A composite volume of theological and miscellaneous tracts and papers in various hands. Notable items include an English translation of The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli and theological notes in the hand of Paul Dewes (1567-1630).
Folio. Modern half crushed morocco gilt.
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.
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, in the British Museum (1808), Vol. I, p. 211; CELM; Hannah Yip.
This manuscript is cited in Alessandra Petrina, Machiavelli in the British Isles: Two Early Modern Translations of The Prince (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009).