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181. Harley MS 4955

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4955
Title:
Verse compilation (‘The Newcastle MS’)
Scope & Content:
Collection of poetry and drama compiled by William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1592-1676), between 1620 and 1634. In the hand of Cavendish’s secretary John Rolleston (1597?-1681) (Kelliher, ‘Donne, Jonson, Richard Andrews and the Newcastle Manuscript’, 1993). Contains poems and entertainm...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1620-1634
Extent:
1 volume

182. Harley MS 5008

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5008
Title:
The first of two volumes of copies of letters to and from the Privy Council
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title inscribed on parchment: ‘Copies of the Counsailes Letters – August 1550’. ff. 2r-195r: The first of two volumes of copies of letters to and from the Privy Council, mainly from France and Italy relating to state affairs: volume 1 covers the years 1550-1553. f. 196v: A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1550-1553
Extent:
1 volume

183. Harley MS 5009

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5009
Title:
The second of two volumes of copies of letters to and from the Privy Council
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title inscribed on a parchment pastedown: 'The Copies of the Quenes maiesties, and Her Counsailes lettres October 1553'. ff. 2r-197r: The second of two volumes of copies of letters to and from the Privy Council, mainly from France and Italy relating to state affairs: volume...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1553-1556
Extent:
1 volume

184. Harley MS 5086

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5086
Title:
Edward of Norwich, The Master of Game; The Babees’s Book; The ABC of Aristotle; Dietary for King Henry V; Treatise on equine medicine
Scope & Content:
This 15th-century miscellany contains Middle English and Latin verse and prose treatises relating to hunting, manners, human and veterinary medicine. The cataloguing of the manuscript was partially funded by the Wellcome Trust. Contents: ff. 1r-85r: Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York, The Ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

185. Harley MS 5087

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5087
Title:
Edward VI's letters and declamations
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–30v: ‘Epistolae Edouardi principis illustrissimi quas suopte marte composuit & scripsit anno aetatis sue nono.’ Forty-three letters written by Edward to Henry VIII, Katherine Parr, his sisters Mary and Elizabeth, his tutor Richard Cox, Edward Seymour, and the King of Poland’s envoy. T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1546-1553
Extent:
1 volume

186. Harley MS 5110

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5110
Title:
Composite volume of miscellaneous verse, drama and orations
Scope & Content:
A composite volume of miscellaneous verse, drama, orations and other texts in various hands. Cited in the Index of English Literary Manuscripts as the 'Harley Satires MS'. ff. 1r–3v: A Latin oration given at Merton College, Oxford, entitled ‘In collegio Merton Oxon. […], 16 October 1725. ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

187. Harley MS 5239

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5239
Title:
Genesis. Bereshit בראשית
Scope & Content:
Language: Hebrew Genesis, with punctuation and interlinear French translation by Jacques d'Auzoles Lapeyre (author). Bereshit. בראשית Colophon: achevee par Jacques D'Auzolles LapeyreLan de grace 1622. Le XVIII. Decembre. (Fol 152r) Genesis, with punctuation and interlinear French translatio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Hebrew
Date Range:
1622
Extent:
152 folios

188. Harley MS 5272

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5272
Title:
John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady; The Life of St Dorothy; The Abbey of the Holy Ghost
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-98v: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady (verse), imperfect at the beginning. ff. 99r-104v: The Life of St Dorothy (verse). ff. 105r-137v: The Abbey of the Holy Ghost; ending with the colophon 'This endith without bost / The abbey of the holigost'. Decoration: Blue initials w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

189. Harley MS 5449

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5449
Title:
Mishle Sendabar. משלי סנדבר
Scope & Content:
Language: Hebrew Ethical writing. Mishle Sendabar משלי סנדבר Note: There is a Latin note at the end, folio 65v-66r, copied from the handwriting of Gilbertus Gaulmin, and stating that the latter had translated the work into Latin and added notes. In the Latin account of the manuscript on the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew
Date Range:
1600-1699
Extent:
66 folios

190. Harley MS 5481

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5481
Title:
Defter.
Scope & Content:
Language: Latin Samaritan hymns and prayers interspersed with short extracts from the Pentateuch.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Latin
Date Range:
1500-1599
Extent:
62 folios (8+iii+54+iii, plus three modern leaves at the beginning and the end that serve as fillers)

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