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242. Harley MS 239
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 239
- Title:
- Lands leased by Queen Mary I, 1553-1558
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 2r-80v: Lands leased by Mary I, 1553-1558.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1553-1558
- Extent:
- 1 volume
243. Harley MS 241
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 241
- Title:
- Valentin Weigel, De Homine Externo et Interno
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: f. 1r: A letter from Christoph Weickhart to ‘Robertus Darrus’. ff. 2r-124v: Valentin Weigel, De Homine Externo et Interno, seu De Via et Modo Foeliciter Perveniendi ad Summum Bonum, Books I-IV. Decoration: Astronomical diagrams in brown and red ink (ff. 3v, 9r, 10v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
244. Harley MS 242
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 242
- Title:
- Profundissima et Sacratissima Meditatio Trium Priorum Capitum In Genesi iuxta sinceram Sacrae Scripturae sententiam et Luminis Naturae concordantiam
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-126r: Profundissima et Sacratissima Meditatio Trium Priorum Capitum In Genesi iuxta sinceram Sacrae Scripturae sententiam et Luminis Naturae concordantiam. Decoration: 2 full-page alchemical drawings (Sun and alchemical symbols) on ff. 6v-6*r; 1 full-page alchemical drawin...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
245. Harley MS 243
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 243
- Title:
- A collection of theological texts
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains a collection of theological texts. The manuscript's former binding is now stored separately as Harley MS 243/1. Contents: ff. 1r-23r: Theologia Naturalis hominem animalem convincens, Christum non ab extra Oculo Carnis, sed maxime ab intra esse cognoscendum, Mentis ni...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
246. Harley MS 245
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 245
- Title:
- A miscellany of heraldic works by Robert Glover
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 3*recto-6*recto: Indices of pedegrees, arms and seals in the manuscript. ff. 2r-168r: A miscellany of heraldic works by Robert Glover (b. 1543/1544, d. 1588), herald of Somerset [the original texts are in two manuscripts in the College of Arms]: see f. 2*recto: ‘Liber miscellana...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1600
- Extent:
- 1 volume
247. Harley MS 246
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 246
- Title:
- A collection of heraldic and historical notes copied from older manuscripts and rolls
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: f. 1*recto: A brief chronicle of the history of the world in Latin, beginning with an entry for Pope Gregory the Great, who first called himself the ‘servant of the servants of God’ (dated to 592); the source for this information is identified as a chronicle printed at Antwerp by Joha...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1607-c 1625
- Extent:
- 1 volume
248. Harley MS 247
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 247
- Title:
- A collection of transcripts from various historical works
- Scope & Content:
- ff. 1r–225r: A collection of transcripts from various historical works. ff. 1r–3v: Collections from Book VII of Livy's History by M. Valerio Corvino. ff. 4r–5v: A tattered fragment of a brief and imperfect chronicle, which begins with a translation of Books II––V of Bede's Ecclesiastical Histo...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
249. Harley MS 248
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 248
- Title:
- Collection of English historical texts
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-74r: Excerpts from rolls of the reign of Henry III. ff. 75r-95r: An ‘oration perswading a lymittacion of succession to the heires of the French Queene’. ff. 95v-98r: A treatise entitled ‘That the Lymittacion of the Succession of the Crowne, should be for the Queenes majesti...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
250. Harley MS 249
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 249
- Title:
- A collection of papers concerning political and legal affairs in the time of Henry VIII to James I
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-118v: A large collection of papers concerning political and legal affairs in the time of Henry VIII-James I, including transcripts and originals. The originals date to about 1546-1608. The collection opens with 'The confession taken of twentie and thre of th ecrediblest Forsath...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1546-1608
- Extent:
- 1 volume