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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6746
Title:: Collection of letters, grants, indentures and accounts concerning trading goods
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Copies of bonds and obligations in English and Latin, beginning: ‘Be it knowne to all men by theise present that I ffrancis Th. of London ydoun have remised released’, dated 16, 20, 22, 28 Elizabeth I. f. 4v: A list of payments, beginning ‘ffor the warrant of attourney’, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1580s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6773
Title:: Two letters from Peterhouse, Cambridge
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2v: Two letters in Latin sent from Peterhouse, Cambridge, to its patron; undated but probably written in the 15th century. The printed Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), III, p. 394, suggests a date from the reign of Mary or Elizabeth, in the 16th century.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6776
Title:: A genealogy of the De Vere family
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-16v: A genealogy of the De Vere family in English and Latin, entitled: 'The Genalogy of the most Ancient and Illustrious Family of the Veres, Earles of Guisnes in Normandy, and of Oxford, and Lord great Chamberlands of England, being descended from the Kings of the Argives, Duk...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1676
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6792
Title:: Canon law; sermons on confession; excerpts from Gregory the Great, Dialogi
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-60v: Definitions of canon law. ff. 56v-61v: Sermons on confession. ff. 62r-133r: Excerpts from Gregory the Great, Dialogi. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: A title inscription: ‘Canones Ecclesiastici’. Decoration: Small (one-line) capitals and rubrics...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6814
Title:: Collection of sermons in Latin and French; Quaestiones problematicae; Exemplar epistolae scriptae ad Anglum nobilem Catholicam; Catalogus librorum Sacrae canonicae scripturae veteris testamenti; collection of theological tracts from biblical excerpts; biblical proverbs in Middle English; Moralium dogma philosophorum; Aesop, Fabulae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-38v: A collection of sermons in Latin and French, written between 1650 and 1653. ff. 39v-40r: Quaestiones problematicae [inscribed on f. 39r: ‘in Sidney College’], written around the mid-16th century. ff. 40v-69r: Exemplar epistolae scriptae ad Anglum nobilem Catholicam. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1435-1653
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6816
Title:: A collection of English medical texts
Scope & Content:: This collection predominantly features medical texts in Latin and English. It contains a section (ff. 97r-133v) of Middle English recipes that ends with Latin prayers against the plague and an indenture from Sempringham Priory in Lincolnshire, suggesting that the recipes may originate from this ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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