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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 638
Title:: ‘Werketone’ register of Bury St Edmunds Abbey
Scope & Content:: ff. 1v–2v: Modern additions, with Harley’s titles. ff. 3r–12v: Alphabetical index with numbers of folios. The hand responsible for these pages has also lettered the documents in the register in the margins. ff. 13r–14r: Survey of Risby manor. ff. 14v–21v: Cellarer’s rents and customs in Bury....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 13th century-15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 640
Title:: Transcripts concerning Essex from escheat rolls in the Tower of London and the Rolls Chapel
Scope & Content:: Transcripts of escheat records, selected for the purpose of a description of Essex and its distinguished families, from the reign of Henry III to the end of the reign of Queen Mary I and King Philip. Compiled at the command and expense of Simonds D’Ewes. Manuscript not in his hand, but with his ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 641
Title:: Pseudo-Dares Phrygius, De bello Troiano; Flores historiarum, attributed to John Bever; Martin of Troppau, Chronica pontificum et imperatorum; Richard de Ledrede, 'Account of the proceedings against Lady Alice Kyteler'
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of two different parts (ff. 1-115 and ff. 118-206) that were bound together for Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650) in 1645. The first part of the manuscript (ff. 1-115) was written between the 2nd and 3rd quarters of the 14th century, and contains De bello ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 642
Title:: 'Basilica Oeconomia, or Several Ordinances, Rules and Orders for the Government of the Howsehold of the Kings and Queens of England...'
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume, titled ''Basilica Oeconomia, or Several Ordinances, Rules and Orders for the Government of the Howsehold of the Kings and Queens of England and their Children both of former and of later times; An Exact Index of which particulars is inserted in the next page ensuinge. An...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1610-1650
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 644
Title:: Acts of Parliament from Edward I to Henry VI
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-15v: A table of contents. ff. 16r-281v: Acts of Parliament, from Edward I to Henry VI, in Latin and French. Decoration: 4 large historiated initials in blue and red and with gold frames; partial (three-sided) borders in colours and gold (ff. 1r, 64r, 93r, 154r). The subject...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 645
Title:: ‘Kempe’ register of Bury St Edmunds Abbey
Scope & Content:: ff. 4r–7v: Alphabetical index. ff. 8r–10v: Charters, mostly relating to the Hospital of St Nicholas. ff. 11r–12r: Partial alphabetical indexes. ff. 12v–13r: Rents relating to St Nicholas’ Hospital; a letter of Abbot Richard (1324). ff. 14r–14v: Various rents. ‘Registrum Kempe’ heading (f. 14...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century-15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 647
Title:: Collection of astronomical and astrological texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: 1. Astronomical texts based on Isidore of Seville, with two short prayers (ff. 1r-2r); 2. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Aratea, with 22 constellation figures containing extracts from Hyginus, Astronomica (ff. 2v-17v); 3. Excerpts from Pliny, Natural History; Macrobius, Commentary on the So...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 820-11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 647, ff 1r-2r
Title:: Astronomical texts based on Isidore of Seville with two short prayers
Scope & Content:: Astronomical texts based on Isidore of Seville with two short prayers.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c. 820 and c. 1000
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 647, ff 2v-17v
Title:: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Aratea, with extracts from Hyginus, Astronomica
Scope & Content:: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Aratea, illustrated with 22 constellation figures containing extracts from Hyginus, Astronomica.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c. 820-840
Extent:: 15 folios.

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