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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 186
Title:: Notebook of Simonds D'Ewes
Scope & Content:: Manuscript notebook of Simonds D’Ewes, chiefly genealogical notes on the life of his grandfather Garrat (Geerhard) D’Ewes and other relatives. Includes ‘Notae quaedam ex Francisci Modij Juris Consultus Brugensis Pandectis Triumphalibus sumptis’, selections from the Pandectae Triumphales (1586) by...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1620s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 187
Title:: Law commonplace book
Scope & Content:: Manuscript book of legal notes, in Law French, arranged in alphabetical sections, in the hand of Simonds D’Ewes. Entries are arranged in two alphabetical sequences (ff. 1-13 and ff. 14-29). Entries are sparse and most pages are blank. The printed Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the Bri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 188
Title:: ‘A discourse touching the diminution of the subsedie & how it may be justly raised’
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the diminution of the subsidy, by William Tooker, Dean of Lichfield, 1553/4-1621. Dedicated to the Earl of Northampton, Henry Howard, 1540-1614, and signed at end ‘William τοχήρ’. In the hand of William Tooker, according to A G Watson (The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966), page 3...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 189
Title:: ‘Indicia sive vere credentis’
Scope & Content:: Manuscript essay by Simonds D’Ewes, setting forth arguments for the certainty of his future salvation, with preface and epilogue. Front flyleaf dated 7 June 1628. Dated in text 1632 ‘hoc A[nno] D[omini] instante 1632’ (f. 35v). f. 1: Manuscript note on sin, ‘Sinns against the whole law’ and ‘Si...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1632
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 190
Title:: Notes on logic and philosophy by Simonds D’Ewes
Scope & Content:: Manuscript notes by Simonds D’Ewes. Unnumbered front flyleaf dated 4th 9th month 1618. Index at end (ff. 136v-137).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1618
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 191
Title:: Notes on Aristotelian logic by Simonds D’Ewes
Scope & Content:: Manuscript notes by Simonds D’Ewes on Porphyry’s Isagoge and Aristotle’s Categoriæ and De Interpretatione, in Latin with Greek passages. Front flyleaf dated November 14 1619. ff. 3-13: Pophyry, Isagoge. ff. 14-37: Aristotle, Categoriæ (Categories). ff. 37v-42: Aristotle, Interpretatione.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1619
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 192
Title:: Transcripts made by Simonds D'Ewes of the works of Lucius Annaeus Florus and Raphael Holinshed, and from Cotton MS Tiberius A XIII
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains transcripts that were made by the diarist and antiquary Sir Simonds D'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650) during his time at Cambridge (1618-1620). Contents: ff. 2r-29r: Excerpts from Lucius Annaeus Florus (b. c. 74, d. 103). ff. 29v-33r: Pedigrees of the kings of early medieva...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1618-1620
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 193
Title:: Pocket Latin Bible (1627) bound with the English singing Psalms (1628) and manuscript extracts by Simonds D'Ewes from the Book of Common Prayer
Scope & Content:: Printed Bible and Psalms with handwritten transcripts of most of the Morning and Evening Services from the Book of Common Prayer, made by Simonds D’Ewes. Contents: f. 1: Flyleaf inscribed with passages from Ephesians 1:4, and 2:10., D’Ewes library shelfmark and Harley MS number. f. 2v: Hebrew...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 194
Title:: The Chronicle of Queen Jane
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-93r: A pocket diary known as the 'Chronicle of Queen Jane', covering the period July 1553-1554, here entitled ‘An Annale of Queene Marie her Raigne or a great part of it ab Anonym[ous]’. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. [vi]recto: A note on the manuscript by Sir...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1553-1554
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 197
Title:: A clog-almanack
Scope & Content:: This almanack has been transferred to the British Museum. It is described in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, I (1808), p. 62, as 'An old Clog-Almanack, used in Derbyshire, or Staffordshire: cut upon [...]'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Undetermined
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: A wooden calendar

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