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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 187
Title:: Law commonplace book
Scope & Content:: Manuscript book of legal notes, in Law French, arranged in alphabetical sections, in the hand of Simonds D’Ewes. Entries are arranged in two alphabetical sequences (ff. 1-13 and ff. 14-29). Entries are sparse and most pages are blank. The printed Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the Bri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 188
Title:: ‘A discourse touching the diminution of the subsedie & how it may be justly raised’
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the diminution of the subsidy, by William Tooker, Dean of Lichfield, 1553/4-1621. Dedicated to the Earl of Northampton, Henry Howard, 1540-1614, and signed at end ‘William τοχήρ’. In the hand of William Tooker, according to A G Watson (The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966), page 3...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 189
Title:: ‘Indicia sive vere credentis’
Scope & Content:: Manuscript essay by Simonds D’Ewes, setting forth arguments for the certainty of his future salvation, with preface and epilogue. Front flyleaf dated 7 June 1628. Dated in text 1632 ‘hoc A[nno] D[omini] instante 1632’ (f. 35v). f. 1: Manuscript note on sin, ‘Sinns against the whole law’ and ‘Si...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1632
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 190
Title:: Notes on logic and philosophy by Simonds D’Ewes
Scope & Content:: Manuscript notes by Simonds D’Ewes. Unnumbered front flyleaf dated 4th 9th month 1618. Index at end (ff. 136v-137).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1618
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 191
Title:: Notes on Aristotelian logic by Simonds D’Ewes
Scope & Content:: Manuscript notes by Simonds D’Ewes on Porphyry’s Isagoge and Aristotle’s Categoriæ and De Interpretatione, in Latin with Greek passages. Front flyleaf dated November 14 1619. ff. 3-13: Pophyry, Isagoge. ff. 14-37: Aristotle, Categoriæ (Categories). ff. 37v-42: Aristotle, Interpretatione.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1619
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 192
Title:: Transcripts made by Simonds D'Ewes of the works of Lucius Annaeus Florus and Raphael Holinshed, and from Cotton MS Tiberius A XIII
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains transcripts that were made by the diarist and antiquary Sir Simonds D'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650) during his time at Cambridge (1618-1620). Contents: ff. 2r-29r: Excerpts from Lucius Annaeus Florus (b. c. 74, d. 103). ff. 29v-33r: Pedigrees of the kings of early medieva...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1618-1620
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 193
Title:: Pocket Latin Bible (1627) bound with the English singing Psalms (1628) and manuscript extracts by Simonds D'Ewes from the Book of Common Prayer
Scope & Content:: Printed Bible and Psalms with handwritten transcripts of most of the Morning and Evening Services from the Book of Common Prayer, made by Simonds D’Ewes. Contents: f. 1: Flyleaf inscribed with passages from Ephesians 1:4, and 2:10., D’Ewes library shelfmark and Harley MS number. f. 2v: Hebrew...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 194
Title:: The Chronicle of Queen Jane
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-93r: A pocket diary known as the 'Chronicle of Queen Jane', covering the period July 1553-1554, here entitled ‘An Annale of Queene Marie her Raigne or a great part of it ab Anonym[ous]’. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. [vi]recto: A note on the manuscript by Sir...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1553-1554
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 197
Title:: A clog-almanack
Scope & Content:: This almanack has been transferred to the British Museum. It is described in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, I (1808), p. 62, as 'An old Clog-Almanack, used in Derbyshire, or Staffordshire: cut upon [...]'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Undetermined
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: A wooden calendar

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 198
Title:: A clog-almanack
Scope & Content:: This almanack has been transferred to the British Museum. It is described in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, I (1808), p. 62, as 'A Copy of another old Clog-Almanack, lately cutt in Box [Wiltshire or Goucestershire]; it differs from the latter [Harley MS 197]'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Undetermined
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: A wooden calendar

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