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4052. Harley MS 7578
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7578
- Title:
- Middle English verse, including ballads by Chaucer and Lydgate; 'The Flyting of Montgomerie and Polwart' by Alexander Montgomerie; 'Nebuchadnezzar's Fierie Furnace'; the 'Annals of Oskell'; grammatical exercises in Latin and Greek; Old songs of Durham
- Scope & Content:
- Miscellany compiling pages from a number of other manuscripts, which vary greatly in size and period. Major sections within the miscellany are f. 1 (verse and prose on the Ten Commandments and Seven Deadly Sins), ff. 2-20 (various ballads and other verse, some by Chaucer and Lydgate), f. 21 (a s...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, English, Middle, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1400-1700
- Extent:
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1 volume
4053. Harley MS 7581
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7581
- Title:
- Collection of religious texts and letters relating to English Puritanism
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains a collection of texts relating to English Puritanism. These include letters from the theologian Thomas Cartwright (b. c. 1535, d. 1603) and Henoch Clapham (fl. 1585-1614), a preacher of an English church in Amsterdam, as well as a petition directed to Elizabeth I (r. 155...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4054. Harley MS 7626
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7626
- Title:
- The Endowment and Orders of Walter Sherington’s Chantry, founded in St Paul’s Church, London
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-12v: The Endowment and Orders of Walter Sherington’s Chantry, founded in St Paul’s Church, London; the chantry of Walter Sherington (b. 1431, d. 1442), chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, was founded by his executors for two chaplains to pray for his soul and for the good es...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1457-c 1500
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4055. Harley MS 7628
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7628
- Title:
- William Camden, Institutio Graecae Grammatices Compendaria in Usum Regiae Scholae Westmonasteriensis
- Scope & Content:
- William Camden, Institutio Graecae Grammatices Compendaria in Usum Regiae Scholae Westmonasteriensis, London 1656. Printed, with profuse MS annotations by several hands partly on interleaved sheets.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1656-1681
- Extent:
-
1 volume
4056. Harley MS 7632
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7632
- Title:
- David Casley, Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the King’s Library (autograph manuscript)
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-156v, 159r-197v: David Casley, original autograph manuscript of his Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the King’s Library [Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Regiae], published in 1734, with the exception of the preliminary matter (written in English, French, and Latin...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1734
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4057. Harley MS 7640
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7640
- Title:
- Psalter (fragment)
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-23v: Fragment of a Psalter; the surviving text consists of Psalms 80-150, with gaps, and the Canticles. The manuscript contains several additions: f. i recto: A note by Sir Frederick Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873), Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum, that the volume was...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1300
- Extent:
- 1 item
4058. Harley MS 7641
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7641
- Title:
- Theological compendium on confession and penance
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-78v: A theological compilation, consisting of many expositions on biblical quotations relating to confession and penance; imperfect at the beginning and end, and in between; the first line on f. 2r begins mid-sentence with 'non gregatim cum aliis sed singulariter volans'; a few...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 14th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
4059. Harley MS 7642
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7642
- Title:
- Commentaries on Aristotle's Analytica Priora and Analytica Posteriora
- Scope & Content:
- This composite manuscript consists of two texts with commentaries on Aristotle that were separately produced in Italy in the 14th century, and joined together at a later stage. Contents: Part 1: ff. 1r-46r: Commentary by Jacobus de Clohac on the Analytica priora of Aristotle, entitled: 'Sum...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Italian, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 14th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
4060. Harley MS 7647
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7647
- Title:
- Catalogues of Cotton charters
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 2r-12v: A copy of a Latin catalogue of Cotton charters made by Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726) in 1703. ff. 13r-52r: A copy of an English catalogue of Cotton charters made by Richard Widmore (bap. 1681, d. 1764) after 1750 [according to a note by Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1703-2nd half of the 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume