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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6331, ff 152r-161v
Title:: Aristotle, De generatione et corruptione
Scope & Content:: Aristotle, De generatione et corruptione. Decoration: 2 decorated initials 'D'(e generatione) and 'D'(e) in gold and colours with acanthus extending into the margin, at the beginning of books (ff. 152r, 158r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 10 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6331, ff 162r-173v
Title:: Aristotle, De anima
Scope & Content:: Aristotle, De anima. Decoration: 3 decorated initials 'B'(onorum), 'Q'(ue), 'Q'(uod), in gold and colours with acanthus extending into the margin, at the beginning of books (ff. 162r, 165v, 170r). Diagrams in red ink (ff. 163v-164r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 12 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6339
Title:: St Augustine, De civitate Dei
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1 is a paper flyleaf. ff. 2-313v: St Augustine, De civitate Dei. Decoration: 1 large historiated initial in gold and colours with white vine and gold balls partly extending into the margins (f. 17r). Partial white vine border in gold and colours with flowers, gold balls and two...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6345
Title:: Copybook of Cardinal Wolsey's letters
Scope & Content:: ff. 1*r–216v: A copybook of Cardinal Wolsey's letters. It also includes a copy of Princess Mary's confession (ff. 211r–v) along with unrelated material from the 17th century. f. 1*r: Note about Lady De La Warr's ownership of the volume, with the original ownership note pasted on. f. 5*v: The b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1627
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6347
Title:: An unidentified Latin work on the reigns of biblical kings and Roman emperors
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-55v: An unidentified Latin work on the reigns of biblical kings and Roman emperors, in 4 books; imperfect at the beginning (the entire first book and part of the second book are missing) and end (part of the fourth book is missing); from Enoch to Caracalla. Decoration: Large...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6349
Title:: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2-43: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium. f. 43v: 'Collectio Epitaphiorum pro Cicerone' (in two columns). Decoration: 1 historiated initial in colours with a foliate extension, and a coat of arms in the lower margin (f. 2r). 3 large initials in colours with foliate motifs (...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6352
Title:: A dictionary of Latin abbreviations
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-37r: A dictionary of Latin abbreviations used in diplomatic records, entitled ‘Abbreviaturae’; copied from Diplomata Scotiae of James Anderson (b. 1662, d. 1728) (published posthumously in 1739). The manuscript contains a later addition: f. [ii]recto: A pencil note: ‘Copied ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1740
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6355
Title:: Leaves from a 14th-century missal; a treatise on making gunpowder and the use of cannons and mortars
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Leaves from a 14th-century missal or other liturgical manuscript, with music notation. ff. 5r-24v: A treatise on making gunpowder and the use of cannons and mortars, with illustrations of weapons and tables; written in the 16th century. The manuscript contains a later a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century-16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6360
Title:: Astrological texts; texts on high treason
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of two separate parts. The first part (ff. 3r-31r) contains astrological texts copied in the 16th century; the second part (ff. 4r-133r) contains texts concerning high treason that were most likely copied in the late 16th century. Contents: ff. 3r-8v: Astrol...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6368
Title:: John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, 'A Treatise towchinge the Right title & intrest of the Most excellent princesse Marie, Queene of Scottland, & of the most Noble Kinge James, her graces sonn to the Succession of the Crowne of England'
Scope & Content:: John Leslie [Lesley] (1527-1596), Bishop of Ross, was the leading polemicist of the right of Mary Queen of Scots to the English throne. His arguments were made in a number of printed versions in English, Latin, French and Spanish, and also survive in significant numbers of manuscript copies. The...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1584
Extent:: 1 volume

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