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851. Harley MS 4731

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4731
Title:
Treatise on the power of the Church
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-120v: Treatise on the power of the Church, anonymous and untitled; featuring citations of the Church Fathers throughout. The manuscript contains several additions: f. 1v: Planetary symbols and signs of the Zodiac; added in the 16th century. f. 1v: 'Anno domini 1558 .8. De...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

852. Harley MS 4737

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4737
Title:
Formulary for legal processes (Formularius Instrumentorum)
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-56v: Formularius Instrumentorum; formulary for legal processes in four books (one of which is missing), beginning: 'De principio et forma instrumentorum'. The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 1r (lower margin): A practice alphabet; added in the later Middle Ages. f. 1r (parchm...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1225-c 1275
Extent:
1 volume

853. Harley MS 4742

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4742
Title:
Legal treatises
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-16v: 'Consultationes tres de quæstionibus legis feudalis'. ff. 17r-32r: 'Rerum criminalium tractatus continens expositionem titulorum quadragesimi octavi ff[orum], Libri, cum interpretatione philosophicæ l[is]. Respiciendum [ff] de pœnis in qua quid præstare judex, aut quomod...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1588-1589
Extent:
1 volume

854. Harley MS 4754

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4754
Title:
History, arms and genealogies of the English peerage
Scope & Content:
Contents: Part 1 (c. 1600): f. 2r: A title-page: 'The Baronage of England, viz. The Modern Stemms of the Peeres of this Kingdome Delineated for the Finding of the Kinred and Affinityes by their Severall Matches - The Armes of each particular family with his Creast for onarment being added unt...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1597-c 1663
Extent:
1 volume

855. Harley MS 4763

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4763
Title:
Thomas Beckington, De iure regis Angliae ad Franciscam; poem in praise of Henry V
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-275r: Thomas Beckington, De iure regis Angliae ad Franciscam; treatise including state letters and other documents concerning the right of England to France, and literary works such as an excerpt from the Somnium viridarii, Chapter 186 (ff. 35r-41r); the Bucolicum carmen XII [...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

856. Harley MS 4764

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4764
Title:
John Fordun, Scotichronicon, books 1 to 5; Patrick Russell's abridgement of Walter Bower's continuation of the Scotichronicon, books 6 to 10
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-113r: John Fordun, Scotichronicon, books 1 to 5. Book 1 features a verse with an achrostic of the author's name on f. 1v: 'Incipies opus hoc adonay nomine nostri / Exceptum scriptis dirigat emanuel / fauces ornate ructent dum verbula nectant'. Each book is introduced by a capit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

857. Harley MS 4776

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4776
Title:
Liber Terrarum of Wales
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains land surveys and letters patent relating to Wales. Other copies of these materials can be found in Harley MS 696. Although '1565' is inscribed in an initial on f. 53v, this date may only apply to ff. 1*recto-2*recto, and ff. 41r-54r. While the texts on ff. 129v-131v we...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1500-c 1565
Extent:
1 volume

858. Harley MS 4780

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4780
Title:
Wardrobe accounts of King Edward IV from 18 April to 29 September 1480
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-59v: Wardrobe accounts of King Edward IV from 18 April to 29 September 1480, beginning: 'The Parcelles of the Accomptes of Peers Courteys whome the kinges highnesse and goode grace hath assigned and ordeigned by his high commaundement to rule gouverne and kepe his grete warder...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1480
Extent:
1 volume

859. Harley MS 4782

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4782
Title:
Account of the household expenses of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-196v: Account of the household expenses of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury (b. c. 1522, d. 1590), at Handsworth, 21 December 1588-6 March 1590. The manuscript contains an addition: ff. 1*recto-1*verso, 197r-197v originally formed a single parchment leaf from a late 12th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1588-1590
Extent:
1 volume

860. Harley MS 4827

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4827
Title:
The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (extended version to 1419)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-157r: The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (extended version to 1419), entitled: 'Here bigynneth a booke whiche is callid Brute the Cronicles of Englond'; beginning: 'This boke treteh and telleth of þe kynges & principal lordes' The manuscript contains several later additio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1419-c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

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