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5271. Egerton MS 3880

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3880
Title:
Richard Symonds (1617-1660), royalist and antiquary: Commonplace-book, circa 1637-1677, with later additions partly by Sir Richard Gipps (d. 1708), circa 1685-1715. Mainly autograph. Partly Latin, Greek and Italian, and engraved. Several distinct stages are apparent in the compilation of this large and varied collection. It was begun, perhaps circa 1637 (cf. watermark), as a commonplace-book of moral and related topics the heads of which were listed in a prefatory ‘Index Capitum’ (ff. 2-3) a...
Scope & Content:
Commonplace Books: Richard Symonds, royalist and antiquary: Sir Richard Gipps, Suffolk antiquary: Entries in commonplace-book formerly bel. to R. Symonds by Sir Richard Gipps: circa 1685-1708: Autograph. Commonplace Books: Richard Symonds, royalist and antiquary: Commonplace-book of Richard Sym...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1632-1715
Extent:
1 item

5272. H.1286.b.(5*.)

Reference (shelfmark):
H.1286.b.(5*.)
Title:
LUIGI GORDIGIANI: ‘Le tre nazioni: scherzo a tre voci, con accompagnamento di P.F.’; circa 1850. For two tenors, bass and piano. Beginning ‘Yes! Oui! Ja! Viva la società!’. Probably autograph. Dedicated ‘à Lord Vernon’, and bound in a volume of printed songs with the Vernon bookplate. Pages trimmed at top and bottom. Purchased, Dec. 1977. ff. 5. Largest size 306 x 217mm.
Scope & Content:
Bookplates and Book-stamps: George John Venables-Vernon, 5th Baron Vernon; afterwards Warren: Armorial bookplate of George John Venables-Vernon: circa 1850. Luigi Gordigiani, composer: 'Le tre nazione': scherzo a tre voci by Luigi Gordigiani: circa 1850: Ital: probably autogr.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 item

5273. Harley MS 1-7661

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1-7661
Title:
Harley Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts collected by Robert Harley (d 1724) and Edward Harley (d 1741), 1st and 2nd Earls of Oxford. c 1300-c 1700. 7661 manuscripts
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, Arabic, Dutch, English, English, Middle, English, Old, French, French, Old, Georgian, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Irish, Irish, Old, Italian, Latin, Slavic languages, and Turkish
Date Range:
c 1300-c 1700
Extent:
7689 items

5274. Harley MS 117

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 117
Title:
Relatione dell’origine delle Casa d’Austria; Relatione dello Stato e Forze di tutti li Prencipi d'Italia
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-43r: Relatione dell’origine delle Casa d’Austria: delli Acquisti fatti da loro, e le Cause per le quasi sono nate le presenti Revolutioni di Germania. ff. 44r-74v: Relatione dello Stato e Forze di tutti li Prencipi d'Italia.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

5275. Harley MS 280

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 280
Title:
A collection of miscellaneous tracts, including accounts of the naval expeditions of Sir Francis Drake and Sir George Clifford
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*r: Added pen-trials. f. 1*v: A note by Sir Simonds D'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650) concerning the first item in the manuscript (ff. 1r-30v); dated 1637. ff. 1r-30v: A collection of notes made by Mr Paul D'Ewes on sermons preached by a certain Mr Chatterton, living in Cambridge. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:

1 volume

5276. Harley MS 295

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 295
Title:
An English collection of letters concerning Spain and the Spanish Netherlands
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-261v: A large collection of papers relating to Spain, Portugal, the Spanish Netherlands, and England’s affairs and trade with these regions; originals and transcripts in English, French, Italian and Latin dated to 1518-1623, including letters to Sir Thomas Walsingham, Cardinal ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1518-1623
Extent:
1 volume

5277. 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

5278. Harley MS 497

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 497
Title:
Scope & Content:
Alcoatim, Congregatio sive liber de oculis, and other short medical Texts ; 15th cent. Latin and Italian. Copies. A copy of Alcoatim's ophthalmologic treatise in Latin translation (ff. 1-46; item 1), followed by three other short texts relating to medicine. Owned in the late 15th-early 16th ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

5279. Harley MS 672

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 672
Title:
'Bonus Lombardus de Ferraria', Preciosa margarita novella
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-169r: 'Bonus Lombardus de Ferraria', Preciosa margarita novella; according to an explicit in Italian (f. 169r) the work was composed in 1330. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 171v: Two verses in English: 'The good done to a good man / Is the greatest b[...] he ca...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

5280. Harley MS 680

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 680
Title:
Letters from Mario Repetta
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: A letter of Mario Repetta to Pietro Foscari. ff. 3r-32v: A letter or treatise of Mario Repetta to Luigi Mocenigo.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

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