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281. Harley MS 6914

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6914
Title:
Satirical poetry and other texts
Scope & Content:
Quarto manuscript volume containing a miscellany of mostly satirical poetry with some prose articles. Contents: ff. 1-2v: ‘A New Ballad by Ld. Rochester to the tune of Chevy Chase’. First line: ‘The Parsons all keep whores’. ff. 1*-6*v (these are interleaved with folios 1-6): Table of contents....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

282. Harley MS 6993

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6993
Title:
Letters on state affairs, 1581–1586
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–132v: Letters on state affairs from many prominent individuals, including Christopher Hatton, Walter Mildmay, Henry Norreys, Richard Shelley, Thomas Smith, and Francis Walsingham, 1581–1586. ff. 1r–2v: Original letter from Mr William Badger to Francis Mylles Esquire, concerning the right...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1581-1586
Extent:
1 volume

283. Harley MS 3

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3
Title:
John Mirfield, Breviarium Bartholomei, with glosses and recipes by John Dee
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the medical work of John Mirfield [Johannes de Mirfeld] (d. 1407), an ecclesiastic and medical writer, and chaplain of the hospital of St Bartholomew, Smithfield, in London. Towards the end of his life he wrote two encyclopedic works in Latin, the so-called Florarium Bar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1400
Extent:
1 volume

284. Harley MS 296

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 296
Title:
A collection of original letters and transcripts, concerning Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Russia and Morocco
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: A discourse in French, concerning the enterprise that could be arranged for Don Antonio (b. 1531, d. 1595), a claimant for the Portuguese throne, for the recovery of his kingdom, and the effect and usefulness of this for the Netherlands and England. ff. 3r-4v: An origina...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

285. Harley MS 6054

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6054
Title:
Notebook of verse and prose
Scope & Content:
A quarto notebook of verse and prose in English, Latin and French, in various hands. Probably partly compiled by Edmund Killingworth of Winchester College and New College, Oxford (see Kelliher). The manuscript is made up of the remains of 2 notebooks. The first notebook (ff. 1-11) contains misce...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

286. Harley MS 4329

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4329
Title:
Martin de Braga (translated by Jean Courtecuisse), Le livre des quatre vertus (De quatuor virtutibus); Marcus Tullius Cicero (translated by Laurent de Premierfait), Le livre de vieillesse (De senectute); Le livre de amitié (De amicitia); letter of Bernard of Clairvaux; hymn to the Virgin
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-28v: Martin de Braga (translated by Jean Courtecuisse), Le livre des quatre vertus (De quatuor virtutibus). ff. 30r-129v: Marcus Tullius Cicero (translated by Laurent de Premierfait), Le livre de vieillesse (De senectute). ff. 130r-192v: Marcus Tullius Cicero (translated by...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1460
Extent:
1 volume

287. 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

288. Harley MS 2901

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2901
Title:
Coronation order for the king of England
Scope & Content:
Coronation order for the king of England of the 4th recension, presumably composed for the coronation of King Edward II of England in 1308 (see Bond 1884-1894, pl. 196 and Hughes 1990). Incipit: 'Die quo novis rex est consecrandus' (f. 1v); 'Ordo novum regem in regno constituendi (f. 3r). Includ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1308
Extent:
1 volume

289. Harley MS 3999

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3999
Title:
Collection of devotional texts
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes a miscellany of devotional texts produced in one campaign as a collection: ff. 1r-24r: Le trésor attributed to Jean de Meun, rubric: 'Icy commence le tresor maistre Jehan de Mehun', incipit: 'O glorieuse trinite'. ff. 25r-65v: Pierre de Nesson, Les vigiles des morts, ru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1430-c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

290. Harley MS 1310

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1310
Title:
Jacques Legrand, Le livre des bonnes moeurs
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-80v: Jacques Legrand, Le livre des bonnes moeurs, incipit: 'Tous orguilleux se veulent a dieu comparer.' ff. 81r-85v: A treatise on confession, incipit: 'Qui se veult mettre de lestat de peche en lestat de grace et de salut.' ff. 86r-88v: A treatise on the 'Goo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1450-c 1460
Extent:
1 volume

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