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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1586
Title:: Trattato di trigonometria e geometria prattica
Scope & Content:: Treatise on trigonometry and practical geometry, illustrated with diagrams. Divided into three parts, each subdivided into parts or heads. ff. 1-118r: Part 1. Trigonometria. ff. 118v-140: Part 2. ‘Della Planimetria o sia del misurare le figure superficiali’. ff. 141-156: Part 3. ‘Del misurar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1587
Title:: Collection of school texts compiled by William Ingram
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of school texts compiled by a student named William Ingram, in Canterbury around 1480. ff. 1r-45r: An alphabetical word-list in Latin and English, beginning: 'Nomina altilli[u]m et diuersarum rerum'. ff. 46v-50r: Vocabulary lists of nouns, adverbs and pre...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1396-c 1480
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1588
Title:: Reports of law cases from the reign of Queen Elizabeth
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-170r, 178r-192r: Reports of law cases from the 23rd until the 37th years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth; in English and Law French. ff. 171r-177r: 'Cases hors del Curia Wardorum'. ff. 192r-194r: Case between Lord Buckhurst and Justice Fenner, 40 Elizabeth I. ff. 194r-198...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1580-c 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1589
Title:: Historical and geographical miscellany of Pierre Du Prat
Scope & Content:: Miscellaneous collection of Pierre Du Prat, or Prataeus, author of Le Portrait du Mareschal de Gassion (1664). Includes draft of the life of Maréchal de Gassion (1609-1647), letters, and extracts from published historical and geographical works. Contents: ff. 1r-v: Essay ‘La Vaillance’. f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 1640s-1660s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1590
Title:: Law commonplace book
Scope & Content:: Law commonplace book compiled from statutes during the reign of James I. In a single hand. Arranged under alphabetical heads. ff. 2-3: Partial contents in another hand (letters A-H only).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1591
Title:: Collection of legal treatises
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: Law notes, including a line in French: 'Pur un plaisir mille dole'. f. 1r: Recipe for sleep, including milk, treacle, saffron and ivy. ff. 2r-5v: Forms of writs from the time of Queen Elizabeth. ff. 6r-10r: 'The Manner and Order of kepinge the Quarter Cessions'. f....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1592
Title:: A commentary on Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-82r: A commentary on Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1593
Title:: The Soule Knell
Scope & Content:: Short devotional tracts in prose and verse, prayers, and one larger treatise entitled the Soule-Knell. Probably written by Thomas Harland, whose name appears at the beginning and end of the volume (ff. 1, 7r, 97v) Dated ‘T. H. 1646’ (f. 7v). f. 2: Overall title of volume: ‘The Soule Knell, fo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1646
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1595
Title:: North African trade and treaties
Scope & Content:: Papers on the port of Oran, arguments against a Morocco Company, treaties with Tunis, Tripoli, and Algier. With French poetry and songs on front and back end papers (ff. 1-2 and ff. 40-42). ff. 1-2: French verse. ff. 3-6: Discourse on the port of Oran. 7 January 1663. On its convenience as a ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1660s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1596
Title:: Obiecta Hebraeorum in D. Matthei evangelium subiectis responsionibus
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-8v: Obiecta Hebraeorum in D. Matthei evangelium subiectis responsionibus, with a prologue by 'G. Genebrardus', who is said to have translated it into Latin (f. 2r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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