Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Language: Latin - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 238
Title:: Johannes de Felton, Sermones dominicales per annum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-169r: Johannes de Felton, Sermones dominicales per annum. ff. 169r-179v: An index. Decoration: Small red initials with brown penwork decoration.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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