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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6157
Title:: Pedigrees of English families
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4r-15r: Pedigrees of English families, the latest is dated to ‘1572’ (f. 14v); featuring a copy of the inscription on the tomb of Sir John de Freville (d. 1312) in the Church of All Saints, Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire, with the following description of that tomb (f. 7r): ‘In S...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6547
Title:: Tractatus de Libero Arbitrio
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-35v: Tractatus de Libero Arbitrio. The manuscript contains a medieval endleaf: ff. 36r-36v: A fragment of the Pauline epistles (Romans 11:1-6), glossed; small blue and red initials with pen-work decoration in the opposite colour; copied in the 4th quarter of the 12th centu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 16th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6572
Title:: Collection of Protestant sermons
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-288v: A collection of French Protestant sermons. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. [289]recto: A list of books ('Virgill - Tulijs - Horace - Virgill - Testamenta - Grammar') and payments, added in pencil.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1550-1650
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7400
Title:: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Brutus
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-51r: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Brutus (De claris oratoribus).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 243
Title:: A collection of theological texts
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of theological texts. The manuscript's former binding is now stored separately as Harley MS 243/1. Contents: ff. 1r-23r: Theologia Naturalis hominem animalem convincens, Christum non ab extra Oculo Carnis, sed maxime ab intra esse cognoscendum, Mentis ni...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 405
Title:: Political and philosophical manuscript pamphlets
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*v-35v: ‘Leicestrensem Rempublicane: Anno Dom: 1584...Leycesters Common wealth...1615’. Catholic recusant political tract, published 1584, reprinted 1641, attributed to Robert Persons. f. 35v: ‘A godly and profitable meditation taken out of the 20th chapter of Jobe’. ff. 36-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 830
Title:: Historical, political and legal manuscripts
Scope & Content:: Historical, political and legal manuscripts in different hands, bound together. Contents: ff. 1-5: ‘Duke of Buckingham’s Relation’: report by the Duke of Buckingham to Parliament on his negotiation in Spain over the proposed marriage match between Charles, Prince of Wales, with the Infanta Mar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 991
Title:: Historical anecdotes of Richard Symonds
Scope & Content:: Collection of historical anecdotes about prominent people during the reign of King Charles I, the Long Parliament and the Protectorate, in particular stories against Oliver Cromwell. Written in a mixture of Italian and English by Richard Symonds. Includes an incomplete name index (ff. 1-3), gene...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1221
Title:: Moral, literary, and political tracts
Scope & Content:: Miscellaneous collection of essays, verse, speeches, and political papers. Includes two printed tracts on the death of Arthur Capel, Earl of Essex. Contents: f. 1*: Contents list ff. 1-12v: Copy of A System of Ethicks, by Charles Morton (1627-1698), minister and teacher at Newington Green Dis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1243
Title:: State papers and parliamentary journals
Scope & Content:: Various state papers and parliamentary journals bound together. ff. 1-107: Journal of the House of Lords, 26 November 1696 to 23 January 1697, with reference to the attainder of Sir John Fenwick. Also includes the following business: Charles Mordaunt, then Earl of Monmouth, later of Peterbor...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1661-1708
Extent:: 1 volume

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