 are later inserted paper leaves. ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

1278. Harley MS 5294, f 1r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5294, f 1r
Title:
Notes on humours, partly in figures of division.
Scope & Content:
Also includes a series of ownership inscriptions (see provenance).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 folio

1279. Harley MS 5308

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5308
Title:
Plans of knot gardens
Scope & Content:
Manuscript volume containing hand-drawn designs for knot gardens, neatly drawn in square frames.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-Early 18th century
Extent:

1 volume

1280. 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

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