Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7641
Title:: Theological compendium on confession and penance
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-78v: A theological compilation, consisting of many expositions on biblical quotations relating to confession and penance; imperfect at the beginning and end, and in between; the first line on f. 2r begins mid-sentence with 'non gregatim cum aliis sed singulariter volans'; a few...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7642
Title:: Commentaries on Aristotle's Analytica Priora and Analytica Posteriora
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of two texts with commentaries on Aristotle that were separately produced in Italy in the 14th century, and joined together at a later stage. Contents: Part 1: ff. 1r-46r: Commentary by Jacobus de Clohac on the Analytica priora of Aristotle, entitled: 'Sum...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7643
Title:: Memorandum book of Colonel Thomas Colepeper
Scope & Content:: Duodecimo manuscript volume. Memorandum book of Colonel Thomas Colepeper, including autograph notes and drawings, many of which have been crossed through, but are still legible.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1689-1690
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7645
Title:: Giuliano di Giovanni Ricci, Sunto e Ristretto delle Casaste e Famiglie Fiorentine
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-89r: Giuliano di Giovanni Ricci, Sunto e Ristretto delle Casaste e Famiglie Fiorentine, beginning: ‘Sunto, e Ristretto Delle Casate, e Famiglie Fiorentine antiche, e moderne, con la distinzione de’ tempi , c cominciarono ad hauere honori nella Citta si per la maggiore, come pe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: c 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7647
Title:: Catalogues of Cotton charters
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-12v: A copy of a Latin catalogue of Cotton charters made by Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726) in 1703. ff. 13r-52r: A copy of an English catalogue of Cotton charters made by Richard Widmore (bap. 1681, d. 1764) after 1750 [according to a note by Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1703-2nd half of the 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7648
Title:: Collection of law cases in the Royal Court (15 Henry VIII to 25 Elizabeth I); abbreviated forms of the writs
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-201v, 206v-224v: Collection of law cases in the Royal Court, from 15 Henry VIII to 25 Elizabeth I. f. '307'recto: Folio references to specific subjects, beginning with 'Withernam'. ff. 225r-288r: Abbreviated legal forms. ff. 301v-306v: A subject index. The manuscript con...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1582-1583
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7651
Title:: John [Hans] Engelbrecht, A true Relation of a Vision of Heaven and Hell
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-23r: John [Hans] Engelbrecht, ‘A true Relation of a Vision of Heaven and Hell; That is: How God hath awaked and raised mee John Engelbrecht from Death, and when my body was dead, stiff and cold (the which is known to many people in Brunswick) the same in a short time became aga...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1780-c 1800
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7652
Title:: Liber messahallah (Latin translation from Arabic attributed to John of Seville); Liber Hermetis de 15 stellis, de 15 lapidibus, de 15 herbis, et de 15 figuris; Albumazar de floribus
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains astrological works with excerpts attributed to the Arabian astrologer Albumazar [Abu-Maaschar], 'Dorothius' (perhaps referring to the Greek astrological poet Dorotheus of Sidon), the legendary Hermes Trismegistus, the Persian Jewish astrologer and astronomer Mashallah ib...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7653
Title:: The Harley Prayerbook
Scope & Content:: A fragment of a decorated prayerbook with an Old English gloss. Its text and decoration link it to a group of Southumbrian prayerbooks known as the 'Tiberius Group'. In particular, its script and contents are related to those in Royal MS 2 A XX (the Royal Prayerbook), Harley MS 2965 (the Book of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: late 8th to first quarter of 9th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7655
Title:: Theological questions and answer by a Protestant author
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-20r: Theological questions and answer by a Protestant author (referring to ‘The Papists wicked blasphemie’), beginning: ‘Q: How many commaundements are there in the first Table?’.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 16th century-4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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