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2931. Harley MS 4136

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4136
Title:
Essex indentures and wills; accounts from a merchant of the Company of the Staple at Calais
Scope & Content:
A composite collection of indentures and last wills relating to Essex, compiled between 1580 and 1612, inter-mixed with copies of account rolls in an earlier hand, and leaves from an English cloth merchant's account book from the early 1540s. The latter's notes indicate that they were a merchant...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1540-c 1612
Extent:
1 volume

2932. Harley MS 4138

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4138
Title:
English translation of Bernardino de Mendoza's Theorica y Practica de la Guerra
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r, 4r-228r: English translation of Bernardino de Mendoza (b. c. 1540, d. 1604), Theorica y Practica de la Guerra [1595], here entitled: 'The Theorick and Practick of warre written for the Prince Don Phillip of Spayne by Don Bernardino de Mendosa'; perhaps the English translation ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1600-c 1630
Extent:
1 volume

2933. Harley MS 4142

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4142
Title:
Words of English anthems
Scope & Content:
Words of Anthems (verse, unless the contrary is stated), alphabetically arranged.1. 'Aboue the Starrs.' '[T.] Tomkins.' f. 1. 2. 'Allmightie God, which by the leading of a Starr.' 'Dr. Bull.' f. 1. 3. 'Arise, Lord, why sleepest thou' (full). 'Bird.' f. 1 4. 'Allmightie God, the fountaine' (full)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1630-1685
Extent:
1 volume (31 folios)

2934. Harley MS 4144

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4144
Title:
Lorenzo Valla, Select works
Scope & Content:
A copy of Lorenzo Valla's (1407-1457) three orations possibly from 15th-century Naples, written by Giovanmarco Cinico. Contents: ff. 1r-38r: Lorenzo Valla, Apology to Pope Eugen IV, begins 'Aequius erat summe pontifex....'. f. 38v: blank. ff. 39r-57r: Lorenzo Valla, Aliud Siculum aliud Neap...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1470
Extent:
1 volume

2935. Harley MS 4145

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4145
Title:
Thomas St George, A law treatise dedicated to William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Newcastle
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3v: A preface by Thomas St George to William Cavendish, beginning: ‘To the right honourable William Lord Cavendish knight of the Bath, Baron of Bowlsover, Vicount of Mansfeild and Earle of Newecastle’. ff. 3r-33r: Thomas St George, treatise on law, beginning: ‘The Power to t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1628-1643
Extent:
1 volume

2936. Harley MS 4146

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4146
Title:
An English Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-242r: An Alphabet of Arms with blazons of English coats of arms in French heraldic terminology. Decoration: Heraldic elements and coats of arms drawn and tricked in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1572
Extent:
1 volume

2937. Harley MS 4148

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4148
Title:
Lez droix et lez establissemenz de Normendie
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-243r: Lez droix et lez establissemenz de Normendie (A treatise on the rights and laws of Normandy in verse). Decoration: 3 large puzzle initials in blue and gold with extensions in the same colours (ff. 1r, 5r, 11r). Smaller initials in red or blue. Paraphs in red or blue. Ca...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2938. Harley MS 4150

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4150
Title:
Jerome, De officiis liberorum erga parentes; Plutarch, De liberis educandis; Pier Paolo Vergerio, De ingenuis moribus; Poggio Bracciolini, Letter to Guarino da Verona; Guarino da Verona, Letter to Nicolaus Leonardus; Francesco Barbaro, De re uxoria
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-5v: Jerome, De officiis liberorum erga parentes. ff. 6r-39v: Plutarch, De liberis educandis; translated into Latin by Guarino da Verona, with a preface. ff. 40r-93v; Pier Paolo Vergerio, De ingenuis moribus. ff. 94r-95v: Poggio Bracciolini, Letter to Guarino da Verona. f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

2939. Harley MS 4151

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4151
Title:
Greek grammar
Scope & Content:
A Greek grammar. Entitled Compendium Graece et Latine.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:

1 volume

2940. Harley MS 4154

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4154
Title:
Collection of theological sayings
Scope & Content:
Contents: 1r-68v: Theological compendium, consisting of theological sayings, beginning with: 'Credendum est esse unum aliquid quod est quicquid alius est'; ending with: 'Singula de nobis anni prædantur euntes'. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r (upper margin): 'Anselmi, Sola sap...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 volume

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