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1651. Harley MS 7578

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7578
Title:
Middle English verse, including ballads by Chaucer and Lydgate; 'The Flyting of Montgomerie and Polwart' by Alexander Montgomerie; 'Nebuchadnezzar's Fierie Furnace'; the 'Annals of Oskell'; grammatical exercises in Latin and Greek; Old songs of Durham
Scope & Content:
Miscellany compiling pages from a number of other manuscripts, which vary greatly in size and period. Major sections within the miscellany are f. 1 (verse and prose on the Ten Commandments and Seven Deadly Sins), ff. 2-20 (various ballads and other verse, some by Chaucer and Lydgate), f. 21 (a s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1400-1700
Extent:

1 volume

1652. Harley MS 7581

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7581
Title:
Collection of religious texts and letters relating to English Puritanism
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of texts relating to English Puritanism. These include letters from the theologian Thomas Cartwright (b. c. 1535, d. 1603) and Henoch Clapham (fl. 1585-1614), a preacher of an English church in Amsterdam, as well as a petition directed to Elizabeth I (r. 155...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1653. Harley MS 7632

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7632
Title:
David Casley, Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the King’s Library (autograph manuscript)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-156v, 159r-197v: David Casley, original autograph manuscript of his Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the King’s Library [Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Regiae], published in 1734, with the exception of the preliminary matter (written in English, French, and Latin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1734
Extent:
1 volume

1654. Harley MS 7640

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7640
Title:
Psalter (fragment)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-23v: Fragment of a Psalter; the surviving text consists of Psalms 80-150, with gaps, and the Canticles. The manuscript contains several additions: f. i recto: A note by Sir Frederick Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873), Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum, that the volume was...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:
1 item

1655. Harley MS 7642

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7642
Title:
Commentaries on Aristotle's Analytica Priora and Analytica Posteriora
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two texts with commentaries on Aristotle that were separately produced in Italy in the 14th century, and joined together at a later stage. Contents: Part 1: ff. 1r-46r: Commentary by Jacobus de Clohac on the Analytica priora of Aristotle, entitled: 'Sum...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item

1656. Harley MS 7643

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7643
Title:
Memorandum book of Colonel Thomas Colepeper
Scope & Content:
Duodecimo manuscript volume. Memorandum book of Colonel Thomas Colepeper, including autograph notes and drawings, many of which have been crossed through, but are still legible.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1689-1690
Extent:
1 volume

1657. Harley MS 7647

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7647
Title:
Catalogues of Cotton charters
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-12v: A copy of a Latin catalogue of Cotton charters made by Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726) in 1703. ff. 13r-52r: A copy of an English catalogue of Cotton charters made by Richard Widmore (bap. 1681, d. 1764) after 1750 [according to a note by Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1703-2nd half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

1658. Harley MS 7651

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7651
Title:
John [Hans] Engelbrecht, A true Relation of a Vision of Heaven and Hell
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-23r: John [Hans] Engelbrecht, ‘A true Relation of a Vision of Heaven and Hell; That is: How God hath awaked and raised mee John Engelbrecht from Death, and when my body was dead, stiff and cold (the which is known to many people in Brunswick) the same in a short time became aga...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1780-c 1800
Extent:
1 volume

1659. Harley MS 7655

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7655
Title:
Theological questions and answer by a Protestant author
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-20r: Theological questions and answer by a Protestant author (referring to ‘The Papists wicked blasphemie’), beginning: ‘Q: How many commaundements are there in the first Table?’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 16th century-4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1660. Harley MS 7658

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7658
Title:
John [Hans] Engelbrecht, A true Relation of a Vision of Heaven and Hell
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-23r: John [Hans] Engelbrecht, ‘A true Relation of a Vision of Heaven and Hell; That is: How God hath awaked and raised mee John Engelbrecht from Death, and when my body was dead, stiff and cold (the which is known to many people in Brunswick) the same in a short time became aga...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

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