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1351. Harley MS 2375

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Harley MS 2375
Title:
Scope & Content:
Compilation of Medical and Astrological Texts and Recipes; 15th cent. Latin and Middle English. Copies. The MS. is a compilation of medical and astrological texts and recipes; its cataloguing was funded by the Wellcome Trust. Owned by John Batteley (1647-1708), clergyman and antiquary. Boug...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

1352. Harley MS 371

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Harley MS 371
Title:
Thomas Smith's dialogue on Elizabeth I's marriage and a Life of Mary Queen of Scots
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–58v: Sir Thomas Smith's dialogue concerning Elizabeth I's marriage, c. 1560, without the preamble, beginning 'As I was walking in my garden alone'. The first six leaves were removed from Harley MS 252 (numbered ff. 27–32). Printed in John Strype, The Life of the Learned Sir Thomas Smith (1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1353. Harley MS 364

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 364
Title:
Anselm of Canterbury, Epistolae; transcripts of charters from the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI; English translation of Niccolò Machiavelli, Il Principe; 'Of Predestinacion and the Providence of God'; English translation of Pierre Boitel's Défaite du faux amour par l'unique des braves de ce temps;Paul D'Ewes, theological discourses
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a large composite miscellany, consisting of historical papers and literary works that were copied separately at different periods of time from the late 16th to the early 18th century. Contents: f. 1r: A tract, entitled: 'Howe a man shal be armed at his ease when he shall fi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

1354. Harley MS 3527

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3527
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Scope & Content:
Francesco Rinuccio Aretino, Translation of a Collection of Greek Letters; mid 15th cent. Latin. Copy. The MS. contains the translation into Latin of a collection of Greek letters attributed to Hippocrates and others made by Francesco Rinuccio Aretino (1395-after 1456), also known as Rinuccio ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1355. Harley MS 3499

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3499
Title:
'The State of Christendom'
Scope & Content:
An essay on Christendom, by an ‘exile’ (f. 2r). Printed in 1657 as ‘The State of Christendom’, attributed to Sir Henry Wotton, diplomat and writer (1568-1639). Composed c. 1594, as indicated by references to King Philip II of Spain, the plot of Roderigo Lopez to poison Queen Elizabeth I, her a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1356. Harley MS 5396

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Harley MS 5396
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Scope & Content:
Composite Miscellany including Texts relating to Theology, Medicine and Poetry; mid 15th cent. and early 13th cent. Latin and Middle English. Copies. Imperfect. This composite volume consists of four different MSS. (ff. 1-142, 143-209, 210-270, 271-311) and comprises: - a) John Felton, vicar of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1200-1470
Extent:
1 item

1357. Harley MS 2411

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2411
Title:
George Ripley's Bosome Book
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the personal alchemical notebook of the Bridlington canon and alchemist George Ripley (d. c. 1490), that the Elizabethan alchemist Samuel Norton (b. 1548, d. 1621), the great-grandson of the renowned alchemist Thomas Norton (b. c. 1433, d. c. 1513), claimed to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1610
Extent:
1 volume

1358. Harley MS 3840

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3840
Title:
Scope & Content:
Composite Medical Miscellany; 15th cent. Latin and Middle English. Copies. Imperfect. The manuscript comprises a large herbal in Latin (ff. 1-138; item 1) and a Middle English herbal, known as Agnus castus (ff. 139-178v; item 2) with embedded recipes. The previous ownership, and the date an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

1359. Harley MS 4064

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Harley MS 4064
Title:
A composite volume of verse and prose
Scope & Content:
A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous verse and prose, in various hands. Including legal and financial documents and a verse miscellany containing many poems by John Donne. Cited in the Index of English Literary Manuscripts as the ‘Harley Noel MS’. Contents: ff. 2r-191v: A register of Ecc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1360. Harley MS 6368

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6368
Title:
John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, 'A Treatise towchinge the Right title & intrest of the Most excellent princesse Marie, Queene of Scottland, & of the most Noble Kinge James, her graces sonn to the Succession of the Crowne of England'
Scope & Content:
John Leslie [Lesley] (1527-1596), Bishop of Ross, was the leading polemicist of the right of Mary Queen of Scots to the English throne. His arguments were made in a number of printed versions in English, Latin, French and Spanish, and also survive in significant numbers of manuscript copies. The...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1584
Extent:
1 volume

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