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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3725
Title:: Chronicles of Hailes and Aberconwy abbeys
Scope & Content:: Composite volume: ff. 2–37 and ff. 38–81 were produced at different times, but it is likely that the latter was intended as a supplement to the first part, since the layout is identical. f. 1r: Modern note on Aberconway and Hailes. ff. 2r–31v: Chronicle of England, beginning, ‘Scibens Orosius ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3730
Title:: Brut Chronicle
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r-1v: John Hardyng, Metrical Chronicle, containing only the verses from the epilogue. ff. 2r-119v: The Brut Chronicle. Decoration: Several large initials in black ink.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3760
Title:: Thomas Brinton, Sermons
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-163v: Thomas Brinton, Sermones (26 sermons), entitled ‘D[omi]ni Thom[ae] Bruton Rof[ensi] Ep[iscopi] Sermones’; featuring some Middle English verse. Decoration: Medium blue initials and small red initials.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3765
Title:: Register of the chantry of St Saviour, Waterford
Scope & Content:: The only known surviving register of a medieval Irish chantry: f. 1*r: Original cover, with inscriptions. f. 1*v: Added theological commonplaces. ff. 1r–4v: Added documents on gifts to the chantry. ff. 5r–38r: General register, arranged topographically, opening with the chantry’s foundation ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1482-1480s
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3776
Title:: The ‘Codex ruber’ or ‘Waltham Abbey miscellany’, part 1
Scope & Content:: The first surviving fragment of a collection of miscellaneous religious and historical tracts. The medieval numeration of the contents indicates that the folios were formerly in a different order, with ff. 25–62 coming after ff. 94–117. Four other 14th-century manuscripts, which may or may not b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 1345-1360s
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3810
Title:: A composite Miscellany including a Romance in Verse, Moral and Devotional Poems, and Medical Texts and Recipes
Scope & Content:: A composite Miscellany including a Romance in Verse, Moral and Devotional Poems, and Medical Texts and Recipes; late 14th-15th cent. Middle English and Latin. The MS. is composite and comprises three MSS. of different origin divided into two volumes. Its cataloguing was funded by the Wellcome Tr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1360-1499
Extent:: 2 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3810/1
Title:: A composite Miscellany including a Romance in Verse, Moral and Devotional Poems, and Medical Texts and Recipes
Scope & Content:: See Harley MS 3810 for full description.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1360-1499
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3810/2
Title:: A composite Miscellany including a Romance in Verse, Moral and Devotional Poems, and Medical Texts and Recipes
Scope & Content:: See Harley MS 3810 for full description.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1360-1499
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3812
Title:: Physician's folding almanac
Scope & Content:: A portable physician's folding almanac with calendrical information. The manuscript includes: 1. Calendar canon (f. 1r); 2. Calendar (three months to a leaf, one month per half-leaf, the first displayed on versos, the following two on rectos) with lunar conjunctions of the 19-year Metonic cyc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1463
Extent:: 5 folded folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3814 A
Title:: Astronomical and astrological miscellany
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is the first volume of two. It is composed of four parts: I (ff. 1r-10v); II (ff. 11r-89v), III (ff. 90r-104v), and (ff. 105r-140v). Parts I and II were probaby bound together at an early date and formed a separate volume with ff. 1r-2v and 88r-89v + 1 as flyleaves. Parts III and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1230-1399
Extent:: 140 folios.

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