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271. Harley MS 3520/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3520/1
Title:
Sextus Pompeus Festus, De significatione verborum; Ovid, Amorum libri; collection of Classical inscriptions
Scope & Content:
The first part of a two-volume set, the second volume of which is Harley MS 3520/2. This is a composite manuscript comprising three parts. Part 1, ff. 1-61, was written in North-Eastern France or the Southern Netherlands in the 3rd quarter of the 15th century Part 2, ff. 62-89, was written aro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1400-c 1650
Extent:
1 volume

272. Harley MS 4325

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4325
Title:
Loys Papon, Pastorelle sur la victoire obtenue contre les Allemands, Reytres, Lansquenets, Souysses et Francoys rebelles a Dieu et au Roy treschretien l'an 1587
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the autograph copy of the Pastorelle sur la victoire obtenue contre les Allemands, Reytres, Lansquenets, Souysses et Francoys rebelles a Dieu et au Roy treschretien l'an 1587 (Pastoral on the victory won against the Germans, the Reytres, the Landsknecht (German military soldie...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1588
Extent:
1 volume

273. Harley MS 4917

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4917
Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De la vieillesse (De Senectute) and De l'amitié (De Amicitia) translated by Laurent du Premierfait
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Laurent du Premierfait's translation of Cicero's De Senectute and De Amicitia. It was written around 1470 in Rouen and decorated by an artist of the circle of the Master of the Echevinage of Rouen. Contents: ff. 1r-108v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De la vieillesse (De Sene...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1470
Extent:
1 volume

274. Harley MS 1499

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1499
Title:
English heraldic collection, including royal coats of arms; genealogies of English noble families; Thomas Tonge, Visitation of the Northern Counties, 1530; tracts on heraldic matters; a transcript of Domesday Book relating to Yorkshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff 1r-1v: 'A Table of the Hole Contentes of the boke Both of the Petygrees and also the Geanologees And of wych lefe every oon doth stand'. ff. 2r-4r: Arms of kings, beginning with the 'arma Christi', and the attributed arms of the Three Magi and Prester John. ff. 4v-5r: Table of co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1530
Extent:
1 volume

275. Harley MS 252

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 252
Title:
A collection of English historical, political and legal papers
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2v: A fragment concerning the issuing of subpoenas from the Court of Chancery, without Bills of Complaint; imperfect. f. 3r: A crossed-out 17th-century text. ff. 3v-4v: ‘Heare followeth the Coppy of the Assignatyon of suche Landes and Revenewes as weare appoynted for the Su...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1555-1645
Extent:
1 volume

276. Harley MS 4853

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4853
Title:
Robert III de La Marck, Histoire des choses mémorables advenues du règne de Louis XII et de François I, depuis 1499 jusqu'en l'an 1521
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-386v: Robert III de la Marck (b. 1491, d. 1537), Seigneur of Fleuranges, Marshal of France, Histoire des choses mémorables advenues du règne de Louis XII et de François I, depuis 1499 jusqu'en l'an 1521, entitled: 'Memories Du Mareschal de Fleurange - Histoire des choses memora...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

277. Harley MS 7025

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7025
Title:
Accounts of military operations; lists and other papers relating to Christ Church Oxford, Trinity College Cambridge, and Westminster School; letter by Pope Eugenius IV (1447); original grants of arms; 'Catalogue of the most famous orders of knighthood throughout Christendome both Ecclesiasticall and Secular'
Scope & Content:
The larger part of this manuscript contains 17th-century materials. It also features an original letter by Pope Eugenius IV (1383–1447) and original grants of arms dating to the reign of King Henry VIII (ff. 199r, 202r). Contents: ff. 1*recto-1*verso: A table of contents. ff. 2*recto-65v: 'A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1447-1738
Extent:
1 volume

278. Harley MS 1251

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1251
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('Hours of Eleanor Worcester')
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1: Added paper fragment of a printed 15th- or 16th-century book concerning canon law, inscribed on the recto with a book curse in Middle English verse, ‘Thys boke ys one and godes kors ys anoder they that take the ton god gef them the toder’ (DIMEV no. 5660-3), late-15th/16th cent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1430-c 1440
Extent:
1 volume

279. Harley MS 38

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 38
Title:
A miscellany of political papers and letters and tracts on coinage, transcribed largely by Ralph Starkey; original letters addressed to Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine, and Sir Simonds D'Ewes, 1642-1648; A Licence to travayle for Francis Davison and Edward Smith granted by Queen Elizabeth I, 1595
Scope & Content:
This manuscript mostly contains 17th-century English letters and transcripts of 16th-century documents. It also features an original licence on parchment to travel outside of England for three years granted to a ‘Francis Davison’ and ‘Edward Smith’, signed by Queen Elizabeth I and with her wax s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:
1595-1648
Extent:
1 volume

280. Harley MS 2374

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2374
Title:
A miscellany of medical texts, including a botanical glossary, a collection of medical recipes, and a Middle English translation of the Antidotarium Nicolai
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript is made up of two booklets (ff. 1-28 and 29-64), both made in the 15th century. The first booklet comprises a botanical glossary, a partial copy of an antidotary (book of antidotes) and a collection of medical recipes in Middle English and Latin. The second contains an ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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