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531. Harley MS 673

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 673
Title:
Laws and statutes of England; Genealogia Llewelini Principis Wallie; Natura Brevium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-100v: Laws and statutes of England. f. 101r-v: Erased inscriptions, possibly originally a flyleaf. ff. 102r-115v: Statute of Ruddlan. ff. 116r: Genealogia Llewelini Principis Wallie (The Genealogy of Llywelyn of Wales). ff. 117r-130v: Natura Brevium (a treatise on English...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

532. Harley MS 674

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 674
Title:
Treatise of Discretion of Spirits; The Epistle of Discretion; The Epistle of Prayer; The Cloud of Unknowing; The Book of Privy Counselling; Benjamin Minor; Denis Hid Divinity
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of seventeen extant medieval copies of The Cloud of Unknowing, a guide on contemplative prayer and meditation from the second half of the 14th century. It is one of the two manuscripts which contains all seven works that are attributed to the anonymous author (the ot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

533. Harley MS 675

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 675
Title:
Peter Bales, The Golden Pen
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-21v: Peter Bales, The Golden Pen, beginning ‘The golden Pen of twentie pounde: Wonne by Peter Bales of London gent, Maister in writing, generall Chalenger for the same, against all Englishmen and Strangers, without exceptions: which Chalenge was devided into three parts: The fi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1596
Extent:
1 volume

534. Harley MS 676

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 676
Title:
Wyllyam Reed, The Governance and Goode Kepynge of Hawkes; Medysyns for Fantasy and by Hersay and not by Experyence
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-50r: Wyllyam Reed, The Governance and Goode Kepynge of Hawkes, beginning ‘To the Right wurschipfull Sir John pollarde knyght I comende this symple volume’. ff. 51r-54v: Wyllyam Reed, Dyvers Medysyns for Fantasy and by Hersay and not by Experyence, beginning ‘I have wryttyn he...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1558
Extent:

1 volume

535. Harley MS 677

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 677
Title:
Collection of letters, speech, prose and poetry
Scope & Content:
Manuscript volume written in a number of different hands. Contents: ff. 1-31: Collections out of Plutarch’s Lives. ff. 31-32: Extracts from a letter to Sir Edward Coke in the time of his trouble. Header ‘Witty Speeches collected out of a Letter sente to Sir Edward Cooke after he was Lord ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

536. Harley MS 678

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 678
Title:
Memoirs of Philip de Commines. Extracts
Scope & Content:
Alphabetical extracts from the epitome of the history by Philippe de Commines. Text in Spanish with English summaries in the margins. No title page.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Spanish
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

537. Harley MS 679

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 679
Title:
Sebastiano Bartadas, Commentary on Genesis and Commentary on Apocalypse
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-208v: Sebastiano Bartadas, Commentary on Genesis. f. 209r: An Deus liberavit Abrahamum ex Incendio Caldaeorum. ff. 209r-210v: Quot annis fuerint Israelitae in Aegypto. f. 210v: Quae sit Generatio quarta. ff. 211r-338v: Sebastiano Bartadas, Commentary on Apocalypse, followe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

538. Harley MS 680

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 680
Title:
Letters from Mario Repetta
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: A letter of Mario Repetta to Pietro Foscari. ff. 3r-32v: A letter or treatise of Mario Repetta to Luigi Mocenigo.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

539. Harley MS 683

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 683
Title:
Grammatical miscellany
Scope & Content:
A schoolbook compiled from at least four pre-existing manuscripts, dating from the early 13th century (ff. 2–19), late 13th century (ff. 32–35, 36–62), and 14th century (ff. 20–31): f. 1r: Effaced page opening with the word ‘Debeat’ with a decorated six-line initial. f. 1v: Fragment of the Off...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
9th century-14th century
Extent:

1 volume

540. Harley MS 684

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 684
Title:
William Somner, Commentary and glossary on the laws of Henry I
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Gulielmi Somneri Commentarius in Leges Henrici I cum Glossario’. ff. 1r-55r: William Somner (bap. 1598, d. 1669), antiquary and Anglo-Saxon scholar, Commentary on the laws of Henry I; dedicated to Roger Twysden (b. 1597, d. 1672), second baronet, antiquar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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