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181. Harley MS 4789

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4789
Title:
Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-286v: Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa; imperfect at the end. Decoration: Historiated initial with author portrait (damaged or erased) in colours and gold combined with a full foliate bar border (f. 1r). Large initial...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

182. Harley MS 4796

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4796
Title:
Cicero, Selected Works, in a Castilian translation by Alonso de Cartagena
Scope & Content:
A selection of Cicero's philosophical and rhetorical works in a Castilian translation by the bishop, diplomat and historian Alonso de Cartagena (b. 1384, d. 1456). Contents: f. 1r-v: Numerous pen trials and inscriptions in different hands, including 'hic Liber est / Maiocenchari', probably ad...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Spanish
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

183. Harley MS 4868

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4868
Title:
Pliny the Younger, De Viris Illustribus and Epistolae
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Suetonius, Vita Plinii. ff. 1r-2v: Johannes Mansionarius ['de Matociis'], Brevis adnotatio de duobus Pliniis. ff. 3r-4r: A table of contents. ff. 5r-27v: Pliny the Younger (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus), De Viris Illustribus; imperfect at the beginning. ff. 28r-152r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1467
Extent:
1 volume

184. Harley MS 4898

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4898
Title:
Inventory of goods owned by King Charles I, sold 1649-1652
Scope & Content:
Inventory of household goods, jewels, plate, and paintings owned by King Charles I and sold by order of the State between 1649 and 1652. With descriptions of items, places, valuations, and buyers. 18th century copy. f. 1r Title page: ‘An Inventory of The Household Goods, Jewells Plate &c, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume.

185. Harley MS 4912

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4912
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-75v: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3327; for an edition, see Riverside Chaucer (1987), pp. 472-585]; beginning: 'The dowble sorowys of Troylus to telle / That was kyng Pryam sone of troye / In lovyng how hys aventuris fe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

186. Harley MS 4943

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4943
Title:
Orders of the Privy Council, 1570-1580
Scope & Content:
Copies of orders of the Privy Council, principally between 1570 and 1580. Mainly letters from Elizabeth I (1533–1603), queen of England and Ireland. f. 1*r: Flyleaf containing pen-trials, notes in Latin and English, and two names: ‘Xtopher Troughton Julij 1624’; ‘Edw: Pynchon’. ff. 1r-14v: Two...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1570-1580
Extent:
1 volume

187. Harley MS 4955

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4955
Title:
Verse compilation (‘The Newcastle MS’)
Scope & Content:
Collection of poetry and drama compiled by William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1592-1676), between 1620 and 1634. In the hand of Cavendish’s secretary John Rolleston (1597?-1681) (Kelliher, ‘Donne, Jonson, Richard Andrews and the Newcastle Manuscript’, 1993). Contains poems and entertainm...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1620-1634
Extent:
1 volume

188. Harley MS 5008

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5008
Title:
The first of two volumes of copies of letters to and from the Privy Council
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title inscribed on parchment: ‘Copies of the Counsailes Letters – August 1550’. ff. 2r-195r: The first of two volumes of copies of letters to and from the Privy Council, mainly from France and Italy relating to state affairs: volume 1 covers the years 1550-1553. f. 196v: A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1550-1553
Extent:
1 volume

189. Harley MS 5009

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5009
Title:
The second of two volumes of copies of letters to and from the Privy Council
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title inscribed on a parchment pastedown: 'The Copies of the Quenes maiesties, and Her Counsailes lettres October 1553'. ff. 2r-197r: The second of two volumes of copies of letters to and from the Privy Council, mainly from France and Italy relating to state affairs: volume...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1553-1556
Extent:
1 volume

190. Harley MS 5086

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5086
Title:
Edward of Norwich, The Master of Game; The Babees’s Book; The ABC of Aristotle; Dietary for King Henry V; Treatise on equine medicine
Scope & Content:
This 15th-century miscellany contains Middle English and Latin verse and prose treatises relating to hunting, manners, human and veterinary medicine. The cataloguing of the manuscript was partially funded by the Wellcome Trust. Contents: ff. 1r-85r: Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York, The Ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

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