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3361. Harley MS 6221

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6221
Title:
An account of the voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1585; documents relating to Francis Drake's proceedings against Thomas Doughty
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-6v: An account of the voyage of Sir Francis Drake (b. 1540, d. 1596) in 1585, entitled: ‘Sir Frauncys Drakes voyage’. ff. 7r-13r: Documents relating to Francis Drake's proceedings against Thomas Doughty (b. 1545, d. 1578); written in a different 16th-century hand.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

3362. Harley MS 2577

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2577
Title:
Grammatical miscellany
Scope & Content:
Humanistic miscellany comprising classical, late antique and humanistic grammatical treatises. Contents: ff. 1r-91r: George of Trebizond, De Quatuor declinabilibus partibus ex Prisciani compendium. f. 91v: blank ff. 92r-123v: Priscian of Caesarea, Partitiones duodecim versuum Aeneidos princi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1475
Extent:
1 volume

3363. Harley MS 2595

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2595
Title:
Juvenal, Satires
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-69v: Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Satyrae. Decoration: 1 large blue initial with red pen-flourishing (f. 1r). 13 smaller red initials (ff. 4v, 7v, 14r, 17v, 20v, 34r, 38v, 54v, 58v, 61r, 64r, 66v, 67r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1471
Extent:
1 volume

3364. Harley MS 2670

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2670
Title:
Terence, Comoediae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript of the Comoediae (Comedies) of Publius Terentius Afer (Terence, d. c. 159 BC) has tall and narrow dimensions. Books of such dimensions are known as ‘holster books’ since they would be easy to suspend from a belt or holster (Kwakkel and Newton, Medicine at Monte Cassino (2019), pp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

3365. Harley MS 384

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 384
Title:
Correspondence of Simonds D’Ewes with his wife's family and his cousins
Scope & Content:
Letters written by the cousins and relatives by marriage of Simonds D'Ewes, chiefly to himself. Includes a few earlier family letters of the Clopton, Symonds and Waldegrave families. The letters show signs of original folds, addresses and broken wax seals. Contents: ff. 1-18: Letters from his s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1580-1649
Extent:
1 volume

3366. Harley MS 2370

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2370
Title:
Ars moriendi; Chronicle of England from the Creation to the year 1427
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-39v: Ars moriendi, beginning: ‘Cum de praesentis exilii miseria mortis transitus’; an added title inscription on f. 1r, written in a 16th-century hand, spuriously attributes the work to ‘Albertus Castellanus’. This may refer to Albertus de Castello, a Dominican friar, who edite...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3367. Harley MS 4386

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4386
Title:
Henry Suso, L'Orloge de sapience (translation attributed to Jehan de Souhaube)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-162v: L'Orloge de sapience, a French translation of Henry Suso’s Horologium Sapientiae attributed to Jehan de Souhaube, a Franciscan friar, in 1389. The manuscript contains a later addition: ff. [i]verso-1v, 163r-164r: household notes in French; added to blank leaves in the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3368. Harley MS 417

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 417
Title:
The second of two volumes of works and letters belonging to the martyrologist John Foxe
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-220v: The second of two volumes [the first volume is Harley MS 416] with collections of works and correspondence belonging to the martyrologist John Foxe (b. 1516/17, d. 1587). It includes an account of the life and death of Thomas Cranmer, featuring a printed leaf (ff. 92r-92v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1547-1575
Extent:
1 volume

3369. Harley MS 5580

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5580
Title:
Dionysius Periegetes, Orbis descriptio. Imperfect, comprising lines 1-793, 795-982. Acrostichs ff. 3v-4, 13-13v. Marginal notes and interlinear glosses (ff. 1-13) by the scribal hand in Latin.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 item

3370. Harley MS 5602

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5602
Title:
St John Chrysostom, Homiliae 1-55 in Acta Apostolorum. Imperfect . PG 60. 15, l. 32 - 383, l. 31 ; CPG 4426. Preceded by (ff. 1-3v) an imperfect table of contents listing homilies θ-μα.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
1 item

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