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032-002045828 Language Latin Level [36] Series

1. Harley MS 6727-6744

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6727-6744
Title:
Diary of Mr Hodges
Scope & Content:
Diary spanning the years 1700 to 1709, written chiefly in Latin, partly in English, including accounts of dreams and mystical words related to judicial astrology. British Museum spine label attributes the diary to Mr Hodges, described in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Mus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1700-1709
Extent:
18 volumes

2. Harley MS 3605-3616

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3605-3616
Title:
John Le Neve's collection of monumental inscriptions
Scope & Content:
Twelve manuscript volumes of monumental inscriptions, dating from 1400 to 1716, collected from various churches in England, by John Le Neve. These are sorted by year, and usually written in the hand of John Le Neve. Some printed sources and letters from Le Neve's friends, informing him of vario...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 18th century
Extent:
12 volumes

3. Harley MS 756-760, 410-411

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 756-760, 410-411
Title:
Thomas Cole’s collections from the Court of Wards and Liveries
Scope & Content:
Abstracts of inquisitions from the records of the Court of Wards and Liveries, compiled by Thomas Cole; with indexes of families and places.. Some volumes bear Cole’s armorial ink stamp, with the motto ‘Cole Deum’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
7 volumes

4. Harley MS 3617-3624

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3617-3624
Title:
John Le Neve's list of English parishes, A-H
Scope & Content:
A series of 8 manuscript volumes, containing a list of all the parishes in England, listed by diocese, from A-H, along with their value in the King's books, and tenths: taken from Ecton's Libor Valorum by John Le Neve. Underneath each parish, space has been left to add patrons' names and any mo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1714
Extent:
8 volumes

5. Harley MS 118-121

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 118-121
Title:
School exercise books of Simonds D’Ewes
Scope & Content:
Four manuscript exercise books of Sir Simonds D’Ewes as a child, now bound together. Chiefly Latin exercises and translations from Latin authors into English.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1615-1618
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 1834-1835

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1834-1835
Title:
Notes relating to the history of the Fiennes family
Scope & Content:
2 volumes compiled by Nathanial Fiennes, containing his notes relating to the name Fiennes and the history of the Fiennes family.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 17th century
Extent:
2 volumes

7. Harley MS 882-884

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 882-884
Title:
Book of canon law, or law of the Church of England
Scope & Content:
Five part manuscript book of canon law, formerly owned by Edward Stillingfleet (1635-1699), Bishop of Worcester. Lacks volumes 4-5. Undated, with no author.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

3 volumes

8. Harley MS 1514-1523

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1514-1523
Title:
Copies of papers relating to the Treaty of Nijmegen
Scope & Content:
Copies of memoranda, letters and other papers relating to the Treaty of Nijmegen, in the hand of Thomas Chudleigh, Secretary to the Ambassadors and the Nijmegen Peace Conference.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1674-1679
Extent:
10 volumes

9. Harley MS 8-9

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 8-9
Title:
Anglo-Saxon Latin grammar and Anglo-Saxon Latin glossary
Scope & Content:
Anglo-Saxon Latin grammar of Ælfric of Eynsham, copied from the manuscript in Cambridge University, followed by an Anglo-Saxon Latin glossary. Marginal comments by Simonds D'Ewes (1602-1650) and Franciscus Junius (1591-1677). Overall title page at the beginning of each volume. Contents: Harley...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:

2 volumes

10. Harley MSS 3799-3809

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MSS 3799-3809
Title:
Jacques Despars, Commentary on Avicenna, Canon Medicinae.
Scope & Content:
This collection of 11 volumes contains the commentary by Jacques Despars (b. c. 1380, d. 1458), regent master of medicine at the University of Paris, on Books 1 (fen I-IV), 3, and 4 (only fen I) of the medical summa by Ibn Sīnā, Abú 'Ali Al-Husain ibn 'Abd Allah (Avicenna) (d. 1037), in the Lati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1475
Extent:
11 volumes