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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 614
Title:: Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-242r: Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa. Decoration: 1 historiated initial of St Christopher carrying the Christ Child with a bar-border and sprays with foliate motifs in gold and colours (f. 5r). 2 decorated initials ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 615
Title:: Genealogies of Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Shropshire
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-6r: An index of names. ff. 7r-243r: Genealogies of Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Shropshire, copied by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Heralds, at his Visitation of 1569; made at the order of Alexander Evesham. The manuscript contains a few later addi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 618
Title:: Certificates of the state of parishes of the diocese of Lincoln in the time of Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-39v: Certificates of the state of parishes of the diocese of Lincoln in the time of Queen Elizabeth I.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1560-c 1570
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 620
Title:: Account book for the expenses of Cardinal Wolsey’s journey to Calais, 1521
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title page: ‘The book of Solve In my lordes graces Jorney to Cales, Bruges and other places - Mr Robert Carter occupyinge the office of Stewardeshipe [.xiij. H.8]’. ff. 2r-39r, 50r-61v: An Account book for the expenses of Cardinal Wolsey’s journey to Calais, 1521. ff. 40...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1521-1522
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 622
Title:: Roman Gradual
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-1v: Lections for Easter Thursday and Easter Friday, imperfect. ff. 2r-231v: Roman Gradual. The manuscript contains several later additions: f. 156v: The hymn Sanctus, added by a 16th-century hand. Numerous marginal additions for feasts (e.g. for St Edmund and St Edward th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 623
Title:: Excerpts from Domesday Book by Sir Simonds D’Ewes
Scope & Content:: Autograph manuscript volume, in folio. Title inscribed on first folio: ‘Excerptiones ex utroque Tomo sive Volumine appellato Domesdei, augustissimo et omnium antiquissimo in Achivis Regni Angliae cimeliorum Recordo; a Domino Simonds D’Ewes De Stowhall in agro Suffolciensi. Equite durato et Bar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 624
Title:: Chronicles; Passionale (Lives of Saints); Historica collectanea
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains three different parts gathered by Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist and antiquary. Two of these parts were written and compiled by him between c. 1639-1643, they consist of chronicles related to the history of Britain (ff. 1v-83r; 145r-217r). An...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1100-1643
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 624, ff 1v-83
Title:: Chronicles
Scope & Content:: This part of Harley MS 624 has been written by Sir Simonds d'Ewes, who compiled the manuscript between c. 1639-1643. Contents: f. 2r: A title-page. f. 2v: A table of contents. ff. 4r-20v: Anonymous, Chronica de veteribus Brittanis et Anglo-Saxonibus (Chronicle on the Old Britons and Anglo-Sa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1639-1643
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 624

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 624, ff 84-143v
Title:: Passionale (Lives of Saints), imperfect
Scope & Content:: This part of Harley MS 624 comes from a Passionale (Lives of Saints) that was written at Christ Church, Canterbury. It was originally bound with Cotton MS Nero C VII (ff. 29r-79r) and Harley MS 315 (ff. 1r-39r). Contents: ff. 84v-89v: Passio Sancti Theodoreti (Passion of St Theodore). ff. 89...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 624

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 624, ff 144-217
Title:: Chronicles
Scope & Content:: This part of Harley MS 624 has been written by Sir Simonds d'Ewes, who compiled the manuscript between c. 1639-1643. Contents: ff. 144r-144v: A Latin inscription followed by a fragment from a letter in English referring to the inhabitants of Dalham, 17th century. f. 145r: A drawing of king W...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1639-1643
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 624

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