This manuscript contains four tracts; namely, an extract from a treatise by Agostín de Cravaliz, written in Rome (ff. 1r-69r); a draft of Louis du Moulin, Les Nouvelles Lumieres, Pour la composition De L'Histoire de L'Eglise (1680) (ff. 70r-121r); a copy of a Latin pamphlet printed in Rome (1645) (ff. 122r-129r); and a sermon by Gilbert Sheldon on John 20:23. Languages: Spanish, French, and Latin.
Large quarto. The pages of each tract have been detached from their original binding and separately mounted.
The bookseller Nathaniel Noel (fl. 1681-1753) purchased this manuscript on 18 January 1724. See Wright, p. 254.
The Harleian Library was founded by Robert Harley, First Earl of Oxford (1661–1724). According to Cyril Ernest Wright, Robert Harley ‘was primarily interested in English historical and political material and in volumes of sermons and theological controversy, sharing in the latter the taste of his Harley ancestors’. See Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani (London, 1972), p. xxxiv.
British Library online catalogue; A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, in the British Museum (1808), Vol. III, p. 36; Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani (London, 1972); Hannah Yip.
De potestate Clavium -- ff. 130r-138v