Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Language: English - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2414
Title:: Pedigrees of Welsh families; Chronicle of England
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were produced separately. The first part (ff. 1r-68v) mainly contains Welsh pedigrees, written in Welsh, largely copied by Llewelyn Sion in the 2nd half of the 16th century. The second part (ff. 70r-102v) contains a Chronicle of England, w...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Welsh
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2427
Title:: Psalms. Psalms and Proverbs in English, Latin, Hebrew and Greek in 4 columns on each page
Scope & Content:: Language : Hebrew The Psalms in Hebrew, unpunctuated and accompanied by Greek and Latin translation. Tehilim. תהילים Note: Contains a fragment of Proverbs, 20:14-30:33. Main text in Hebrew with vowel-points and accents, accompanied with a parallel Septuagint and a Latin version. The Psalms h...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Ancient, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:: 1600-1799
Extent:: 161 folios (ii+161+iii)

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2432
Title:: Vita Adae et Evae; Tractatus metricus penitentia; Richard Horton, Confessional formulary; Bernard of Clairvaux, De diligendo deo; Hugh of Saint-Victor, De tribus diebus; Tria sunt; Smaragdus, Diadema monachorum, and other theological works
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of theological works that were copied by 'Richard Horton' in the 15th century. The larger part of the manuscript contains hitherto unknown copies of a guide on Latin prose and poetry known as Tria sunt, based on Geoffrey of Vinsauf's Documentum de modo et ar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2488
Title:
Scope & Content:: Valerius Maximus, Memorabilia, and Texts relating to Medicine and Romances; early 15th cent. Latin. Copies. The cataloguing of this manuscript was funded by the Wellcome Trust. Only the text relating to medicine is itemised in the description; the non-medical texts are mentioned only summari...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: Early 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2519
Title:: Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3r: Preface. ff. 3v-13v: Table of contents. ff. 14r-80v: Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae; ending: 'Explicit liber Avicij Mansii Severini Boecij Exconsularis Ordinarij Patricij de consolacione philosophie - Magister W. fferon'. Decoration: Added ink sketch of a bear...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 193r-193v
Title:: Somniale Danielis, excerpt
Scope & Content:: Somniale Danielis, excerpt. A copy of the medieval dream interpretation handbook. This fragment covers the letters A to C. Incipit: 'Qui interpretationem alicuius sompni inquirit / sic faciat'. Copies of the complete text are Additional MS 15236 (ff. 161v-168v); Cotton MS Tiberius A iii (ff. 2...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2623
Title:: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De inventione, Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2-57v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De inventione. ff. 58-110: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium. Decoration: Large initials with yellow, brown and red decoration (ff. 2r, 58r). Smaller initials in red and yellow.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2668
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letters: Medicine and Surgery: Sermons: Composite collection of humanistic letters and orations, medical treatises and sermons: 15th cent., 1st half: Lat. and Enm: Copies.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2799
Title:: Bible ('The Arnstein Bible') (Job to Revelation)
Scope & Content:: Second volume of a Bible, known as 'The Arnstein Bible', including books from Job to Revelation. The first volume of this Bible is Harley MS 2798. Contents: f. 1r: Computistical diagram of a hand, with a note, incipit: 'Nemo deum pingit cuius manus'. ff. 1v-241r: Bible (Job to Revelation) inc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1172
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2809
Title:: Bible without the Psalms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 6r-362v: Bible without the Psalms, imperfect. The manuscript contains various additions: Numerous marginal annotations in medieval hands. f. 1r: Prayers to the Virgin Mary ('Ave Maria gracia plena'); added in the (?) 13th century. f. 1v: A list of 'Apocripha'; added in the (?...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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