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181. Harley MS 3749

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3749
Title:
John Norden, Survey of the Honor of Windsor
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a survey of the Honor of Windsor that was made by the cartographer John Norden (b. c. 1547, d. 1625) for King James I in 1607. The manuscript contains 17 maps that are the result of a survey conducted on foot by Norden. The maps in this volume show communication routes, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1607
Extent:
1 volume

182. Harley MS 3978

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3978
Title:
A French translation of the Psalter and Canticles, with Peter Lombard's prologue to the Psalms in French, and other spiritual and moral texts, including 'Les Dits de saint Augustin'; the Office of the Dead in French; 'Les meditations Saint Anseaume'; 'Le Mireoir du monde'
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a French translation of the Psalter and Canticles, with Peter Lombard's prologue to the Psalms in French, and other spiritual and moral texts, dating from the second half of the 14th century. It is written in a dialect that replaces the 'c' sound with 'ch', as in 'cheulx...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century-2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

183. Harley MS 3983

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3983
Title:
Aimon de Varennes , Florimont; Chronicle of Rheims
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-82v: Aimon (or Aimé) de Varennes, Florimont, incipit: 'Cil qui a cuer de vacelage', explicit: 'Adonc fu retrais par Aymon' with the colophon ending 'Le tiers jour de lassumption acompli sa devotion'. The poem was composed by Aimon de Varennes at Chatillon d'Azergues in the For...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and French, Old
Date Range:
1323
Extent:
A parchment codex, 114 folios

184. Harley MS 3996

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3996
Title:
Nicolas de Nicolay, Navigation de la Mer
Scope & Content:
An account of James V’s navigation round Scotland in 1540 written by Nicolas de Nicolay (1517-83), royal geographer and lord of Arfeuille et Bel-Air. Based upon the pilot book of James’ navigator, Alexander Lindsay. A presentation copy for Cardinal Charles de Lorraine (1524-74). De Nicolay would...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1547-1566
Extent:
1 volume

185. Harley MS 3999

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3999
Title:
Collection of devotional texts
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes a miscellany of devotional texts produced in one campaign as a collection: ff. 1r-24r: Le trésor attributed to Jean de Meun, rubric: 'Icy commence le tresor maistre Jehan de Mehun', incipit: 'O glorieuse trinite'. ff. 25r-65v: Pierre de Nesson, Les vigiles des morts, ru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1430-c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

186. Harley MS 4013

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4013
Title:
Coats of arms of English nobility
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-25r: Coats of arms of English nobility (9 per page). f. 26r: A single coat of arms with the motto: ‘Nihil Sol Clarius’. f. 26v: A blazon for the arms of ‘T[?er]ither’. ff. 27r-30r: An alphabetical index of family names. Decoration: Coats of arms, tricked, drawn in blac...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

187. Harley MS 4021

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4021
Title:
Registrum brevium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-199r: Registrum brevium, including a table of contents (ff. 2r-5v). The manuscript contains several additions: f. [ii]verso: An erased (? ownership) inscription. f. 1v: Legal note in Law French added in the (?) 17th century. f. 122r: Oonsteth'; added in the (?) 15th centu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

188. Harley MS 4033

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4033
Title:
English coats of arms with a history of English kings before the Conquest
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: The arms of the kings of England before the Conquest. ff. 4r-28r: A short history of the kings of England from the Conquest to Queen Elizabeth together with arms and intermarriages. ff. 29r-61v: Lists of the arms of knights and nobility in the time of Edward I and II, o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

189. Harley MS 4146

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4146
Title:
An English Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-242r: An Alphabet of Arms with blazons of English coats of arms in French heraldic terminology. Decoration: Heraldic elements and coats of arms drawn and tricked in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1572
Extent:
1 volume

190. Harley MS 4324

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4324
Title:
Guy du Faur, Les Quatrains and Les Cinquante octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, written by Esther Inglis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Les Quatrains and Les Cinquante octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, two poetic works by Guy de Faur (b. 1529, d. 1584), Seigneur de Pibrac, written by the English calligrapher and artist Esther Inglis (b. 1570/71, d. 1624) in 1614. The manuscript features...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1614
Extent:
1 volume

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