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691. Harley MS 823

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 823
Title:
Christianographia, by Ephraim Pagitt
Scope & Content:
Manuscript book of Ephraim Pagitt (1575?-1647), Rector of St Edmund King and Martyr, London. In his own hand. Includes the following at the end of the volume: ff. 237-238: ‘Literae a Patriarcha Alexandrino, ad Archiepiscopum Cantuariensem, ex Aegypto in Britanniam transmissae, ex- autographo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

692. Harley MS 824

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 824
Title:
'Christianographie' by Ephraim Pagitt
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume containing Ephraim Pagitt [or Pagit]'s Christianographie; or, a Description of the sundrie Sorts of Christians in the World, written in Latin. Partly in the author's own hand. This volume contains part of the printed text of Christianographie, along with the plates conta...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1635?-1640
Extent:
1 volume

693. Harley MS 825

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 825
Title:
Letters of Ephraim Pagitt, author of Christianography, 1635, to the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem, one jointly and one each individually, in Greek and Latin drafts and one draft in English (with four other letters). Partly autograph (ff. 4, 8, 10, 16, 22, 26) and partly scribal copies with autograph corrections.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
1638
Extent:
1 item

694. Harley MS 826

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 826
Title:
Theological miscellanea relating to the Council of Basel (1431)
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*r: a parchment fragment containing notes about St Ælfheah of Canterbury and the consecration of a cemetery near the Charterhouse in London in 1349 during the Black Death. ff. 1r-70v: Theological miscellanea relating to the Council of Basel (1431). f. 71r: notes relating to ecum...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

695. Harley MS 828

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 828
Title:
Miscellaneous ecclesiastical texts
Scope & Content:
‘Collections and Compositions out of diverse Authors, of sundry Pointes, specially the Controversies of the Church of England’. Contents: ff. 1*-1*v, 43r-43v: Fragments of a glossary of plant names (‘B’-‘C’), written in the 13th century. ff. 1-15: Excerpts from Matthew Sutcliffe’s De vera Chris...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

696. Harley MS 835

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 835
Title:
Legal annals from the first to the thirteenth years of the reign of Edward II (1307-1320)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-152r: Legal annals from the first year unto the thirteenth year of the reign of Edward II (1307-1320); written in French. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A Latin memorandum concerning a 'Johannus Sace' of Wombourne, South Staffordshire; dated to the 1s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

697. Harley MS 837

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 837
Title:
Miscellaneous collection of poetry and historical texts
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume. Contents: ff. 1*-48v: Extracts from Plutarch's Lives. ff. 49-61v: A letter of Mr John Goodwin, Minister in Coleman Street, at the request of a friend, concerning points of religion. f. 62: Inscription: 'A Booke of versee', in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’. Above thi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

698. Harley MS 838

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 838
Title:
Collection of heraldic and genealogical works, including Mirabilia Orientis, Mirabilia Anglie, and a Middle English translation of Christine de Pizan's Epistre d'Othéa; Annales Cambriae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of two distinct parts that were copied separately and joined together at an unknown point before the manuscript reached the Harleian Library. The first part (ff. 1r-95r) contains heraldic works, chronicles and other historical items, and one of the two extant independen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

699. Harley MS 840

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 840
Title:
Genealogies of aristocratic families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-43v: Genealogies of aristocratic families, several of which contain blazons or tricks for their arms. ff. 44r-45v: A table of contents. Decoration: Coats of arms in brown ink (‘tricks’) in the genealogies throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

700. Harley MS 842

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 842
Title:
John Leland, Itinerary in England and Wales (excerpts)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-93v: Excerpts from John Leland's Itinerary in England and Wales (1539-1543); in Stillingfleet’s catalogue entitled 'Dodderige's Geographical Description of several Counties in England'. Decoration: A drawing of a cross purporting to be King Arthur’s gravestone (‘Hic iacet ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 16th century-4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

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