Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Language: English - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

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 6485, ff 1r-376r
Title:: The Rosie Crucian Secrets: Their Excellent Method of Making Medicines of Metals. Also Their Lawes and Mysteries, attributed to John Dee
Scope & Content:: The Rosie Crucian Secrets, attributed to John Dee. Contains diagrams in ink: The Tree of Mercury (f. 12r); geomantic figures with a title 'Geomancy the Harmony in this preparation' (f. 93r); the Tree of the Moon (f. 93v); the Tree of Mercury (f. 98v); geomantic figures (f. 101r); the Tree of th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1713
Extent:: 376 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6485, ff 377r-404v
Title:: Clavis Chymicus: An Explanation of certain Chymical hard Words used in Dr Dee's Works
Scope & Content:: Clavis Chymicus: An Explanation of certain Chymical hard Words used in Dr Dee's Works.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1713
Extent:: 27 folios.

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