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Container Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 1-7661

4001. Harley MS 6017

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6017
Title:
Description of the astronomical clock at Lyon Cathedral, by Thomas Colepeper
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript, titled 'The Discription of a Clock That the Citizens of Lyons have Caused to be made in the Church of Saint John in the yeare 1660'. This autograph manuscript also contains a diagram by Colonel Thomas Colepeper. On f. 1 is an engraving of the clock, by F. Houas.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1678
Extent:
1 volume

4002. Harley MS 6018

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6018
Title:
A catalogue of the manuscripts and printed books of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-146r: A catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631): ‘Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca Roberti Cottoni - 1621’. The heading and a number of later entries are in the hand of Robert Cotton (see Tite, The Early Records...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1621-1653
Extent:
1 volume

4003. Harley MS 6024

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6024
Title:
A book of medicine
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-110v: A book of medicine, organised according to the alphabet, beginning: ‘A medicine for a Continuall head Ache’; featuring several later additions, including one on f. 75r that is signed: ‘Probatum per me A. Amondesham’. ff. 112r-117v: An index, entitled: ‘Here followethe t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

4004. Harley MS 6033

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6033
Title:
A miscellany of heraldic and historical texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title for a heraldic (?) treatise that was never begun: ‘Compendium or abstracts of all that hath byn written [...] Of the word Arma [...] and signification thereof’. ff. 3r-4r: A list of English monasteries in Latin, incomplete. ff. 5r-5v: An English heraldic treatise on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1590s
Extent:
1 volume

4005. Harley MS 6035

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6035
Title:
Journal of Sir Francis Walsingham's office, 1583-1585
Scope & Content:
Journal or memorandum book of Sir Francis Walsingham, principal secretary of state (c. 1532-1590). In the hands of Sir Francis Walsingham, Francis Mylles, Thomas Lake, Robert Beale, and others. f. i: Parchment fragment: ‘A leiger took out of the Secretaries office 1583’. ff. 1r-118v: Daily mem...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1583-1585
Extent:
1 volume

4006. Harley MS 6041

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6041
Title:
William Langland, Vision of Piers Plowman
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-96r: William Langland, Vision of Piers Plowman. ff. 97r-102v: A form of confession in Middle English prose; added below the text is ‘Explycit pere [p] Symele’. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 96v: Latin sayings: ‘ego sum bonus puer quem Deus amat’ and 'Equore ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4007. Harley MS 6046

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6046
Title:
Commentaries on works of Aristotle and Johannes de Sacro Bosco
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes commentaries on Aristotle's Physica, De anima, Parva naturalia, a commentary on Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Tractatus de sphaera, Aristotle's De coelo, De ortu et interitu, and Tractatus meteorologicus. The first three commentaries on Aristotle are preceded by printed docume...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1605-1606
Extent:

1 volume

4008. Harley MS 6054

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6054
Title:
Notebook of verse and prose
Scope & Content:
A quarto notebook of verse and prose in English, Latin and French, in various hands. Probably partly compiled by Edmund Killingworth of Winchester College and New College, Oxford (see Kelliher). The manuscript is made up of the remains of 2 notebooks. The first notebook (ff. 1-11) contains misce...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

4009. Harley MS 6057

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6057
Title:
Verse miscellany compiled by Thomas Crosse
Scope & Content:
A quarto verse miscellany in various hands. Compiled mainly by Thomas Crosse in the 1630s, whose name appears in a poem, ‘An Acrostick upon my name’, at f. 1r. Later additions at ff. 63r-65r are dated 1677-1681. Contents include: f. 1*r: An acrostic poem on the name ‘Edward’ [deleted]. f. 1r: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1630-c 1681
Extent:
1 volume

4010. Harley MS 6059

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6059
Title:
Notes on L. Annaeus Florus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-188v: Notes on L. Annaeus Florus (fl. early 2nd century) in Latin and Greek.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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