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Container Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 1-7661

431. Harley MS 517

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 517
Title:
Valentin Weigel (?), Tractatus de creatione et lapsu humanorum et angelorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-155r: ? Valentin Weigel, Tractatus de creatione et lapsu humanorum et angelorum.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

432. Harley MS 518

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 518
Title:
Theologia Weigeliana
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: A letter, entitled ‘Copia Epistolae Christophori Weighardi ad Jacobum Breitingum scriptae’; dated to 1601. ff. 2r-110r: ? Christoph Weickhart, Theologia Weigeliana.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

433. Harley MS 519

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 519
Title:
A treatise on the institution and discipline of a soldier
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-96r: The ‘institucion and dysepline of a souldier gathered oute of dyverse auntyent histories very necessarye to be perused in theis perilous tymes of all good harttes and worthye myndes’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

434. Harley MS 520

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 520
Title:
Guillaume Postel, De nativitate mediatoris opus in quo totius naturae obscuritas illustratur
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-188r: Guillaume Postel, De nativitate mediatoris opus in quo totius naturae obscuritas illustratur.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

435. Harley MS 521

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 521
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-50v: The arms of English nobility and gentry (6 per page). ff. 51v-55r: A fragment of a heraldic manuscript with arms of Cheshire families (12 per page). ff. 56r-59r: Arms, displaying the types of crosses in heraldry (4 per page); with some marginal additions in brown ink. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

436. Harley MS 522

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 522
Title:
Gildas, De excidio Britanniae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-77v: Gildas, De excidio Britanniae [English translation]. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. [i]recto-2r: Notes about Gildas, printed works and history, added in the 16th century. f. 3r: A title-page added by Sir Simonds D’Ewes, added in the 17th century. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1550
Extent:
1 volume

437. Harley MS 523

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 523
Title:
Letters of Sir Philip Hoby, 1548-1553
Scope & Content:
Collection of copied letters dating from 1548-1553. Concerning Sir Philip Hoby (1504/5–1558), diplomat and administrator, the Privy Council, and others. f. 1*r: Pasted title page. ‘Sir Phillip Hobby & otheres Ambasages with the Emperore. R:S: 1616’. f. 2*r: ‘Sir Phillipe hobes letters dat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c. 1616
Extent:
1 volume

438. Harley MS 524

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 524
Title:
Collection of sermons and theological tracts (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
The collection includes (f. 66) two contemporary additions relating to medicine, a charm (item 1) and a short verse on humours (item 2). Two short chapters (ff. 84, 119-11v; items 3-4) discuss the formation of the fetus and birth in theological rather than medical terms. The cataloguing of the m...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:
1 item

439. Harley MS 525

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 525
Title:
The Seege of Troy; Robert of Cisyle; Speculum Gy de Warewyke
Scope & Content:
The manuscript's former binding is now stored separately as Harley MS 525/1. Contents: ff. 1r-34v: The Seege of Troye [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3139; for an edition, see Seege or Batayle of Troye, ed. by Barnicle (1927)]; beginning: ‘Sithyn that god this worlde wroghte’...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

440. Harley MS 525/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 525/1
Title:
Detached former binding of Harley MS 525
Scope & Content:
Detached brown leather binding, tooled in gold, with the Harleian arms gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers, and a fragment of the spine; marbled endpapers. The binding was formerly attached to Harley MS 525 (The Seege of Troy; Robert of Cisyle; Speculum Gy de Warewyke) and is now stored se...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
Former binding of Harley MS 525

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