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31. Harley MS 246

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 246
Title:
A collection of heraldic and historical notes copied from older manuscripts and rolls
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A brief chronicle of the history of the world in Latin, beginning with an entry for Pope Gregory the Great, who first called himself the ‘servant of the servants of God’ (dated to 592); the source for this information is identified as a chronicle printed at Antwerp by Joha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1607-c 1625
Extent:
1 volume

32. Harley MS 1697

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1697
Title:
A collection of law cases at Queen's Bench, 1593-1597
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-143r: A collection of law cases at Queen's Bench for the period 1593-1597.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1593-1597
Extent:
1 volume

33. Harley MS 1696

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1696
Title:
A collection of law cases for the period 1562-1585
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-22v: A collection of law cases for the period 1562-1585. [f. 23 is blank].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1562-1585
Extent:
1 volume

34. Harley MS 1722

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1722
Title:
A collection of law reports for 1584-1586
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-42r: A collection of law reports for 1584-1586.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1584-1586
Extent:
1 volume

35. Harley MS 288

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 288
Title:
A collection of letters and papers relating to France, and matters between France and England from the time of Edward III to Charles I
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-289r: A large collection of letters and papers relating to France, and matters between France and England from the time of Edward III to Charles I. The letters are mostly original, dating from 1505-1639. The collection features several letters that have been partially written i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1505-1639
Extent:
1 volume

36. Harley MS 5339

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5339
Title:
A collection of medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-113v ( + the insides of the upper and lower cover): Medical recipes in Latin; with an English recipe at the beginning: ‘To Rectified Sp[irit] of Wine per Robert Boyle Armiger’ [Robert Boyle (b. 1627, d. 1691), natural philosopher]. Decoration: A drawing of an arch with two ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

37. Harley MS 1605/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1605/2
Title:
A collection of Middle English medical, trick and cosmetical recipes; a Latin charm and recipes against vermin; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Liber de modo bene vivendi ad sororem
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second of three volumes that comprise Harley MS 1605 (the others being Harley MS 1605/1 and Harley MS 1605/3). Harley MS 1605/2 contains three parts that were separately produced in the 15th century and brought together at an unknown point in time before or after they reac...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

38. Harley MS 1777

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1777
Title:
A collection of miscellaneous legal texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-114r: collection of miscellaneous legal texts.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

39. Harley MS 280

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 280
Title:
A collection of miscellaneous tracts, including accounts of the naval expeditions of Sir Francis Drake and Sir George Clifford
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*r: Added pen-trials. f. 1*v: A note by Sir Simonds D'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650) concerning the first item in the manuscript (ff. 1r-30v); dated 1637. ff. 1r-30v: A collection of notes made by Mr Paul D'Ewes on sermons preached by a certain Mr Chatterton, living in Cambridge. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:

1 volume

40. Cotton MS Julius C III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius C III
Title:
A collection of original letters addressed to Sir Robert Bruce Cotton
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the correspondence of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), first Baronet, of Conington Hall in Huntingdonshire, antiquarian and founder of the Cottonian Library. Whereas the British Museum’s catalogue describes this manuscript as a ‘collection of 328 original Lett...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1592-1649
Extent:

1 volume

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