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1. Harley MS 1-7661

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1-7661
Title:
Harley Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts collected by Robert Harley (d 1724) and Edward Harley (d 1741), 1st and 2nd Earls of Oxford. c 1300-c 1700. 7661 manuscripts
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, Arabic, Dutch, English, English, Middle, English, Old, French, French, Old, Georgian, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Irish, Irish, Old, Italian, Latin, Slavic languages, and Turkish
Date Range:
c 1300-c 1700
Extent:
7689 items

2. Harley MS 3

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3
Title:
John Mirfield, Breviarium Bartholomei, with glosses and recipes by John Dee
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the medical work of John Mirfield [Johannes de Mirfeld] (d. 1407), an ecclesiastic and medical writer, and chaplain of the hospital of St Bartholomew, Smithfield, in London. Towards the end of his life he wrote two encyclopedic works in Latin, the so-called Florarium Bar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1400
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 26

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 26
Title:
Speculum humanae salvationis
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–60v: Speculum humanae salvationis (in verse), ‘Incipit prohemium. cuiusdam noue compilacionis’. ff. 60v–61v: Added sermon on 2 Corinthians 6:2, in English, ‘Ecce nunc tempus acceptabile’. Decoration: Large initials in red. Capitals marked in red. Marginal annotations in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

4. Harley MS 43

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 43
Title:
Benedict Burgh, Cato Major; Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, translated into English by John Walton; William Cornysh, A Treatise between Enformacione and Musyke; A Balade of Trouthe (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-86v: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae: translated by John Walton; with the Latin text in the margins added at a later stage; possibly by Thomas Chaundler up to f. 29v. The manuscript contains several later additions: ff. 3r-3v: Benedict Burgh, Cato Major (imperfect); w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

5. Harley MS 44

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 44
Title:
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, in the English translation by John Walton
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-102r: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, in the English translation by John Walton. Other manuscripts containing this English translation of Boethius's work are [Royal MS 18 A XIII and Harley MS 43. Decoration: Large gold initials in a blue and red frame with foliate fe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

6. Harley MS 48

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 48
Title:
Le Livre de l'Informacion des Princes, and other texts concerning the nobility
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: An illegible Latin inscription. f. 1v: Two prayers to St George, beginning ‘Ave gemma anglie confors angelorum miles regis glorie spes que belatorum’; ‘Deus qui nos beati georgi martyris tui meritis et intercessione laetificas’; an unidentified Latin text (faded); with the n...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

7. Harley MS 53

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 53
Title:
Brut chronicle; a genealogy of the kings of Britain
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-11v: a genealogy of the kings of Britain from Adam to Henry VI ff. 14r-164v: the Brut chronicle. The manuscript contains later additions: f. 1r-1v: various verses and pen-trials. [ff. 12r-13r are blank]. Decoration: 1 full-page coat of arms and motto ascribed to the Stoke...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 61

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 61
Title:
Cartulary of Shaftesbury Abbey
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–124v: Cartulary of royal and other charters, based on an earlier landboc that was apparently arranged in chronological order, preserved here to some extent, e.g. with pre-conquest documents grouped, some in Old English (ff. 1r–22v), followed by a Middle English schedule of knight’s fees. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

9. Harley MS 63

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 63
Title:
An abridgment of the Brut chronicle
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-44v: An abridgment of the Brut chronicle to Henry VI. The manuscript includes later additions: f. 44v: a prayer by the Holy Name, beginning: 'Ihesu for thy holy name'. f. 44v: doodles and pen-trials.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 113

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 113
Title:
Statutes of the Hospital of Ewelme, Oxfordshire
Scope & Content:
f. 1r: Pen trials and inscriptions. Two parchment fragments have been pasted onto this folio. f. 2r: Inscription, 'Henricus octauus dei gracia', with ownership inscription of Richard St George. ff. 1–2** are four erased leaves of a text witten in Anglo-Norman. ff. 1v–2r are parchment leaves w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1456
Extent:

1 volume

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