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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 642
Title:: 'Basilica Oeconomia, or Several Ordinances, Rules and Orders for the Government of the Howsehold of the Kings and Queens of England...'
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume, titled ''Basilica Oeconomia, or Several Ordinances, Rules and Orders for the Government of the Howsehold of the Kings and Queens of England and their Children both of former and of later times; An Exact Index of which particulars is inserted in the next page ensuinge. An...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1610-1650
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 661
Title:: John Hardyng, Chronicle in verse (second version)
Scope & Content:: This richly-decorated manuscript contains the second version of John Hardyng's verse Chronicle. It also includes a map of Scotland and genealogical trees of the kings of England and France. Contents: ff. 1r-186r: John Hardyng, Chronicle in verse. ff. 188v-189r: Seven stanzas rhyme royal vers...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1475
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 682
Title:: Charles of Orléans, Collected poems
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of English poems by Charles, Duke of Orléans, composed during his captivity in England (1415-1440). The manuscript was probably produced under the Duke's supervision at the end of this period, as it includes Ballades 111 and 113, which were rewritten by the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1439-1440
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 701
Title:: Possessions of dissolved monasteries in England
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 2r: A title-page: ‘Monasteria dissoluta in comitatibus Norff. Suff. Cantabr. Hunt. Hertf. Essex. Midd. et Civitat. Londone. Anno xxxvjto Henrici viij [...] .1544.’. ff. 3r-97v: ‘Valores omnium et singulorum Dominiorum, Maneriorum, Rectoriarum, Pensionum, Porcionum, ac aliarum te...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1544
Extent:: 1 volume

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 1023
Title:: Gospel-book
Scope & Content:: This is a 12th-century illuminated Gospel-book with glosses in Irish and Latin, and added texts in Latin. Its close similarities in text, script and decoration with the Gospels of Mael Brigte (Harley MS 1802) and the Book of Armagh (Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 52) both made in Armagh, su...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Irish and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1245
Title:: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes; Defence of Holy Church
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-182v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes [Books 1-9], imperfect; an English translation of Laurent de Premierfait’s Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes, which is a French translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (‘On the Fates of Famous Men’). ff. 182v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1304
Title:: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady; ‘Questiones by twene the Maister of Oxenford and his Clerke’; The ABC of Aristotle, and other proverbs
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-99r: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady (Boffey and Edwards, New Index (2005), no. 2574). ff. 100r-102v: ‘Questiones by twene the Maister of Oxenford and his Clerke’. ff. 103r-103v: The ABC of Aristotle, and other proverbs (Boffey and Edwards, New Index (2005), no. 4155). Deco...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1337
Title:: The Prose Brut Chronicle, with a collection of prophecies attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer, Merlin and others
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-105r: The Prose Brut Chronicle (abbreviated version to 1419); ending with the explicit: 'Here endith a book callyd the Croniclis of Englonde made & compilid by notabil Clerkis of aventuris of kyngis þat were in þis londe and howe þey died' (f. 105r). The manuscript contai...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1338
Title:: A collection of university determinationes, once including a fair copy of material relating to King Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-85v: A collection of university determinationes. It once included a fair copy of material relating to King Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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