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1491. Harley MS 6553

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6553
Title:
Collection of explanations of Biblical passages and philosophical texts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of tracts on Biblical passages, written in a hand that may date to the 1st half of the 17th century, and another collection with philosophical texts in a hand that may date to the 2nd half of the 16th century. Contents: ff. 1r-4r: '2 Pol. 6 - Recte Hippod...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1492. Harley MS 6555

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6555
Title:
Collection of theological tracts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-54r: Collection of theological tracts in English and Latin, including headings such as 'Actions indifferent, whether any, in individuo et respectuo operantis'; 'On Mat. ult. 18. Data est mihi omnis potestas'; 'Plausus auditorum'; 'About breakinge prison'; 'Pelagiani'; 'Judaeoru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1493. Harley MS 6556

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6556
Title:
'A Compendious Treatise of Pleasure’; 'Of the Minde of Manne, his Reasone, and Will'; English prayers to God; a prayer for Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: The opening of ‘A Compendious Treatise of Pleasure’, beginning ‘Of Pleasure, what it is, and how to bee trulie understanded according to the minde of God in the best parte: the Glorie also of the same, and where it chiefelie resteth in Manne: As also of the Pleasure, which to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1494. Harley MS 6561

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6561
Title:
George Boleyn, translation of Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples’s Epistres et Evangiles des cinquante et deux sepmaines de l'an, made for his sister Anne Boleyn
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-202v: Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (b. c. 1450, d. 1536), Epistres et Evangiles des cinquante et deux sepmaines de l'an [Epistles and Gospels for the Fifty-two Weeks of the Year], translated into English and French by George Boleyn (b. c. 1504, d. 1536), Viscount Rochford, for his...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1532-1533
Extent:
1 volume

1495. Harley MS 6592

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6592
Title:
Copies of William Flower, Visitation of Northumberland (1575), and William Flower and Robert Glover, Visitation of Derbyshire (1569); pedigrees and arms from Cheshire, Durham, Northumberland, Staffordshire and Yorkshire
Scope & Content:
This heraldic manuscript predominantly contains pedigrees and arms of families in Durham, Derbyshire, Northumberland and Nottinghamshire. The main part (ff. 2r-67v) was written by William Wyrley (b. 1565, d. 1613) between 1590 and 1592; the additions (ff. 68r-116r) appear to have been made a few...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1590s
Extent:
1 volume

1496. Harley MS 6620

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6620
Title:
Notes on biblical books
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-128v: Notes on biblical books, dated 1586; in English and Latin. The manuscript contains an addition: f. 1v: A largely illegible note on a parchment pastedown: ‘This Book of lond[...] for clothe which ys [...] 1573’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1586
Extent:
1 volume

1497. Harley MS 6624

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6624
Title:
Certeine godlie and devoute Praires, for the Dailie exercise, of the vertuouse and wel disposed Christian
Scope & Content:
Contents: pp. 1-88: A collection of ‘Certeine godlie and devoute Praires, for the Dailie exercise, of the vertuouse and wel disposed Christian’; beginning: ‘To the right honourable and his singuler good lorde, the Lorde Marques of Northamton etcaetera his humble oratoure T. Paulfreiman, wishet...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1558-1603
Extent:
1 volume

1498. Harley MS 6635

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6635
Title:
Poem on King James VI and I’s right of succession
Scope & Content:
A decorative presentation copy of an anonymous English poem on the right of succession of King James VI and I. With a prose dedicatory address signed ‘A.H. Boreabritannus’. The poem was originally composed in 1595; this copy dates from 'manye yeares' later (f. 2v). ff. 1r-5r Dedicatory address...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1595
Extent:
1 volume.

1499. Harley MS 6643

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6643
Title:
The Counterfeit vertu of Sectes together with their entangled discord, about the Ceremonies and other thinges nakedly Uncovered and Declared dialogue Wise in Eight sonder and familiar Parlings or Communications
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-200v: An English treatise, translated from an unidentified German treatise, entitled: ‘The Counterfeit vertu of Sectes together with their entangled discord, about the Ceremonies and other thinges nakedly Uncovered and Declared dialogue wise in Eight sonder and familiar Parling...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1500. Harley MS 6660

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6660
Title:
Commentary on the Book of Revelation, chapters 12-13
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a commentary on the Book of Revelation in English, dedicated to William Cecil (b. 1520/1521, d. 1598), 1st Baron Burghley, and perhaps given to him on his anniversary or appointment as Lord High Treasurer in 1572. Contents: ff. 1r-31r: Commentary on the Book of Revelat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Syriac, Classical, and Welsh
Date Range:
1572
Extent:
1 volume

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