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1281. 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

1282. 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

1283. Harley MS 5353

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5353
Title:
Diary of John Manningham of the Middle Temple
Scope & Content:
Diary of John Manningham (c 1575-1622), while a student at the Middle Temple. The diary starts in January 1601/2 and continues to April 1603, with a break March-April 1602. It includes epigrams, sermon abstracts, anecdotes, witticisms, gossip, verse, extracts from books and poems, before and amo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1602-1603
Extent:
1 volume

1284. 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

1285. Harley MS 5396

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5396
Title:
Scope & Content:
Composite Miscellany including Texts relating to Theology, Medicine and Poetry; mid 15th cent. and early 13th cent. Latin and Middle English. Copies. Imperfect. This composite volume consists of four different MSS. (ff. 1-142, 143-209, 210-270, 271-311) and comprises: - a) John Felton, vicar of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1200-1470
Extent:
1 item

1286. Harley MS 5399

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5399
Title:
Collection of alchemical treatises
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-11v: Pseudo-Ramon Llull [here attributed], De primo practicali principio libri vade mecum. f. 12: An excerpt from the ‘Liber argentine’; attributed to an anonymous doctor; below the name ‘Wissenkercke’ has been added. ff. 13v-31r: Pseudo-Ramon Llull [here attributed], Liber ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

1287. 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

1288. Harley MS 5487

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5487
Title:
Tuhfe-yi Şahidi - تحفۀ شاهدی
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the Tuhfe-yi Şahidi, a well-known versified Persian-Ottoman Turkish vocabulary composed in 920 AH (1514-15 CE) by Şahidi, who died in 957 AH (1550-51 CE). Mevlana Şahidi, or Şahidi Dede, whose given name was İbrahim, was born in Muğla in the province of Menteşe and entered...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, Latin, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 text, 19 ff

1289. Harley MS 5494

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5494
Title:
Tuhfe-yi Şahidi - تحفۀ شاهدی
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the Tuhfe-yi Şahidi, a well-known versified Persian-Ottoman Turkish vocabulary composed in 920 AH (1514-15 CE) by Şahidi, who died in 957 AH (1550-51 CE). Mevlana Şahidi, or Şahidi Dede, whose given name was İbrahim, was born in Muğla in the province of Menteşe and entered...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1062
Extent:

1 text, 49 ff

1290. Harley MS 5680

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5680
Title:
Avicenna's Kanon.
Scope & Content:
Language: Hebrew Medical work. Author: Avicenna, 980-1037 (אבן סינא, אלחסין בן עבדאללה, 980-1037) Ḳanon. קאנון Note: A copy of Books 3 and 5 of the Canon Medicinae by Ibn Sina, Abú 'Ali Al-Husain ibn 'Abd Allah (d. 1037), known in the West as Avicenna, in the Hebrew translation composed in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Hebrew
Date Range:
1450-1499
Extent:
213 folios

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