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821. Harley MS 7658

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7658
Title:
John [Hans] Engelbrecht, A true Relation of a Vision of Heaven and Hell
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-23r: John [Hans] Engelbrecht, ‘A true Relation of a Vision of Heaven and Hell; That is: How God hath awaked and raised mee John Engelbrecht from Death, and when my body was dead, stiff and cold (the which is known to many people in Brunswick) the same in a short time became aga...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

822. Harley MS 1841

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1841
Title:
Proposals for the better restoring of public credit, and more easy payment of the national debt
Scope & Content:
Manuscript volume titled 'Proposals for the better Restoreing of Publick Credit and more Easy Payment of the National Debt by Setling a fund of not Less than 18 per cent per annum from the first day of February 1701: to the first day of August which shall bee in the Year of our Lord 1710'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1701
Extent:
1 volume

823. Harley MS 6453

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6453
Title:
A collection of English alchemical treatises, including Bernard Trevisan’s Liber de Alchemiae, George Ripley’s The Mystery of Alchymysts, Bloomfield's Blossoms, and Roger Bacon’s Speculum Alchemiae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-21r: Bernard Trevisan, Liber de Alchemiae, here entitled ‘The worke [Alchymie]of the Lord Barnard Erle of the Marchis of Trevisan’. ff. 21r-25r: George Ripley, The Mystery of Alchymysts, here entitled ‘The worke of an unknowen Author, havinge no name to yt but Jesus’. ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

824. Harley MS 892

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 892
Title:
Thomas Cole, The Visitation of Sussex; An Alphabet of Arms of Sussex and Surrey
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title page: ‘Pettigrees and Armes taken out of an old visitation of Sussex etcaetera with some new additions’. ff. 1r-37r: The Visitation of Sussex, ‘Oute of Mr Pensons booke’. ff. 38r-40r: Notes taken ‘In the parishe Church of Glyn’; Glyn, Stopham, West Sussex, with...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

825. Harley MS 475

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 475
Title:
Latin questions and answers, moral sentences; notes on charges and costs of Paul D'Ewes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-17v: A Latin treatise organised according to questions and answers, beginning ‘Quod est precipuum Officium Hominis Christiani in hac vita’. ff. 18r-19r: A collection of moral sentences, beginning ‘divitiarum et forme gloria fluxa atque fragilis esta virtus vero clara’. ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

826. Harley MS 4744

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4744
Title:
A collection of prophecies and testimonies concerning Christ drawn from the Old and New Testaments
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-138r: A collection of prophecies and testimonies concerning Christ drawn from the Old and New Testaments. f. 141r: Pen trials (?) in a figure drawn in brown ink: ‘and for the use of my god master and to and for [...]’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

827. Harley MS 6189

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6189
Title:
'The Rise and Progress of Mahometanism' by Henry Stubbe
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume containing a text by physician Henry Stubbe on Islamic theology, the life of the prophet Mohammed, and religious tolerance, here titled 'The Rise and Progress of Mahometanism'. Written in a fair hand. At the end of the volume is inscribed '7 July 1718 Exam. of W. S.'. T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1718
Extent:
1 volume

828. Harley MS 6391

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6391
Title:
A Relation of Prince Henryes noble and vertuous Disposition
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8v: An anonymous author's account of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), entitled: ‘A Relation of Prince Henryes noble and vertuous Disposition and of Sundry his wittie and pleasant Speeches diverted to the right honourable the Lord Lumley and his Lady’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1605
Extent:
1 volume

829. Harley MS 6553

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6553
Title:
Collection of explanations of Biblical passages and philosophical texts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of tracts on Biblical passages, written in a hand that may date to the 1st half of the 17th century, and another collection with philosophical texts in a hand that may date to the 2nd half of the 16th century. Contents: ff. 1r-4r: '2 Pol. 6 - Recte Hippod...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

830. Harley MS 599

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 599
Title:
An inventory of Cardinal Wolsey’s household goods
Scope & Content:
A manuscript, in folio, titled ‘An Inventorie of Cardinall Woolsie’s rich Househould stuffe. Temp H. 8. The Originall Booke as it seems, Kept by his owne Officers’. This may be one of the books which, at the time of Cardinal Wolsey’s fall [1530], contained an inventory of all his goods. After 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1527-1530
Extent:
1 volume

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