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251. 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

252. Harley MS 607

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 607
Title:
The second of two volumes from the Court of Augmentations and the Augmentation Office, containing certificates concerning the value of lands sold by Mary and Philip during the 3rd and 4th years of their reign
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A parchment strip with the title: ‘Liber secundus de lez Rates’; a second parchment strip with a Latin inscription: ‘[...] lave p[ar]cell[e] de de [sic] Scyton’] f. 2v: An alphabetical index of counties included in this manuscript. ff. 3r-191r: The second of two volumes from...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1555-1557
Extent:
1 volume

253. Harley MS 5319

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5319
Title:
Compilations of French texts with German vocabulary and practice sentences; Arabic book with Qur'an text; The Fifteen Oes
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of three distinct parts, containing a 17th-century compilation of French letters and German vocabulary and practice sentences (ff. 2r-69v); an Arabic book that may have been written in the 15th or 16th century (ff. 70r-109v); and a copy of the Fifteen Oes, date...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, French, German, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1475-1654
Extent:
1 volume

254. 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

255. Harley MS 1625

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

256. Harley MS 4505

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4505
Title:
Collection of Precedents in the Court of the Queen's Bench, from the 12th to the 37th years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-51v: Collection of Precedents in the Court of the Queen's Bench, from the 12th to the 37th years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I [1569-1595]; written in French with headings in Latin. The manuscript contains a few additions: ff. 52r-54v: English commentaries on biblical te...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1569-1595
Extent:
1 volume

257. Harley MS 1760

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1760
Title:
A large collection of letters written and signed by English kings and queens, and letters addressed to them by rulers in other countries
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-145v: A large collection of copies of and original letters, written and signed by English kings and queens, including Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I, and Charles II, and kings, queens, princes, dukes, duchesses, landgraves and marquesses from abroad. The latter include (among...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1596-1729
Extent:
1 volume

258. Harley MS 4377

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4377
Title:
Charles Perrault, Jean Chapelain, and Jacques Cassagnes, Devises pour les tapisseries du Roy, où sont représentez les quatre Élémens et les quatre Saisons de l’année
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Devises pour les tapisseries du Roi, où sont représentez les quatre Élémens et les quatre Saisons de l’année (Emblems for tapestries of King Louis XIV of France on the themes of the four elements and the four seasons), by Charles Perrault (b. 1628, d. 1703), Jean Cha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1669
Extent:
1 volume

259. Harley MS 5110

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5110
Title:
Composite volume of miscellaneous verse, drama and orations
Scope & Content:
A composite volume of miscellaneous verse, drama, orations and other texts in various hands. Cited in the Index of English Literary Manuscripts as the 'Harley Satires MS'. ff. 1r–3v: A Latin oration given at Merton College, Oxford, entitled ‘In collegio Merton Oxon. […], 16 October 1725. ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

260. Harley MS 1070

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1070
Title:
A copy of the Visitation of Cheshire of 1580 by Robert Glover and William Flower; original papers of the Visitation of Cheshire of 1613 by Richard St George and Henry St George
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-64r: A copy of the book of the Visitation of Cheshire (1580) by William Flower (b. 1497/98, d. 1588), Norroy King of Arms, and Robert Glover (b. 1543/1544, d. 1588), Herald of Somerset, 1569; probably copied in the early 17th century. According to the Catalogue of the Harleian ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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