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4472. Harley MS 7176
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7176
- Title:
- Bishops and Archbishops educated at Cambridge
- Scope & Content:
- First of two volumes compiled by Morris Drake Morris, of Mount Morris, in the County of Kent, Esq. late Fellow Commoner of Trinity College in Cambridge. Containing the Bishops and Archbishops educated at Cambridge. With engraved portraits of many of the subjects pasted into the volume.Index on...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1715-1716
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4473. Harley MS 7177
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7177
- Title:
- Learned men educated at Cambridge
- Scope & Content:
- Second of two volumes compiled by Morris Drake Morris, of Mount Morris, in the County of Kent, Esq. late Fellow Commoner of Trinity College in Cambridge. Biographies of learned men in general. Running title: Athenæ Cantabrigienses. 319 names entered, with a smaller number of portraits than th...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1715-1716
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4474. Harley MS 7181
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7181
- Title:
- Engravings from a manuscript of Virgil’s Aeneid in the Vatican, annotated with corresponding locations
- Scope & Content:
- Published engravings of a 4th century Virgil manuscript in the Vatican library (Cod. Vat. Lat. 3225;), by Pietro Santi Bartoli. Mounted onto large folios, with manuscript annotations showing the corresponding places in the Aeneid, said to be in the hand of Matthew Prior, esquire. The name of Mat...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter 17th century-1st quarter 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4475. Harley MS 7182
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7182
- Title:
- Ptolemy, Geographia, translated by Manuel Chrysoloras and Jacopo d'Angelo
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of the Geographia (Geography), an atlas and treatise on cartography originally written by the Greek mathematician and astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (b. c. 100, d. c. 170), in a Latin translation by the Renaissance humanists Manuel Chrysoloras (b. c. 135...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
4476. Harley MS 7183/1
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7183/1
- Title:
- Sermon and homily collection
- Scope & Content:
- A collection of short sermons and homilies to be read on particular feast days or following particular Bible readings. Mostly by St Augustine and St Ambrose, but also including texts attributed to Pope Gregory, Pope Leo, St Remigius, Origen, Jerome, and Bede, interspersed with extracts from Paul...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
4477. Harley MS 7183/2
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7183/2
- Title:
- Sermon and homily collection
- Scope & Content:
- A collection of short sermons and homilies to be read on particular feast days or following particular Bible readings. Mostly by St Augustine and St Ambrose, but also including texts attributed to Pope Gregory, Pope Leo, St Remigius, St Maximus, St John the bishop, St John of Constantinople, Isi...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4478. Harley MS 7184
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7184
- Title:
- John Gower, Confessio Amantis
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: John Gower, Confessio Amantis; beginning: 'Torpor ebes sensus scola parva labor minimusque / Causam ergo minimus ipse minora canam'; ending : 'hath do wherof his kniȝthiede / Is yit comended over all'. Imperfect: the text lacks 1 folio after f. 25 (containing English Works 1900-1901,...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
4479. Harley MS 7185
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7185
- Title:
- Letters of Cardinal Wolsey
- Scope & Content:
- Copies of letters from Cardinal Wolsey to the Earl of Bath and Mr Hannibal at Rome; Mr Richard Samson and Sir Richard Jerningham, the King’s ambassadors to the Emperor, etc. Carefully transcribed, but without references to the originals. A leaf or more is missing at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- Early 18th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
4480. Harley MS 7186
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7186
- Title:
- Account book of John Longe, the Earl of Pembroke’s steward
- Scope & Content:
- Account book of John Longe, steward of the Earl of Pembroke, c 1575-1601. With additions to 1613 in a different hand. Includes mathematical sketches at ff. 162-164 and f. 184v.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1575-1613
- Extent:
- 1 volume