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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1774
Title:: A treatise on the sacraments
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-208r: A treatise on the sacraments, imperfect at the beginning.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1775
Title:: Gospels (the 'Harley Gospels', or 'Codex Harleianus')
Scope & Content:: This manuscript of the Gospels is source 'Z' in the studies of the Latin New Testament (Wordsworth and White; Bonifatius Fischer). Corrections in a contemporary hand in slanting uncial employ a Greek style of syllabification recalling the method of Victor of Capua (as in the Codex Fuldensis). Ci...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 6th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1776
Title:: Heraldic miscellany
Scope & Content:: Manuscript, in a single hand, on the Order of the Garter and other heraldry topics including precedence, funeral ritual, livery, ranks, etc. For a detailed description of the contents, see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, vol 2 (1808), pp. 225-226.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1777
Title:: A collection of miscellaneous legal texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-114r: collection of miscellaneous legal texts.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1778
Title:: Letter regarding voyages of Marquis de Châteaurenault, with a list of vessels under his command
Scope & Content:: Octavo manuscript volume. Contents: ff. 1-8: 'Lettre de Monsieur de Gatine Indendent de Marine, A Monsieur ... De Vigo abord du Fort ce... Septembre 1702'. The letter gives a history of Vice-Admiral François-Louis Rousselet, Marquis de Châteaurenault's voyage from Brest to the Caribbean, and hi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1702
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1778 and 6934
Title:: Two French manuscripts
Scope & Content:: Two separate manuscripts which have been bound together. Harley MS 1778 contains a letter documenting a voyage of Marquis de Châteaurenault. Harley MS 6934 contains advice for those travelling on long journeys.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1614-1702
Extent:: 1 volume (2 items)

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1779
Title:: A philosophical disputation known as Disputatio Unica de Distinctione Specierum Durationis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-130r: A philosophical disputation known as Disputatio Unica de Distinctione Specierum Durationis.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1780
Title:: Pedigree of Oliver Cromwell
Scope & Content:: Pedigree of Oliver Cromwell going back to Adam, with his coat of arms painted in colours (f. 12)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Mid 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1781
Title:: Description of the countries of the world
Scope & Content:: Brief geographical and historical compendium of countries of the world. ff. 1-25: Europe. ff. 25-39: Asia. ff. 40-42: Africa. f. 43: America.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1782
Title:: Pascon agan Arluth (The Passion of our Lord)
Scope & Content:: Contents: Pascon agan Arluth, a poem in 259 stanzas containing a detailed description of the Passion of Christ. This is the earliest copy of a full text in the Cornish language to have survived, and the only Cornish manuscript with miniatures (see Murdoch, Cornish Literature (1993), p. 19). It...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Cornish and English
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Paper codex

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