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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 933
Title:: Liber Amicorum of Dr John Hasfurt
Scope & Content:: Friendship album of Dr John Hasfurt or Hasfurter, of Amberg, Franconia, and Blandford, Dorset. Most entries dated 1627-8, with several earlier and later entries. The album includes entries addressed to John Hausfurt (possibly a son), 1637, and to Charles Hasfurt, 1666. Includes: Heraldic pain...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1600-1666
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 935
Title:: Prayer book
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4v and ff. 107r-108v: Calendar; The calendar is imperfect and has been misbound: February (ff. 1r-1v); March (ff. 2r-2v); October (ff. 3r-3v); November (ff. 4r-4v); April (ff. 107r-107v); September (ff. 108r-108v). ff. 5v-6v: The Seven Penitential Psalms, imperfect at the end....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 939
Title:: Notebook of Richard Symonds containing movements of the royal army, September – November 1644, with copies of documents relating to the case of the Lord Wilmot, and church notes
Scope & Content:: Notebook of Richard Symonds written while accompanying the King and the royal army from leaving Cornwall, 5 September 1644 to 23 November 1644. Records the progress of the army and principal events. Interspersed with documents relating to the case of the Lord Wilmot, and notes on church monument...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Sep 1644-Nov 1644
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 940
Title:: Middle English translations of the Pauline Epistles; Acts of the Apostles; Catholic Epistles; and Book of Revelation
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains Middle English translations of the biblical books of the Pauline Epistles to the Revelations, from the Later Version of the Wycliffite Bible. Contents: ff. 2r-97v: The Pauline Epistles, begins imperfectly with the Epistle to the Romans. ff. 98r-147v: The Acts of th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and English, Middle
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 942
Title:: Notebook of Richard Symonds in Italy
Scope & Content:: One of several notebooks used by Richard Symonds, royalist soldier and antiquary, during his visit to Italy 1649-1651. Consists of rough notes on churches, and some ancient monuments in Rome and Padua, with ink and chalk sketches. The pages are unnumbered, unlike Symonds’ other notebooks, and ma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1649-1651
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 943
Title:: Notebook of Richard Symonds in France and Italy
Scope & Content:: One of several notebooks used by Richard Symonds, royalist soldier and antiquary, during his visit to Italy 1649-1651. This notebook, which covers a period from November 1648, before the journey, to December 1651, consists of notes on personal affairs, his travel in France and Italy, with observ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1648-1651
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 944
Title:: Notebook of Richard Symonds containing movements of the royal army, August 1645 – February following, and church notes
Scope & Content:: Notebook of Richard Symonds written while accompanying the King and the royal army from 17 August 1745 to 11 February. Symonds notes the progress of the army and principal events. Title page: ‘A Continuation of the Marchings and Actions of the Royall Army, his Ma[jes]tie being personally prese...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Aug 1645-Feb 1646
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 950
Title:: Collection of medical recipes
Scope & Content:: This manuscript comprises two separate early 16th-century collections of medical recipes (ff. 1r-75v; ff. 80r-179v). A few other recipes were added later in the 16th century (ff. 76r-79v). The recipes in the main collection were numbered in the margin '1-497' by a later reader. Contents: Part ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and English, Middle
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 951
Title:: A genealogy of English kings, from Alfred the Great to Henry III
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. [1]recto-[3]recto: ‘A Genealogie of Kings from Alfred to Henry the Third’; probably copied from a medieval genealogical roll. Decoration: Roundels in brown ink.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 roll

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 954
Title:: Military observations of Colonel Thomas Colepeper
Scope & Content:: Octavo manuscript volume, written by Colonel Thomas Colepeper. This manuscript contains Colepeper's observations regarding military matters, including camping, foraging, detachments, marching, lines, battles, retreat, attacks, forts, and others. Also included are geometry problems as applied to...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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