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1. Harley MS 82

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 82
Title:
Register of Reading Abbey; Usuard, Martyrology; 'Sir John Mandeville', Voyage d’outre mer
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains three parts that were separately produced: I: ff. 1r–3v (Register); II: ff. 4r–34v (Martyrology); III: ff. 35r–104v (Voyage d'outre mer). The martyrology was written in the 12th century at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin in Reading. The first pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
12th century-14th century
Extent:

1 volume

2. Harley MS 180

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 180
Title:
Printed and manuscript tracts on royal marriages, collected by Sir Simonds D'Ewes
Scope & Content:
This is a collection of four tracts, the first two printed and the last two in manuscript, on royal marriages between 1555 and 1624. A Supplicacyon to the quenes maiestie [1555], an attack on the marriage of Queen Mary I to Philip of Spain (later King Philip II), was written by a Protestant ex...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1555-1627
Extent:

1 volume

3. Harley MS 185

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 185
Title:
Latin verse and prose by Simonds D’Ewes, with some goods inventories of Paul D’Ewes
Scope & Content:
Various Latin poetic works, essays, and exercises written by Simonds D’Ewes as a boy, with some Greek. Includes a section of inventories of household goods in the hand of his father, Paul D’Ewes (ff. 39-44). Contents: f. 1: Decorative title page for Acta Apostulorum, a Latin poem on the Acts of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1615-1618
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 263

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 263
Title:
Dialogues of Pope Gregory the Great, translated into Greek by Zachary, Saint and Pope. Printed 1615.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

5. Harley MS 263, ff 3-55

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 263, ff 3-55
Title:
Dialogue I PL 77.150-215 (Greek and Latin text).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Harley MS 263, ff 55v-121v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 263, ff 55v-121v
Title:
Dialogue II: Life of St Benedict PL 66.125-203 (Greek and Latin text); I. Cozza-Luzi, Historia S. P. N. Benedicti, 1880.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Harley MS 263, ff 121v-215v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 263, ff 121v-215v
Title:
Dialogue III PL 77.215-318 (Greek and Latin text).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Harley MS 263, ff 215v-313

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 263, ff 215v-313
Title:
Dialogue IV PL 77.318-430 (Greek and Latin text).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Harley MS 367

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 367
Title:
Historical notes, documents and poems written or copied by John Stowe and others, including poems by George Ripley, John Lydgate, Humphrey Brereton, John Skelton, John Heywood, William Vallans, William Drummond of Hawthornden, Robert Herrick, John Denham, Paul D'Ewes, Tom Coryate, John Hoskyns and others
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3v: John Stowe's paper against Richard Grafton and his chronicle. f. 4r: Proceedings of John Stowe in surveying the measures in the Ward of Baynard's Castle, 1584. ff. 5r-5v: Declaration of the absues done to John Stowe by William Ditcher, alias Tatford, and his wife. ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
mid 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 425

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 425
Title:
John Foxe's papers, Volume 10
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–145v: The tenth volume of the ecclesiastical historian John Foxe's papers. ff. 1r–2v: Part of a notable discourse for having the Bible in English, written about the time of Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury, c. 1410, taken ex fragmenta quodam Ecclesiae Wigorniensis. f. 3r: Subscr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
15th century-16th century
Extent:
1 volume