Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Language: Latin - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4222
Title:: Collection of orders and laws for the management of the Royal Mint
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-69r: Collection of orders and laws for the management of the Royal Mint, written in different hands. Includes instructions for making money (ff. 1r-20r), 'An ordinaunce for measures and weightes owte of magna carta' (f. 21r); a document relating to Martin Bowes (b. 1496/7, d....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 16th century-3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4230
Title:: Articles of news in Italian
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-207v: Articles of news in Italian from Rome, Venice, Antwerp, and other places, in the years 1591-1596. On f. 46r, written in Latin, a letter signed by Sir Henry Wotton (b. 1568, d. 1639), English ambassador to Venice, dated to the year 1600.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1591-1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4239
Title:: Leges sive Statuta Cantabrigiensis, Academiae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-25v: 'Leges sive Statuta Cantabrigiensis, Academiae' (dated 26 March 1573); with the names of William Cecil, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1559, Andrew Perne, Vice-Chancellor, and the Masters of the colleges at the end. Decoration: The heraldic achievement o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: between 1628 and 1649
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4241
Title:: Aristotle, Metaphysica
Scope & Content:: Aristotle, Metaphysica. Decoration: Initials in red or blue at the beginning of chapters.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1450-1464
Extent:: 88 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4242
Title:: Passion of St Vincent of Saragossa; Life and Miracles of St Thomas of Canterbury; Miracles of St Wulfsige of Evesham
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript comprises two different parts. Part 1 (ff. 1r-64v) features a previously unnoticed fragment of the Passion of St Vincent of Saragossa (f. 1r), and a copy of the Life and Miracles of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury (ff. 1v-64v), both from the first half of the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4243
Title:: Collection of historical tracts and letters from the reigns of Henry VIII, Mary I and Philip II, and Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: List of payments. f. 1r: 'The chardge of a toun of wine'. f. 1v: 'The accompt of all the rentes and revenues of King Phillip yerelie due to him as they were given up Anno domini 1562'. f. 1v: The great expenses of King Phillip Anno domini 1562'. ff. 2r-2v: Lists of paym...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1589
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4285
Title:: The Book of Provisions of the city of Piacenza
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-97v: The Book of Provisions of the city of Piacenza.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4292
Title:: Sanctuary book of Beverley Minster
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–35v: Register recording those seeking sanctuary at Beverley, alternating between lists of names and entries of petitions. Written in many different hands, and seemingly compiled as petitions were made.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1478-1540
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4313
Title:: Formulary for legal process in the Court of Arches at London
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-217v: Formula for legal process in the Court of Arches at London ('Formulae Instrumentorum Juris in curia de Arcubus Lonini'), mostly featuring dates from the 1560s-1580s. Largely written in Latin, but also featuring items in English.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1560s-1580s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4327
Title:: Lorraine Psalter; Little Office of the Virgin Mary
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 13r-20v: Preface to the Psalter in French, beginning with the rubric: 'Cilz qui ait cest psaultier de latin translateit en romans prie et requieirt a touz ceulz qui lon vorront transcrire et copier . que il metient ou faicent metre tout devant lou psaultier...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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