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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4743
Title:: Gasparo Contarini, De republica Venetorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-97r: Gasparo Contarini (b. 1483, d. 1542), De republica Venetorum, beginning: 'Non ita tamen continuum est'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4745
Title:: Walter of Châtillon, 'Alexandreis'
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1-68: Walter of Châtillon, 'Alexandreis', imperfect. A different hand supplied the text on ff. 64-68. Decoration: Puzzle and interlace initial in brown ink with pen-flourishing in ink and red (f. 14v). Puzzle or interlace initials with pen-flourishing in brown ink. Marginal r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century or 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4747
Title:: Gospels
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-2v: Calendar for the use of Coldingham priory, fragment: July-October (early 13th century). ff. 3r-58r: Four Gospels, with marginal Ammonian sections. Decoration: Large puzzle initials in red and blue, with foliate decoration in green, yellow and brown, at the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4748
Title:: Index of the ‘Red Book’ of the Barons Segrave
Scope & Content:: Index of ‘the evidences copied in the boke cleped the Redeboke of þe lordshipe of Segrave’ (f. 3r). ff. 1*v: Fragment of a list of churches. ff. 1r–2r: List of holdings with summaries of how they are held by the Baron Segrave. f. 3r: Preface explaining the methodology, in English. ff. 3r–7r:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: Paper codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4751
Title:: A bestiary with additions from Gerald of Wales's Topographia Hibernica
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a bestiary from the 'second family' of bestiaries (see James, The Bestiary (1928), pp. 15-16) with additions from Gerald of Wales's (b. c. 1146, d. 1223) Topographia Hibernica (Topography of Ireland) on Irish birds. Contents: ff. 1r-74v: Bestiary, beginning: 'Bestiaru...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century-Early 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4765
Title:: Register of Warden Abbey
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–6v: Fragment of a register containing material relating to tithe disputes, 1368–78, etc.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4766
Title:: Rental of Plympton Priory
Scope & Content:: Rental, arranged topographically (place names differ slightly in the opening list and the headings). f. 1v: Charter of Richard I, followed by a list of contents. f. 1*v: Added notes (15th century). f. 2r: Added transcription of f. 1v (18th century). ff. 3r–7v: ‘Nyweton Kentille’/‘Newton sanc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1408
Extent:: Parchment codex

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