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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1589
Title:: Historical and geographical miscellany of Pierre Du Prat
Scope & Content:: Miscellaneous collection of Pierre Du Prat, or Prataeus, author of Le Portrait du Mareschal de Gassion (1664). Includes draft of the life of Maréchal de Gassion (1609-1647), letters, and extracts from published historical and geographical works. Contents: ff. 1r-v: Essay ‘La Vaillance’. f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 1640s-1660s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1591
Title:: Collection of legal treatises
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: Law notes, including a line in French: 'Pur un plaisir mille dole'. f. 1r: Recipe for sleep, including milk, treacle, saffron and ivy. ff. 2r-5v: Forms of writs from the time of Queen Elizabeth. ff. 6r-10r: 'The Manner and Order of kepinge the Quarter Cessions'. f....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1595
Title:: North African trade and treaties
Scope & Content:: Papers on the port of Oran, arguments against a Morocco Company, treaties with Tunis, Tripoli, and Algier. With French poetry and songs on front and back end papers (ff. 1-2 and ff. 40-42). ff. 1-2: French verse. ff. 3-6: Discourse on the port of Oran. 7 January 1663. On its convenience as a ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1660s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1599
Title:: Relation of a voyage to Constantinople and Smyrna, by Belval
Scope & Content:: Journal by Belval of his travels from Paris to Contantinople, 1626-1627, a description of Constantinople, and a further voyage from Constantinople to Smyrna. With a Turkish French vocabulary list. f. 1*: Title and other marks of ownership: ‘Relation de mon Voiage faict par moy Belval L’an 1626’...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1626-1627
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1625
Title:: Miscellaneous historical papers
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume. Contents: ff. 1-13v: Character of Edward Montagu, Earl of Sandwich, Vice-Admiral of England, who died at the Battle of Solebay, 1672. Written in French at Bourg-Charente, 10 October 1684. ff. 14-44: Account of the Papal Conclave held 1655 after the death of Pope Innocen...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: Late 16th century-Late 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1629
Title:: Prophecies de Merlin
Scope & Content:: Contents: Les Prophecies de Merlin, is a prose compilation of romance material from Arthurian sources, together with original political prophecies relating to Italian events of the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries. The text, originating in Venice circa 1276, is primarily a series of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 70 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1664
Title:: Psalter of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk
Scope & Content:: Volume of 26 psalms and prayers in Latin, with French rubric. Formerly owned by Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk (c. 1484–1545), magnate, courtier and soldier, whose signature appears on f. 22v. ff. 1r-4v: Rubric, ‘de la Louenge, Vertu, et Efficace des Pseames’. French. ff. 5r-9r: Psalms....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: Early 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1680
Title:: French historical collection
Scope & Content:: Composite manuscript mostly of French historical tracts relating to the late seventeenth century. Contents: ff. 1-8: collection of over 200 medical recipes in Middle English, French, and Latin, 14th century. The English recipes probably translated from French or Anglo-Norman. Prologue inc. 'He...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century to the late 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1681
Title:: Historical collections of Pierre Du Prat
Scope & Content:: Miscellaneous historical collection of Pierre Du Prat, or Prataeus, author of Le Portrait du Mareschal de Gassion (1664). f. 1v: Portrait of De Gassion, engraved by Balthasar Moncornet. This may be the print formerly inserted in Harley MS 1589, which is no longer present – see description in A...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 1640s-1660s
Extent:: 1 volume

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