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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6002
Title:: Thomas Harriot, Mathematical notes
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes mathematical notes by Thomas Harriot (b. c. 1560, d. 1621), mathematician and natural philosopher, written by the mathematician Sir Charles Cavendish (b. 1595?, d. 1654).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1621-1654
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6007
Title:: Thomas Barlow, Advice to students; Hugh Cholmeley, Account of the affairs of West Barbery
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–4v: Thomas Barlow, ‘To a friend who desired the names of some bookes; which might be fitt to furnish a library for young (yet academicall) scholars.’ Copied from St John’s College, Cambridge, MS K.38, pp. 163–196. ff. 5r–9r: Thomas Barlow, ‘Ἀνάλεκτα Sacra. Novitiis Theologiæ Candidatis a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6018
Title:: A catalogue of the manuscripts and printed books of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-146r: A catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631): ‘Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca Roberti Cottoni - 1621’. The heading and a number of later entries are in the hand of Robert Cotton (see Tite, The Early Records...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1621-1653
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6024
Title:: A book of medicine
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-110v: A book of medicine, organised according to the alphabet, beginning: ‘A medicine for a Continuall head Ache’; featuring several later additions, including one on f. 75r that is signed: ‘Probatum per me A. Amondesham’. ff. 112r-117v: An index, entitled: ‘Here followethe t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6033
Title:: A miscellany of heraldic and historical texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title for a heraldic (?) treatise that was never begun: ‘Compendium or abstracts of all that hath byn written [...] Of the word Arma [...] and signification thereof’. ff. 3r-4r: A list of English monasteries in Latin, incomplete. ff. 5r-5v: An English heraldic treatise on...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1590s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6041
Title:: William Langland, Vision of Piers Plowman
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-96r: William Langland, Vision of Piers Plowman. ff. 97r-102v: A form of confession in Middle English prose; added below the text is ‘Explycit pere [p] Symele’. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 96v: Latin sayings: ‘ego sum bonus puer quem Deus amat’ and 'Equore ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6046
Title:: Commentaries on works of Aristotle and Johannes de Sacro Bosco
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes commentaries on Aristotle's Physica, De anima, Parva naturalia, a commentary on Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Tractatus de sphaera, Aristotle's De coelo, De ortu et interitu, and Tractatus meteorologicus. The first three commentaries on Aristotle are preceded by printed docume...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1605-1606
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6046, f 1r
Title:: Theses philosophicae pro tertia ad baccalaureatum responsionae
Scope & Content:: Theses philosophicae pro tertia ad baccalaureatum responsionae is a list of subjects of theses in philosophy (logic and physics) from an unidentified Jesuit college. The Jesuit emblem is featured in the upper border of the page with a motto 'In nomine Iesu omne genu flectatur'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1606
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6046, f 204r
Title:: Breviarium philosophiae
Scope & Content:: A document entitled Breviarium philosophiae lists subjects in logic, physics and metaphysics.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1606
Extent:: 1 folio.

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