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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 5481
Title:: Defter.
Scope & Content:: Language: Latin Samaritan hymns and prayers interspersed with short extracts from the Pentateuch.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Latin
Date Range:: 1500-1599
Extent:: 62 folios (8+iii+54+iii, plus three modern leaves at the beginning and the end that serve as fillers)

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1743
Title:: Hebrew-Latin dictionary.
Scope & Content:: Language: Hebrew A Hebrew-Latin dictionary. Milon ῾ivri-latini. מלון עברי-לטיני Note: General title is given on folio 1r, "Observationes et Additiones ad Buxtorfii Abreviaturas ut et ejusdem et reliquorum Bibliothecas Ebraeas. Coeptae 14 Aug. 1694". Part I, dealing with abbreviations (rashe ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Hebrew and Latin
Date Range:: 1694
Extent:: 20 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1671
Title:: The Weye of Paradys
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-85v: The Weye of Paradys; a Middle English translation of the Middle French Voie de Paradis; imperfect at the beginning and end. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: An English poem on St Erasmus, beginning 'Of Synt herassimus here may a man rede' [th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of 14th century-1st quarter of 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6101
Title:: A Scots heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A full-page coat of arms with crest (quarterly of nine): arms of Jermyn. f. 2r: The ‘Armes of the Balliam’. ff. 3r-17r: Royal arms, from King Malcolm III (‘Malcum Camoir’) to Mary I of Scotland [Mary, Queen of Scots] (r. 1542-1567). ff. 18r-71r: The arms of Scots peerage...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin and Scots
Date Range:: 1567-1578
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 6360
Title:: Astrological texts; texts on high treason
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of two separate parts. The first part (ff. 3r-31r) contains astrological texts copied in the 16th century; the second part (ff. 4r-133r) contains texts concerning high treason that were most likely copied in the late 16th century. Contents: ff. 3r-8v: Astrol...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2303
Title:: The Prevarication of Holy Church Libertyes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-3r: Henry Tichborne, dedication to King James II, beginning: ‘To the Kings most Excellent Majestie These Humbly Presented: The Virtues of your most Illustrious Ancestors have in all Ages since Christianity inlightned our Horizon, and been the Glory of so many Princes as have de...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6041
Title:: William Langland, Vision of Piers Plowman
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-96r: William Langland, Vision of Piers Plowman. ff. 97r-102v: A form of confession in Middle English prose; added below the text is ‘Explycit pere [p] Symele’. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 96v: Latin sayings: ‘ego sum bonus puer quem Deus amat’ and 'Equore ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7647
Title:: Catalogues of Cotton charters
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-12v: A copy of a Latin catalogue of Cotton charters made by Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726) in 1703. ff. 13r-52r: A copy of an English catalogue of Cotton charters made by Richard Widmore (bap. 1681, d. 1764) after 1750 [according to a note by Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1703-2nd half of the 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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