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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 546, ff 70v-71r
Title:: Bernardus de Gordonio, Lilium Medicine, Chapter 5: De urinis (extract)
Scope & Content:: Bernardus de Gordonio, Lilium Medicine, Chapter 5, De urinis, extract; incipit: 'Condiciones Bernardi Gordonia de urína .i.e. cuirid Bernard .9. cuingill .x. / annso ar an fuál', explicit: 'an fual do beith ísil isna heslaintib geara ocus ard isna heaslaintib rigni et reliqua'. The text is an a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Irish and Latin
Date Range:: 1459
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 547
Title:: The Four Gospels; Psalter; Calendar
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-7r: Calendar. ff. 8r-76v: The Four Gospels. ff. 77r-93v: Psalter. ff. 93v-95v: Biblical Canticles. Decoration: Large and small initials in red and blue with arabesque in-set and half border in red or blue. Paragraph signs in red and blue.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 548
Title:: A collection of legal and administrative texts; a short tract in Anglo-Norman about calculating the day of Easter; measuring tables; Robert Grosseteste, Les Reules Seynt Roberd; a glossary of technical terms; several formularies; a list of English kings
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-18r: A miscellaneous collection of legal and administrative texts. ff. 18r-19r: A short tract in Anglo-Norman about calculating the day of Easter. ff. 19v-20v: Measuring tables. ff. 21r-27v: Robert Grosseteste, Les Reules Seynt Roberd. ff. 27v-29r: A glossary of technical t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 549
Title:: Boethius, De institutione arithmetica
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-57v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), De institutione arithmetica (On the Principles of Arithmetic), with a preface, incipit: 'In dandis et accipiendis muneribus'. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 58r-58v: An unidentified religious poem, added in the late 12th ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 550
Title:: Magna Carta, articles and statutes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-3r: A table of contents. ff. 3v-7v: A table of chapters. ff. 9r-13r: Magna Carta. ff. 13v-18r: Articuli editi super Cartis. ff. 18r-20r: Provisiones de Merton. ff. 20r-26r: Statutum de Marleberghe. ff. 26r-29v: Statutum de Gloucestrie. ff. 29v-41r: Statutum de Westm...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 552
Title:: Æthelwold, Regularis Concordia (transcribed from Cotton MS Tiberius A III)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-44v: Æthelwold, Regularis Concordia; a transcript from Cotton MS Tiberius A III, ff. 174r-177r. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A title-page; added in the 16th century, possibly by Laurence Nowell.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 554
Title:: Vita Vidualis, a Middle English translation of Girolamo Savonarola's Libro della vita viduale
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A Latin title inscription: 'Vita Vidualis'. ff. 2r-37r: A Middle English translation of the Italian Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola's Libro della vita viduale [The Book on the Life of the Widow](Florence, c. 1490-1500); introduced as follows: ‘Here folowithe the boke of t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1490s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 556
Title:: Excerpts from the Chronicle of John of Worcester, 703-1101
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-122r: Excerpts from the Chronicle of John of Worcester (703-1101) or Chronicon ex chronicis by John of Worcester (fl. 1095–1140), a monk of Worcester Priory; with additional extracts annotated by Laurence Nowell (d. 1576), Archdeacon of Derby and then Dean of Lichfield. The ma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 559
Title:: Collection of political prophecies
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Three prophecies in Latin verse (Prophetia) written on 12 April 1554, for the years 1550, 1553 and 1554. f. 2r A prophecy (Prophetia) written on 12 April 1554, Lilium regnans (Middle English). f. 2v: An explanation of allegories in Lilium regnans (Explanatio prophetie Ante de...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1500-c 1554
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 560
Title:: Folcard of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis; Liberties and privileges of the church of St John at Beverley
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-14v: Folcard of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis (excerpts), ‘Collectiones de vita et miraculis D. Johannis Berlaci [etc.]’. ff. 14v-43v: Liberties and privileges of the church of St John at Beverley (‘Liberates Ecclesiae sancti Johannis de Beverlie’); featuri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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