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6941. Harley MS 7176-7177

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7176-7177
Title:
Lives of famous men educated at the University of Cambridge to 1715, compiled by Morris Drake Morris
Scope & Content:
Lives of the illustrious Men that have been educated in the most ancient and famous University of Cambridge, from the Foundation thereof unto the Year 1715, collected from Bale Pits, Fuller, Lloyd, Wood, Calamy, Walker, etc., by Morris Drake Morris, of Mount Morris, in the County of Kent, Esq. l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1715-1716
Extent:
2 volumes

6942. Harley MS 7177

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7177
Title:
Learned men educated at Cambridge
Scope & Content:
Second of two volumes compiled by Morris Drake Morris, of Mount Morris, in the County of Kent, Esq. late Fellow Commoner of Trinity College in Cambridge. Biographies of learned men in general. Running title: Athenæ Cantabrigienses. 319 names entered, with a smaller number of portraits than th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1715-1716
Extent:
1 volume

6943. Harley MS 7181

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7181
Title:
Engravings from a manuscript of Virgil’s Aeneid in the Vatican, annotated with corresponding locations
Scope & Content:
Published engravings of a 4th century Virgil manuscript in the Vatican library (Cod. Vat. Lat. 3225;), by Pietro Santi Bartoli. Mounted onto large folios, with manuscript annotations showing the corresponding places in the Aeneid, said to be in the hand of Matthew Prior, esquire. The name of Mat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter 17th century-1st quarter 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

6944. Harley MS 7182

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7182
Title:
Ptolemy, Geographia, translated by Manuel Chrysoloras and Jacopo d'Angelo
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of the Geographia (Geography), an atlas and treatise on cartography originally written by the Greek mathematician and astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (b. c. 100, d. c. 170), in a Latin translation by the Renaissance humanists Manuel Chrysoloras (b. c. 135...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

6945. Harley MS 7183/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7183/1
Title:
Sermon and homily collection
Scope & Content:
A collection of short sermons and homilies to be read on particular feast days or following particular Bible readings. Mostly by St Augustine and St Ambrose, but also including texts attributed to Pope Gregory, Pope Leo, St Remigius, Origen, Jerome, and Bede, interspersed with extracts from Paul...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

6946. Harley MS 7183/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7183/2
Title:
Sermon and homily collection
Scope & Content:
A collection of short sermons and homilies to be read on particular feast days or following particular Bible readings. Mostly by St Augustine and St Ambrose, but also including texts attributed to Pope Gregory, Pope Leo, St Remigius, St Maximus, St John the bishop, St John of Constantinople, Isi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

6947. Harley MS 7184

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7184
Title:
John Gower, Confessio Amantis
Scope & Content:
Contents: John Gower, Confessio Amantis; beginning: 'Torpor ebes sensus scola parva labor minimusque / Causam ergo minimus ipse minora canam'; ending : 'hath do wherof his kniȝthiede / Is yit comended over all'. Imperfect: the text lacks 1 folio after f. 25 (containing English Works 1900-1901,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

6948. Harley MS 7185

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7185
Title:
Letters of Cardinal Wolsey
Scope & Content:
Copies of letters from Cardinal Wolsey to the Earl of Bath and Mr Hannibal at Rome; Mr Richard Samson and Sir Richard Jerningham, the King’s ambassadors to the Emperor, etc. Carefully transcribed, but without references to the originals. A leaf or more is missing at the end.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:

1 volume

6949. Harley MS 7186

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7186
Title:
Account book of John Longe, the Earl of Pembroke’s steward
Scope & Content:
Account book of John Longe, steward of the Earl of Pembroke, c 1575-1601. With additions to 1613 in a different hand. Includes mathematical sketches at ff. 162-164 and f. 184v.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1575-1613
Extent:
1 volume

6950. Harley MS 7191

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7191
Title:
Catalogue of the manuscript collection of John Somers, 1st Baron Somers
Scope & Content:
Classified catalogue of the manuscripts in the collection of John Somers, 1st Baron Somers (1651-1716).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

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