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631. Harley MS 2811

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2811
Title:
Bible, with Psalms and Interpretation of Hebrew Names
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-459v: Bible (with Psalms), imperfect: missing the beginning of the prologue to Genesis. ff. 460r-470v: Interpretation of Hebrew Names, organised alphabetically; imperfect (only covers 'A' - 'C'). The manuscript contains various additions: Copiously annotated (especially in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

632. Harley MS 3605-3616

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3605-3616
Title:
John Le Neve's collection of monumental inscriptions
Scope & Content:
Twelve manuscript volumes of monumental inscriptions, dating from 1400 to 1716, collected from various churches in England, by John Le Neve. These are sorted by year, and usually written in the hand of John Le Neve. Some printed sources and letters from Le Neve's friends, informing him of vario...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 18th century
Extent:
12 volumes

633. Harley MS 4754

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4754
Title:
History, arms and genealogies of the English peerage
Scope & Content:
Contents: Part 1 (c. 1600): f. 2r: A title-page: 'The Baronage of England, viz. The Modern Stemms of the Peeres of this Kingdome Delineated for the Finding of the Kinred and Affinityes by their Severall Matches - The Armes of each particular family with his Creast for onarment being added unt...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1597-c 1663
Extent:
1 volume

634. Harley MS 7549

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7549
Title:
Melodies of songs and psalms, with vocal exercises
Scope & Content:
ff. 5-43 passim. Melody of some songs, mostly anonymous. Several of them are included in John Playford's publications. 1. 'Diuin objet, qui ravisses les sens.' f. 5. 2. 'Se voi, Luci amate.' f. 6. 3. 'La vita alberga.' f. 7. 4. 'Tell me, you wantdering spirits.' By H. Lawes. [From , 1652.] f. 8....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

635. Harley MS 1096

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1096
Title:
London and Middlesex heraldry
Scope & Content:
Collections of London and Middlesex arms and pedigrees copied by Henry Lilly, arms painter, with additions by John Withie. Including church notes. Contents: f. 1: Preliminary folio inscribed ‘London. Written by Mr Lillys owne hand’. ff. 2-2*: List of surnames, with title ‘Middlesex 1664’ ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 volume

636. Harley MS 1122-1124

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1122-1124
Title:
'Practical Perspective', Volumes I-III
Scope & Content:
Three folio manuscript volumes, all in the same hand, containing a translation of the French work 'La Perspective Pratique', written by 'un Religieux de la Compagnie de Jesus', a religious person of the Society of Jesus, identified as Jean Dubreuil, published in Paris between 1647-1651. The fir...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
3 volumes

637. Harley MS 1395

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1395
Title:
Arms of English nobility
Scope & Content:
Heraldry volume in the hands of Jacob Chaloner (1586-1631) and John Saunders (died c. 1687), arms painters. Contents: ff. 1*-2*: Catalogue of the nobility of England, during the reign of King Charles II, by John Saunders. ff. 2*-5*: Achievements of James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, James Butler...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

638. Harley MS 1780

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1780
Title:
Pedigree of Oliver Cromwell
Scope & Content:
Pedigree of Oliver Cromwell going back to Adam, with his coat of arms painted in colours (f. 12)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

639. Harley MS 3763

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3763
Title:
Register of Evesham Abbey
Scope & Content:
Miscellany of documentary materials created at Evesham Abbey (ff. 3–57 from the 13th–14th century; ff. 95–198 from the late 14th century): f. 1r: Letter from Henry Fleetwood requesting to consult the manuscript, 2 June 1721. f. 2r: Memorandum by Humfrey Wanley on acquisition of the manuscript ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of 13th century-Late 14th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

640. Harley MS 4720

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4720
Title:
Collections of medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-69v: Collection of medical recipes in Latin and English; written in the 16th or 17th century. ff. 70r-71v, 73r-74v: Alphabetical indices of subjects. ff. 75r-75v: A fragment of a work on ‘Arithmaticke’ in English; written in the 17th century. ff 76rv: Collection of medic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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