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1381. Harley MS 6352

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6352
Title:
A dictionary of Latin abbreviations
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-37r: A dictionary of Latin abbreviations used in diplomatic records, entitled ‘Abbreviaturae’; copied from Diplomata Scotiae of James Anderson (b. 1662, d. 1728) (published posthumously in 1739). The manuscript contains a later addition: f. [ii]recto: A pencil note: ‘Copied ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1740
Extent:
1 volume

1382. Harley MS 6360

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6360
Title:
Astrological texts; texts on high treason
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two separate parts. The first part (ff. 3r-31r) contains astrological texts copied in the 16th century; the second part (ff. 4r-133r) contains texts concerning high treason that were most likely copied in the late 16th century. Contents: ff. 3r-8v: Astrol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1383. Harley MS 6362

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6362
Title:
William Roper, The lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r: A title-page: ‘The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore sometyme Chancellor of Englande written by the sonne in lawe William Roper of Eltham in the Counye of Kente esquier’. ff. 3r-47v: William Roper (b. 1495x8, d. 1578), The lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte, here entitled: ‘The Lyfe of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

1384. Harley MS 6391

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6391
Title:
A Relation of Prince Henryes noble and vertuous Disposition
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8v: An anonymous author's account of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), entitled: ‘A Relation of Prince Henryes noble and vertuous Disposition and of Sundry his wittie and pleasant Speeches diverted to the right honourable the Lord Lumley and his Lady’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1605
Extent:
1 volume

1385. Harley MS 6403

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6403
Title:
A conference between a Fellow of the University of Cambridge and a Catholic lawyer
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-52v: An untitled work in English, describing a conference between a Fellow of the University of Cambridge and a lawyer, a Roman catholic, in the time of Elizabeth I. Beginning: 'The epistle dedicatorie: to Mr G.M. in gracious streate in London'. Touching on the subjects of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1580-c 1603
Extent:
1 volume

1386. Harley MS 6523

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6523
Title:
Textus Roffensis and Ælfric of Eynsham, Interrogationes Sigewoulfi Presbiteri, in modern facsimiles by Elizabeth Elstob
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two modern facsimiles of Textus Roffensis (The Tome of Rochester), an Old English legal text that survives in only a single manuscript (now Rochester Cathedral Library, MS. A.3.5), and Interrogationes Sigewulfi Presbiteri (Questions of Sigewulf the Priest), a vernacular ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

1387. Harley MS 6526

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6526
Title:
Collection of grammatical works
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: 'The forme to construe' a sentence out of one language into another. ff. 2r-3r: 'Annotationes in Ciceronis officia'. ff. 4r-41v: 'Phrases ex Terentiij'; with English commentary; inscribed 'Andriae finis' on f. 24r. ff. 42r-43r: 'Annotationes de Fabula'. ff. 44r-45v: 'De a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1575-c 1625
Extent:
1 volume

1388. Harley MS 6547

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6547
Title:
Tractatus de Libero Arbitrio
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-35v: Tractatus de Libero Arbitrio. The manuscript contains a medieval endleaf: ff. 36r-36v: A fragment of the Pauline epistles (Romans 11:1-6), glossed; small blue and red initials with pen-work decoration in the opposite colour; copied in the 4th quarter of the 12th centu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1389. Harley MS 6553

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6553
Title:
Collection of explanations of Biblical passages and philosophical texts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of tracts on Biblical passages, written in a hand that may date to the 1st half of the 17th century, and another collection with philosophical texts in a hand that may date to the 2nd half of the 16th century. Contents: ff. 1r-4r: '2 Pol. 6 - Recte Hippod...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1390. Harley MS 6554

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6554
Title:
Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Aristotle's De Generatione et Corruptione
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-81r: Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Aristotle's De Generatione et Corruptione.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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