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4281. Harley MS 6816

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6816
Title:
A collection of English medical texts
Scope & Content:
This collection predominantly features medical texts in Latin and English. It contains a section (ff. 97r-133v) of Middle English recipes that ends with Latin prayers against the plague and an indenture from Sempringham Priory in Lincolnshire, suggesting that the recipes may originate from this ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 18th century
Extent:

1 volume

4282. Harley MS 6824

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6824
Title:
A compilation of early modern historical and scientific papers; Edward of Norwich, The Master of Game
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a compilation of different historical and scientific papers, mostly originating from the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries. It also contains a 15th-century copy of the Middle English The Master of Game, composed by Edward of Norwich (b. c. 1373, d. 1415), 2nd Duke of York, in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, English, Middle, French, Greek, Ancient, Latin, Malay, and Russian
Date Range:
c 1400-1738
Extent:
1 volume

4283. Harley MS 6830

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6830
Title:
Pedigrees and coats of arms of Cambridgeshire families
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A leaf from another manuscript with the title: ‘These are the Ancient Coate of Armes of Collings of Shropshier of [...] Robe[r]t Collings of Stapleton [...] Anno Domini 1615’ (inscribed in red pencil). ff. 2r-3v: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscrip...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4284. Harley MS 6848

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6848
Title:
English miscellany of religious tracts, letters and historical papers
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Two notes in English about ‘Instructions for Mr Thomas Bodley sent into the United Provinces in January 1594’; and ‘July 1595’. ff. 2r-4v: An English religious treatise entitled ‘A Tretise conteyning motions touching Mercie and Unitie Sent by a few of those whoe are falslie a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

4285. Harley MS 6858

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6858
Title:
Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
The Elements of Law, a treatise on political theory and the origins of the state, was completed by Thomas Hobbes on 9 May 1640 (see f. 2v), dedicated to William Cavendish, 1st duke of Newcastle, and distributed in manuscript copies produced by professional scribes. This manuscript includes a t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1640-1699
Extent:
1 volume

4286. Harley MS 6864

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6864
Title:
Copies of inscriptions on tombstones in the city of Bath
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-19r: Copies of inscriptions on tombstones in the city of Bath of citizens who died in the 1720s and 1730s; the latest year of death is 1738.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1738
Extent:
1 volume

4287. Harley MS 6874

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6874
Title:
Aristotle, Politics, imperfect
Scope & Content:
Aristotle, Politics, imperfect
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

13 folios.

4288. Harley MS 6875

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6875
Title:
Constantine Lascaris, Grammar. Imperfect, and with many variants on Γραμματικὴ Κωνσταντίνου Λασκάρεως τοῦ Βυζαντίου, ed. S. Blantes, Venice 1819. Text arranged as follows
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Greek, Modern
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
3 items

4289. Harley MS 6876

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6876
Title:
Geoponica. Collation by Peter Needham of the 1538 Basel edition and Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. f. 3.18 (once owned by Christopher Longolius) and MS Barocci 54, together with readings added to the margins of a copy of the Basel edition owned by Sir John Cotton from a manuscript once owned by Saracenus. Prepared for use in Needham's 1704 edition.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
c 1700-1703
Extent:
1 item

4290. Harley MS 6878

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6878
Title:
Astronomical and astrological texts
Scope & Content:
Petit abrégé de la sphère du Monde (ff. 3r-62r); Les traicte des armilles pour verifier des estoires selon la tradition de Ptholemee (ff. 62r-65v); Miscellaneous notes on astrological and astronomical subjects (ff. 66r-64r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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