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1271. Harley MS 5218

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5218
Title:
Scope & Content:
Medical Miscellany including Treatises by Petrus Hispanus and Galeazzo di Santasofia; 15th cent. Latin. Copies. The MS. includes: -a) Petrus Hispanus, Liber de conservanda sanitate (ff. 1-3; item 1); - b) Petrus Hispanus, Thesaurus pauperum (ff. 3v-83; item 2); - c) Short treatises relating t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

1272. Harley MS 513

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 513
Title:
A treatise of tripartite exchange by Gerard de Malynes, merchant
Scope & Content:
Quarto manuscript volume, titled: ‘A Treatise of Tripartite exchaung, According to the Three Essentiall Parts of Trafficque: Comodities for Money; Comodities for Comodities; Comodities for exchang of Money. Shewing the efficient Cause of the Decrease of ye wealth of the Realme of England. And of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1610
Extent:
1 volume

1273. Harley MS 530

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 530
Title:
A miscellany of transcripts and original copies of historical works
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a miscellany largely containing early modern transcripts from medieval historical works, mostly dating to the second half of the 16th century. Several entries were copied by the antiquaries John Stow [Stowe] (b. 1524/5, d. 1605) and William Camden (b. 1551, d. 1623). However, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450-c 1626
Extent:
1 volume

1274. 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

1275. Harley MS 185

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 185
Title:
Latin verse and prose by Simonds D’Ewes, with some goods inventories of Paul D’Ewes
Scope & Content:
Various Latin poetic works, essays, and exercises written by Simonds D’Ewes as a boy, with some Greek. Includes a section of inventories of household goods in the hand of his father, Paul D’Ewes (ff. 39-44). Contents: f. 1: Decorative title page for Acta Apostulorum, a Latin poem on the Acts of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1615-1618
Extent:
1 volume

1276. Harley MS 51

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 51
Title:
Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae; Jacobus Palladinus de Theramo, Consolatio peccatorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-105v: Guido delle Colonne ['de Columnis' or 'de Columna'], Historia destructionis Troiae (A History of the Destruction of Troy) or Historia troiana, in 35 books with a prologue, epilogue and colophon. Prologue begins, ‘Licet cotidie vetera recentibus obruent nonnulla tamen iamd...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

1277. Harley MS 235

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 235
Title:
Statutes of the Order of the Garter
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–29r: A mid-16th-century heraldic manuscript. A note opposite f. 1r by Frederic Madden records that this manuscript is written in the same hand as Harley MS 567 (another heraldic manuscript). f. 1r: Names of the knights of the Garter, 1584. f. 1v: Gilbert Talbot, names of the knights of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1561-1592
Extent:

1 volume

1278. Harley MS 837

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 837
Title:
Miscellaneous collection of poetry and historical texts
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume. Contents: ff. 1*-48v: Extracts from Plutarch's Lives. ff. 49-61v: A letter of Mr John Goodwin, Minister in Coleman Street, at the request of a friend, concerning points of religion. f. 62: Inscription: 'A Booke of versee', in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’. Above thi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1279. Harley MS 642

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 642
Title:
'Basilica Oeconomia, or Several Ordinances, Rules and Orders for the Government of the Howsehold of the Kings and Queens of England...'
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume, titled ''Basilica Oeconomia, or Several Ordinances, Rules and Orders for the Government of the Howsehold of the Kings and Queens of England and their Children both of former and of later times; An Exact Index of which particulars is inserted in the next page ensuinge. An...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1610-1650
Extent:
1 volume

1280. Harley MS 1394

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1394
Title:
Robert Glover, The Visitation of Yorkshire and Church Notes from Yorkshire, 1584-1585; with additions by Nicholas Charles
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: A drawing of William the Conqueror giving a patent to Alan Rufus, 1st Earl of Richmond, who kneels before him [reproduced in Christopher Clarkson, The History of Richmond, in the County of York (Richmond: Bowman, 1814), plate between p. 14 and p. 15]; with a copy of the patent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

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