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1291. Harley MS 1579

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1579
Title:
Miscellaneous historical and political tracts
Scope & Content:
Composite volume of collections mainly on history, diplomacy and politics, from the late 16th century to the 1670s. Chiefly English. In more than one hand, written on different sized folios. Some entries starting from the other end of the volume relate to Sir Andrew Henley (1622-1675), 1st baron...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1292. Harley MS 1580

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1580
Title:
The first of two volumes with letters and papers concerning state affairs, dated to 1616-1625
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-456v: The first of two volumes with letters and papers concerning state affairs, mostly originals of English and French letters addressed to the Duke and Marquess of Buckingham, organised in alphabetical order; the letters and papers are dated to 1616-1625. The second volume is...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1616-1625
Extent:
1 volume

1293. Harley MS 1581

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1581
Title:
The second of two volumes with letters concerning state affairs, dated 1612-1625
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-412v: The second of two volumes with letters concerning state affairs, featuring 129 letters, mostly originals in English addressed to the Duke and Marquess of Buckingham, but also Charles, Prince of Wales, King James I, the Lord Treasurer, and others; also featuring originals ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Spanish
Date Range:
1612-1625
Extent:
1 volume

1294. Harley MS 1582

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1582
Title:
State papers, 1553-1596
Scope & Content:
This volume is entitled on the spine, 'Original Letters and Papers on State Affairs'. It contains a wide range of materials on English relations with, and intelligence on, France, the Low Countries and Germany in the late 16th century. It has also been termed, not entirely happily but with a g...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1553-1596
Extent:

1 volume.

1295. Harley MS 1584

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1584
Title:
A collection of English letters concerning foreign state affairs, dated to 1625-1628; Charles Cornwallis, The Life and Death of Our Late Noble Prince Henry; A True and Just Relation of Major-General Sir Thomas Morgans Progress in France and Flanders with the Six Thousand English in the Yeares 1657 and 1658
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-204v A collection of drafts and copies of letters with instructions to various addressees concerning foreign state affairs, dated to 1625-1628. ff. 205r-229v: Charles Cornwallis (d. 1629), The Life and Death of Our Late Noble Prince Henry. ff. 230r-240v: Anonymous, A True an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1625-1658
Extent:
1 volume

1296. Harley MS 1585

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1585
Title:
Illustrated pharmacopoeial compilation
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a compilation of late-antique and early medieval pharmacopeial texts: ff. 1v-6v: A table of contents relating to Pseudo-Antonius Musa, De herba vettonica liber and Pseudo-Apuleius' Herbarium; ff. 6v-9v: Pseudo-Hippocrates, Epistula ad Antiochum regem. ff. 10r-12r: Pseudo-Hip...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

1297. Harley MS 1586

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1586
Title:
Trattato di trigonometria e geometria prattica
Scope & Content:
Treatise on trigonometry and practical geometry, illustrated with diagrams. Divided into three parts, each subdivided into parts or heads. ff. 1-118r: Part 1. Trigonometria. ff. 118v-140: Part 2. ‘Della Planimetria o sia del misurare le figure superficiali’. ff. 141-156: Part 3. ‘Del misurar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1298. Harley MS 1587

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1587
Title:
Collection of school texts compiled by William Ingram
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of school texts compiled by a student named William Ingram, in Canterbury around 1480. ff. 1r-45r: An alphabetical word-list in Latin and English, beginning: 'Nomina altilli[u]m et diuersarum rerum'. ff. 46v-50r: Vocabulary lists of nouns, adverbs and pre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1396-c 1480
Extent:

1 volume

1299. Harley MS 1588

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1588
Title:
Reports of law cases from the reign of Queen Elizabeth
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-170r, 178r-192r: Reports of law cases from the 23rd until the 37th years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth; in English and Law French. ff. 171r-177r: 'Cases hors del Curia Wardorum'. ff. 192r-194r: Case between Lord Buckhurst and Justice Fenner, 40 Elizabeth I. ff. 194r-198...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1580-c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

1300. Harley MS 1589

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1589
Title:
Historical and geographical miscellany of Pierre Du Prat
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous collection of Pierre Du Prat, or Prataeus, author of Le Portrait du Mareschal de Gassion (1664). Includes draft of the life of Maréchal de Gassion (1609-1647), letters, and extracts from published historical and geographical works. Contents: ff. 1r-v: Essay ‘La Vaillance’. f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1640s-1660s
Extent:
1 volume

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