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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3813
Title:: Account of the counties of England, Ireland and Scotland, with engraved maps by Pieter van den Keere
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-188v: Account of the counties of England, Ireland and Scotland, written in English, with printed and coloured maps of counties (with their names in Latin and English) engraved by the Flemish engraver Pieter van den Keere ['Peter Kerius'] (b. 1571, d. c. 1646) in 1599. Decorat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4205
Title:: 'Sir Thomas Holme's Book of Arms': anonymous verses on the kings of England, to Henry VI; Military Roll of Arms; Legh's Men of Arms
Scope & Content:: 'Sir Thomas Holme's Book of Arms'. This manuscript, together with two other manuscripts (London, British Library, Add. 45133 and London, Guildhall Library, Print Room (s.n.)) is known as 'Sir Thomas Holme's Book' because his arms appear in two of these manuscripts (the present volume (f. i recto...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1445-1524
Extent:: 1 paper codex, 112 + i folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4235
Title:: Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic
Scope & Content:: The Elements of Law, a treatise on political theory and the origins of the state, was completed by Thomas Hobbes on 9 May 1640 (see f. 2v), dedicated to William Cavendish, 1st duke of Newcastle, and distributed in manuscript copies produced by professional scribes. The manuscript includes: a t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1640
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4236
Title:: Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic
Scope & Content:: The Elements of Law, a treatise on political theory and the origins of the state, was completed by Thomas Hobbes on 9 May 1640 (see f. 2v), dedicated to William Cavendish, 1st duke of Newcastle, and distributed in several manuscript copies produced by professional scribes. Another copy manuscrip...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1640
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4347
Title:: The Aphorisms of Hippocrates and other maxims
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes: 1. Hippocrates, Aphorismata (ff. 1r-37r); 2. Bernard de Gordon, A series of definitions from the chapter headings of the Lilium Medicinae (ff. 37r-41r); 3. A collection of definitions and maxims (ff. 42v-43r); 4. A text on the Invention of the Holy Cross (f. 43v); 5...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 44 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4924
Title:: Thomas Osborne, Treatise on arithmetic
Scope & Content:: A treatise on arithmetic by Thomas Osborne. Decoration: The decoration of the manuscript imitates that of printed books. It comprises: A title page with the royal arms of Queen Elizabeth I supported by a lion and a dragon and encircled by the Garter, with Elizabeth's initials E R held by ang...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1601-1602
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5059
Title:: Treatise by Metrophanes Kritopoulos on the Eastern Orthodox Church
Scope & Content:: Treatise by Metrophanes Kritopoulos on the Eastern Orthodox Church, and other notes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:: 1617-1623
Extent:: 25 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5059, ff 25-25v
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Scope & Content:: English and Latin notes on Romans 13:14, inscribed 'Mr Uinett (sic) Mart. 1617'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: Mar 1617
Extent:: 1 folio

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