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12. Harley MS 2302
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2302
- Title:
- A Replicacion in further meintenaunce of free will to an answere of a Protestant devyne to the treatis in that behalf first made by a Romish Catholicke Priest; a treatise written in answer to a book against the existence of witches
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript is a 17th-century miscellany containing two English treatises written separately at different moments in time. Contents: ff. 1*recto-56r: ‘A Replicacion in further meintenaunce of free will to an answere of a Protestant devyne to the treatis in that behalf first made by a Romi...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
13. Harley MS 2303
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2303
- Title:
- The Prevarication of Holy Church Libertyes
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 2r-3r: Henry Tichborne, dedication to King James II, beginning: ‘To the Kings most Excellent Majestie These Humbly Presented: The Virtues of your most Illustrious Ancestors have in all Ages since Christianity inlightned our Horizon, and been the Glory of so many Princes as have de...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
14. Harley MS 2307
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2307
- Title:
- A view of Devonshire, by Thomas Westcote
- Scope & Content:
- History and topographical account of Devonshire by ThomasWestcote (c 1567-c 1637). Published as A View of Devonshire 1630, ed. George Oliverand Pitman Jones (1845). Manuscript includes marginal notes, additions, andcorrections. The author’s postscript apology for the work, addressed ‘To thegener...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- c 1630
- Extent:
- 1 volume
15. Harley MS 2308
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2308
- Title:
- Accounts of the coronation of Edward VI and his reign
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-120r: A treatise on ‘The Maner of Coronation of Kinge Edward the Sixth’; followed by abstracts of entries in the Council book of King Edward VI from the beginning of his reign to 6 February 1549-50.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
16. Harley MS 2309
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2309
- Title:
- Wycliffite Gospels in the later version
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-107v: Wycliffite Gospels in the later version, imperfect, lacking Matthew 1.20-8.26 and John 20.28 to the end. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A note: 'Agrees with no. 272. Mark 1 differs in Royal Lib. 1. C. VIII'; probably written around the time of the...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
17. Harley MS 2316
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2316
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- Collections of Theological, Hagiographical and Legendary Prose and Verse; 14th cent., 2nd half. Latin. Copies. The manuscript is a composite miscellany of theological, hagiographical and legendary prose and verse, including verses on plague (f. 16; item 1) and a medical recipes (f. 26v; item ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 14th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
18. Harley MS 2318
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2318
- Title:
- Arthur Capell's prayers and devotional texts
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: f. 1v: ‘Made by Docter Willet of Barle and by him sent to Sir Arthure Capell in his long sicknes’. ff. 2r-7v: ‘A frughtfull exhortation to a sicke person to prepare against his end’. ff. 8r-10r: ‘A prayer for one that is sick’. ff. 11r-13v: English prayers with biblical citatio...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1600-1638
- Extent:
- 1 volume
19. Harley MS 2319
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2319
- Title:
- Mrs. Babylon's Looking-glass: or, a Brief Description of the Doings in Satan's Synagogue, otherwise called the Church of England, who is mounted upon the Beasts, and agoing with Speed in the Wide Way of Destruction
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript was recorded missing in 1824. The contents according to the printed Harley catalogue (1808) were as follows: 'A thin Book in 8vo. seeming to have been copied, incorrectly enough, by some Lawyers Clerk, toward the end of King Charles the seconds Reign. It is entituled, "Mrs. ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
20. Harley MS 2320
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2320
- Title:
- Miscellany of treatises relating to prognostication, astrology and braiding in verse and prose
- Scope & Content:
- The miscellany comprises texts on prognostication, astrology and braiding. Medical recipes and other notes were added at a later stage to the endleaves (ff. 71r, 74r). Contents include: 1. Calendar (ff. 1r-4v); 2. Prognostication attributed to Bartholomew of Parma (ff. 5r-30v); 3. A lunar...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, English, Middle, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century-17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume