Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7171
Title:: Proceedings of the House of Commons against Sir John Fenwick upon a bill of attainder for high treason
Scope & Content:: Proceedings of the House of Commons against Sir John Fenwick, with debates, and copies of his papers presented to Parliament. f. 1*: ‘The Proceedings of the House of Commons against Sir John Fenwick, Bart. Upon a Bill of Attainder for High Treason, together with their Debates thereupon, & ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1696-1697
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7174
Title:: House of Lords proceedings 1628, and other historic papers
Scope & Content:: Parliamentary proceedings and other papers, including: ff. 1-51: Proceedings in the House of Lords, April 9 1628. ff. 52-58: Statute concerning the Stannery of Cornwall, an. 50 Edv. III (1376/7). ff. 59-65: Indemnity of the Lords and Commons in the Parliament Roll of the 9th year of Henry I...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7175
Title:: An alphabetical Index of Matters contained in the Journals of the House of Lords
Scope & Content:: ff. 1-187: Index to Journals of the House of Lords covering the years 1660-1678 ff. 188-245: Draft index entries, pages scored through.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1660-1678
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7176
Title:: Bishops and Archbishops educated at Cambridge
Scope & Content:: First of two volumes compiled by Morris Drake Morris, of Mount Morris, in the County of Kent, Esq. late Fellow Commoner of Trinity College in Cambridge. Containing the Bishops and Archbishops educated at Cambridge. With engraved portraits of many of the subjects pasted into the volume.Index on...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1715-1716
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7176-7177
Title:: Lives of famous men educated at the University of Cambridge to 1715, compiled by Morris Drake Morris
Scope & Content:: Lives of the illustrious Men that have been educated in the most ancient and famous University of Cambridge, from the Foundation thereof unto the Year 1715, collected from Bale Pits, Fuller, Lloyd, Wood, Calamy, Walker, etc., by Morris Drake Morris, of Mount Morris, in the County of Kent, Esq. l...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1715-1716
Extent:: 2 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7177
Title:: Learned men educated at Cambridge
Scope & Content:: Second of two volumes compiled by Morris Drake Morris, of Mount Morris, in the County of Kent, Esq. late Fellow Commoner of Trinity College in Cambridge. Biographies of learned men in general. Running title: Athenæ Cantabrigienses. 319 names entered, with a smaller number of portraits than th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1715-1716
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7181
Title:: Engravings from a manuscript of Virgil’s Aeneid in the Vatican, annotated with corresponding locations
Scope & Content:: Published engravings of a 4th century Virgil manuscript in the Vatican library (Cod. Vat. Lat. 3225;), by Pietro Santi Bartoli. Mounted onto large folios, with manuscript annotations showing the corresponding places in the Aeneid, said to be in the hand of Matthew Prior, esquire. The name of Mat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter 17th century-1st quarter 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7182
Title:: Ptolemy, Geographia, translated by Manuel Chrysoloras and Jacopo d'Angelo
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of the Geographia (Geography), an atlas and treatise on cartography originally written by the Greek mathematician and astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (b. c. 100, d. c. 170), in a Latin translation by the Renaissance humanists Manuel Chrysoloras (b. c. 135...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7183/1
Title:: Sermon and homily collection
Scope & Content:: A collection of short sermons and homilies to be read on particular feast days or following particular Bible readings. Mostly by St Augustine and St Ambrose, but also including texts attributed to Pope Gregory, Pope Leo, St Remigius, Origen, Jerome, and Bede, interspersed with extracts from Paul...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7183/2
Title:: Sermon and homily collection
Scope & Content:: A collection of short sermons and homilies to be read on particular feast days or following particular Bible readings. Mostly by St Augustine and St Ambrose, but also including texts attributed to Pope Gregory, Pope Leo, St Remigius, St Maximus, St John the bishop, St John of Constantinople, Isi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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