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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6876
Title:: Geoponica. Collation by Peter Needham of the 1538 Basel edition and Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. f. 3.18 (once owned by Christopher Longolius) and MS Barocci 54, together with readings added to the margins of a copy of the Basel edition owned by Sir John Cotton from a manuscript once owned by Saracenus. Prepared for use in Needham's 1704 edition.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: c 1700-1703
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6878
Title:: Astronomical and astrological texts
Scope & Content:: Petit abrégé de la sphère du Monde (ff. 3r-62r); Les traicte des armilles pour verifier des estoires selon la tradition de Ptholemee (ff. 62r-65v); Miscellaneous notes on astrological and astronomical subjects (ff. 66r-64r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6878, ff 3r-62r
Title:: Petit abrégé de la sphère du Monde
Scope & Content:: Petit abrégé de la sphère du Monde, a French translation of Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera mundi, incipit: 'La sphere est un corps solide...' Decoration: Numerous images in ink showing divisions of the sphere, diagrams of celestial spheres, position of the Earth, eclipses of the sun and moon...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 60 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6878, ff 62r-65v
Title:: Les traicte des armilles pour verifier des estoires selon la tradition de Ptholemeo
Scope & Content:: Les traicte des armilles pour verifier des estoires selon la tradition de Ptholemeo. Decoration: 2 diagramatic images of the sphere (ff. 63v, 65r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6878, ff 66r-74r
Title:: Miscellaneous notes on astrological and astronomical subjects
Scope & Content:: Miscellaneous notes on astrological and astronomical subjects including 13 sections: De l'instruction des ephemerides et usage d'icelles (ff. 66r-67r); La regle du mouvement horaire des planettes (ff. 67r-67v); Comment il faut supptier les aspects de la lune... (ff. 67v-68r); De l'equation des i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 9 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6882
Title:: Geographical description of the four parts of the world and of the state and trade of the countries therein; prophecies of Paul Grebner
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a description of the world in English and an account of the prophecies of Paul Grebner (fl. b. c. 1563, d. 1582) that were most likely written between c. 1625 and c. 1650. The manuscript also includes a late Elizabethan indenture that has been folded and added to create ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1625-c 1650
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6883
Title:: 'The States of Poland's Letter', concerning the election of Sigismund III Vasa as King of Poland
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-19v: 'The States of Polands Letter, written and directed by them, to all Princes Christian, containing both the Election of their modern Prince King Sigismund the 3. and also all their present State; at the day of the date herof, being the xijth of October anno 1587 [Krakow]'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1587
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6892
Title:: An account of the foundations of Oxford and Cambridge colleges and their coats of arms; blazons of the coats of arms of the Peers of England, and the offices in the Holy Roman Empire
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a miscellany of heraldic works copied at different times in the late 16th and early 17th century. Contents: f. 1r: A catalogue description of the manuscript by an early modern owner: ‘An Account of the ffoundations and the Armes each Colledge bears in England and also...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter 16th century-1st quarter 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6896
Title:: An account of the life and death of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester
Scope & Content:: f. 1r: 'A treatise contayninge the maner of lyfe and death of the most holy prelate and constant martir of Christ John Fisher Bishop of Rochester and Cardinall of the holye Church of Rome.' A copy of a life of John Fisher written during the reign of Mary I. An edition was published in 1921, usi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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