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2131. Harley MS 1883

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1883
Title:
Collection of moral treatises, including Andreas Carthusiensis, De remedio utriusque fortunae
Scope & Content:
A collection of medieval and humanistic texts on virtuous life. Contents: ff. 1r-80v: Andreas Carthusiensis, De remedio utriusque fortunae, begins 'Quondam michi meditanti subiit illa quae me saepius occupat...'. ff. 81-118r: Francesco Zabarella (b. 1360, d. 1417), De Felicitate in 3 books wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2132. Harley MS 1884

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1884
Title:
Dockets of grants passing the Royal signet
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume containing a register of grants awarded by King Charles II, June 1660-December 1660. Folio 1 is the old cover for the volume: A large sheet of folded vellum, inscribed 'Signet', which has been cut from a Bill of Complaint. The complainant is Thomas Porter and the defenda...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1660s
Extent:
1 volume

2133. Harley MS 1885

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1885
Title:
Cartulary of Dunstable Priory
Scope & Content:
f. 1r: Fragments of a former flyleaf with notes on the book’s rebinding in 1655. ff. 2r–3v: Fragments of annals. ff. 4r–13r: Classified inventory of muniments, with lists of papal charters and other agreements, organized by the lands to which they apply. ff. 13v–79v: Composite cartulary, begu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 13th century-14th century
Extent:

1 volume

2134. Harley MS 1886

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1886
Title:
Keimpe van Martena, Liber Terrarum of Frisia; charter of Caspar de Robles
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title page for an administrative work (‘debt book’) [not included in the manuscript] by Christoffel van Sternsee (b. 1525, d. 1560), bailiff of Harlingen (1549-1560), written in German: ‘Vermerkht des Haübtman Cristof van Sternsee: drosort zue harlingenn Im frieszlandt, Schul...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, German, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

2135. Harley MS 1887

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1887
Title:
Collection of medical recipes and treatments
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*recto (margins)-1*verso (margins), 1r-1v: Recipes, including a tract on 'The virtue and degree of herbs' and a 'Restorative'; added in the 2nd half of the 16th century. ff. 2r-10v, 14r-45v: Latin treatise on the theory and practice of medicine, containing recipes for electuari...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1545
Extent:
1 volume

2136. Harley MS 1888

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1888
Title:
A record of parliamentary proceedings for 1592
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-118r: A record of parliamentary proceedings for 1592, titled 'A Journall of the Parliament holden at Westminster in Anno 35 Reginae Elizabethae Anno Domini 1592' (f. 1*r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1592-1593
Extent:
1 volume

2137. Harley MS 1889

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1889
Title:
'Observations Political and Civil'
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume containing 'Observations Politicall and Civill', a political treatise in a professional secretary hand. On f. 1*v is the initial 'W.B.'. Humfrey Wanley suggested, as noted in the 1808 printed catalogue of Harley Manuscripts, that the author may be Sir William Boswell. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2138. Harley MS 1890

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1890
Title:
Inventory of goods belonging to James II
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume containing an inventory of the goods belonging to James II. Contents: ff. 1-7: 'An Inventory of His Majesties Goods in the Standing Wardrobe at Whitehall'. Dated 15 February 1688 and signed by Edward Rogers, Wardrobe Keeper. ff. 8-17: 'Wardrobe Goods in the Charge of Phi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1688
Extent:
1 volume

2139. Harley MS 1891

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1891
Title:
Hans Lencker, Perspectiva (Nuremberg: Gerlass, 1571); German treatises on gauging and perspective
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-36r: A printed work by Hans Lencker, Perspectiva: Hierinnen auffs kürtzte beschrieben / mit exempeln eröffnet und an tag gegeben wird / ein newer besonder kurtzer / doch gerechter unnd sehr leichter weg / wie allerley ding/ es seyen Corpora / Gebew / oder was möglich zu erdenck...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1571-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2140. Harley MS 1892

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1892
Title:
A Psalter, with added prayers and devotional materials
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a Psalter originally made in Rouen, Western France, in around the 1490s, for Sarum use, probably for an English patron (ff. 25r-146v). It was heavily refurbished in c. 1490-c. 1510, perhaps in multiple phases, with the addition of three quires of prayers and devotional t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

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