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6881. Harley MS 6776

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6776
Title:
A genealogy of the De Vere family
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-16v: A genealogy of the De Vere family in English and Latin, entitled: 'The Genalogy of the most Ancient and Illustrious Family of the Veres, Earles of Guisnes in Normandy, and of Oxford, and Lord great Chamberlands of England, being descended from the Kings of the Argives, Duk...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1676
Extent:
1 volume

6882. Harley MS 6780

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6780
Title:
Indices of English family names for heraldic manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-63v: A large index of family names, organized in columns by county and in alphabetical order [featuring the dates 1634 and 1635 on f. 60r]; undoubtedly originally belonging to or intended for a heraldic manuscript. ff. 64r-8r: A large index of families with ‘quartred coats’, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1635
Extent:
1 volume

6883. Harley MS 6781

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6781
Title:
Indices of English family names for heraldic manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-31v, 32r-33v, 34r-52v: indices of family names, organized in columns by county and in alphabetical order; undoubtedly originally belonging to or intended for heraldic manuscripts. ff. 53v-72v: A large index of family names, organized alphabetically. f. 73r: A note: ‘I would ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6884. Harley MS 6792

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6792
Title:
Canon law; sermons on confession; excerpts from Gregory the Great, Dialogi
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-60v: Definitions of canon law. ff. 56v-61v: Sermons on confession. ff. 62r-133r: Excerpts from Gregory the Great, Dialogi. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: A title inscription: ‘Canones Ecclesiastici’. Decoration: Small (one-line) capitals and rubrics...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

6885. Harley MS 6794/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6794/1
Title:
Collection of diplomatic reports
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-12r: description of the fortress of Malta, Italian. ff. 13r-14v: fragment of liturgical manuscript, 2nd half of the 14th century, Latin. f. 15r: epigrams of Sir Thomas Conyngesby (1550-1625). ff. 16r-66r: report on the kingdom of Naples from the Venetian ambassador Aluigi La...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Italian
Date Range:
Late 16th century to 1676
Extent:
1 volume

6886. Harley MS 6794/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6794/2
Title:
Theological texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 197r-218v: St Jerome’s letter to Eustocium, translated into Italian, begins imperfectly. ff. 219r-222v: sermons. ff. 222v-225v: St Jerome’s letter to his mother, with a prayer and an indulgence. ff. 226r-271r: Giovanni Dominici, Regola del Governo di Cura Familiare. ff. 271v-2...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

6887. Harley MS 6814

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6814
Title:
Collection of sermons in Latin and French; Quaestiones problematicae; Exemplar epistolae scriptae ad Anglum nobilem Catholicam; Catalogus librorum Sacrae canonicae scripturae veteris testamenti; collection of theological tracts from biblical excerpts; biblical proverbs in Middle English; Moralium dogma philosophorum; Aesop, Fabulae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-38v: A collection of sermons in Latin and French, written between 1650 and 1653. ff. 39v-40r: Quaestiones problematicae [inscribed on f. 39r: ‘in Sidney College’], written around the mid-16th century. ff. 40v-69r: Exemplar epistolae scriptae ad Anglum nobilem Catholicam. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1435-1653
Extent:
1 volume

6888. Harley MS 6816

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6816
Title:
A collection of English medical texts
Scope & Content:
This collection predominantly features medical texts in Latin and English. It contains a section (ff. 97r-133v) of Middle English recipes that ends with Latin prayers against the plague and an indenture from Sempringham Priory in Lincolnshire, suggesting that the recipes may originate from this ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 18th century
Extent:

1 volume

6889. Harley MS 6824

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6824
Title:
A compilation of early modern historical and scientific papers; Edward of Norwich, The Master of Game
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a compilation of different historical and scientific papers, mostly originating from the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries. It also contains a 15th-century copy of the Middle English The Master of Game, composed by Edward of Norwich (b. c. 1373, d. 1415), 2nd Duke of York, in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, English, Middle, French, Greek, Ancient, Latin, Malay, and Russian
Date Range:
c 1400-1738
Extent:
1 volume

6890. Harley MS 6830

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6830
Title:
Pedigrees and coats of arms of Cambridgeshire families
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A leaf from another manuscript with the title: ‘These are the Ancient Coate of Armes of Collings of Shropshier of [...] Robe[r]t Collings of Stapleton [...] Anno Domini 1615’ (inscribed in red pencil). ff. 2r-3v: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscrip...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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