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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 181
Title:: Ars Notoria
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains three texts of the Ars Notoria, including a set of prayers, holy and angelic names, diagrams and rituals used to gain knowledge and understanding by supernatural revelation, apparently as revealed by God to Solomon. Contents: ff. 1r-17v: Ars Memorativa, beginning: 'Yf ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 182
Title:: Notebook of Simonds D’Ewes
Scope & Content:: Manuscript notebook of Simonds D’Ewes. Collected extracts from Latin authors, and passages in Latin, including some draft letters. Contents: ff. 2-21: Draft indexes, each folio marked into 3 columns, with letter headings in alphabetical order (apparently unrelated to the text of the notebook)....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1618?
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 183
Title:: Law notes
Scope & Content:: Small manuscript book of notes in Law French on legal matters, with contents arranged under various headings. Simonds D’Ewes' name appears on the final folio, and his hand occurs at places in the manuscript. An earlier foliation has many gaps, suggesting that the manuscript was formerly part of a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 184
Title:: Law commonplace book
Scope & Content:: Manuscript book of legal notes, in Law French, arranged in alphabetical sections, in the hand of Simonds D’Ewes. Entries arranged alphabetically: only sections from A to E present in the volume. Table of legal books of authority on folio 1v. The Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the Brit...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 185
Title:: Latin verse and prose by Simonds D’Ewes, with some goods inventories of Paul D’Ewes
Scope & Content:: Various Latin poetic works, essays, and exercises written by Simonds D’Ewes as a boy, with some Greek. Includes a section of inventories of household goods in the hand of his father, Paul D’Ewes (ff. 39-44). Contents: f. 1: Decorative title page for Acta Apostulorum, a Latin poem on the Acts of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 1615-1618
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 186
Title:: Notebook of Simonds D'Ewes
Scope & Content:: Manuscript notebook of Simonds D’Ewes, chiefly genealogical notes on the life of his grandfather Garrat (Geerhard) D’Ewes and other relatives. Includes ‘Notae quaedam ex Francisci Modij Juris Consultus Brugensis Pandectis Triumphalibus sumptis’, selections from the Pandectae Triumphales (1586) by...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1620s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 187
Title:: Law commonplace book
Scope & Content:: Manuscript book of legal notes, in Law French, arranged in alphabetical sections, in the hand of Simonds D’Ewes. Entries are arranged in two alphabetical sequences (ff. 1-13 and ff. 14-29). Entries are sparse and most pages are blank. The printed Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the Bri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 188
Title:: ‘A discourse touching the diminution of the subsedie & how it may be justly raised’
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the diminution of the subsidy, by William Tooker, Dean of Lichfield, 1553/4-1621. Dedicated to the Earl of Northampton, Henry Howard, 1540-1614, and signed at end ‘William τοχήρ’. In the hand of William Tooker, according to A G Watson (The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966), page 3...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 189
Title:: ‘Indicia sive vere credentis’
Scope & Content:: Manuscript essay by Simonds D’Ewes, setting forth arguments for the certainty of his future salvation, with preface and epilogue. Front flyleaf dated 7 June 1628. Dated in text 1632 ‘hoc A[nno] D[omini] instante 1632’ (f. 35v). f. 1: Manuscript note on sin, ‘Sinns against the whole law’ and ‘Si...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1632
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 190
Title:: Notes on logic and philosophy by Simonds D’Ewes
Scope & Content:: Manuscript notes by Simonds D’Ewes. Unnumbered front flyleaf dated 4th 9th month 1618. Index at end (ff. 136v-137).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1618
Extent:: 1 volume

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