Geoponica. Collation by Peter Needham of the 1538 Basel edition and Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. f. 3.18 (once owned by Christopher Longolius) and MS Barocci 54, together with readings added to the margins of a copy of the Basel edition owned by Sir John Cotton from a manuscript once owned by Saracenus. Prepared for use in Needham's 1704 edition.
Elizabethan poetry miscellany, compiled between 1596 and 1600. Includes copies and extracts of works by: Michael Drayton; Edmund Spenser; George Chapman; Robert Southwell; Sir John Harington; Nicholas Breton; Sir Walter Ralegh; Thomas Lodge; Thomas Nashe; Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford; Wi...
Contents: f. 1r: A poem dedicated to 'Richardo Shuttlewortho Militi [...] Senatus in W[a]ll[...] [? Richardus Shuttleworth (bap. 1630) of Whalley, Lancashire]; fragmentary. f. 1v: 'Praefatio'; fragmentary. ff. 2r-19v: A collection of poems in Latin and Greek, beginning: 'In Annum pacatissi...
Catalogue of Greek coins belonging to William Clayton. Apparently sent with a letter dated 4 April 1721. Two further letters from Clayton on this subject are Harley 3778, ff 77r, 78r.
Explicatio vocum quarundam Graecarum in utroque Testamento occurrentium. English. Notes by James Hammond, of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, (1693-1700) on a lecture by John Mill, D.D., Principal of St Edmund Hall (1685-1707).
Vocum Graecarum in Antiquitatibus Godwinianis passim conspersarum Interpretatio Etymologica. Probably taken from Thomas Godwin, Rector of Brightwell, Romanae Historiae Anthologia. An English Exposition of the Romane Antiquities, 1614.
Letters and state warrants, from the years 1377-1557. f. 1r-1v Letter from Johannes Haukewood, Capitanus Defensoribus Civitates Senarum. 3 February 1377. Latin. f. 2r-2v Letter from Matheus Beccharis, Thomae Cardinali Eboracensi. Abinton, 30 May 1518. Latin. ff. 3r-4v Letter from L. Campegiu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Latin