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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7576, ff 81v-82
Title:: James Cunningham, Elegy dedicated to Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer (1661-1724)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1711-1724
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7576, ff 85v-86
Title:: William Culpepper (Colepeper), Declamation entitled Dici beatus ante obitum nemo supremaque funera debet
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1700
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7578
Title:: Middle English verse, including ballads by Chaucer and Lydgate; 'The Flyting of Montgomerie and Polwart' by Alexander Montgomerie; 'Nebuchadnezzar's Fierie Furnace'; the 'Annals of Oskell'; grammatical exercises in Latin and Greek; Old songs of Durham
Scope & Content:: Miscellany compiling pages from a number of other manuscripts, which vary greatly in size and period. Major sections within the miscellany are f. 1 (verse and prose on the Ten Commandments and Seven Deadly Sins), ff. 2-20 (various ballads and other verse, some by Chaucer and Lydgate), f. 21 (a s...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 1400-1700
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7581
Title:: Collection of religious texts and letters relating to English Puritanism
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of texts relating to English Puritanism. These include letters from the theologian Thomas Cartwright (b. c. 1535, d. 1603) and Henoch Clapham (fl. 1585-1614), a preacher of an English church in Amsterdam, as well as a petition directed to Elizabeth I (r. 155...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7584
Title:: Law texts from the 28th to 38th years of the reign of King Edward III
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-29v: Law texts in French from the reign of King Edward III, from the years 1354-1365, with the added (? 17th-century) title: ‘entitled ‘Annales les Reg. Edwardi 28-38’. Decoration: Large (3-line) red initials and red or yellow initials in blue frames.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 1354-1365
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7586 A
Title:: Maimonides' Moreh nevukhim. Moreh nevukhim by Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 מורה נבוכים and 1 other text
Scope & Content:: Language: Hebrew Philosophical writing. Fols 1r-169v Author: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 (משה בן מימון) Moreh nevukhim מורה נבוכים Note: In the Hebrew translation of (translator) Shemuel ibn Tibbon. Decoration note: 1 decorated letter, in colours. (Fol 2r) Decoration note: 4 arcades fra...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Hebrew
Date Range:: 1283
Extent:: 188 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7626
Title:: The Endowment and Orders of Walter Sherington’s Chantry, founded in St Paul’s Church, London
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-12v: The Endowment and Orders of Walter Sherington’s Chantry, founded in St Paul’s Church, London; the chantry of Walter Sherington (b. 1431, d. 1442), chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, was founded by his executors for two chaplains to pray for his soul and for the good es...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1457-c 1500
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7628
Title:: William Camden, Institutio Graecae Grammatices Compendaria in Usum Regiae Scholae Westmonasteriensis
Scope & Content:: William Camden, Institutio Graecae Grammatices Compendaria in Usum Regiae Scholae Westmonasteriensis, London 1656. Printed, with profuse MS annotations by several hands partly on interleaved sheets.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 1656-1681
Extent:: 1 volume

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