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3241. Harley MS 4772

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4772
Title:
The first part of the ‘Montpellier Bible’, containing the Book of Genesis to the Book of Malachi
Scope & Content:
This is the first of two volumes of one of the nine extant copies of the Languedocian recension of the Latin Vulgate (see Berger, Histoire de la Vulgate (1893), pp. 72-88), containing the Book of Genesis to the Book of Malachi. This Bible is known as the ‘Montpellier Bible', after the location o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

3242. Harley MS 4773

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4773
Title:
The second part of the 'Montpellier Bible', containing the Book of Proverbs to the Book of Revelation
Scope & Content:
This is the second of two volumes of one of the nine extant copies of the Languedocian recension of the Latin Vulgate (see Berger, Histoire de la Vulgate (1893), pp. 72-88), containing the Book of Proverbs to the Book of Revelation. This Bible is known as the ‘Montpellier Bible', after the locat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

3243. Harley MS 4775

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4775
Title:
Gilte Legende (Middle English prose translation of the Legenda Aurea)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the so-called Gilte Legende. This is a complete Middle English prose translation of the Legenda Aurea: a Latin collection of almost 200 saints' lives compiled by the French Dominican chronicler Jacobus de Voragine [Jean de Vignay] (b. c. 1230, d. 1298), and completed aro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3244. Harley MS 4776

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4776
Title:
Liber Terrarum of Wales
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains land surveys and letters patent relating to Wales. Other copies of these materials can be found in Harley MS 696. Although '1565' is inscribed in an initial on f. 53v, this date may only apply to ff. 1*recto-2*recto, and ff. 41r-54r. While the texts on ff. 129v-131v we...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1500-c 1565
Extent:
1 volume

3245. Harley MS 4780

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4780
Title:
Wardrobe accounts of King Edward IV from 18 April to 29 September 1480
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-59v: Wardrobe accounts of King Edward IV from 18 April to 29 September 1480, beginning: 'The Parcelles of the Accomptes of Peers Courteys whome the kinges highnesse and goode grace hath assigned and ordeigned by his high commaundement to rule gouverne and kepe his grete warder...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1480
Extent:
1 volume

3246. Harley MS 4782

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4782
Title:
Account of the household expenses of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-196v: Account of the household expenses of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury (b. c. 1522, d. 1590), at Handsworth, 21 December 1588-6 March 1590. The manuscript contains an addition: ff. 1*recto-1*verso, 197r-197v originally formed a single parchment leaf from a late 12th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1588-1590
Extent:
1 volume

3247. Harley MS 4785

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4785
Title:
Rental of Tandridge Priory
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–21v: Transcriptions from a rental created in 1451 (f. 1r), when John Hammond was prior. Includes rentals and court-rolls concerning rents of assize and farm rents in Tandridge. ff. 22r–38v: Copies of documents relating to Tandridge Hall and manors in Surrey, to the time of James I.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:

Paper codex

3248. Harley MS 4786

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4786
Title:
Charters relating to Tandridge
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–8v: Copies of royal letters patent relating to the former lands of Tandridge Priory, from the time of Henry VIII–Elizabeth I. ff. 9r–11r: ‘Copyes of deedes belonging to Turner, that marryed Elizabeth Cantler of his Lands in Tandridge bordering upon my Farme of Jewells, & the Lords la...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:

Paper codex

3249. Harley MS 4789

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4789
Title:
Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-286v: Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa; imperfect at the end. Decoration: Historiated initial with author portrait (damaged or erased) in colours and gold combined with a full foliate bar border (f. 1r). Large initial...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3250. Harley MS 4790

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4790
Title:
Cicero, De Oratore and De Claris Oratoribus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-51v: Cicero, De Oratore (On the Orator); ff. 52r-120v: Cicero, De Claris Oratoribus (On Famous Orators). Decoration: An effaced coat of arms on a gold ground in the lower margin (f. 1r). 2 large white vine initials in colours and gold (ff. 1r, 52r). Incipits and explicits...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

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