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4242. Harley MS 6592
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6592
- Title:
- Copies of William Flower, Visitation of Northumberland (1575), and William Flower and Robert Glover, Visitation of Derbyshire (1569); pedigrees and arms from Cheshire, Durham, Northumberland, Staffordshire and Yorkshire
- Scope & Content:
- This heraldic manuscript predominantly contains pedigrees and arms of families in Durham, Derbyshire, Northumberland and Nottinghamshire. The main part (ff. 2r-67v) was written by William Wyrley (b. 1565, d. 1613) between 1590 and 1592; the additions (ff. 68r-116r) appear to have been made a few...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1590s
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4243. Harley MS 6613
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6613
- Title:
- Lanterne of Light
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-57v: Lanterne of Light, imperfect; with occasional contemporary marginal notes. A Lollard text composed after the 1409 Constitutions of Thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury. This is one of two manuscript copies of the text to survive: the other is Harley MS 2324 (see Fletch...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1409-c 1425
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4244. Harley MS 6615
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6615
- Title:
- The Chastising of God's Children; Walter Hilton, Eight Chapters on Perfection (extract); Bridget of Sweden, Liber celestis revelacionum (extract, English translation); William Flete, De remediis contra temptationes (First English translation); Walter Hilton, Scale of Perfection (extract); The Lay Folk's Catechism; William Flete, De remediis contra temptationes (Second English translation)
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains one of the twelve surviving copies of the Middle English Chastising of God's Children, an anonymous devotional text from the late 14th or early 15th century that was designed to provide guidance to religious women in contemplation and the discernment of spirits. The manu...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4245. Harley MS 6620
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6620
- Title:
- Notes on biblical books
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 2r-128v: Notes on biblical books, dated 1586; in English and Latin. The manuscript contains an addition: f. 1v: A largely illegible note on a parchment pastedown: ‘This Book of lond[...] for clothe which ys [...] 1573’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1586
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4246. Harley MS 6624
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6624
- Title:
- Certeine godlie and devoute Praires, for the Dailie exercise, of the vertuouse and wel disposed Christian
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: pp. 1-88: A collection of ‘Certeine godlie and devoute Praires, for the Dailie exercise, of the vertuouse and wel disposed Christian’; beginning: ‘To the right honourable and his singuler good lorde, the Lorde Marques of Northamton etcaetera his humble oratoure T. Paulfreiman, wishet...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1558-1603
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4247. Harley MS 6628
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6628
- Title:
- St Augustine of Hippo, De Haeresibus; Petrus Wiechs of Rosenheim, Roseum memoriale divinorum eloquiorum; Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg, Compendium theologiae veritatis; Duns Scotus, Commentary on Lombard's Sententiae (excerpt); Pseudo-Bonaventura, Compendium metricum super libros Sententiarum; Articuli in quibus magister non tenetur communiter a doctoribus; Versus super quatuor libros sententiarum; Decretum abbreviatum; Werner von Schussenried, Decretum versificatum; Auctoritates Aristotelis (fl...
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 2r-2v: St Augustine of Hippo, De Haeresibus. ff. 3r-37r: Petrus Wiechs of Rosenheim, Prior of the the Benedictine abbey of Melk (r. 1418-1423), Roseum memoriale divinorum eloquiorum (‘Biblia versificata’). ff. 39r-183r: Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg, Compendium theologiae veritat...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4248. Harley MS 6635
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6635
- Title:
- Poem on King James VI and I’s right of succession
- Scope & Content:
- A decorative presentation copy of an anonymous English poem on the right of succession of King James VI and I. With a prose dedicatory address signed ‘A.H. Boreabritannus’. The poem was originally composed in 1595; this copy dates from 'manye yeares' later (f. 2v). ff. 1r-5r Dedicatory address...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1595
- Extent:
- 1 volume.
4249. Harley MS 6641
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6641
- Title:
- Jack Upland
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-25r: Jack Upland. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: Thomas Rawlinson (b. 1681, d. 1725), A note 'On the preface to Urry's edition of Chaucer'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4250. Harley MS 6643
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6643
- Title:
- The Counterfeit vertu of Sectes together with their entangled discord, about the Ceremonies and other thinges nakedly Uncovered and Declared dialogue Wise in Eight sonder and familiar Parlings or Communications
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-200v: An English treatise, translated from an unidentified German treatise, entitled: ‘The Counterfeit vertu of Sectes together with their entangled discord, about the Ceremonies and other thinges nakedly Uncovered and Declared dialogue wise in Eight sonder and familiar Parling...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume