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201. Harley MS 66

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 66
Title:
Transcripts of the Historia Sancti Albani scripta tempore Henrici III; excerpts from a register of Westminster Abbey attributed to Sulcard; excerpts from a cartulary of Abingdon Abbey; charters of the kings of Mercia, from King Oshere to King Alfred the Great; legal documents from the reign of Henry I to James I
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an early 17th-century collection of transcripts of historical and legal documents ranging from the 9th century to the 17th century. The legal documents are written largely in Latin, but some of the early documents also contain sections in Old English (ff. 61r-61v, 62r, 6...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

202. Harley MS 107

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 107
Title:
Ælfric, Grammar and Glossary; grammatical dialogue
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-71v: Ælfic, Grammar and Glossary, imperfect; ff. 71v-72v: A grammatical dialogue on declensions; f. 72v: A short text beginning, ‘[Christu]s regnat. Crist rixað', ending, 'Imperator. Casere’; f. 72v: A Latin glossary of names of birds (20 lines) and fish (2 lines) (f. 72v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

1 volume

203. Harley MS 110

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 110
Title:
Glossed copy of Prosper, Epigrammata ex sententiis S. Augustini; Versus ad coniugem; Isidore, Synonyma de lamentatione animae peccatricis; two leaves from a gradual
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-22v: Prosper, Epigrammata ex sententiis S. Augustini; with Old English glosses [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no. 526]. ff. 22v-24v: ? Prosper or Paulinus of Nola, Poema coniugis ad uxorem; with Old English glosses [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no. 531]. ff. 25r-53r: Isidore of Sevill...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
975-1050
Extent:

1 volume

204. Harley MS 307

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 307
Title:
Printed copy of William Lambarde's 'Archaionomia' with manuscript annotations
Scope & Content:
Printed copy of William Lambarde, Archaionomia, Sive De Priscis Anglorum Legibus libri, Cambridge, 1644, a collection of Anglo-Saxon laws in Latin and Old English, with manuscript annotations. This copy is the second edition, edited by Abraham Whelock (1593-1653). The annotations consist of vari...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

205. Harley MS 436

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 436
Title:
Cartulary of Wilton Abbey
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*r-v: a letter in the hand of George Hickes (b. 1642, d. 1715), bishop and antiquary, addressed to Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726), recording his gift of the manuscript to Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724). f. 2*r: a note concerning the ownership of the manuscript by the Earl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

206. Harley MS 438

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 438
Title:
A 'palaeographical' transcript of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 190 ('Archbishop Wulfstan's Handbook')
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r: notes by John and William Retchford. ff. 3r-413v: A 'palaeographical' transcript of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 190 ('Archbishop Wulfstan's Handbook').
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

207. Harley MS 440

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 440
Title:
Enlarged Rule of Chrodegang in Latin and Old English
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r: A title-page ‘Hic Liber videtur esse scriptus primo Latine per Theodorum Archipiscopum Septimum Cant. et per Ælfricum translatus Saxonice’. ff. 2v-72r: Enlarged Rule of Chrodegang in Latin and Old English. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1v: A note on the manu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

208. Harley MS 441

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 441
Title:
A transcript of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 121
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Various notes by Edmund Gibson. f. 2r: The Nicene Creed in Old English written by Edmund Gibson. ff. 3r-96r: A 'palaeographical' transcript of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 121 (Ecclesiastical Institutes, Homilies associated with Archbishop Wulfstan).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c 1688
Extent:
1 volume

209. Harley MS 526

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 526
Title:
Bede, Vita Sancti Cuthberti metrica (BHL 2020); Vita Venerabilis Bedae (BHL1069); Vita Ædwardi Regis (BHL 2421); fragment of Aelred of Rievaulx's Vita Sancti Edwardi regis and confessoris (BHL 2423) and the papal commissioners' report on St Hugh of Lincoln and Avalon; Vita Adae et Evae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains five parts: Bede's verse Vita S Cuthberti (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2020), copied in northern France at the end of the 9th century (ff. 1-27); a vita of Bede, copied in France or England in the first half of the 12th century (ff. 28-36v); the only surviving, i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
late 9th-14th century
Extent:
1 volume

210. Harley MS 533

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 533
Title:
Symeon of Durham, De exordio ecclesiae Dunelmensis; Charta Ecgfridi Northumbriae Regis; Historia de Ranulfo et alijs aliquot; Historia de sancto Cuthberto et de commemoratione Locorum Regionumque eius prisce possessionis a primordio usque nunc temporis; De situ Dunelmi et de Sanctorum reliquijs que ibidem continentur
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-99v: Symeon of Durham, De exordio ecclesiae Dunelmensis. f. 100r: Charta Ecgfridi Northumbriae Regis. ff. 100v-114r: Historia de Ranulfo et alijs aliquot. ff. 114r-129v: Historia de sancto Cuthberto et de commemoratione Locorum Regionumque eius prisce possessionis a primo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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