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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6747
Title:: Legal precedents
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-27r: A collection of legal precedents in French. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: An indenture in French; written in the (?) 17th century.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6753
Title:: Description of the city of Tivoli by Pirro Ligorio
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume, titled 'All Illustrissimo et Reverendissimo Sr. Hippolito Cardenali Amplissimo de Ferrara [Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este of Ferrara]. Descrizione della Città de Tivoli Di Pirro Ligorio'. Pirro Ligorio was a painter, architect and antiquarian who was employed by Cardinal I...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: c 1650
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6773
Title:: Two letters from Peterhouse, Cambridge
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2v: Two letters in Latin sent from Peterhouse, Cambridge, to its patron; undated but probably written in the 15th century. The printed Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), III, p. 394, suggests a date from the reign of Mary or Elizabeth, in the 16th century.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6776
Title:: A genealogy of the De Vere family
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-16v: A genealogy of the De Vere family in English and Latin, entitled: 'The Genalogy of the most Ancient and Illustrious Family of the Veres, Earles of Guisnes in Normandy, and of Oxford, and Lord great Chamberlands of England, being descended from the Kings of the Argives, Duk...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1676
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6780
Title:: Indices of English family names for heraldic manuscripts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-63v: A large index of family names, organized in columns by county and in alphabetical order [featuring the dates 1634 and 1635 on f. 60r]; undoubtedly originally belonging to or intended for a heraldic manuscript. ff. 64r-8r: A large index of families with ‘quartred coats’, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1635
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6781
Title:: Indices of English family names for heraldic manuscripts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-31v, 32r-33v, 34r-52v: indices of family names, organized in columns by county and in alphabetical order; undoubtedly originally belonging to or intended for heraldic manuscripts. ff. 53v-72v: A large index of family names, organized alphabetically. f. 73r: A note: ‘I would ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6792
Title:: Canon law; sermons on confession; excerpts from Gregory the Great, Dialogi
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-60v: Definitions of canon law. ff. 56v-61v: Sermons on confession. ff. 62r-133r: Excerpts from Gregory the Great, Dialogi. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: A title inscription: ‘Canones Ecclesiastici’. Decoration: Small (one-line) capitals and rubrics...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6794/1
Title:: Collection of diplomatic reports
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-12r: description of the fortress of Malta, Italian. ff. 13r-14v: fragment of liturgical manuscript, 2nd half of the 14th century, Latin. f. 15r: epigrams of Sir Thomas Conyngesby (1550-1625). ff. 16r-66r: report on the kingdom of Naples from the Venetian ambassador Aluigi La...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Italian
Date Range:: Late 16th century to 1676
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6794/2
Title:: Theological texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 197r-218v: St Jerome’s letter to Eustocium, translated into Italian, begins imperfectly. ff. 219r-222v: sermons. ff. 222v-225v: St Jerome’s letter to his mother, with a prayer and an indulgence. ff. 226r-271r: Giovanni Dominici, Regola del Governo di Cura Familiare. ff. 271v-2...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6814
Title:: Collection of sermons in Latin and French; Quaestiones problematicae; Exemplar epistolae scriptae ad Anglum nobilem Catholicam; Catalogus librorum Sacrae canonicae scripturae veteris testamenti; collection of theological tracts from biblical excerpts; biblical proverbs in Middle English; Moralium dogma philosophorum; Aesop, Fabulae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-38v: A collection of sermons in Latin and French, written between 1650 and 1653. ff. 39v-40r: Quaestiones problematicae [inscribed on f. 39r: ‘in Sidney College’], written around the mid-16th century. ff. 40v-69r: Exemplar epistolae scriptae ad Anglum nobilem Catholicam. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1435-1653
Extent:: 1 volume

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