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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1285
Title:: Account of combat between Daniel Archdeacon and Francis Mowbray
Scope & Content:: Quarto manuscript volume, titled 'A true report of sundry memorable accidents befalling Mr Daniel Archdeacon before, and after the combat appointed between him, and Francis Moubray'. Transcribed on f. 3, underneath the title, is 'Written first in French by a well wisher of Mr. Daniel Archdeacon...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1286
Title:: Instructions for the Office of Ordnance
Scope & Content:: ff. 1-3: Letter or warrant of King Charles II, subscribed by Sir Leoline Jenkyn to George Legg, Lord Dartmouth, Master General of Ordnance. 25 July 1683. Signifying that he had approved a book of instructions delivered to him by Lord Dartmouth, by signing each leaf with his royal sign manual. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1683
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1287
Title:: A Bible
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-416v: A Bible. Decoration: Puzzle initials in red and blue at the beginning of the prologue to Genesis and at the beginning of Genesis (ff. 2r, 4v). Plain initials in blue or red, many initials not added. Running titles.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1288
Title:: Speculum Christiani; a collection of Latin exempla; Richard of Lavenham, De Septem Peccatis Mortalibus (Litil Tretys on the Seven Deadly Sins); a form of confession in Middle English; The Chastising of God's Children (chapters 24 and 25); Pro natura pollucionis valde salubris; De solempnitate sancti nominis Jhesu Amen; John Mirk, Festial (excerpts); Nicholas Bozon, Contes moralisés; Middle English and Latin poems
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-33r: Speculum Christiani (Middle English prose and verse), imperfect. ff. 34r-60r: A collection of Latin exempla. f. 63r: A table of contents. ff. 64r-75v: Richard of Lavenham, De Septem Peccatis Mortalibus (Litil Tretys on the Seven Deadly Sins), beginning ‘the sevene ded...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1289
Title:: Part of 'The two Bookes of John Crellius, the franke, touching One God the father'
Scope & Content:: Quarto manuscript volume containing an English translation of a theological work by John Crellius [Johannes Crellius, or Jan Crell, or John Crell], Minister of the Racovian Church, touching God the Father. Crellius was known as one of the chief theologians of the movement known as Socinianism, o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: after 1665
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1290
Title:: 'The life of Mahomet, The Conquest of Spaine and The ruine of the Sarazine Empire'
Scope & Content:: Quarto manuscript volume. Contents: ff. 2-6v: A short abstract of a larger work on the Life of Mahomet [Muhammad]. ff. 7-33: Writing on the Arab conquest of Spain, including a large account of the life and character of the Caliph Almanzor. An abridgement of an account from two Arabic authors fr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1291
Title:: A Treatise on Ireland, by John Dymmock
Scope & Content:: Report on Ireland, and its inhabitants, government, provinces and recent military conflicts with the English, by John Dymmock. Addressed to to Sir Edmund Carye (f. 1v). Contents: f. 1v: Dedication from John Dymock to Sir Edmunde Carye. ff. 2-4r: Title: ‘A treatice of Ireland’. General descripti...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1599
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1292
Title:: Commentarius in universam Aristotelis Physicam; lecture notes of the University of Louvain
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-236r: Commentarius in universam Aristotelis Physicam; lecture notes of the University of Louvain. Decoration: f. 1r: An engraved title-page [with the space for the title left blank], featuring two savants, and two putti holding the arms of the Castle College of the Universit...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1293
Title:: 'La Discipline Ecclesiastique des Eglises reformees de France'
Scope & Content:: Quarto manuscript volume containing a copy of 'La Discipline ecclésiastique des églises reformées de France', 1643. Contents: f. 1: 'O God thou art my Righteousness', an incomplete version of Psalm 4, in English. f. 3: Title page. ff. 4-4v: List of all the National Synods, 1559-1664. In French....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1643-1644
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1294
Title:: Gregory the Great, Liber Pastoralis Curae; Adso of Montier-en-Der, De Antichristo; Peter Cantor, Verbum Abbreviatum; Galand of Reigny, De Colloquio Vitiorum; sermons by Peter Comestor and Hildebert of Lavardin; Allegories of the Old and New Testament; (?) William de Montibus, Peniteas cito peccator
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-39r: Gregory the Great, Liber Pastoralis Curae. ff. 39r-40v: Adso of Montier-en-Der, De Antichristo. ff. 41r-87r: Peter Cantor, Verbum Abbreviatum (abridged selections) ff. 88r-89v: Part of Galand of Reigny [Galandus Regniacensis], De Colloquio Vitiorum, from his Parabolari...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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