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1831. Harley MS 1057

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1057
Title:
Heraldry book of John Withie and others
Scope & Content:
Several tracts and fragments on heraldry bound together. By John Withie (1593-c1678), arms painter, and others. Contents: ff. 1-2: Indexes of names of Devonshire, Warwickshire, and Shropshire gentry, perhaps extracted by John Withie from visitations of 1620, 1619 and 1623 respectively. ff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1832. Harley MS 1110

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1110
Title:
Pedigrees and descents collected by William Penson
Scope & Content:
Heraldry book in the hand of William Penson, Lancaster-Herald, with numerous pedigrees collected to illustrate his family’s descent. For a detailed description of the contents, see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1833. Harley MS 1455

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1455
Title:
Arms and crests, tricked by John Withie
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume containing arms and crests of different families which bear the same name. Mostly tricked by John Withie, painter-stainer, into printed escutcheons. At the front of the volume is an imperfect table of names found within the volume.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1626
Extent:
1 volume

1834. Harley MS 1676

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1676
Title:
Constantinus Africanus (Constantine the African), Theorica Pantegni
Scope & Content:
A copy of the medical compendium entitled Theorica Pantegni or Pantechni by Constantinus Africanus or Constantine the African (circa 1020-1098/9), a monk of African origin at Monte Cassino in Italy. The work is an adaptation and translation into Latin of part of the Kitāb Kāmil ('the complete' -...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
163 folios.

1835. Harley MS 2531/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2531/1
Title:
Detached former binding of Harley MS 2531
Scope & Content:
Detached brown leather binding, tooled in gold, with marbled endpapers and two flyleaves (one at the beginning and end). The binding was previously attached to Harley MS 2531 (a copy of Lucan's Pharsalia) and is now stored separately.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
Former binding of Harley MS 2531

1836. Harley MS 2700/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2700/1
Title:
Detached former binding of Harley MS 2700
Scope & Content:
Detached Harleian red leather binding, tooled in gold, with marbled endpapers and four flyleaves (two at the beginning and the end). The binding was formerly attached to Harley MS 2700 (a copy of Martial's Epigrams) and is now stored separately.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Former binding of Harley MS 2700

1837. Harley MS 3969

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3969
Title:
Works on history, natural history and rhetoric
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: William of Malmesbury, De dictis et factis memorabilibus philosophorum (Polyhistor) (ff. 3r-40v); 5 works on orthography with a summarising 'explicit' note by William of Malmesbury (f. 62r): Cassiodorus Senator, De orthographia (ff. 41r-52r); Caprus, Liber de orthograp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
236 folios.

1838. Harley MS 4003/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4003/1
Title:
Detached former binding of Harley MS 4003
Scope & Content:
Detached brown leather binding, blind-tooled. The binding was previously attached to Harley MS 4003 (a copy of Gerald of Wales' Topographia Hiberniae and Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae) and is now stored separately.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
Former binding of Harley MS 4003

1839. Harley MS 4347

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4347
Title:
The Aphorisms of Hippocrates and other maxims
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: 1. Hippocrates, Aphorismata (ff. 1r-37r); 2. Bernard de Gordon, A series of definitions from the chapter headings of the Lilium Medicinae (ff. 37r-41r); 3. A collection of definitions and maxims (ff. 42v-43r); 4. A text on the Invention of the Holy Cross (f. 43v); 5...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
44 folios.

1840. Harley MS 4735

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4735
Title:
Commentary on Aristotle, Physica; Nicolaus Lakmann, Formalitates
Scope & Content:
Contents: A commentary on Aristotle's Physica (ff. 1r-74v); Nicolaus Lakmann, Formalitates (ff. 75r-78r). Decoration: Initial in red at the beginning of the book 1. Space left for initials at the beginning of other books and Nicolaus Lakmann's Formalitates. Paraphs in red and first letters ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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