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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 866, ff 33r-48r
Title:: A treatise on rhetoric, incipit: 'Hiis visis ad colores primo accedendum...'
Scope & Content:: A treatise on rhetoric, entitled in the colophon 'tractatus de arte dictandi' (f. 48r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1390-c 1410
Extent:: 16 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 867
Title:: Statutes from Henry III to Richard II
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains statutes from the reigns of Henry III to Richard II. For an item-level description of the statutes included in this manuscript, see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, I (1808), pp. 463-64. Contents: ff. 4*recto-7*verso: Table of statutes for Henry II. ff. 1r-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 868
Title:: John Felton, Sermones
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-110v: John Felton (fl. 1431), Sermones. ff. 111r-117v: A table of contents. The manuscript contains a few additions: ff. 1*, 2*, 123r, and 123v: End-leaves from a 14th-century missal, featuring music notation on bars in red ink; and small initials in blue or red with penw...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 869
Title:: Collection of English statutes, including Ralph of Hengham, Hengham Magna and Hengham Parva, and Britton
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 5r-6r: Chapter lists for English statutes. ff. 7r-8v: Magna Carta. ff. 8v-9v: Carta de Foresta. ff. 9v-10r: Statutum de Foresta. ff. 10r-10v: Consuetudines Foreste. ff. 10v-11r: Confirmacio Cartarum per Regis Edwardi I. ff. 11r-11v: Sententia lata super Cartas (1253)....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 870
Title:: Britton (treatise on the laws of England)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-163v: Britton, a copy of the earliest summary of the laws of England in French, previously attributed to John le Breton, bishop of Hereford. ff. 164r-164v: Proposiciones digestorum;imperfect. The manuscript contains additions: f. 165r: An inscription with the date 1421: 'An...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 871
Title:: English miscellany of tracts and letters from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: Contents ff. 1r-6v: ‘The Last Will and Testament of Sir Walter Myldmay Knight Secundo die aprilis 1589’. ff. 7r-64r: The proceedings of the Early of Essex and other of Queen Elizabeth's ministers following the discovery of a plot to poison Queen Elizabeth I, dated 1593-1594. ff. 65r-70v: A d...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1590s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 873
Title:: Rituale (Manuale), Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-94v: Rituale (Manuale), Use of Sarum; with musical notation; imperfect at the beginning and end. The manuscript features formula for consecrations (e.g. 'Qualiter hij qui in Ordine Anachoritarum debeant se habere') and blessings (e.g 'Benedictio Scuti et Baculi ad Duellum facie...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 874
Title:: Apocalypse in English with prose commentary
Scope & Content:: English version of the Apocalypse/Revelation of St John, with a prose commentary following each section of the text. f. 1*r: Added paper leaf with Frederic Madden's notes about the manuscript, citing Harley 1203, Harley 171, and Royal 17 A XXVI. f. 1v: Pen trials, 15th century. f. 2r–v: Prolo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1340-1370
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 875
Title:: William Langland, Vision of Piers Plowman
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*recto-1*verso: a title ‘VERBA (?) [LATINA]’. f. 1*verso: Latin excerpts (partially legible) from an etymological dictionary. One excerpt (‘Delubra diceba[n]t[ur] [ve]t[er]es templa fontes h[aben]cia in quibus an[te] i[n]g[re]ssu[m] [diluebantur] un[de] diceban[tur] delubra a ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 876
Title:: Theological miscellany, including Tertullian, Testamenta xii patriarcharum
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–15r: Tertullian, Testamenta xii patriarcharum, translated by Robert Grosseteste. ff. 15r–20r: Anonymous versification of Richard of Saint-Victor, Beniamin minor, ‘Incipit libellus a magistro Ricardo de sancto victore prosaice editus. Beniamin ab eodem intitulatus. A quodam in metrum rude...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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