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4081. Harley MS 5959

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5959
Title:
A collection of fragments of different date and origin
Scope & Content:
A collection of fragments from manuscripts of different date and origin. The volume was part of a collection of fragments from manuscripts and printed books, including maps and drawings, assembled in 64 volumes by the bookseller and antiquary John Bagford (b. 1650/51, d. 1716). During the 19th c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4082. Harley MS 5966

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5966
Title:
A collection of fragments from manuscripts of different date and origin
Scope & Content:
The volume is a collection of fragments from manuscripts of different date and origin. The volume was part of a collection of fragments from manuscripts and printed books, including maps and drawings, assembled in 64 volumes by the bookseller and antiquary John Bagford (b. 1650/51, d. 1716). Dur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
12th century - 17th century
Extent:

1 volume

4083. Harley MS 5976

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5976
Title:
A collection of woodcuts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was recorded missing since before 1825. The contents of both Harley MSS 5975 and 5976 according to the printed Harley catalogue (1808) were as follows: 'A Collection of Wooden Printes, French, Italian, German, some Capital Letters, Title pages, and other Ornaments, with many m...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Undetermined
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 volume

4084. Harley MS 5977

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5977
Title:
A collection of fragments from manuscripts of different date and origin
Scope & Content:
The volume is a collection of fragments from manuscripts of different date and origin. It was part of a collection of fragments from manuscripts and printed books, including maps and drawings, assembled in 64 volumes by the bookseller and antiquary John Bagford (b. 1650/51, d. 1716). Contents: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
9th century - 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4085. Harley MS 6001

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6001
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. c. 1595, d. 1654).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1621-1654
Extent:
1 volume

4086. Harley MS 6002

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

4087. Harley MS 6007

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

4088. Harley MS 6017

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6017
Title:
Description of the astronomical clock at Lyon Cathedral, by Thomas Colepeper
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript, titled 'The Discription of a Clock That the Citizens of Lyons have Caused to be made in the Church of Saint John in the yeare 1660'. This autograph manuscript also contains a diagram by Colonel Thomas Colepeper. On f. 1 is an engraving of the clock, by F. Houas.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1678
Extent:
1 volume

4089. Harley MS 6018

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

4090. Harley MS 6024

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

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