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81. Harley MS 216

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 216
Title:
Collection of numismatic and heraldic texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-236v: A numismatical work, recording coins in Belgium from 1500-1600. The manuscript contains several additions: f. 1*recto: Sayings in Latin and Greek, beginning 'Nummus vincit, nummus regnat, nummus imperat universis', added in the 17th century by 'Robert Appletont'. f. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

82. Harley MS 218

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 218
Title:
Collection of scientific, historical, and theological works, including Johann Lichtenberger, Prognosticatio; Pseudo-Aristotele, Problemata; John Lydgate, Testament; Meditations on the Supper; Honorius of Autun, Imago Mundi; Sextus Aurelius Victor, De viris illustribus; Jerome of Hereford's predictions for 1472; Commentary on the Ten Commandments; Treatise on the Computus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite miscellany consisting of eight different parts that were produced at different times. Parts 1 (ff. 2-49), 2 (ff. 50-51), and 5 (ff. 122-146) were all printed in the late 15th century. Part 3 (ff. 52-103) and 6 (ff. 147-158) were written by different 15th-century ha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-15th century
Extent:
1 item

83. Harley MS 219

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 219
Title:
Odo of Cheriton, Fabulae; a selection of tales from the Gesta Romanorum; Libre du gouvernement des roys et des princes, an anonymous French translation of the Secretum Secretorum; Christine de Pizan, Épistre de Othéa a Hector; glossary of terms in French, Latin, and Middle English
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite miscellany, made up of three parts (ff. 1-79; ff. 80-105 plus blanks; and ff. 106-153). It contains copies of the Fabulae (Fables) of the English preacher Odo of Cheriton (b. 1180/90, d. 1256/7), a selection of tales from the Gesta Romanorum (Deeds of the Romans), ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

84. Harley MS 227

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 227
Title:
Part of a theological treatise
Scope & Content:
Quarto manuscript volume, containing part of a theological treatise in the hand of Sir Simonds D'Ewes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

85. Harley MS 235

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 235
Title:
Statutes of the Order of the Garter
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–29r: A mid-16th-century heraldic manuscript. A note opposite f. 1r by Frederic Madden records that this manuscript is written in the same hand as Harley MS 567 (another heraldic manuscript). f. 1r: Names of the knights of the Garter, 1584. f. 1v: Gilbert Talbot, names of the knights of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1561-1592
Extent:

1 volume

86. Harley MS 240

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 240
Title:
Ordinary of Fees and Allowances
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-45r: A (?) copy of the Ordinary of Fees and Allowances paid by the King (? Edward VI) to his Officers and Ministers in England. Decoration: Calligraphically decorated initials throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1550
Extent:
1 volume

87. Harley MS 244

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 244
Title:
A collection of legal texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-50r: A report concerning laws that are repealed or expired. ff. 51r-56r: A table of laws that are repealed or expired. ff. 57r-57v: An English treatise entitled ‘Le preamble del Edw. Cooke sur les former lectures sur le Statute de Finibus Anno 27 E. 1’. ff. 58r-60r: A Fren...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

88. Harley MS 245

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 245
Title:
A miscellany of heraldic works by Robert Glover
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3*recto-6*recto: Indices of pedegrees, arms and seals in the manuscript. ff. 2r-168r: A miscellany of heraldic works by Robert Glover (b. 1543/1544, d. 1588), herald of Somerset [the original texts are in two manuscripts in the College of Arms]: see f. 2*recto: ‘Liber miscellana...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1600
Extent:
1 volume

89. Harley MS 246

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 246
Title:
A collection of heraldic and historical notes copied from older manuscripts and rolls
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A brief chronicle of the history of the world in Latin, beginning with an entry for Pope Gregory the Great, who first called himself the ‘servant of the servants of God’ (dated to 592); the source for this information is identified as a chronicle printed at Antwerp by Joha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1607-c 1625
Extent:
1 volume

90. Harley MS 247

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 247
Title:
A collection of transcripts from various historical works
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–225r: A collection of transcripts from various historical works. ff. 1r–3v: Collections from Book VII of Livy's History by M. Valerio Corvino. ff. 4r–5v: A tattered fragment of a brief and imperfect chronicle, which begins with a translation of Books II––V of Bede's Ecclesiastical Histo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

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