This manuscript was recorded missing since before 1825. The contents according to the printed Harley catalogue (1808) were as follows: 'Index to the Public Accounts, &c.'
Humfrey Wanley, Facsimile copies of charters and inscriptions
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f. 1v: Alphabet by Wanley, imitating two biblical fragments (which originally followed the page, according to his note, but are no longer present). f. 2r–v: Charters copied by Wanley in facsimile of the originals. ff. 3r–8v: Inventory of goods (including some books), 1464, of the Collegiate Ch...
An Account of the Quakers’ Sufferings, upon Statutes made against the Papists, 1676-1679
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An account of Quakers’ sufferings 1676-1679, addressed to the King, and marked as having belonged to King James. Provenance inscription at head of f. 1: ‘This did belong to King James. I had it from Coll. Grahame’. f.1: ‘To the King. The Case of the People called Quakers who are still sufferers...
Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (Bk. III), in an anonymous English translation
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This manuscript contains an anonymous English translation of the third book of Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio (Discourses on the First Ten of Titus Livy) by the Italian writer and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli (b. 1469, d. 1527). The work is a commentary on the first ten boo...