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4272. Harley MS 6753
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6753
- Title:
- Description of the city of Tivoli by Pirro Ligorio
- Scope & Content:
- Folio manuscript volume, titled 'All Illustrissimo et Reverendissimo Sr. Hippolito Cardenali Amplissimo de Ferrara [Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este of Ferrara]. Descrizione della Città de Tivoli Di Pirro Ligorio'. Pirro Ligorio was a painter, architect and antiquarian who was employed by Cardinal I...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Italian
- Date Range:
- c 1650
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4273. Harley MS 6773
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6773
- Title:
- Two letters from Peterhouse, Cambridge
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-2v: Two letters in Latin sent from Peterhouse, Cambridge, to its patron; undated but probably written in the 15th century. The printed Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), III, p. 394, suggests a date from the reign of Mary or Elizabeth, in the 16th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4274. Harley MS 6776
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6776
- Title:
- A genealogy of the De Vere family
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-16v: A genealogy of the De Vere family in English and Latin, entitled: 'The Genalogy of the most Ancient and Illustrious Family of the Veres, Earles of Guisnes in Normandy, and of Oxford, and Lord great Chamberlands of England, being descended from the Kings of the Argives, Duk...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1676
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4275. Harley MS 6780
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6780
- Title:
- Indices of English family names for heraldic manuscripts
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 2r-63v: A large index of family names, organized in columns by county and in alphabetical order [featuring the dates 1634 and 1635 on f. 60r]; undoubtedly originally belonging to or intended for a heraldic manuscript. ff. 64r-8r: A large index of families with ‘quartred coats’, ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- c 1635
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4276. 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
4277. 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
4278. 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
4279. 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
4280. 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