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1151. Harley MS 1707

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1707
Title:
Polychronicon by Ranulf Higden (to 1340)
Scope & Content:
Contents: 1. (ff. 1r-223v): Polychronicon (to 1340) by Ranulf Higden (d. 1364). Incipit (f. 1r): 'Post preclaros arcium sc[ri]ptores'. Explicit (f. 223v): 'Sed tandem ob defectum pecunie quam sui segnes procuratores ab Anglia non miserant contractis treugis & inducijs inter Reges vtriusque...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1152. Harley MS 1708

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1708
Title:
Cartulary of Reading Abbey
Scope & Content:
Cartulary, arranged mainly topographically, by counties. Sections of the founder’s and other royal charters at the beginning; additions, mainly 13th–14th century, throughout. ff. 1, 247: Fragments of an identified 14th-century theological commentary, used as flyleaves. f. 2r–v: Additions from ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Oct 1257-May 1258
Extent:

1 volume

1153. Harley MS 1710

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1710
Title:
A Lectionary, in the earlier Wycliffite version
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-166v: A Lectionary, in the earlier Wycliffite version. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 166r: 'Omnibus omnia non mea / Sompnia dicere possum'; added in the (?) 15th century. Decoration: 1 puzzle initial in red and blue, with pen-flourishing in purple and red, e...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1390 - c 1400
Extent:
1 volume

1154. Harley MS 1711

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1711
Title:
Records of the tenements in the hundreds of Middlesex (London)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3v: Latin lists of the tenants of the hundreds in the county of Middlesex (London) in years 17 and 18 of the reign of Elizabeth I (1575); with documents in Latin and English related to the tenements appended. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A list of n...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1575
Extent:
1 volume

1155. Harley MS 1712

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1712
Title:
Petrus Comestor, Sermones
Scope & Content:
Contents: This manuscript consists of Petrus Comestor's sermons (ff. 17r-233v), and was produced at the very end of the 12th century. Contents: ff. 3r-16r: Table of contents and indexes. ff. 17r-233v: Petrus Comestor, Sermones (Sermons). The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 3r-16...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

1156. Harley MS 1715

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1715
Title:
Statements of cases held at Westminster during the reign of Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-210v: Statements of cases held at Westminster during the reign of Henry VIII, preceded by a table of contents in alphabetical order (ff. 2r-14r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1157. Harley MS 1719

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1719
Title:
A Psalter
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: A Calendar, including English saints such as Alban, Aldhelm of Sherborne, Ælfheah of Canterbury, Æthelthryth, Cuthbert, Cuthburga, Dunstan, Edith of Wilton, Edmund the Martyr, Edmund of Abingdon, Edward the Martyr, Hugh of Lincoln, Richard of Chichester, Thomas Becket and h...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1158. Harley MS 1720

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1720
Title:
Georg Joachim Rheticus, Magnus canon doctrinae triangulorum ad decades secundorum scrupulorum et ad partes 10 000 000 000.
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes the Magnus canon doctrinae triangulorum of Georg Joachim Rheticus, b. 1514, d. 1574) (original name Georg Joachim De Porris, or Von Lauchen), Austrian astronomer and mathematician. An earlier, simplier version of the work was published in 1551 in Leipzig.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1575-1596
Extent:
274 folios.

1159. Harley MS 1723

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1723
Title:
Theological lectures
Scope & Content:
Theological lectures given by an unidentified theologian. Written in a single hand. Contents: f. 1: Flyleaf with brief list of arguments on ‘otium’ (rest) being created by God, to be touched on in turn by the author. Headed: ‘Argumenta varia cum otium a Deo factum fuerit serio pertractanda’. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1618-1625
Extent:
1 volume

1160. Harley MS 1725

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1725
Title:
Hildegard von Bingen, Collectio epistolarum and other texts
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an extensive collection of letters and other Latin works by Hildegard von Bingen (b. c. 1098, d. 1179), a German Benedictine abbess, polymath and medieval mystic. The volume is an early 16th-century copy of the Wiesbaden Codex, also known as the 'Riesencodex' (now Wiesbaden,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

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