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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7026/1, ff 1-20
Title:: Lectionary, imperfect ('Lovell Lectionary').
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2v-3r: A genealogy of the barons of Holland accompanies with three obits written into banners. This family tree was certainly commissioned by Joseph Holland, previous owner of this volume as the last banner specifies (f. 3v): 'Joseph Holand, de interiori Templo London, natus apud ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1400-c 1410
Extent:: A part of Harley MS 7026/1.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7026/1, ff 21-22
Title:: Pages from a Missal (imperfect).
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 21r-22v: Two folios from a Missal (imperfect). Decoration: Large initials with foliate decoration and full borders in colours and gold (ff. 21r, 22r). Small initials in gold with penwork decoration and pen-flourishing in blue, or in blue with penwork decoration and pen-flourishi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: A part of Harley MS 7026/1.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7026/2
Title:: Facsimiles of medieval manuscript leaves and fragments, copied by Philip Sproson, with descriptions by Humfrey Wanley; Matthew Buchinger, calligraphic writings; facsimile of two leaves from the Codex Claromontanus
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the second of two volumes that originally formed Harley MS 7026. The first volume is now Harley MS 7026/1, and contains the 'Lovell Lectionary'. The manuscript's original Harleian binding is now Harley MS 7026/3. Harley MS 7026/2 contains facsimiles of leaves and fragments f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7028
Title:: Account of St John’s House and St John’s College, Cambridge
Scope & Content:: An account of St John’s House and St John’s College, Cambridge, with occasional accounts of University affairs and private colleges which communicated with the old House or College, collected 1707. Volume 1 of the collection of Thomas Baker (1656-1740), of St John’s College, Cambridge. Preli...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1707-1717
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7052
Title:: Lives of Laurence Chaderton and James Ussher, by William Dillingham
Scope & Content:: Life of Laurence Chaderton (1536-1640, first Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, with a life of James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh, by William Dillingham (c 1617–1689). Together with two sermons delivered by William Dillingham, one for the Bachelor of Divinity degree, the other fo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7169
Title:: 'Theatrum Criminalium' and other texts, mostly on various rights and powers of the Monarch and of Parliament
Scope & Content:: This has previously been identified as a continuation of William Petyt's 'Jus Parliamentarium' (Harley MS 7165-7167), and is referred to as such on the spine of the volume. However, these texts do not appear in the published volumes of Petyt's 'Jus Parliamentarium' (1739). Manuscript written la...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: Late 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7181
Title:: Engravings from a manuscript of Virgil’s Aeneid in the Vatican, annotated with corresponding locations
Scope & Content:: Published engravings of a 4th century Virgil manuscript in the Vatican library (Cod. Vat. Lat. 3225;), by Pietro Santi Bartoli. Mounted onto large folios, with manuscript annotations showing the corresponding places in the Aeneid, said to be in the hand of Matthew Prior, esquire. The name of Mat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter 17th century-1st quarter 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7182
Title:: Ptolemy, Geographia, translated by Manuel Chrysoloras and Jacopo d'Angelo
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of the Geographia (Geography), an atlas and treatise on cartography originally written by the Greek mathematician and astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (b. c. 100, d. c. 170), in a Latin translation by the Renaissance humanists Manuel Chrysoloras (b. c. 135...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7183/1
Title:: Sermon and homily collection
Scope & Content:: A collection of short sermons and homilies to be read on particular feast days or following particular Bible readings. Mostly by St Augustine and St Ambrose, but also including texts attributed to Pope Gregory, Pope Leo, St Remigius, Origen, Jerome, and Bede, interspersed with extracts from Paul...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7183/2
Title:: Sermon and homily collection
Scope & Content:: A collection of short sermons and homilies to be read on particular feast days or following particular Bible readings. Mostly by St Augustine and St Ambrose, but also including texts attributed to Pope Gregory, Pope Leo, St Remigius, St Maximus, St John the bishop, St John of Constantinople, Isi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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