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6721. Harley MS 6391

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6391
Title:
A Relation of Prince Henryes noble and vertuous Disposition
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8v: An anonymous author's account of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), entitled: ‘A Relation of Prince Henryes noble and vertuous Disposition and of Sundry his wittie and pleasant Speeches diverted to the right honourable the Lord Lumley and his Lady’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1605
Extent:
1 volume

6722. Harley MS 6395

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6395
Title:
Jests and curious stories of Nicholas L’Estrange
Scope & Content:
A book of 606 jests and anecdotes compiled by Nicholas L’Estrange (1604-1655), with unnumbered additions in a different hand. Anecdotes from L’Estrange’s own knowledge are identified by the initials S.N.L., while others are attributed to friends and relatives, including his brothers, Hamon L'Est...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1630s-1650s
Extent:
1 volume

6723. Harley MS 6398

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6398
Title:
Boke of Marchalsi
Scope & Content:
Contains the Boke of Marchalsi, a treatise on horse breeding and veterinary medicine. Decoration: Numerous large initials in blue with red pen-flourishing and small initials in plain blue. Line fillers and paraph marks in blue.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

6724. Harley MS 6401

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6401
Title:
Certayne observacions upon a libell published this present yeare of 1502 Intituled A declaracion of the true causes of the great troubles presupposed to be intended against the Realme of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-64r: ‘Certayne observacions upon a libell published this present yeare of 1502 Intituled A declaracion of the true causes of the great troubles presupposed to be intended against the Realme of England’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1502
Extent:
1 volume

6725. Harley MS 6403

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6403
Title:
A conference between a Fellow of the University of Cambridge and a Catholic lawyer
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-52v: An untitled work in English, describing a conference between a Fellow of the University of Cambridge and a lawyer, a Roman catholic, in the time of Elizabeth I. Beginning: 'The epistle dedicatorie: to Mr G.M. in gracious streate in London'. Touching on the subjects of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1580-c 1603
Extent:
1 volume

6726. Harley MS 6453

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6453
Title:
A collection of English alchemical treatises, including Bernard Trevisan’s Liber de Alchemiae, George Ripley’s The Mystery of Alchymysts, Bloomfield's Blossoms, and Roger Bacon’s Speculum Alchemiae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-21r: Bernard Trevisan, Liber de Alchemiae, here entitled ‘The worke [Alchymie]of the Lord Barnard Erle of the Marchis of Trevisan’. ff. 21r-25r: George Ripley, The Mystery of Alchymysts, here entitled ‘The worke of an unknowen Author, havinge no name to yt but Jesus’. ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

6727. Harley MS 6455

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6455
Title:
Collection of Italian poetry, including 'Ragionamento della poesia di M. Bernardo Tasso' (printed book, 1562), and a poem on Naples by Ioan Bernardino Fuscano (printed book, 1531)
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains printed and handwritten texts relating to Italian poetry. Contents: ff. 2r-17r: A printed book with a decorated frontispiece: 'Ragionamento della poesia di M. Bernardo Tasso - Con Privilegio'; printed in Venice by Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1562. ff. 18...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1531-c 1572
Extent:
1 volume

6728. Harley MS 6462

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6462
Title:
Greek Grammar in Latin. Tit. Compendium Graecae Grammaticae in Usum Puerorum in Scholâ Regiâ Westmonaster ii. Corresponds mostly to William Camden, Institutio Graecae Grammatices Compendaria, first printed in 1613.
Scope & Content:
Inscribed 'RH May: 29: 1714', front fly leaf.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
before 1715
Extent:
1 item

6729. Harley MS 6464

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6464
Title:
Oracio ad excitandos contra Galliam Brittanos
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-17v: 'Oracio ad excitandos contra Galliam Brittanos incerto Authore'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1515
Extent:
1 volume

6730. Harley MS 6472

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6472
Title:
Notebook, containing grammatical and other items
Scope & Content:
Notebook, containing grammatical and other items.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1692-1710
Extent:

1 volume

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