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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 920
Title:: A collection of Catholic prayers
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-1v: Commendatio Matutina, qua post nos omnes Christi fideles Deo commendamus. ff. 1v-2r: Ad B. Virginem. f. 2r: Ad omnes Sanctos, et ad S. Angelum Custodem. ff. 2r-3v: Oratio S. Augustini a Spiritu Sancto sibi revelata. f. 4r: Oratio ad Jesum. ff. 4v-5r: Oratio B. Thoma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 921
Title:: Latin school exercises and vocabulary
Scope & Content:: Manuscript Latin school exercise book of an unidentified English speaking Catholic child. Contents: f. 1v: Jesuit IHS Christogram, surrounded by miscellaneous notes and scribbles, some crossed out. Includes dates: 1651 and (crossed out) 1646. f. 2: Latin verse, including ‘Carmina sacra’ and e...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1651
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 922
Title:: Balthasaris Castilionis comitis de curiali sive aulico libri quatuor, ex Italico sermone in Latinum conversi. Bartholomaeo Clerke Anglo Cantabrigiensi interprete
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-49r: Baldassare Castiglione (b. 1478, d. 1529), Il Cortegiano [The Book of the Courtier] (1528); Latin translation of the Italian original by Bartholomew Clerke (b. c. 1537, d. 1590), published as Balthasaris Castilionis comitis de curiali sive aulico libri quatuor, ex Italico...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1472-c 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 926
Title:: Vetera Statuta
Scope & Content:: Vetera Statuta (ff. 7r-103v) written and illuminated after 1329 and before 1340 when Edward III changed his arms from England ancient into England ancient quartered with France ancient (see Provenance). The text of Vetera Statuta is preceded by a quire including notes relating to taxes and feuda...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1329-Mid 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 926, ff 1r-6r
Title:: Notes relating to taxes and feudal holdings
Scope & Content:: f. 1r: 'Argumenta brevium', incipit: 'Lex equi'. f. 1v: Register of taxable goods for the diocese of Salisbury. f. 2r: Register of tithes in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. f. 2r: Register of taxes for the province of Canterbury excluding possessions of the Templars, Hospitaliers, and t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 14th century
Extent:: 6 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 926, ff 7r-103v
Title:: Vetera Statuta
Scope & Content:: Vetera Statuta, including: ff. 7r-8v: List of contents. ff. 9r-12v: Carta de libertatibus Angliae, known as the Magna Carta, confirmed by Edward I. ff. 13r-14v: Carta de libertatibus foreste (Carta de Foresta). ff. 15r-17r: Statute of Merton. ff. 17v-23v: Statute of Marlborough. ff. 24v-3...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1329-1340
Extent:: 97 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 927
Title:: Registrum brevium
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is the second volume of a two-volume set. The first volume is Harley MS 926. f. 1v: List of contents. ff. 2r-127v: Registrum brevium from the royal chancery of Edward III, written and illuminated after 1329 and before 1340 when Edward III changed his arms from England ancient in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1329-c 1364
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 928
Title:: A composite of two Books of Hours (both imperfect)
Scope & Content:: A composite of two Books of Hours (both imperfect), joined together in the late medieval or early modern period (before the edges were stained green and the fore-edge inscription was added, see Physical Characteristics). The manuscript also includes fragments of two 15th-century documents at the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: One volume.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 929
Title:: Breviary (Temporale), Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Contents: The Temporale portion of a Breviary, Use of Sarum. Decoration: Full bar borders in colours and gold with quatrefoils, acanthus leaves, small masks, and foliate decoration (ff. 75v, 83r, 90r, 94v, 164v). Large initials in colours and gold enclosing flowers and ivy (ff. 75v, 83r, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume.

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