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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2802
Title:: A Passional (the 'Arnstein Passional'), volume 3 (October-December), with a calendar
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the third volume of a three-volume Passional, and contains the lives of saints for readings on feasts in October-December. The first volume is Harley MS 2800 (January-May), and the second volume is Harley MS 2802 (June-September). Contents: f. 1v: Added contents page. ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c. 1170-c. 1180
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2826
Title:: Four Gospels with canon tables, prologues and capitula (the 'Eller Gospels')
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3v: Prologues; ff. 4r-9v: Canon tables; ff. 10r-149r: The four Gospels with capitula and prefaces; f. 150v: Added 10th-century list made by Hatto of the furnishings and books of the monastery of Eller. The list includes a codex edged with silver and ivory, containing the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3134
Title:: Jacobus de Theramo, De consolatio peccatorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: Jacobus de Theramo (or de Teramo or Palladinus) (b. 1349, d. 1417), De consolatio peccatorum or Liber Belial or Processus Luciferi contra Jesum Christum. This tract, written in around 1382, takes the form of a lawsuit between Lucifer and Jesus Christ, with Solomon presiding, in which...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3437
Title:: William Teshe, Poem on the Order of the Garter for Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: Contents: William Teshe, Verses on the Mottoes of the Queen, sixteen of the Knights and the Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, 1582 [presentation copy for Queen Elizabeth I]. Decoration: Coats of arms of the members, in colours and gold surrounded by the garter and combined with the Lat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1582
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3444
Title:: Miles Huggarde, ‘A treatise declaring howe Christ…was banished out of this realme’
Scope & Content:: Treatise by Miles Huggarde (fl. 1533–1557), poet and religious polemicist. Titled ‘A treatise declaring howe Christ by perverse preachyng was banished out of this realme, and howe it hath pleased God to bryng Christ home againe by Mary our moost gracious Quene’. With a dedicatory verse epistle ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: July 1553-July 1554
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3450
Title:: An atlas of 17 sea charts by Joan Martines
Scope & Content:: This atlas consists of a collection of sea charts, executed by the Italian cartographer and cosmographer Joan Martines (d. 1591) in 1578. The atlas's 17 charts are laid down on a plane scale and span each verso and its opposing recto. A similar collection of charts by Martines, also executed i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1578
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3642
Title:: The process against the Anglican bishops Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley and Thomas Cranmer
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-30r: The process against the Anglican bishops Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley and Thomas Cranmer, copied from the original and attested by William Whyte, with his notary signature (ff. 29r-30r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1555-c 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3724
Title:: Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae, the bull Laudabiliter, and other texts
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of miscellaneous texts in Latin and Middle English, written in Ireland during the 13th century. They include a copy of the Topographia Hiberniae (Topography of Ireland), an account of the landscape, history and people of Ireland, written by the historian Ger...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3838
Title:: John Bale, Anglorum Heliades, and other works on the Carmelite Order
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains three works by John Bale (b. 1495, d. 1563) relating to his time as a Carmelite Friar (1506-in or after 1536). The works relate to the history of the Carmelite Order’s English province, biographies of the Order’s founders, and the history of Carmelite historical scholars...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1530s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3869
Title:: John Gower, Confessio amantis, Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz, pageant verses, and some short Latin verse; Marian hymns in English and Latin
Scope & Content:: Confessio amantis by John Gower (d. 1408), along with his French Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz, and some of his short Latin verse. Also includes (in the hand of another scribe), pageant verses by John Lydgate and Marian hymns in English and Latin. Contents: ff. 2r–4v: John Lydgat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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