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3261. Harley MS 4805

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4805
Title:
Diplomatic correspondence and treaties between France and the Ottoman Empire; the capitulations of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands to France
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. [1a]recto (parchment pastedown): A title inscription: '[…] conservant les affaires de Turgaie'. ff. 1*r-103v: Collection of letters and documents, chiefly containing correspondence and treaties between the kings of France and the sultans of the Ottoman Empire, written in French, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3262. Harley MS 4806

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4806
Title:
Cicero, De inventione; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-56r: Cicero, De inventione. ff. 57r-116r: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium. Decoration: Large decorated initial in gold and colours formed by 2 fish with foliate decoration including acanthus leaves, naturalistic flowers and birds extending into the margins on 2 sides (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

3263. Harley MS 4809

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4809
Title:
Cartulary of Waltham Abbey
Scope & Content:
ff. 1*r–2*v: Table of contents by Peter le Neve. ff. 1r–192v: Sections ‘vii’–‘xxi’ of a cartulary. Private deeds arranged and numbered in sections by places; occasional additions throughout; section xix for Stansted (Essex) wants 30 entries at the beginning, before f. 138. f. 193r–v: Pen trial...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1353-1360s
Extent:

1 volume

3264. Harley MS 4826

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4826
Title:
John Lydgate, The Lives of SS Edmund and Fremund; John Lydgate and Benedict Burgh, Secrees of Old Philisoffres; Thomas Hoccleve, Regiment of Princes.
Scope & Content:
ff. 4r-50v: John Lydgate, The Lives of SS Edmund and Fremund. ff. 52r-81r: John Lydgate and Benedict Burgh, Secrees of Old Philisoffres. ff. 84r-144v: Thomas Hoccleve, Regiment of Princes. ff. 145rv-146v, and f. 139r (lower margin): Added English lyrics, 16th century. The manuscript contains...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450 – c 1460
Extent:
Parchment codex.

3265. Harley MS 4827

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4827
Title:
The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (extended version to 1419)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-157r: The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (extended version to 1419), entitled: 'Here bigynneth a booke whiche is callid Brute the Cronicles of Englond'; beginning: 'This boke treteh and telleth of þe kynges & principal lordes' The manuscript contains several later additio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1419-c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

3266. Harley MS 4831

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4831
Title:
Paulinus of Nola, Letters and Poems
Scope & Content:
Contents: This manuscript consists of a collection of works written by Paulinus of Nola (d. 431), including letters, Carmina varia (poems) and the first ten Natalicia (a collection of poems dedicated to anniversary of St Felix of Nola). The numbers following the prose-epistles, which have not...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st or 2nd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

3267. Harley MS 4834

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4834
Title:
Gaius Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-146v: Gaius Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico (Commentaries on the Gallic War). [f. 147 is a ruled unwritten leaf]. Decoration: 1 three-sided white vine border in colours and gold with putti, butterflies, birds and the coat of arms of the Porzio family of Messina (f. 1r). ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3268. Harley MS 4835

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4835
Title:
Cartulary of Clare Friary
Scope & Content:
f. 1*r: Label noting places in the cartulary. ff. 1r–59v: Cartulary of private deeds relating to Clare, arranged topographically, with a copy of one royal charter, 1364, at the beginning (ff. 58–59 should follow f. 6). f. 60r: Added leaf (16th century) with a note on the ground belonging to th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

Paper codex

3269. Harley MS 4842

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4842
Title:
Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-87: Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni, imperfect, lacking part of Book 4, where 1 folio is ruled but nearly completely unwritten (f. 10). Written by Franciscus Caballus Montefortinas, 1464: his colophon 'Per me Fra[n]ciscum Caballum montefortinatem vigesima octav...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1464
Extent:
1 volume

3270. Harley MS 4843

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4843
Title:
Lives of St Cuthbert and other texts relating to the Cathedral Priory of St Cuthbert, Durham
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes a collection of lives of St Cuthbert, lives of other saints and historical texts relating to the Cathedral Priory of St Cuthbert, Durham: f. 1r: Life of St Nicasius, incipit 'Sancti Nicasius quirinus et scroniculus (sic) socii' (added). f. 1v: Table of contents. ff. 2...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1528
Extent:
Paper and parchment codex

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