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781. Harley MS 885

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 885
Title:
Two drafts of a treatise by John Cusacke
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume, containing two drafts of a treatise on royal power and heraldry by John Cusacke. Contents: ff. 2-45v: First copy of the treatise, here titled 'A Royall Presente; By way of Apology for the Defense of a Royall Emprese intiteled Aurea Periscellis which was presented unto h...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1638
Extent:
1 volume

782. Harley MS 897

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 897
Title:
English pedigrees and arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6r: A table of family names. ff. 6v-74r: A collection of notes on English nobility, including obits, pedigrees, coat of arms (tricked), and church notes; with some additions by Ralfe Brooke (b. 1553, d. 1625), Officer of Arms. ff. 75r-87r: Notes about the deaths of noblemen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

783. Harley MS 898

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 898
Title:
Summary of writs issued during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, 1589-1593
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-246r: Summary of writs issued during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, 1589-1593; in Latin, but featuring some English on f. 136r. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘De Annis 36. 37. 38. 39. 40 & 41 Elizab.’; added in the 17th or 18th cen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1589-1593
Extent:
1 volume

784. Harley MS 902

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 902
Title:
Rauf de Boun, Le Petit Bruit; compilation of historical texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-11v: Rauf de Boun, Le Petit Bruit. ff. 12r-12v: 'Le serment de Feaulte qe les prelatz doibvent faire au Roy'. ff. 12v-13r: 'Des pairs de France'. f. 13v: Notes relative to Peter Abelard. ff. 13v-46r: Of the posterity of Mrs Rawson. ff. 46r-212v: a compilation of various ch...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

785. Harley MS 903

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 903
Title:
Cartulary of St Martin Vintry, London
Scope & Content:
f. 1r: Pen trials. f. 2r–v: Fragment of a roll (?), probably added on the creation of the volume, with an inscription dated 25 March 1430. ff. 1r–18r: Cartulary of miscellaneous deeds from the time of Edward I to Henry VI, headed ‘De cartis munimentis at aliis euidenciis spectantibus terris et...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

786. Harley MS 912

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 912
Title:
Scope & Content:
Commonplace-Book including Theological and Historical Texts in Prose and Verse; mid 14th cent. Latin and Anglo-Norman. Imperfect. The commonplace-book, now in two volumes, also includes the Pseudo-Hippocrates, Epistula ad Antiochum regem (ff. 393-393v; item 1), followed (ff. 393-395v; item 2)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 14th century
Extent:
1 item

787. Harley MS 913

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 913
Title:
The Kildare Lyrics
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-2r: A theological tract. f. 3r-6v: The Land of Cokaygne ('Fur in see bi west Spaygne / Is a lond ihote Cokaygne'). f. 6v: Bissop lorles, kyng redeles (Abuses of the age). ff. 7r-8v: Hail seint Michel wiþ þe lange sper (Satire on the people of Kildare). ff. 9r-10r: Swet ihe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

788. Harley MS 916

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 916
Title:
An abbreviated summary of William of Tocco, Ystoria sancti Thome de Aquino, with excerpts from the hearing for Thomas Aquinas' canonization in Naples, 1319
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-64r: An abbreviated summary of William of Tocco, Ystoria sancti Thome de Aquino (beginning 'Deus qui dixit de tenebris lucem splendescere modernis temporibus quasi ad mundi uesperam'), with excerpts from the hearing for Thomas Aquinas' canonization in Naples, 1319 (imperfect, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

789. Harley MS 917

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 917
Title:
A prayer book
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: Psalm 96:6-Psalm 98; with an antiphon, beginning: ‘Gaude virgo maria cuntis hereses sola interemisti in universo mundo’. ff. 3r-5r: A prayer to Christ (beginning: ‘Domine deus pater ominpotens rex creator celi et tere’), introduced by the rubric: ‘Quicumque dixerit hanc o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

790. Harley MS 918

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 918
Title:
Theological miscellany
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains works and excerpts from various Protestant theologians. The inclusion of a work by William Twisse, published in 1632, provides a terminus post quem for the manuscript. Contents: ff. 1r-44v: Guillelmus Estius [Willem Hessels van Est], Domini Guillelmi Estii in quatuor ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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