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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6876
Title:: Geoponica. Collation by Peter Needham of the 1538 Basel edition and Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. f. 3.18 (once owned by Christopher Longolius) and MS Barocci 54, together with readings added to the margins of a copy of the Basel edition owned by Sir John Cotton from a manuscript once owned by Saracenus. Prepared for use in Needham's 1704 edition.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: c 1700-1703
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6882
Title:: Geographical description of the four parts of the world and of the state and trade of the countries therein; prophecies of Paul Grebner
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a description of the world in English and an account of the prophecies of Paul Grebner (fl. b. c. 1563, d. 1582) that were most likely written between c. 1625 and c. 1650. The manuscript also includes a late Elizabethan indenture that has been folded and added to create ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1625-c 1650
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 685
Title:: Asser, The Annals of St Neots; Chronicon Johannes Pike; Chronicon Roberti de Redding; Chronica Adami Myrimouth
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*r: A table of contents. f. 2*r: A title-page: ‘Asserij Menevensis Annales ex antiquissimo Codice descripti’. ff. 1r-45r: Asser, The Annals of St Neots, here entitled: ‘Annales ad annum 914’ ['ex antiquissimo Codice descripti'; ‘Codice Doctoris Gale ad A. D. 914’]. ff. 46r-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1863
Title:: Duets, cantatas, and operatic numbers by Italian composers of the second half of the 17th century
Scope & Content:: ff. 1-25 and 99b-156b passim. Duets, with a figured bass, in score, by Italian composers of the second half of the 17th century. 1. 'Spiega un volo cosi altiero.' 'Luiggi Rossi.' f. 1b. 2. 'Oc[c]hi quai vaghi azuri.' Anonymous. f. 4b. 3. 'Tu sarai sempre...il mio bene.' 'Luigi Rossi.' f. 8b. 4. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: Late 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3826
Title:: Alcuin, De orthographia; Bede, De orthographia; Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Bella Parisiacae urbis; and other grammatical texts
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains texts on vocabulary and scribal practices and glossaries. It includes: ff. 1r-24r: Alcuin, De orthographia (incomplete); ff. 24v-71r: Bede, De orthographia; ff. 71v-84r: Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Bella Parisiacae urbis, book III; ff. 84r-86v: text beginning ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: late 10th-early 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3905
Title:: Disputationes in quatuor libros Aristotelis de coelo et mundo; Disputationes in tres libros Aristotelis de anima
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-41v: 'Disputationes in quatuor libros [Aristotelis] de coelo et mundo'. ff. 42r-183r: 'Disputationes in tres libros Aristotelis de anima'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5074
Title:: The Lord's Prayer, Ave Maria, Creed, Confession; Sermons (Advent Sunday-Palm Sunday); Passion narrative; Sermons (Easter Sunday-Sunday of the Holy Fathers)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4v: The Lord’s Prayer, Hail Mary, Creed, and a confession of the Deadly Sins in Middle German, introduced as a ‘useful book for Christian people’ ('nuttelyc booc den kersten menschen'). ff. 5r-87v: A collection of sermons on the Gospels in Middle German, organised according t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German, Middle High
Date Range:: 1460
Extent:: A paper codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1065
Title:: On the offices of Lord Steward, Lord High Constable, and Earl Marshall, and their jurisdictions; and a collection of extracts from records in the Tower of London 1323-1327
Scope & Content:: Composite volume of antiquarian tracts in several professional hands, belonging to John Anstis (1669-1744), Garter King of Arms. In two main parts. f. 1*: Dedication from John Anstis to Robert Harley. Latin. Part 1 (ff. 1-90). Collected extracts on the office of Lord Steward, Lord High Consta...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: Early 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2449
Title:: An office book, providing texts for the Divine Office on feast days in the summer half of the liturgical year
Scope & Content:: An office book providing texts for the Divine Office on feast days in the summer half of the liturgical year. It is not a full breviary and it appears to lack lections and music. Contents: ff. 1r-18v: A calendar with added obits (see Provenance). ff. 19v-118r: Temporale (from Easter to the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6700
Title:: Copies of the Book of Knights’ Fees of Leicestershire; catalogue of the market and fair towns; Spiritual Receipts and Escheators and Inquisitors of Leicestershire
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-17r: ‘Computus Johannis Saunderstedd, vicecomitis Leicestrensis, Philippi Polwill, et Willielmi Nevill de Rearefbie, collectorum rationabilis auxilii in comitatu praedicto, domino regi Edwardo tertio concessi ad primogenitum filium suum militem faciendum, anno regni ejusdem reg...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1601
Extent:: 1 volume

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