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6871. 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

6872. 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

6873. 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

6874. 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

6875. 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

6876. 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

6877. 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

6878. 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

6879. Harley MS 6848

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6848
Title:
English miscellany of religious tracts, letters and historical papers
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Two notes in English about ‘Instructions for Mr Thomas Bodley sent into the United Provinces in January 1594’; and ‘July 1595’. ff. 2r-4v: An English religious treatise entitled ‘A Tretise conteyning motions touching Mercie and Unitie Sent by a few of those whoe are falslie a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

6880. Harley MS 6858

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6858
Title:
Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
The Elements of Law, a treatise on political theory and the origins of the state, was completed by Thomas Hobbes on 9 May 1640 (see f. 2v), dedicated to William Cavendish, 1st duke of Newcastle, and distributed in manuscript copies produced by professional scribes. This manuscript includes a t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1640-1699
Extent:
1 volume

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