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1. Harley MS 6083

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6083
Title:
Charles Cavendish, Mathematical papers
Scope & Content:
Mathematical papers assembled and partially copied by the mathematician Sir Charles Cavendish (b. 1595?, d. 1654). The manuscript consists of several sets of mathematical notes, treatises and loose papers, including a treatise on geometry, called Geometria phoronomica (ff. 236r-272v); a treatise...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1621-1654
Extent:

1 volume

2. Harley MS 6878

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6878
Title:
Astronomical and astrological texts
Scope & Content:
Petit abrégé de la sphère du Monde (ff. 3r-62r); Les traicte des armilles pour verifier des estoires selon la tradition de Ptholemee (ff. 62r-65v); Miscellaneous notes on astrological and astronomical subjects (ff. 66r-64r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 4972

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4972
Title:
Apocalypse, Prophecy of the Tiburtine Sibyl
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-43r: Apocalypse in French prose, with prologue of Gilbert de la Porrée (a folio is missing between ff. 31 and 32); ff. 43r-47v: Prophétie de la sibylle Tiburtine (Prophecy of the Tenth or Tiburtine Sibyl); the last folio of this text is now in Bodley MS Douce 308. The text ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1275-1325
Extent:
A parchment codex, 47 folios

4. Harley MS 4486

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4486
Title:
A treatise on alchemy and medicine, and the Livre de Sydrac
Scope & Content:
Two manuscripts bound together including a treatise on alchemy and medicine (ff. 1r-67r) and the Livre de Sydrac (ff. 69r-146r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1350-1631
Extent:
148 folios.

5. Harley MS 3749

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3749
Title:
John Norden, Survey of the Honor of Windsor
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a survey of the Honor of Windsor that was made by the cartographer John Norden (b. c. 1547, d. 1625) for King James I in 1607. The manuscript contains 17 maps that are the result of a survey conducted on foot by Norden. The maps in this volume show communication routes, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1607
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 5771

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5771
Title:
Samuel Morland, Élévation des eaux par toute sorte de machines reduite à la mesure, au poids, à la balance
Scope & Content:
Includes the copy of the Élévation des eaux, a treatise on hydrostatics and hydraulic that Sir Samuel Morland dedicated in 1683 to Louis XIV, king of France. The text was first published in print in 1685 in Paris. Decoration: The text on each page is written within a golden or blue frame with ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1683
Extent:

1 volume

7. Harley MS 6943

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6943
Title:
Miscellaneous correspondence of John Covel, D.D., including: 36 letters in Greek from Daniel, Archbishop of Proconnesos (f. 8), Ieremias Germanos (ff. 10, 12, 14, 16, 18), Macarius, Metropolites of Selistria al. Dristria (f. 22), Drakos Jerakis (ff. 27, 29, 31, 33, 35), his wife Smaragda (f. 37), Theodorakis Jerakis (ff. 39, 41), Dionysios Babas (ff. 96, 98, 100, 102, 104, 106, 107, 109, 111, 113, 115, 116, 117, 119, 121, 123), Merkourios Laskaris (f. 124), Neophytus, Metropolites of Philippo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1672-1711
Extent:
1 item

8. Harley MS 4324

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4324
Title:
Guy du Faur, Les Quatrains and Les Cinquante octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, written by Esther Inglis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Les Quatrains and Les Cinquante octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, two poetic works by Guy de Faur (b. 1529, d. 1584), Seigneur de Pibrac, written by the English calligrapher and artist Esther Inglis (b. 1570/71, d. 1624) in 1614. The manuscript features...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1614
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 4379

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4379
Title:
Jean Froissart, Chroniques (the 'Harley Froissart')
Scope & Content:
Jean Froissart, Chroniques, volume IV, Part 1 (the 'Harley Froissart'). The Part 2 is Harley MS 4380. Preceded by a table of contents (ff. 1r-1v). Decoration: 11 large miniatures with large decorated initials and full foliate borders including hybrid figures and birds, in colours and gold (ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1470-1472
Extent:
184 folios.

10. Harley MS 978

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978
Title:
Collection of poems including fables and musical, calendrical, and medical texts
Scope & Content:
A miscellany or 'manual' including poems, fables, musical, and medical texts, several of which are unique to this collection, such as the song 'Sumer is icumen in', the Song of Lewes, several poems by Marie de France and Goliardic verses. The collection was possibly compiled between 1261 and 126...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

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