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1171. Harley MS 1737

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1737
Title:
Boethius, De institutione arithmetica (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Boethius, De institutione arithmetica, with some later, mainly 13th-century glosses (ff. 1r-33r). Imperfect, incipit: 'ulla in re ratio utriusque latitudinis...' Decoration: Numerous tables and diagrams in red ink, 1 full-page diagram added at the end (f. 33v). Initials in red or brown, occas...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
33 folios.

1172. Harley MS 1738

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1738
Title:
Medulla grammaticae
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains a complete copy of the Medulla grammaticae, a 15th-century Latin-English dictionary. Several other manuscript copies of the Medulla grammaticae survive: British Library, Add MS 24640, Add MS 33534, Add MS 37789 (bound with the Promptorium parvulorum), Add MS 62080, Harle...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1173. Harley MS 1740

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1740
Title:
Middle English account of and meditation on the Passion; Sermon, possibly for the Second Sunday after Trinity
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 5r-22r: Account of the Passion of Christ in Middle English, entitled: 'Passio domini nostri Ihesu Cristi'. ff. 22r-24r: Meditation on the Passion in Middle English, entitled: 'Item de passione Christi bona contemplacio' (see Marx, 'British Library Harley MS 1740 and Popular Dev...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

1174. Harley MS 1741

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1741
Title:
Richard Robinson, A Breaf Collection of the Queenes Majestis H. Courts of Recorde kept in and aboute the Cities of London and Westmister
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-23v: Richard Robinson (fl. c. 1575-c. 1600) of London, freeman of the Leathersellers' Company, ‘A Breaf Collection of the Queenes Majestis H. Courts of Recorde kept in and aboute the Cities of London and Westmister [sic]. What Magistrates, meaner officers, and manner of proceed...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1580s-1590s
Extent:
1 volume

1175. Harley MS 1742

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1742
Title:
Collection of grammatical, rhetorical and moral texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-11r: Collection of grammatical rules for young students of the Latin language, beginning: 'How mani maner of ways schall thou begynne to make laten and counstru v maner off wayes // The first att the Vocayve case'; written by 'F. Framton' (f. 35r). ff. 12r-38v: Treatise on La...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 16th century-3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1176. Harley MS 1743

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1743
Title:
Hebrew-Latin dictionary.
Scope & Content:
Language: Hebrew A Hebrew-Latin dictionary. Milon ῾ivri-latini. מלון עברי-לטיני Note: General title is given on folio 1r, "Observationes et Additiones ad Buxtorfii Abreviaturas ut et ejusdem et reliquorum Bibliothecas Ebraeas. Coeptae 14 Aug. 1694". Part I, dealing with abbreviations (rashe ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew and Latin
Date Range:
1694
Extent:
20 folios

1177. Harley MS 1744

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1744
Title:
Postillae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-2v: a parchment slip from an unidentified 14th-century liturgical manuscript containing musical notations. ff. 3r-57v: Postillae, a collection of short sermons on the Gospels or the Pauline epistles. Decoration: Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

1178. Harley MS 1747

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1747
Title:
Collection of alchemical treatises
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-15r: Tractatus dompni iohannis sawtre monachum de thorneye. ff. 15r-15v: Table of chapters of the Tractatus. ff. 15v-16r: Excerpts from the Speculum Secretorum Alkimie. ff. 16r-19v: Expositio Ortolani super hermetem. ff. 20r-20v: Untitled alchemical treatise, beginning 'Ec...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1179. Harley MS 1748

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1748
Title:
A Bible-Missal
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-170r, 174r-346v: A Bible. The manuscript contains various additions: Marginal notes throughout the Bible, some relate to the standardisation of the order of the books on the Bible, e.g.: '[…] Ita q[uo]d lib[er] apocal[ipsis] sit u[l]tim[us] lib[er] totius biblie s[ecundum] n...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

1180. Harley MS 1749

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1749
Title:
Two legal tracts by Francis Clarke
Scope & Content:
Two law tracts by Francis Clarke written in the hand of Robert Lownes. Folios at beginning and end of volume are inscribed with knot doodles, English verse, and a (medicinal?) recipe (ff. 1-2, 289r-290r, and 293v). n ff. 1v-2r: Two critical comments on the following book. Folio 2 is a separate...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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