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371. Harley MS 672

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 672
Title:
'Bonus Lombardus de Ferraria', Preciosa margarita novella
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-169r: 'Bonus Lombardus de Ferraria', Preciosa margarita novella; according to an explicit in Italian (f. 169r) the work was composed in 1330. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 171v: Two verses in English: 'The good done to a good man / Is the greatest b[...] he ca...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

372. Harley MS 673

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 673
Title:
Laws and statutes of England; Genealogia Llewelini Principis Wallie; Natura Brevium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-100v: Laws and statutes of England. f. 101r-v: Erased inscriptions, possibly originally a flyleaf. ff. 102r-115v: Statute of Ruddlan. ff. 116r: Genealogia Llewelini Principis Wallie (The Genealogy of Llywelyn of Wales). ff. 117r-130v: Natura Brevium (a treatise on English...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

373. Harley MS 674

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 674
Title:
Treatise of Discretion of Spirits; The Epistle of Discretion; The Epistle of Prayer; The Cloud of Unknowing; The Book of Privy Counselling; Benjamin Minor; Denis Hid Divinity
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of seventeen extant medieval copies of The Cloud of Unknowing, a guide on contemplative prayer and meditation from the second half of the 14th century. It is one of the two manuscripts which contains all seven works that are attributed to the anonymous author (the ot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

374. Harley MS 682

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 682
Title:
Charles of Orléans, Collected poems
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of English poems by Charles, Duke of Orléans, composed during his captivity in England (1415-1440). The manuscript was probably produced under the Duke's supervision at the end of this period, as it includes Ballades 111 and 113, which were rewritten by the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1439-1440
Extent:

1 volume

375. Harley MS 684

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 684
Title:
William Somner, Commentary and glossary on the laws of Henry I
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Gulielmi Somneri Commentarius in Leges Henrici I cum Glossario’. ff. 1r-55r: William Somner (bap. 1598, d. 1669), antiquary and Anglo-Saxon scholar, Commentary on the laws of Henry I; dedicated to Roger Twysden (b. 1597, d. 1672), second baronet, antiquar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

376. Harley MS 699

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 699
Title:
Robert Vawdrey, Knights' Fees in Cheshire and Flintshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: An introduction, entitled: ‘The forme and order of this booke breiflie sett fourth by Robert Vaudray of Chester Collectour thereof to thentent to instructe the Reader to the true and perfecte knowledge of the making and meanynge of the same booke’. ff. 2r-70r: Book of Knight...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1555-1557
Extent:
1 volume

377. Harley MS 701

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 701
Title:
Possessions of dissolved monasteries in England
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r: A title-page: ‘Monasteria dissoluta in comitatibus Norff. Suff. Cantabr. Hunt. Hertf. Essex. Midd. et Civitat. Londone. Anno xxxvjto Henrici viij [...] .1544.’. ff. 3r-97v: ‘Valores omnium et singulorum Dominiorum, Maneriorum, Rectoriarum, Pensionum, Porcionum, ac aliarum te...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1544
Extent:
1 volume

378. Harley MS 703

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 703
Title:
State papers and tracts relating to the county of Sussex
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a large collection of state papers and tracts, many relating to the county of Sussex, dating between 1583 and 1627, apparently compiled around 1627 for Sir Walter Covert (b. c. 1544. d. 1632), High Sheriff of and Deputy Lieutenant in Sussex, and Member of Parliament for ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1583-1627
Extent:
1 volume

379. Harley MS 714

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 714
Title:
Copies of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Edward II
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of the Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Edward II. According to the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), p. 423, the manuscript also contained an unbound paper with a text concerning the Parliament, but this item has not been found in cataloguing the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

380. Harley MS 718

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 718
Title:
Copies of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Richard II
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Rot. Parl. 7. 8. 9. 10. & 11. Ricardi Secundi’. f. 2*recto: ‘Rotuli Parliamenti Anno Septembri Richardi Secundi’. ff. 1r-78r: ‘Rotulus Parliamenti tenti apud Westmonasterium die Lune proxima ante Festum Omnium Sanctorum Anno Regni Regis Richardi Secu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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