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1201. Harley MS 4924

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4924
Title:
Thomas Osborne, Treatise on arithmetic
Scope & Content:
A treatise on arithmetic by Thomas Osborne. Decoration: The decoration of the manuscript imitates that of printed books. It comprises: A title page with the royal arms of Queen Elizabeth I supported by a lion and a dragon and encircled by the Garter, with Elizabeth's initials E R held by ang...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1601-1602
Extent:

1 volume

1202. Harley MS 3333

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3333
Title:
Poggio Bracciolini, Facetiae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript containing the Facetiae (Jokes) by the Italian humanist Poggio Bracciolini (b. 1380, d. 1459) was completed on 10 June 1456. The Facetiae was one of the most popular joke books of the Renaissance. Contents: ff. 1r-87r: Poggio Bracciolini, Facetiae. Decoration: Initials in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1456
Extent:
A parchment codex

1203. Harley MS 4361

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4361
Title:
Livre de Sydrac
Scope & Content:
Livre de Sydrac (ff. 7r-97v), preceded by a table of rubrics (ff. 1r-6r). Decoration: 1 foliate initial 'A'(ntens) in red and blue with partial bar border accomodating a marginal portrait of king Bochus, and a dragon, at the beginning of the text (f. 7r). Descenders or partial bar borders wit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
c 1280-c 1300
Extent:
97 folios.

1204. Harley MS 5578

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5578
Title:
Plutarch and Theorian
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
2 items

1205. Harley MS 6310

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6310
Title:
Collection of fragments.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
3 items

1206. Harley MS 643

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 643
Title:
Acts of the Privy Council, 1553-1558
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-316r: Acts of the Privy Council, 1553-1558. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*r: A title-page: ‘Extract of the Acts of Counsell during the bloudy Raignes of King Philip and Queene Marie from the 13th day of August anno Domini 1553 to the 15th day of November ann...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1207. Harley MS 812

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 812
Title:
Elizabethan miscellany of records and letters
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8r: Forms of indentures in English from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. ff. 9r-60v: Transcripts from public records and rolls of Parliament, from the time of King Edward II to that of Queen Elizabeth I (Latin and English). ff. 61r-63r: Letters Patent by Queen Elizabeth I, s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1208. Harley MS 954

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 954
Title:
Military observations of Colonel Thomas Colepeper
Scope & Content:
Octavo manuscript volume, written by Colonel Thomas Colepeper. This manuscript contains Colepeper's observations regarding military matters, including camping, foraging, detachments, marching, lines, battles, retreat, attacks, forts, and others. Also included are geometry problems as applied to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

1209. Harley MS 984

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 984
Title:
The Gospel of Matthew (Middle English)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-71v: The Gospel of Matthew in Middle English, imperfect at the beginning and end due to the loss of folios; ff. 7r-7v, 56r-56v and 64r-64v have been supplied in the 17th century to substitute lost text and appear to have been copied from the Coverdale Bible. The manuscript co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1210. Harley MS 1126

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1126
Title:
George Treheyron, Treatise on forest laws
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘The Book of the Statutes of the Forests Parkes Chacys Warrenes’. ff. 1r-51v: George Treheyron, Treatise on forest laws, beginning ‘What thing doth make a fforest and who may make a fforest and how a fforrest is made what thinges be incydent to a fforest wh...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

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