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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4236
Title:: Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic
Scope & Content:: The Elements of Law, a treatise on political theory and the origins of the state, was completed by Thomas Hobbes on 9 May 1640 (see f. 2v), dedicated to William Cavendish, 1st duke of Newcastle, and distributed in several manuscript copies produced by professional scribes. Another copy manuscrip...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1640
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5156
Title:: Collection of law cases and notes on law lectures
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-13v: Law cases in French and English; with on f. 12v the inscription: 'The Lawe off the Lord Resete in oure hartes Amen'. f. 14r: 'Damasus papa in epistola ad Jeronimum i'. ff. 15r-23v: Notes on lectures on Law by Reginald Corbell, written in French, dated to 1552, headed: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1552-c 1555
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6199
Title:: Statuts de l'Ordre de la Toison d'Or
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-77r: Statuts de l'Ordre de la Toison d'Or. The earliest copy of the Statutes of the Order of the Golden Fleece, with a register of chapters held from 1429 to 6 May 1481. Decoration: 1 miniature depicting the knights of the Order of the Golden Fleece, with a scatter border ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 1481-1486
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 395
Title:: Statutes of England
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-5v: 'Magna Carta'. ff. 5v-8r: 'Carta de Foresta'. ff. 8r-8v: 'Sententia Excommunicationis lata post confectionem Cartarum'. ff. 8v-11r: 'Provisiones de Merton'. ff. 11r-18r: 'Statuta de Marleberge'. ff. 18r-31v: 'Statutum Westmonasterii primum'. ff. 31v-35r: 'Statut...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2627
Title:: Cicero, De Amicitia
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-20r: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Amicitia (On Friendship). [f. 20v is blank]. Decoration: Large initial in green and blue ink with reserved designs (f. 1r). 4 coloured initials in green ink (ff. 2r, 7r, 11v, 15v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3487
Title:: Aristotle, Libri naturales
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes Aristotle, Libri Naturales (corpus vetustius), with glosses: Physica (ff. 4r-65v); De coelo et mundo (ff. 65v-121r); De generatione (ff. 121v-140v); Meteora, appended with Avicenna, De mineralibus (ff. 140v-173r); De anima (ff. 173r-197r); De memoria et reminiscenti...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4025
Title:: Liber thesauri occulti
Scope & Content:: f. 1r: Bury St Edmunds table of contents, including some works no longer found in the manuscript. ff. 2r–8r: Pascalis Romanus, Liber thesauri occulti. ff. 8r–78r: Achmet, trans. Leo Tuscus, Oneirocriticon (De sompniis et oraculis). ff. 78v–79v: Sermon on the encounter between Laban and Elieze...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 368
Title:: Collection of documents on Nottinghamshire, Wales, Clun, and regulating English ports; [Edward Stradling], The Winning of the Lordship of Glamorgan and Morgannok
Scope & Content:: A composite manuscript of 16th century transcripts and original documents on England and Wales. Contents: ff. [i-ii]: Modern list of old and new foliation. ff. 1r-3v: Transcripts and original documents of 16th century relating to the commons of Enfield. ff. 5r-20v: Transcripts and original d...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: Late 16th century - 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 922
Title:: Balthasaris Castilionis comitis de curiali sive aulico libri quatuor, ex Italico sermone in Latinum conversi. Bartholomaeo Clerke Anglo Cantabrigiensi interprete
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-49r: Baldassare Castiglione (b. 1478, d. 1529), Il Cortegiano [The Book of the Courtier] (1528); Latin translation of the Italian original by Bartholomew Clerke (b. c. 1537, d. 1590), published as Balthasaris Castilionis comitis de curiali sive aulico libri quatuor, ex Italico...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1472-c 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

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