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1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. Harley MS 754

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 754
Title:
Relatione della corte di Roma, suoi Offitii e governo and related items
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-38v: Relatione della corte di Roma, suoi Offitii e governo. ff. 39r-64v: Conclave fatto per la Sede vacante di Papa Adriano VI nel quale fu creato sommo pontifice il cardinale Giulio de Medici, Fiorentino, detto Clemente VII. ff. 65r-99r: Conclave fatto per la Sede vacante di...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 847

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 847
Title:
English poems and historical papers
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: An English poem by ‘W. C.’ to Henry Fradsham. ff. 2r-35r: 'A Communicacion or Discourse of the Queenes highness Mariage debated betwixt some Gentlemen of the Court at Northhawt [crossed out: ‘Montharile’] in Essex and reported by syr Thomas Smythe knight to his neyghboure ffr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 1265

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1265
Title:
Collection of compositions, including Cantatas, Arias, for a soprano voice, with figured bass for harpsichord, in score, and suspected from Operas, by authors including: Giacomo Carissimi, Giovanni Francesco Tenaglia, Luigi Ross, Allesso Scarlatti, Carlo Manelli, Henry Firmin, Allesso Stradella, Domco Gabrielli, Mario Marazzoli, and Carlo Ludovici
Scope & Content:
passim. Cantatas, Arias, etc., for a soprano voice, with figured bass for harpsichord, in score. 1. 'Ferma; lascia ch' io parli': Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots. 'Giacomo Carissimi.' f. 1. 2. 'A la Rota.' This and nos. 3-16 are by 'Luigi Rossi.' f. 37. 3. 'Questo picciolo Rio.' f. 63. 4. 'Ste...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
4th quarter 17th century
Extent:
1 volume