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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 532, ff 61r-64v
Title:: Francis Bacon, A breefe Discourse touching the happy Union of the Kingdoms of Engand and Scotland
Scope & Content:: A breefe Discourse touching the happy Union of the Kingdoms of Engand and Scotland. composed by Francis Bacon in 1603.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century, after 1603
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4374/3
Title:: Valerius Maximus, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, books 3 and 4
Scope & Content:: Contents: Valerius Maximus, translated by Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens (the third of 6 volumes): ff. 169r-210v: Book 3, Human character (continued); ff. 211r-252r: Book 4, Moderation. This copy of the work is now bound in 6 volume...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 1473 to c1480
Extent:: A parchment codex, 85 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4375/1
Title:: Valerius Maximus, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, books 5-7
Scope & Content:: Contents: Valerius Maximus, translated by Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens (the fourth of 6 volumes): ff. 1r-44v: Book 5, Humanity and Clemency; ff. 45r-76v: Book 6, Loyalty; ff. 77r-84v: Book 7, Happiness (continues in Harley 4375/2)...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 1473 to c. 1480
Extent:: A parchment codex, 84 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4375/2
Title:: Valerius Maximus, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, books 7-8
Scope & Content:: Contents: Valerius Maximus, translated by Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens (the fifth of 6 volumes): ff. 85r-122r: Book 7, Happiness (continued from Harley 4375/1); on f. 102v a rubric states Nicolas de Gonesse's translation begins here...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 1473 to c. 1480
Extent:: A parchment codex, 94 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4375/3
Title:: Valerius Maximus, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, books 8 and 9
Scope & Content:: Contents: Valerius Maximus, translated by Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens (the sixth of 6 volumes): ff. 173r-178v: Book 8 (continued from Harley 4375/2); ff. 179r-264v: Book 9, Vices. This copy of the work is now bound in 6 volumes; ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 1473 to c. 1480
Extent:: A parchment codex, 94 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3918
Title:: Manuscript miscellany of treatises and poems by Robert Whitehall and Mary More
Scope & Content:: An octavo manuscript miscellany containing treatises and poems by Robert Whitehall (bap. 1624-d. 1685), fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and the writer and artist Mary More (d. c. 1713). Also includes other miscellaneous verses and recipes for 'Jelly of Hartshorn' (ff. 39v and 45v) and a treatm...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1670-c 1674
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2688, ff 55r-66v
Title:: Boethius, De musica (books 1-2)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 55r-66v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), De musica (On music), books 1-2, with marginal glosses, beginning: '[O]mnium quidem percepcio sensum'; ending: 'Nunc voluminis seriem fastidii vitator astringam'. Decoration: Space left for an initial at the beginning of the text. Initials...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 2688

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 532, ff 53v-60r
Title:: A letter to John Dee describing the destruction of Dunwich by the sea in 1573
Scope & Content:: A letter to John Dee describing the destruction of Dunwich by the sea in 1573.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1573
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 651, ff 192-196
Title:: Chronicle from the creation of the world to 1384; England from Alfred to Richard II (with continuations); Names of the kings of Britain and the Heptarchy; Miracle at the shrine of Our Lady of Ipswich
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 192r–193v: Chronicle from Creation to 1384. ff. 193v–194r: Series of kings of England from Alfred to Richard II, continued up to Edward VI by a different hand, writing in Middle English (lower margin of f. 194r). f. 194v: Names of the kings of Britain and of the Anglo-Saxons in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 651

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4980, ff 1-2v
Title:: Fragment from Augustine, De civitate Dei
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-v: St Augustine, De civitate Dei (City of God), Book 16 chapter 8 to 16. Decoration: A quire signature (f. 2v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 8th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 4980

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