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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3237
Title:: St Jerome, Epistles
Scope & Content:: The first volume of a collection of St Jerome's letters. The second volume is Salisbury Cathedral MS 143. This volume contains items 1-51 of the 117 items listed at the end of Salisbury Cathedral MS 143. Contents: ff. 1r-106v: St Jerome, Epistles. The manuscript contains a few later addition...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3247
Title:: Commentary on the Psalms; Raymond of Penyafort, Summa de matrimonio; Isaac Judeus, Dietae universales; Arabic-Latin glossary; Galen of Pergamon, In Hippocratis Prognosticum Commentaria tria
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a composite miscellany, consisting of six parts of different origins (ff. 1-28, 29-38v, 39-48v, 49-60v, 61-61v, 62-69v). It features texts that principally relate to theology, canon law, and medicine, including a commentary on the Psalms and the Summa de matrimonio, a treatise...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Latin
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3341
Title:: Statutes of Edward III and Richard II
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-234r: Statutes of Edward III and Richard II in French, including a table of contents (ff. 1-11v). The manuscript contains a later addition: ff. 235v-236v: Unfinished practice sentences in English: 'At my begynnynge god by Spa' and 'To my Ryght worshpfull'; added in the 16th c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3346
Title:: Georgius Hermonymus, Collectio Sententiarum Aurearum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2v-33r: A collection of Greek moral sayings (Collectio Sententiarum Aurearum) that closely resembles a similar collection in Harley MS 3348, including a Prologue with dedication by Georgius Hermonymus (b. 1452, d. 1508), who compiled the sayings, translated them from Greek ito Lat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1475-c 1476
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3348
Title:: Georgius Hermonymus, Collectio Sententiarum Aurearum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-28r: A collection of Greek moral sayings (Collectio Sententiarum Aurearum) that closely resembles a similar collection in Harley MS 3346, including: (1) a Prologue by Georgius Hermonymus (b. 1452, d. 1508), whose name is not present in this manuscript but who, as Harley MS 334...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1475-c 1476
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3363
Title:: Meditationes ad quendam monacum anachoritam; Speculum sacerdotum; Speculum peccatoris; Speculum conversacionis honestae; Doctrina laicorum; Decem signa divini amoris et de malis sacerdotis; legal formularies
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript contains theological and legal works in Latin and English that were copied in the 15th and early 16th centuries. The manuscript can be divided into eight parts (Part 1 is ff. 2r-18r; Part 2 is ff. 19r-47v; Part 3 is ff. 48r-58v; Part 4 is ff. 59r-66v; Part 5 is ff. 67r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3364
Title:: Edward Paynton, Discourse of Court and Courtiers
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-65v: Edward Paynton, Discourse of Court and Courtiers, 1633; dedicated to James, Duke of Lennox. Decoration: Small initials with penwork decoration in brown ink.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1633
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3378
Title:: Ecclesiastical precedent book; an Ordinal
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 5r-110v: Ecclesiastical precedent book [Formulae Instrumentorum in Curiis Eccleasiasticis visitatorum] featuring example letters, and laws on testaments and divorce, with sections entitled: 'Libellus in causa divorcij racione magistri de facto coniuncti infra etatem'; 'Justificaci...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3383
Title:: Collection of medical texts and recipes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4r: A Middle English treatise on urine, beginning imperfectly: 'But yf the malyncole and the fleumatyk make þe suche than hy buthe yn a[…] oþer in a fever tercian. Nowe speke we of twey rede urynys with a whyte resydeus scheweth a man bue en a fever'; ending: 'and lete hyn use ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3437
Title:: William Teshe, Poem on the Order of the Garter for Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: Contents: William Teshe, Verses on the Mottoes of the Queen, sixteen of the Knights and the Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, 1582 [presentation copy for Queen Elizabeth I]. Decoration: Coats of arms of the members, in colours and gold surrounded by the garter and combined with the Lat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1582
Extent:: 1 volume

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