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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1480
Title:: A copy of the Visitation Book of Oxfordshire of 1634
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A title inscription: ‘Oxfordshire 1634’. ff. 2*recto-3*verso: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-64r: A copy of the Visitation Book of Oxfordshire made by John Philipot (b. 1588, d. 1645), Somerset Herald, and William Ryley (d. 16...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1598
Title:: Elegies on the death of William Gurdon, and other poems
Scope & Content:: ff. 1-9r: Narration of the death of William Gurdon, 1620, and elegies on his decease. f. 9v-11r: Elegy on the death of Richard Rogers (1550?–1618), minister of Wethersfield. ff. 11v-13: Verses by Adam Winthrop (1548-1623) to the Lady Mildmay at the birth of her son Henry, 1620, and verses to H...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1620
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1910
Title:: Journal of an officer on the ships Woolwich and Defiance
Scope & Content:: Journal of a tour on HMS Woolwich and HMS Defiance, 18 April 1677 to 15 June 1679, with particulars relating to Tangier and fighting between the Algerines and the English.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1677-1679
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6864
Title:: Copies of inscriptions on tombstones in the city of Bath
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-19r: Copies of inscriptions on tombstones in the city of Bath of citizens who died in the 1720s and 1730s; the latest year of death is 1738.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1738
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7186
Title:: Account book of John Longe, the Earl of Pembroke’s steward
Scope & Content:: Account book of John Longe, steward of the Earl of Pembroke, c 1575-1601. With additions to 1613 in a different hand. Includes mathematical sketches at ff. 162-164 and f. 184v.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1575-1613
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7365
Title:: General survey of the Post Office 1685, by T. Gardiner
Scope & Content:: T. Gardiner’s general survey of the Post Office, 1685, presented by the author to James, Duke of York. Includes route diagrams. Inscribed by Lord Oxford: ‘This Book did belong to King James, I had it from Coll. Grahame’.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1685
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7397
Title:: Baronage of England to the time of Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-45v: Baronage of England to the time of Queen Elizabeth I.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 227
Title:: Part of a theological treatise
Scope & Content:: Quarto manuscript volume, containing part of a theological treatise in the hand of Sir Simonds D'Ewes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3170
Title:: Pseudo-John Chrysostom, Sermons on Matthew
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-21v: An alphabetical index to the sermons of Matthew; imperfect due to the loss of folios and beginning with the letter 'C'. ff. 22r-231r: Pseudo-John Chrysostom, Sermons on Matthew; imperfect at the beginning due to an erased opening page (featuring only the decorated initia...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3346
Title:: Georgius Hermonymus, Collectio Sententiarum Aurearum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2v-33r: A collection of Greek moral sayings (Collectio Sententiarum Aurearum) that closely resembles a similar collection in Harley MS 3348, including a Prologue with dedication by Georgius Hermonymus (b. 1452, d. 1508), who compiled the sayings, translated them from Greek ito Lat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1475-c 1476
Extent:: 1 volume

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