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1252. Harley MS 1856
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1856
- Title:
- Collection of writs and legal precedents from the reign of Henry VIII
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-174r: Collection of writs and legal precedents from the reign of King Henry VIII, written in Latin and English and organised alphabetically by 'Rouland Shakelady'. For example, including a licence to Bartholomew Hesketh to wear his bonnet at his own liberty for head infirmities...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1540
- Extent:
-
1 volume
1253. Harley MS 1859
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1859
- Title:
- Registrum brevium
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 2r-217r: Registrum brevium. The manuscript contains several additions: f. 1*verso: 'Sacramentum Servientis ad legem', beginning: 'Ye shall swere that well and truly ye shall serve the kynges People as one of the Sergeantes at the Lawe'; added in the 16th century. f. 1r: Lati...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
1254. Harley MS 1860
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1860
- Title:
- Mary Bassett, translation of Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History
- Scope & Content:
- ff. 1r–8v: Mary Bassett, Dedicatory epistle to Mary Tudor. ff. 9r–58r: Mary Bassett, Latin translation of Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, book 1. Mary states in the epistle that she abandoned this version because ‘a greate learned man had the whole translacion therof fully fynysshed all ready...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1544-1553
- Extent:
-
1 volume
1255. Harley MS 1862
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1862
- Title:
- Oon of Foure; a treatise on the Ten Commandments, virtues and sins
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 7r-77v: Oon of Foure; a Middle English translation of Clement of Llanthony's Gospel Harmony Unum ex Quattuor, beginning: 'heer bigynneþ a prolog in to o booc maad of þe foure gospelis: Clement a preest of þe chirche of lantony gaderde alle þe sentences of þe foure gospeleris in t...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
1256. Harley MS 1864
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1864
- Title:
- Armorial of Knights of the Order of the Garter
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: f. 1v: Dedication of the manuscript by Sir William Dethick (b. 1543, d. 1612) to Queen Elizabeth I, dated 1588, beginning: 'Serenissima, Augustissima, et ubiuis longe Potentissima Regina'. f. 2r: The achievement of King Henry V, with above: 'Elizabetha potens, iam regnans pace Bryt...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1587
- Extent:
- 1 volume
1257. Harley MS 1865
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1865
- Title:
- Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-102v: Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia. Decoration: Large puzzle initials in blue and red with pen-flourished decoration in red, some in form of birds or creatures (ff. 1r, 8v, 13v, 25r, 36r, 46r, 56r). Two initials in blue with penwork decoration in red (f. 1r). Rubrics in r...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 14th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
1258. Harley MS 1866
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1866
- Title:
- Excerpts from Textus Roffensis, in a modern facsimile by Elizabeth Elstob
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-9v: Excerpts from Textus Roffensis, including a copy of King Æthelberht's charter of the foundation or endowment of the church of Rochester (bearing the date ‘4 kal. Maias, indictione 7’), a facsimile on parchment made by Elizabeth Elstob. Decoration: 1 large historiated in...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1700-1719
- Extent:
-
1 volume
1259. Harley MS 1867
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1867
- Title:
- The Creation of the World [Cornish play]; and John Davies, ‘Adagia Britannica’. With other papers.
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: f. 1: Letter from Edward Lhwyd to Nathaniel Lloyd. 29 November 1708. ff. 2-58: The Creation of the World: Cornish play, copied from the manuscript written out by William Jordan, 1611, in the Bodleian Library Oxford (MS Bodl. 219), with parallel English translation by John Keigwyn, da...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Cornish, English, Latin, and Welsh
- Date Range:
- Mid 17th century-Early 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
1260. Harley MS 1869
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1869
- Title:
- Giustificazione dei veneziani per la pace fatta col turco
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript is bound together with Harley MS 1870, Harley MS 1871, Harley MS 1872, Harley MS 1873, Harley MS 1874. Contents: ff. 1r-1v, 90r-91v: leaves from an unidentified 13th/14th-century breviary, used as flyleaves in this manuscript and related to those in Harley MS 1870, ff. 37-38, H...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Italian and Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century
- Extent:
-
Part of Harley MSS 1869-1874 (bound together as 1 volume)