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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6485, ff 377r-404v
Title:: Clavis Chymicus: An Explanation of certain Chymical hard Words used in Dr Dee's Works
Scope & Content:: Clavis Chymicus: An Explanation of certain Chymical hard Words used in Dr Dee's Works.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1713
Extent:: 27 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6858
Title:: Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic (imperfect)
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. This manuscript includes a t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1640-1699
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6943
Title:: Miscellaneous correspondence of John Covel, D.D., including: 36 letters in Greek from Daniel, Archbishop of Proconnesos (f. 8), Ieremias Germanos (ff. 10, 12, 14, 16, 18), Macarius, Metropolites of Selistria al. Dristria (f. 22), Drakos Jerakis (ff. 27, 29, 31, 33, 35), his wife Smaragda (f. 37), Theodorakis Jerakis (ff. 39, 41), Dionysios Babas (ff. 96, 98, 100, 102, 104, 106, 107, 109, 111, 113, 115, 116, 117, 119, 121, 123), Merkourios Laskaris (f. 124), Neophytus, Metropolites of Philippo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1672-1711
Extent:: 1 item

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

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