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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 532, ff 11r-44r
Title:: A Discourse of the Buisines of Ambyona in Anno Domini 1624
Scope & Content:: A Discourse of the Buisines of Ambyona in Anno Domini 1624,relates to the Ambyona massacre of 1623 in which ten Englishmen in the service of the British East India Company were tortured and executed by agents of the Dutch East India Company on Ambon Island (now Indonesia).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century, after 1624
Extent:: 34 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1752, f 14
Title:: Ὀρφικὴ εἰς Δία θεολογίας inc. Ζεὺς πρῶτος, Ζεὺς ὕστατος ἀρχιγένεθλος. ed. G. Hermann, Orphica, 1805, fragm. VI, 9-15, 41-42.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 70r-85v, ff 70r-81r
Title:: Richard de Fournival, Bestiaire d'amour
Scope & Content:: Richard de Fournival, Bestiaire d'amour (Bestiary of love), incipit: 'Tote gent desirent par nature a saver'. Decoration: The text is illustrated with ink drawings: Author talking to a woman; Author teaching; Author at work; Author presenting his book to a woman (f. 70r); Knights on horseback...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 12 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3318, ff 59-60
Title:: (8). Fragment of Dicaearchus Apparently copied from Leiden University Library, Vossius MS gr. O.15, ff. 90-96 (A. Diller, The Tradition of the Minor Greek Geographers, Oxford 1952, pp.31-32 (cod. e7)).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5579, ff 198-210
Title:: (κδʹ). Athanasius of Alexandria, Epistula II ad Serapionem. PG 26.608; CPG 2094. Tit. Ταῦτ' ἐκ τῶν προειρημένων κατ' ἐπιτομὴν ἐγράφη.... inc. Ἐγὼ μὲν ἐνόμιζον καὶ οὕτως ὀλίγα γεγραφέναι.
Scope & Content:: Epistula II ad Serapionem. PG 26.608; CPG 2094
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 1320-1321
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 166
Title:: Journal of the House of Commons and Parliamentary Papers of Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Volume 5
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume. Contents: ff. 1-274: Continuation of the journal of the House of Commons compiled and partly written by Sir Simonds D’Ewes. Some of this has been written on scrap paper, including printed sheets. 13 February 1643 [1644]-3 November 1645. ff. 275-275v: Ordinance of Parli...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1644-1648
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 625, ff 1v-6v
Title:: Abd-al-Rahman al-Sufi, Tables from the Book of the constellations of the fixed stars (Kitab suwar al-kawakib) in a Latin translation
Scope & Content:: The tables extracted from Abd-al-Rahman al-Sufi (b. 903, d. 986), Book of the constellations of the fixed stars, an adaptation of Ptolemy's catalogue of stars from the Almagest, but without descriptions of the constellations.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century, before 1372
Extent:: 6 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5678, ff 198v-223
Title:: Dionysius the pseudo-AreopagiteLetters 1-10. PG 3.1065. Each letter is followed by the paraphrase of Georgios Pachymeres (PG 4.433).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5675, ff 3-144v
Title:: Theodore Balsamon, Collection of Ecclesiastical Laws drawn from the works of Justinian. PG 138.1077. Imperfect, expl. (1328B) συμφέροντι μετ' ἀλλήλους ποιεῖσθαι· λείπει τίτλος γʹ. Tit. 3 is included in the table of contents on ff. 98-100. Another table is on ff. 3-10v
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1752, ff 11-13
Title:: Proclus, Hymns 1-7. Procli Hymni, ed. E. Vogt (Klassisch-philologische Studien, 18), Wiesbaden 1957.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

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