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1. Harley MS 7576

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7576
Title:
Miscellany
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1588-1724
Extent:
12 items

2. Harley MS 2269

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2269
Title:
Astrological compendium
Scope & Content:
An astronomical compendium with horoscopes and texts relating to the practice of medicine. The manuscript includes: 1. Astrological compendium attributed to 'Frater Rogerius Bacon' (ff. 1r-8r); 2. Astrological diagrams and notes (ff. 8v-10r); 3. Two astrological notes about the moon and the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 2013

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2013
Title:
The Chester Cycle
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: William Newall, Clerk of Chester, Proclamation for Whitsone Playes (1531/2); claiming that the Chester cycle was written by 'Sir Henry Frances sometyme Mooncke there'. ff. 1r-3v: The Banns (‘The Banes which are Reade Bee Fore The Beginninge of the playes of Chester 1600’...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1600
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 3865

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3865
Title:
Robert Henryson, Fables
Scope & Content:
A series of 13 verse fables with moralisations, and two prologues, containing altogether 2968 lines, arranged in 416 seven-line stanzas and 7 eight-line stanzas. The author, Robert Henryson, is thought to have composed this text during the 1470s (Ward, Catalogue of Romances (1893), II, 354), usi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1571
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 24

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 24
Title:
Prose Brut
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r–218v: Prose Brut (Chronicle of England; extended version to 1419, in the reign of Henry V (r. 1413–22)). For an edition of the work see The Brut or the Chronicles of England, 2 vols, ed. Friedrich W.D. Brie, Early English Text Society, 131 and 136 (Oxford: 1906–8); contains tex...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

6. Harley MS 5201

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5201
Title:
Astrological miscellany
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is composed of three parts produced in different periods and locations that originally formed independent manuscripts (ff. 1r-83v; 84r-146v; 147r-183v). Contents: Pars oculi sacerdotis (ff. 1r-50v); Notes in English and Latin (ff. 51r-52v); Verba secundum modum alphabeticum,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1150-1524
Extent:
183 folios.

7. Harley MS 6303

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6303
Title:
Greek-Latin dictionary.
Scope & Content:
Includes few contemporary English notes (ff. 1-2).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Harley MS 542

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 542
Title:
English historical miscellany
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A note about the foundation of a hospital in Ingastone. ff. 1v-10r: John Taxtor of Bury St Edmunds, excerpts from his chronicle. ff. 11r-12v: A list of nobles who came to England with William the Conqueror. f. 13r: John Lydgate, The order of Fools, extract only. f. 14r: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 6001

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6001
Title:
Thomas Harriot, Mathematical notes
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes mathematical notes by Thomas Harriot (b. c. 1560, d. 1621), mathematician and natural philosopher, written by the mathematician Sir Charles Cavendish (b. c. 1595, d. 1654).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1621-1654
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 6002

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6002
Title:
Thomas Harriot, Mathematical notes
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes mathematical notes by Thomas Harriot (b. c. 1560, d. 1621), mathematician and natural philosopher, written by the mathematician Sir Charles Cavendish (b. 1595?, d. 1654).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1621-1654
Extent:
1 volume

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