Harley MS 6824

Contents:

ff. 2r-9r: 'Proverbs and Aphorisms divine and morall, Collected as they were at sundrie times spoken by his most excellent Maiestie James the first, King of England'.

ff. 10r-11v: An inscription of the pedestal of Queen Anne's statue at Blenheim, signed by Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (b. 1660, d. 1744), in 1738.

ff. 12r-14r: 'The Copy of a Letter directed to John Woodward at Gresham College London, Subscribed Thomas Shaw and Dated Algiers June 8 1722, under which date, and in Dr Woodwards hand writing are these words, viz. of the Nitre of Egypt [and] Of the petrified Village of Ras-Sem in the Kingdom of Tripoli in Barbary'.

ff. 15r-17r: 'The Adventures of (Mr. T. S.) An English Merchant, Taken Prisoner by the Turks of Argiers, and carried into the Inland Countries of Africa. With a Description of the Kingdom of Argiers, of the Towns and Places of Note thereabouts'; copied from a print sold by 'Moses Pitt at the White Hart in Little Britain, 1670'.

ff. 18v-19r: A letter by George (?) Harbin concerning the 'Memorial of the Tripoline Envoy concerning the Petrified Town [Ras-Sem] in his Countrey'; dated 3 December 1728.

ff. 20r-23r: A French version of Harbin's account of the 'petrified town', dated 1728; followed by testimonies and witnesses, apparently written in the hand of George Harbin, dated 7 November 1728

ff. 24r-29v: 'Mr Downes His Remarks upon Dr Woodwards Shield', written in Latin.

f. 30r: An English tract on the Stanton Drew stone circles as seat of the Archpriest of the Druids in Britain.

ff. 31r-32v: The inscription and weight of the Bell called 'Great Tom' at Westminster, dated 1690.

ff. 33r-33v: Ecclesiastical notes relating to Ireland, beginning: 'Thomas lockwood Deane of the Cathederall Church of the Blessed Trinity within the Cittie of Dublin, and the Chapter of the [? Caahter] of the same, did grante a leace of one house in skiner rowe for the terme of three score yeare and one to Richard Barry Alderman of the Cittie of Dublin, and William Bushop Alderman of the same Cittie'; addressed to James Ussher (b. 1581, d. 1656), Archbishop of Armagh, 182 ['Mr Ussher Bishop'] on f. 33v.

f. 34r: A note on the alleged tombstone of Isabel Marshal (b. 1200, d. 1240), countess of Cornwall [without the draught to which it refers], beginning: 'The Draught of a Stone & broken Inscription lately found in the field near his Grace the Duke of Mountagues Seat at Bewly (i.e. Beaulieu) in Hampshire, where the Church formerly stood that belonged to the Abby. it is suppos'd to be the Tomb Stone of Isabel third Daughter of William Marshall Earl of Pembroke Widow of Gilbert de Clare Earl of Gloucester and afterwards first wife of Richard Plantagenet 2nd son of King John'.

f. 34v: A list of names, beginning with 'Sir Gerard Coniers'.

f. 35r: A letter by Christopher Hunter concerning a stone with a Greek inscription (replicated in ink below the letter), addressed to a 'Honored Dr'; dated 'Durham March 14th 1726'; beginning: 'I hope the Inscription I send will answer your Copy: the natural rudeness of the Stone, and some fissures on the front of the Altar caused by fire (wherewith it was tinged when I first copied it Anno 1702) occasioned several strokes in my first copy'.

f. 36r: A Latin inscription from a stone [apparently found in Bath], replicated in ink: 'IVLIVS VITALIS FABRICIESIS LEG[IONIS]. XX V[ALERIÆ] V[ICTRICIS] STIPENDIORVM IX ANNOR[UM] XXIX. NATIONE BELGA EX COLLEGIO FABRICE[NSIUM] ELATVS H. S. E.'; with practice sentences in Greek below it.

ff. 37r-37v: A Latin inscription from a stone [apparently found at the Roman fort Brememium at Rochester, Northumberland], replicated in pencil; addressed to 'Mr Robert Cay at His House in Westgate Newcastle'; beginning: 'DEO INVICTO [ET] SOLI SOC[IO] SACRUM'.

ff. 38r-39vr: A description and replica of an altar stone dedicated to the Genius Loci found at Chester, beginning: 'PRO SAL[UTE] DOM[I]N[ORU]M N[OSTRORUM INVICT[I]SSIMORUM AVG[USTORUM] GENIO LOCI'.

f. 40r: A Latin inscription from a stone that was found in Redesdale, Northumberland, beginning: 'DEO INVICTO [ET] SOLI SOC[IO] SACRUM'.

ff. 41r-41v: A note and replica of an inscription from a stone that was found at Dorchester 'in a Field called the Hempecroft' in 1731; beginning: 'I. O. M. ET NIMB AVG'.

f. 42r: A Latin inscription 'Found on an Whip handle, among the Ruins of St Albans monastry, [...] Thomas Kettle', which attributes it to a 'Gislebertus de Novo Castello'.

f. 43r: A printed drawing of a silver goblet with a Cyrillic inscription found in Hereford.

f. 44r: A facsimile of a Latin inscription from stone over the door of Temple Church, London, which broke into pieces during repairs, made by George Holmes, beginning: 'Anno ab incarnatione domini MCLXXXV dedicata est hec ecclesia in honore beate marie a domino eraclio dei gracia sancte resurectionis ecclesie patriarcha IIII idus februarii [...]'.

f. 45r: An inscription from Houghton Hall, Norfolk, beginning: 'Fundamen ut essem Domus In Agro Natali Extruendae, Robertus ille Walpole Quem nulla nesciet Posteritas: Faxit Deus'.

f. 46r: A Latin inscription found at the Hospital of God, Greatham, Durham: 'Ædificium hoc extrui curavit Dormerus Parkhurst Arm . Hujus Hospitalis Magister Et comitatus Palatini Dunelmensis , Cancellarius Temporalis'; dated 1725.

f. 47r: A letter by William Spencer, dated 25 June 1720, about the discovery of gold Roman coins near Walltown, Northumberland: 'The Gold found at Bavenys wood alias Babyes wood was in a Cart Rout amongs old Coal pitts about 2 year past some of the Inscription Caesar Augustus Julius Caesar'.

ff. 48r-49r: A letter by John Glover, dated 13 April 1723, about the discovery of copper (? Celtic) coins in Whaddon, Buckinghamshire, addressed to Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer; beginning: 'I not being present when the Copper Coins war Discovered it fell into severall hands that war at that time theire'.

f. 50r: A printed text (poorly) replicating an Arabic inscription in a floriated Kufic script, bound upside-down, with added notes in English: 'An inscription on a marble pillar brought from the [? City] of Alexandria in Egypt being there buried in the sands now in [...]'.

ff. 51r-52v: 'An account of a Roman urn transcribed from a letter wrote by the Reverend Mr Lamb of Southwell April 15 1709'.

ff. 53r-54r: 'Jacobi cappelli declaratio de Editione operum posthumorum parentis sui patruique'; dated 'Londini postridie Cal. Novembres MDCLXXXIX [1689]'.

ff. 55r-68v: An English treatise [with later additions], entitled: 'The greatest Secret to dress Horses in the Manage'

ff. 69r-78v: Edward of York, The Master of Game.

ff. 79r-99v: 'Thesis de Usura etial lege humana permissa authore Lanceloto Andrews, proposita in scholis publicis pro assequendo Baccalaureatus in S. S. Theologia gradu Cantabrigiae decimo Kalendas Maii 1585'.

ff. 100r-118v: Collection of copies of learned letters in Latin and French, dated 1638-1654

ff. 119r-131r: 'Guilelmi Oughtredi, Elementi decimi Euclidis illustratio Item de Solidis regularibus tractatulus. Ex manuscript: suis desumpt: per Guilel: Forster 1631'.

ff. 132r-146r: A geometical treatise on the sphere and cylinder, in English, untitled; taken from David Rivault's edition of Archimedes; featuring various diagrams in brown ink.

ff. 147r-159v: A copy of Giacomo [or Jacopo] Zabarella (b. 1533, d. 1589)'s In duos Aristotelis libros Posteriores Analyticos comentarii (Venice, 1582), entitled: 'Jacobi Zabarellae Patavini in duos Aristotelis libros posterois Analyticos Comentarij'; copied in the late 16th- or early 17th century.

ff. 160r-161v: 'Quaestiones ex Physicis'; copied in the late 16th or early 17th century.

f. 162r: 'Quaestiones ex libris de generatione et corruptione'; copied in the late 16th or early 17th century.

ff. 163r-164v: 'Annotationes in libros de generatione et corruptione'; copied in the late 16th or early 17th century.

ff. 165r-165v: 'De Tyrannide'; copied in the late 16th or early 17th century.

ff. 166r-166v: 'An utilius domi quam in scholis publicis educentur'; copied in the late 16th or early 17th century.

ff. 167r-168v: Mecidal notes in Latin; copied in the late 16th or early 17th century.

ff. 169v-170v: Notes on the five senses in Latin; copied in the late 16th or early 17th century.

ff. 171v-174v: 'An Demonstrationes potissimae sint in Mathematicis'; copied in the late 16th or early 17th century.

ff. 175v-176v: 'An Sulphur et Argentum vivum sint materia metallorum'; copied in the late 16th or early 17th century.

ff. 177r-190v: 'A Discourse of Ways, Means, and Considerations upon the improving the Revenue of the State of Athens, made English from the Greek of Xenophon'.

ff. 191r-191v: An account of the services performed by Rev. Thomas Riddle, reader of St Giles's in the Fields, on a single Sunday as told at the funeral of 'the Reverend Mr Foard Curate of Mary Bone' on 24 June 1724.

ff. 192r-193v: An account of a curious light in the evening sky at Exmouth, accompanied by a sound 'exactly like the fireing of Cannons' and 'rattling which shaked the House'.

f. 194r: Traced copy of the gold trading permit bearing the seal of Sultan Tahmidullah of Banjar, with a presentation inscription in Malay to Bartholomew Swartz, dated 1714, entitled: 'An engraved facsimile copy of 'The Contract with the Emperor of Borneo (in the East Indies)'.

ff. 195-224v: An English author's report on customs and practices in the Imperial States of the Habsburg Netherlands, also known as the Seventeen Provinces, entitled: 'Three weekes observation of the States Countryes specially Holland'.

ff. 225r-243v: 'Relation de la Cour d'Allemaigne par le Chevalier Battiste Nani, Ambassadeur de Venize pres Leopold I.er'; dated 1665.