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2. Harley MS 6323
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6323
- Title:
- Ovid, Hesiod, Oracula Sibyllina
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- German, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 8 items
3. Harley MS 3736
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3736
- Title:
- Giovanni Cadamosto, Herbal
- Scope & Content:
- This herbal was probably produced in southern Germany in the last quarter of the 15th century or the first quarter of the 16th century. It contains Giovanni Cadamosto’s herbal, which includes materials from the Tacuinum sanitatis, a Latin translation from an Arabic work on the medical purposes o...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- German, Italian, and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1475 - c 1525
- Extent:
-
1 volume
4. Harley MS 1252
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1252
- Title:
- Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs; Joseph and Assenath
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains 17th-century copy of apocryphal texts that appear to be copied from a 16th-century manuscript or printed book. The latter is suggested by two title-pages throughout that bear both the date ‘1660’ and the date ‘1563’ (ff. 1r, 40r). Contents: ff. 1r-137v: Testaments of ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- German
- Date Range:
- 1660
- Extent:
- 1 volume
5. Harley MS 2943
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2943
- Title:
- Middle Dutch Book of Hours
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 13r-15v: Prayer for communion, with a rubric: ‘Dit gebet selmen lesen als men wil gaen totten heiligen sacrament te ontfanghen’, beginning: ‘O overste priester ende gewaer biscop here ihesu criste die di selven offerste gode dinen vader’. ff. 15v-16r: Pra...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Dutch, Middle, German, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1486
- Extent:
- 1 volume
6. Harley MS 1060
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1060
- Title:
- A German manual for making gunpowder, rockets and bombs
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-11v: Instructions for making rockets, pyrotechnic maces and pole weapons, beginning: ‘Wie man die Ragethen stök machen soll'. ff. 12r-15v: Instructions for making gunpowder for rockets, beginning: ‘Wie man den Zeug oder sätz Damitt man die Ragethen füllett, machen soll’ ff. ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- German
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
7. Harley MS 1891
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1891
- Title:
- Hans Lencker, Perspectiva (Nuremberg: Gerlass, 1571); German treatises on gauging and perspective
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-36r: A printed work by Hans Lencker, Perspectiva: Hierinnen auffs kürtzte beschrieben / mit exempeln eröffnet und an tag gegeben wird / ein newer besonder kurtzer / doch gerechter unnd sehr leichter weg / wie allerley ding/ es seyen Corpora / Gebew / oder was möglich zu erdenck...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- German
- Date Range:
- 1571-17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
8. Harley MS 3822/5
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3822/5
- Title:
- Fragments of letter and account books of German merchants
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-26v: Fragments of a letter-book of a Leipzig merchant (?) relating to consignments of goods, including cloth, wine, etc, 10 March-2 August 1545. ff. 27r-48r: Fragments of a cloth (?) merchant's account book; no dates except a few months and days. The manuscript contains a l...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- German
- Date Range:
- 1545-c 1600
- Extent:
- 1 volume
9. Harley MS 1413
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1413
- Title:
- Albrecht of Prussia, Kriegsordnung (chapters 7-10)
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains the second half of a two-volume set of the Kriegsordnung (chapters 7-10), a treatise on managing large military campaigns composed by Albrecht of Prussia (b. 1490, d. 1568), first Duke of Prussia and grand master of the Teutonic Order. It is considered to be one of the m...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- German
- Date Range:
- c 1555
- Extent:
- 1 volume
10. Harley MS 376
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 376
- Title:
- Letters to Simonds D'Ewes
- Scope & Content:
- Collection of original letters from political leaders, nobles and scholars written to Simonds D’Ewes from England and the Continent, 1620-1649. Chiefly in Latin, and a few in English, French, and German. With a small number of other documents at the beginning of the volume, dated 1585-1642. Ta...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, German, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1585-1649
- Extent:
- 1 volume