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1141. Harley MS 3865

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3865
Title:
Robert Henryson, Fables
Scope & Content:
A series of 13 verse fables with moralisations, and two prologues, containing altogether 2968 lines, arranged in 416 seven-line stanzas and 7 eight-line stanzas. The author, Robert Henryson, is thought to have composed this text during the 1470s (Ward, Catalogue of Romances (1893), II, 354), usi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1571
Extent:
1 volume

1142. Harley MS 3873

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3873
Title:
Registra brevium for 1654 and 1655, and ‘A Breviary of Suffolk’ by Robert Ryece
Scope & Content:
Manuscript containing collections of writs for 1654-1655 and Robert Ryece’s ‘Breviary of Suffolk’. Contents: ff. 1, 1*, 1**: preliminary pages with pen trials, doodles and names. Names: ‘Mr Thomas Ruse’ (f. 1*), Richard Hankbee… 1664’ (f. 1**). ff. 2-9: Collection of writs for 1654 and 1655. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1143. Harley MS 3885

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3885
Title:
John Scottowe, Alphabet book, with English and Latin phrases
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-24v: John Scottowe, Alphabet book, with English and Latin phrases; inscribed 'Mr Tharlton' (inside the letter 'T') with a poem about him, beginning, 'The picture here set down, / Within this letter T, / Aright doth shew the form and shape / Of Tharlton unto thee' (f. 19r). Ric...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1144. Harley MS 3902

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3902
Title:
Scope & Content:
Composite Miscellany relating to Computus and Medicine; 14th cent. Latin. Copies. The cataloguing of this manuscript was funded by the Wellcome Trust and only the texts relating to regimen of health and medicine are itemised here. The miscellany includes: a) Alexander de Villa Dei, Tractatu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item

1145. Harley MS 3910

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3910
Title:
Verse miscellany of Latin and English poems
Scope & Content:
Octavo verse miscellany of Latin and English poems by various authors, in several hands. Many of the texts are presented in parallel Latin and English versions. Compiled c. 1620s-30s and probably associated with a university or inns of court. Contents: ff. 1r-3v: ‘Lidford Journey’. First line:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1620-1639
Extent:
1 volume

1146. Harley MS 3918

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3918
Title:
Manuscript miscellany of treatises and poems by Robert Whitehall and Mary More
Scope & Content:
An octavo manuscript miscellany containing treatises and poems by Robert Whitehall (bap. 1624-d. 1685), fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and the writer and artist Mary More (d. c. 1713). Also includes other miscellaneous verses and recipes for 'Jelly of Hartshorn' (ff. 39v and 45v) and a treatm...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1670-c 1674
Extent:
1 item

1147. Harley MS 3918 and 6932

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3918 and 6932
Title:
Two manuscripts containing verse and treatises
Scope & Content:
2 separate manuscripts which have been bound together. Harley MS 3918 contains treatises and poems by Robert Whitehall and Mary More. Harley MS 6932 contains Latin and English poems by Payne Fisher.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 17th century-Late 17th century
Extent:
1 volume (2 items)

1148. Harley MS 3919/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3919/1
Title:
A discourse written by Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire, in defence of his marriage with Penelope Rich
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8v: Charles Blount (b. 1563, d. 1606), 1st Earl of Devonshire, 'A discourse written by me Earle of Devonshire in defence of his marriage with the Lady Riche [Penelope Rich (b. 1563, d. 1607)]'. The manuscript contains an addition: ff. [vi]recto-[vi]verso: A fragmentary leaf...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

1149. Harley MS 3939

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3939
Title:
Gospel of St John with gloss
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-49v: Gospel of St John with glossa ordinaria. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 49v: A practice sentence in English: 'Ryght worshypfull [crossed out]'; written in the (?) 16th century.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
1 volume

1150. Harley MS 3970

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3970
Title:
Register of Bath Priory
Scope & Content:
Register of grants and leases from the time of Prior William Holleway (1525–39). f. 1v: Bond of Richard, rector of Walcot, to pay an annual pension of 135s. 4d. to the Convent. f. 2r: Power of attorney to receive rents for the Convent. f. 2v: Bond of Prior and Convent for £100 to secure £61 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1525-1539
Extent:

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