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2811. Harley MS 4136

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4136
Title:
Essex indentures and wills; accounts from a merchant of the Company of the Staple at Calais
Scope & Content:
A composite collection of indentures and last wills relating to Essex, compiled between 1580 and 1612, inter-mixed with copies of account rolls in an earlier hand, and leaves from an English cloth merchant's account book from the early 1540s. The latter's notes indicate that they were a merchant...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1540-c 1612
Extent:
1 volume

2812. Harley MS 4341

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4341
Title:
Eloges des Personnes Illustres de l'ancien Testament pour donner une teinture de l'Histoire Sainte
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-95r: 'Eloges des Personnes Illustres de l'ancien Testament pour donner une teinture de l'Histoire Sainte'; consisting of 46 sections with French poems on and engravings of Old Testament figures, from Adam until Herod; ending with a table (ff. 94r-95r). Decoration: 48 engraved...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2813. Harley MS 836

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 836
Title:
The Last Enstructions which the Emperour Charles the fiveth gave to his soune Philippe before his death
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-61v: A ‘copie of the Last Enstructions which the Emperour Charles the fiveth gave to his soune Philippe before his death translated out of Spanish’; preceded by an introduction by Henry Howard (b. 1540, d. 1614), 1st Earl of Northampton, addressed to Queen Elizabeth I.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

2814. Harley MS 886

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 886
Title:
William Flower and Robert Glover, The Visitation of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire (1569); The Visitation of Staffordshire (1566)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*recto-38v; 39v-40r: Visitation of Derbyshire, made by William Flower (b. 1497/98, d. 1588), Norroy King of Arms, and Robert Glover (b. 1543/1544, d. 1588), herald of Somerset, 1569; with some additions by Ralfe Brooke (b. 1553, d. 1625), Officer of Arms. ff. 39*recto-39*verso:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1566-1569
Extent:
1 volume

2815. Harley MS 1197/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1197/2
Title:
Treatise against Catholic doctrines; statutes, Letters Patent and charters relating to Canterbury; Charles Horn, poem in praise of Edmund Grindal; Johannes Vossius, Encomium in laudem Thomae Wolsey
Scope & Content:
The second of two volumes that comprise Harley MS 1197. The first volume is Harley MS 1197/1. A composite manuscript that consists of four parts that were produced separately in England in the 16th century. Part 1 (ff. 204v-317v) was written in the 1530s-1540s; Part 2 (ff. 318r-384v) was writ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1530-c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

2816. Harley MS 3021

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3021
Title:
Letters of Jerome and Ivo of Chartres; Quaestiones de Sanctorum Opusculis; Gilbert Crispin, Disputatio judaei et christiani
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8r: Jerome, Epistula ad Paulinum presbyterum de institutione clericorum vel monachorum (Letter to Paulinus the Priest on the teaching of clerics or monks), letter 58, glossed (beginning 'Bonus homo de bono thesauro cordis sui'). ff. 8r-12v: Jerome, Epistula ad Oceanum de vit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century-3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

2817. Harley MS 5393

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5393
Title:
A glossed Gospel concordance; Verba prophetarum per totum Adventum; Quid tu vides Ieremia chant with musical notation
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2v, 4r-4v, 112r-114r: notes in various 13th-century cursive hands. ff. 3r-3v: A fragment of Gemma Animae (Book 3, Chapter 72) by Honorius Augustodunensis. ff. 5r-80r: A glossed Gospel concordance. f. 80v: an early 13th-century Latin chant Quid tu vides Ieremia on nine red fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

2818. Harley MS 3140

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3140
Title:
Articella
Scope & Content:
Ars Medicinae, the compilation of medical texts of Greek, Byzantine, and Arabic origin that is known as the Articella. Since the early 12th century most texts were translated into Latin by scholars in the circle of the medical school of Salerno, and became the basis of the medical curriculum in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:

1 volume

2819. Harley MS 361

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 361
Title:
The queries of Sir Edmund Plowden, lawyer, and other legal texts
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume. Contents: ff. 1-67v: 'Les Quæres dle Monseiur Edmond Plowden, Apprentice dle Melieu Temple'. The queries of Sir Edmund Plowden, lawyer and legal theorist, of Middle Temple. ff. 68-74v: A judges charge to the jury, on the arraignment of some authors of the Martin Marprel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2820. Harley MS 416

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 416
Title:
Works and correspondence belonging to John Foxe, the martyrologist, vol. 1
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-220v: The first of a set of volumes with collections of works and correspondence belonging to the martyrologist John Foxe (b. 1516/17, d. 1587), including a letter of the German Protestant reformer Urbanus Rhegius (b. 1489, d. 1541) to a 'German Lady' translated into English; o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1529-c 1641
Extent:
1 volume

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