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861. Harley MS 988

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 988
Title:
Commentaries on the Song of Songs
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were written separately in the first half of the 12th century: Part 1 (ff. 1r-26v), and Part 2 (ff. 27r-71r). Both parts contain a commentary on the Song of Songs. Contents: ff. 1r-26v: Commentary on the Song of Songs, entitled: 'Incipiunt...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

862. Harley MS 989

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 989
Title:
Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-52r: Seneca’s Moral Letters to Lucilius, also known as Moral Epistles and Letters from a Stoic, imperfect, containing letters 1-52 out of 124. Glossed, mostly in the same hand. f. 52v: late medieval inscriptions, including ownership inscriptions. Decoration: Large blue initial with gre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century-3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

863. Harley MS 990

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 990
Title:
A collection of abridged English statutes; a tract about dowry; the Assize of Weights and Measures; the verdict returned in a lawsuit in Guildford in 1396; De natura brevium; Les excepciouns ad brevia cassanda; Fet asaver; Registrum brevium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-19r: a collection of abridged English statutes. f. 19r: a tract about dowry. ff. 19v-21r: The Assize of Weights and Measures. f. 21v: the verdict returned in a lawsuit in Guildford in 1396. ff. 22r-29v: De natura brevium. ff. 30r-35v: Les excepciouns ad brevia cassanda. f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

864. Harley MS 992

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 992
Title:
A collection of heraldic texts and drawings
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains heraldic texts and drawings from the 2nd half of the 15th century and 1st half of the 16th century in Middle English, Middle French and Latin. Contents: ff. 1r-8r: Drawings of arms of aristocratic families, several in colours; with family names in English. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-16th century
Extent:
1 volume

865. Harley MS 995

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 995
Title:
Works of Plutarch interpreted by Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus and translated by Guillaume Budé
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A table of contents. ff. 1r-137v: A collection of the works of Plutarch interpreted by Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus and addressed to Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York, and King Henry VIII. ff. 137v-169v: Plutarch, De la tranquillité de l’âme; translated into Latin by...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

866. Harley MS 997

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 997
Title:
Jean de La Rochelle, Summa de vitiis et virtutibus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-166v: Jean de La Rochelle [John of Rupella] (b. c. 1190, d. 1245), Summa de vitiis et virtutibus. Beginning with a list of contents (ff. 1r-3r). Decoration: Puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in both colours (f. 3v). Initials in red or blue with pen-flouris...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

867. Harley MS 998

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 998
Title:
Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg, Compendium theologicae veritatis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 5r-155r: Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg, Compendium theologicae veritatis. ff. 155r-156v: List of chapters. ff. 157r-168r: Alphabetical subject index. The manuscript contains various additions: f. [iii]recto (pastedown): An label inscription for the manuscript: 'Compendium Theolo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

868. Harley MS 999

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 999
Title:
Johannes Baptista Gratia Dei, Liber de confutatione hebraicae sectae (IA.2247.)
Scope & Content:
Harley MS 999 is a printed book that was transferred to the Department of Printed Books on 22 February 1872. It now has the shelfmark IA.2247. The book contains Johannes Baptista Gratia Dei's Liber de confutatione hebraicae sectae. The author, a 15th-century medical doctor, was a baptized Jew wh...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1500
Extent:
1 volume

869. Harley MS 1000

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1000
Title:
Medulla grammaticae
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains an incomplete copy of the Medulla grammaticae, a 15th-century Latin-English dictionary. Several other manuscript copies of the Medulla grammaticae survive: British Library, Add MS 24640, Add MS 33534, Add MS 37789 (bound with the Promptorium parvulorum), Add MS 62080, H...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

870. Harley MS 1001

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1001
Title:
Ordinal, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-162r: Ordinal, Use of Sarum; with musical notation (neumes in black ink on staffs with four lines in red ink) on ff. 18v, 38r, 38v, 126r, 153v-155r; other later (15th-century) hands have added annotations throughout and text to replace erased text (ff. 53r-54v, 70v, 153v); its ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

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