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482. Harley MS 518
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 518
- Title:
- Theologia Weigeliana
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: f. 1v: A letter, entitled ‘Copia Epistolae Christophori Weighardi ad Jacobum Breitingum scriptae’; dated to 1601. ff. 2r-110r: ? Christoph Weickhart, Theologia Weigeliana.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
483. Harley MS 520
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 520
- Title:
- Guillaume Postel, De nativitate mediatoris opus in quo totius naturae obscuritas illustratur
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-188r: Guillaume Postel, De nativitate mediatoris opus in quo totius naturae obscuritas illustratur.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
484. Harley MS 521
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 521
- Title:
- An English heraldic manuscript
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 3r-50v: The arms of English nobility and gentry (6 per page). ff. 51v-55r: A fragment of a heraldic manuscript with arms of Cheshire families (12 per page). ff. 56r-59r: Arms, displaying the types of crosses in heraldry (4 per page); with some marginal additions in brown ink. ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1450
- Extent:
- 1 volume
485. Harley MS 524
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 524
- Title:
- Collection of sermons and theological tracts (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
- The collection includes (f. 66) two contemporary additions relating to medicine, a charm (item 1) and a short verse on humours (item 2). Two short chapters (ff. 84, 119-11v; items 3-4) discuss the formation of the fetus and birth in theological rather than medical terms. The cataloguing of the m...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman, English, French, Old, and Latin
- Date Range:
- Mid 13th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
486. Harley MS 526
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 526
- Title:
- Bede, Vita Sancti Cuthberti metrica (BHL 2020); Vita Venerabilis Bedae (BHL1069); Vita Ædwardi Regis (BHL 2421); fragment of Aelred of Rievaulx's Vita Sancti Edwardi regis and confessoris (BHL 2423) and the papal commissioners' report on St Hugh of Lincoln and Avalon; Vita Adae et Evae
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains five parts: Bede's verse Vita S Cuthberti (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2020), copied in northern France at the end of the 9th century (ff. 1-27); a vita of Bede, copied in France or England in the first half of the 12th century (ff. 28-36v); the only surviving, i...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- late 9th-14th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
487. Harley MS 526, ff 1r-27v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 526, ff 1r-27v
- Title:
- Bede, Vita Cuthberti Metrica (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2020)
- Scope & Content:
- This work contains a late 9th century copy of Bede's verse Life of Cuthbert, written in the region which is now northern France. It was in England by the mid-10th century, given the Old English names inscribed in the margin and the Old English glosses in the text (see, for example, ff. 2r, 15r)....
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of 9th century
- Extent:
- 27 folios, part of a parchment codex
488. Harley MS 526, ff 28r-37v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 526, ff 28r-37v
- Title:
- Vita Venerabilis Bedae (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 1069)
- Scope & Content:
- This item contains prose life of Bede (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 1069), copied in France or England in the first half of the 12th century. The preface begins 'Inter catholicos sacrae Scripturae expositores...' Decoration: 2 coloured initials (f. 28r-v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st half of 12th century
- Extent:
- 10 folios, part of a parchment codex
489. Harley MS 526, ff 38r-57v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 526, ff 38r-57v
- Title:
- Anonymous Vita Ædwardi Regis (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2421)
- Scope & Content:
- This item contains the sole surviving copy of the Vita Ædwardi, a life of Edward the Confessor (b. c 1003, d. 1066) written by an anonymous author with sections in prose and verse. The text is imperfect, possibly missing two folios each from the first and last quire. Decoration: Painted initial...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1100
- Extent:
- 19 folios, part of a parchment codex
490. Harley MS 526, ff 58r-67v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 526, ff 58r-67v
- Title:
- Fragment of Ailred of Rievaulx's Vita S Edwardi Regis et Confessoris (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2423) and the papal commissioners' report on the sanctity of Bishop Hugh of Lincoln (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains the last page of a copy of Ailred of Rievaulx's Vita S Edwardi Regis et Confessoris (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2423) (f. 58*r). It is followed by an imperfect copy of the papal commissioners' report on the sanctity of Bishop Hugh of Lincoln, which an early modern ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st half of 13th century
- Extent:
- 12 folios, part of a parchment codex