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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1746
Title:: A treatise on the use and application of English law
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-153v: A treatise on the use and application of English law.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1747
Title:: Collection of alchemical treatises
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-15r: Tractatus dompni iohannis sawtre monachum de thorneye. ff. 15r-15v: Table of chapters of the Tractatus. ff. 15v-16r: Excerpts from the Speculum Secretorum Alkimie. ff. 16r-19v: Expositio Ortolani super hermetem. ff. 20r-20v: Untitled alchemical treatise, beginning 'Ec...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1748
Title:: A Bible-Missal
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-170r, 174r-346v: A Bible. The manuscript contains various additions: Marginal notes throughout the Bible, some relate to the standardisation of the order of the books on the Bible, e.g.: '[…] Ita q[uo]d lib[er] apocal[ipsis] sit u[l]tim[us] lib[er] totius biblie s[ecundum] n...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1749
Title:: Two legal tracts by Francis Clarke
Scope & Content:: Two law tracts by Francis Clarke written in the hand of Robert Lownes. Folios at beginning and end of volume are inscribed with knot doodles, English verse, and a (medicinal?) recipe (ff. 1-2, 289r-290r, and 293v). n ff. 1v-2r: Two critical comments on the following book. Folio 2 is a separate...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1750
Title:: Collection of sermons
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4r-203v: Collection of Latin sermons, including excerpts from the Summa de vitiis et virtutibus of Denis the Carthusian (b. 1402, d. 1471), entitled: 'Sequitur aliqua excerpta dyonisii cartusiensis valde utilia: ex libello quodam qui intitulatur Illuminatorium salutaris sciencie ....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1751
Title:: Polychronicon (to 1322) by Ranulf Higden
Scope & Content:: Contents: Polychronicon (to 1322) by Ranulf Higden (ff. 2r-216v). An edition of the chronicle can be found in Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, ed. by Churchill Babington and J. R. Lumby, Rolls Series, 9 vols (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1865-1886). Incipit (f. 2r): 'Intr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1752, f 7v
Title:: Four epigrams on Orpheus, from the Palatine Anthology: VII 8, 9, 10, 617.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1752, f 14
Title:: Ὀρφικὴ εἰς Δία θεολογίας inc. Ζεὺς πρῶτος, Ζεὺς ὕστατος ἀρχιγένεθλος. ed. G. Hermann, Orphica, 1805, fragm. VI, 9-15, 41-42.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

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