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2311. Harley MS 2281

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2281
Title:
Prick of Conscience
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-64v: Prick of Conscience (Southern Recension). Decoration: Blue initials.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2312. Harley MS 2284

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2284
Title:
Account book of the Great Wardrobe from the reign of Henry VIII (8-12 Henery VIII)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*recto-53r: An account book of the Great Wardrobe from the 8th to the 12th years of the reign of King Henry VIII, with a title inscription on a parchment leaf (f. 1*recto): ‘The boke of Delyveraunce and Discharge of the kinges standyng warderobe of his Robes within the towre of L...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1516-1521
Extent:
1 volume

2313. Harley MS 2290

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2290
Title:
Robert Persons, Leicester's Commonwealth
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-49v: Robert Persons [Parsons] (b. 1546, d. 1610), Leicester's Commonwealth (1584).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1584-c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

2314. Harley MS 2292

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2292
Title:
An English translation of Niccolò Machiavelli’s Il Principe
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title page: ‘The Prince of Nicholas Machiavill Citizen and Secretarie of Florence dedicated to the noble Prince Lawrence sonn of Peeter de medices – Translated out of Italian into English – Welcome to mee, in measure, and in meane, too much is naught, yet doe not leave mee cl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2315. Harley MS 2293

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2293
Title:
Discourse on geomancy dedicated to King James II
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-57r: A discourse on geomancy dedicated to King James II (r. 1685-1688), beginning: 'Most Gratious and Dread Soveraigne, before I can discover the Inchanted Island the Garment Shem and Iapheth cast over the Father of Mankind when they went backwards must be taken of And the vai...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1685-1700
Extent:
1 volume

2316. Harley MS 2302

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2302
Title:
A Replicacion in further meintenaunce of free will to an answere of a Protestant devyne to the treatis in that behalf first made by a Romish Catholicke Priest; a treatise written in answer to a book against the existence of witches
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a 17th-century miscellany containing two English treatises written separately at different moments in time. Contents: ff. 1*recto-56r: ‘A Replicacion in further meintenaunce of free will to an answere of a Protestant devyne to the treatis in that behalf first made by a Romi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2317. Harley MS 2303

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2303
Title:
The Prevarication of Holy Church Libertyes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-3r: Henry Tichborne, dedication to King James II, beginning: ‘To the Kings most Excellent Majestie These Humbly Presented: The Virtues of your most Illustrious Ancestors have in all Ages since Christianity inlightned our Horizon, and been the Glory of so many Princes as have de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2318. Harley MS 2307

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2307
Title:
A view of Devonshire, by Thomas Westcote
Scope & Content:
History and topographical account of Devonshire by ThomasWestcote (c 1567-c 1637). Published as A View of Devonshire 1630, ed. George Oliverand Pitman Jones (1845). Manuscript includes marginal notes, additions, andcorrections. The author’s postscript apology for the work, addressed ‘To thegener...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1630
Extent:
1 volume

2319. Harley MS 2308

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2308
Title:
Accounts of the coronation of Edward VI and his reign
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-120r: A treatise on ‘The Maner of Coronation of Kinge Edward the Sixth’; followed by abstracts of entries in the Council book of King Edward VI from the beginning of his reign to 6 February 1549-50.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2320. Harley MS 2309

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2309
Title:
Wycliffite Gospels in the later version
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-107v: Wycliffite Gospels in the later version, imperfect, lacking Matthew 1.20-8.26 and John 20.28 to the end. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A note: 'Agrees with no. 272. Mark 1 differs in Royal Lib. 1. C. VIII'; probably written around the time of the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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