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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7507
Title:: Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (Bk. III), in an anonymous English translation
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains an anonymous English translation of the third book of Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio (Discourses on the First Ten of Titus Livy) by the Italian writer and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli (b. 1469, d. 1527). The work is a commentary on the first ten boo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7549
Title:: Melodies of songs and psalms, with vocal exercises
Scope & Content:: ff. 5-43 passim. Melody of some songs, mostly anonymous. Several of them are included in John Playford's publications. 1. 'Diuin objet, qui ravisses les sens.' f. 5. 2. 'Se voi, Luci amate.' f. 6. 3. 'La vita alberga.' f. 7. 4. 'Tell me, you wantdering spirits.' By H. Lawes. [From , 1652.] f. 8....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7550
Title:: Almanack of Allestree (1627), annotated by Symonds D’Ewes
Scope & Content:: Printed Almanack of Allestree for the year 1627, with chronological notes in the handwriting of Sir Symonds D’Ewes. Also large collections in cypher. The manuscript's former binding is now stored separately as Harley MS 7550/1.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Cipher and English
Date Range:: 1627
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7553
Title:: Fragments of verse and tracts on divinity, the rosary, the Trinity, and psalms
Scope & Content:: Articles 4-10, thus: Twelve leaves of vellum, containing fragments of divinity in Latin. Various irregular memoranda. Four paper leaves, containing a tract on the Rosary in English. Six leaves, containing a fragment of a sermon in English. Four leaves, being part of a Latin treatise on the Trini...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1200-c 1500
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7554
Title:: An English theological miscellany
Scope & Content:: This English manuscript is a miscellany of theological works written in Latin and English. The four parts (ff. 1-[38a]; ff. 39-55; ff. 56-66; ff. 67-90) were separately produced at different moments in time and bound together at an unknown point in time before entering or at the Harleian Library...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1400-c 1700
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7555
Title:: List of Parliamentary summons; assizes from the reign of King Edward III; grant and charters relating to the chapel and college of St Mary in the Fields, Norwich
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of parts that were written at different times. Part 1 (ff. 1-32) was written in the 16th century. Part 2 (ff. 33r-64v) was written in the middle or 2nd half of the 14th century. Part 3 (ff. 66r-72r) was written in 1546. Part 4 (ff. 74r-77v) was written in t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1350-1546
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7567
Title:: Collection of fragments, copies and originals of historical and religious texts, including the Old English edicts of Æthelberht; Old English laws of Æthelred; Decretum Gratiani; Cronica de Anglia; William of St Alban, Passio Sancti Albani
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of fragments, copies and originals of medieval and early modern texts that were produced separately and may have been kept together as a loose collection in the Harleian Library. The manuscript contains at least 38 separate sections ranging from the late 12th c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1175-c 1734
Extent:: 1 volume

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