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431. Harley MS 1844

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1844
Title:
Thomas Hobbes, Historia Ecclesiastica Romana
Scope & Content:
‘Historia Ecclesiastica Romana Autore Pereximio Viro Thoma Hobbesio Malmesburiensi’. Contemporary manuscript of the complete poem by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), in a professional hand, with marginal corrections and annotations. The last four lines are written in the same hand as the annotations. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1667
Extent:
1 volume

432. Harley MS 2267

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2267
Title:
A manual of ritual magic
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-37v: A manual of ritual magic, copied from another late 16th-century manuscript, including sections for making the 'Pentacle of the Apocalyptic Christ' (f. 1v); amulets for conjuring good and evil angels entitled 'What things are attributed to the planets' (ff. 2r-10v); 'On bin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
1600
Extent:
1 volume

433. Harley MS 5809

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5809
Title:
Pedigrees and arms of Derbyshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: A list of the names of gentry with their arms blazoned, entitled :‘A note of the Armes of Certaine gents in Com. Derby and Nottingham anno 1569’. ff. 4r-87v: The seals of Derby and Chesterfield (dated 1611), pedigrees of families in Derbyshire with coats of arms and seal...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

434. Harley MS 1370

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1370
Title:
Miscellaneous heraldry book, including Welsh arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-80: Copy of a book of arms of the founders of Welsh families titled: ‘The ancient descent of .... & worthy Gentlemen springing from Wales; and now sondry of them great Howsen of Honor & Worship in England’. ff. 80-87: Names of English, Danish, Norman or Irish settler...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

435. Harley MS 1727

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1727
Title:
Papers on the Court of Wards
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-104: Decrees of the Court of Wards in Law French, 1553-1581. One of several copies of a selection of decrees 1553-1581 compiled by John Hare, one of the common attorneys of the court. Title: ‘Un breife Collection de touts tiels Decrees fait in Court de Gards, queux decidont ascun doubt in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

436. Harley MS 1887

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1887
Title:
Collection of medical recipes and treatments
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*recto (margins)-1*verso (margins), 1r-1v: Recipes, including a tract on 'The virtue and degree of herbs' and a 'Restorative'; added in the 2nd half of the 16th century. ff. 2r-10v, 14r-45v: Latin treatise on the theory and practice of medicine, containing recipes for electuari...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1545
Extent:
1 volume

437. Harley MS 2221

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2221
Title:
Miscellany of English coats of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A table of contents, with the date 1591. ff. 2r-3v: Coats of arms (10 per page) of the English archiepiscopal and episcopal sees; with the arms of the archiepiscopal see of Dublin. ff. 4r-6r: Coats of arms (10 per page) of English cities, boroughs, and Calais. f. 7r: A li...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1578-1591
Extent:
1 volume

438. Harley MS 2222

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2222
Title:
Statutes and regulations of the Admiralty
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: 'Rules and orders to bee observed by all vice-admiralls aswell for the preservation of the Jurisdiction of the admiralty as for the better regulating the affaires and perquisites of the same for his Majesties profit and advantage'. ff. 3r-3v: 'Statuta contenta in Commissi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

439. Harley MS 5875

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5875
Title:
Coats of arms of English families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-121v: Coats of arms (6 per page) of English families, some with mottos in French or Latin; many escutcheons have been left blank. ff. 122r-127r: An alphabetical index of surnames included in this manuscript. Decoration: Coats of arms, tricked, drawn in black ink throughout ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

440. Harley MS 6171

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6171
Title:
Fragment of an Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-30v: A fragment of an Alphabet of Arms, with the arms of English families (‘A’ to ‘B’) blazoned with French heraldic terminology. Decoration: Heraldic elements drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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