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4091. Harley MS 6033

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6033
Title:
A miscellany of heraldic and historical texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title for a heraldic (?) treatise that was never begun: ‘Compendium or abstracts of all that hath byn written [...] Of the word Arma [...] and signification thereof’. ff. 3r-4r: A list of English monasteries in Latin, incomplete. ff. 5r-5v: An English heraldic treatise on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1590s
Extent:
1 volume

4092. Harley MS 6035

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6035
Title:
Journal of Sir Francis Walsingham's office, 1583-1585
Scope & Content:
Journal or memorandum book of Sir Francis Walsingham, principal secretary of state (c. 1532-1590). In the hands of Sir Francis Walsingham, Francis Mylles, Thomas Lake, Robert Beale, and others. f. i: Parchment fragment: ‘A leiger took out of the Secretaries office 1583’. ff. 1r-118v: Daily mem...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1583-1585
Extent:
1 volume

4093. Harley MS 6041

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6041
Title:
William Langland, Vision of Piers Plowman
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-96r: William Langland, Vision of Piers Plowman. ff. 97r-102v: A form of confession in Middle English prose; added below the text is ‘Explycit pere [p] Symele’. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 96v: Latin sayings: ‘ego sum bonus puer quem Deus amat’ and 'Equore ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4094. Harley MS 6046

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6046
Title:
Commentaries on works of Aristotle and Johannes de Sacro Bosco
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes commentaries on Aristotle's Physica, De anima, Parva naturalia, a commentary on Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Tractatus de sphaera, Aristotle's De coelo, De ortu et interitu, and Tractatus meteorologicus. The first three commentaries on Aristotle are preceded by printed docume...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1605-1606
Extent:

1 volume

4095. Harley MS 6054

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6054
Title:
Notebook of verse and prose
Scope & Content:
A quarto notebook of verse and prose in English, Latin and French, in various hands. Probably partly compiled by Edmund Killingworth of Winchester College and New College, Oxford (see Kelliher). The manuscript is made up of the remains of 2 notebooks. The first notebook (ff. 1-11) contains misce...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

4096. Harley MS 6057

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6057
Title:
Verse miscellany compiled by Thomas Crosse
Scope & Content:
A quarto verse miscellany in various hands. Compiled mainly by Thomas Crosse in the 1630s, whose name appears in a poem, ‘An Acrostick upon my name’, at f. 1r. Later additions at ff. 63r-65r are dated 1677-1681. Contents include: f. 1*r: An acrostic poem on the name ‘Edward’ [deleted]. f. 1r: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1630-c 1681
Extent:
1 volume

4097. Harley MS 6059

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6059
Title:
Notes on L. Annaeus Florus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-188v: Notes on L. Annaeus Florus (fl. early 2nd century) in Latin and Greek.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4098. Harley MS 6060

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6060
Title:
Pedigrees and coats of arms of Warwickshire families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2*recto-4*recto: An alphabetical index of surnames. ff. 5*recto-5*verso: Coats of arms (20 per page) of ‘Knightes of warwickeshire about the tyme of Edward the first’. ff. 6*recto-6*verso: Coats of arms (20 per page) of ‘Warwickshire [gentry] as they are in Theobalds Gallery’. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1632
Extent:
1 volume

4099. Harley MS 6061

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6061
Title:
Coats of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Escutcheons in brown ink (12 per page); all are empty except for those on f. 1r, which feature coats of arms with crests drawn in pencil, and without family names. f. 7r: A coat of arms in brown ink. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. [8]recto: A list (pencil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Undetermined
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4100. Harley MS 6062

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6062
Title:
Knights made by King James I and King Charles I (1603 to 1636)
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title inscription: ‘Knights made by King James and King Charles, From 1603, to 1636: With an Alphabetical Table by Sir Richard St George’. ff. 2r-38r: A ‘List of such Knights as have bene made by King James in the times of his Most happy Reigne – Rolle of all the Knights ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1636
Extent:
1 volume

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