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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2700
Title:: Martial, Epigrams
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains the Epigrams by the Roman poet Martial (b. c. 41-d. c. 102). Parts of the original text are missing and have been supplemented by an anonymous 15th-century scribe, possibly working in Padua, and by the scribe Bartolomeo Sanvito (b. 1435, d. 1518). The manu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3441
Title:: Justinian, Codex
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains fragments of the Codex Justiniani (Emperor Justinian’s Code) which, together with Digesta (The Digest), Institutiones (Institutes of Justinian) and Novellae (The New Laws), makes up the Corpus Juris Civilis (Justinian’s Body of Civil Law). This was one of the most import...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 53
Title:: Brut chronicle; a genealogy of the kings of Britain
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-11v: a genealogy of the kings of Britain from Adam to Henry VI ff. 14r-164v: the Brut chronicle. The manuscript contains later additions: f. 1r-1v: various verses and pen-trials. [ff. 12r-13r are blank]. Decoration: 1 full-page coat of arms and motto ascribed to the Stoke...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 413
Title:: Statutes from King Edward III to King Henry V
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-120r: Statutes from King Edward III to King Henry V; written in French. The manuscript contains a later addition: A (?) letter in English and Latin on the inside of the paper pastedown on f. 120v; written in the 15th century.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 487
Title:: A Psalter with the Hours of the Holy Spirit
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar with astronomical information; featuring additional saints added in the late 15th- or early 16th-century. ff. 7r-177r: The Psalter. ff. 177r-193v: Canticles, hymns and Athanasian creed (Quicumque Vult). ff. 193v-200v: Litany and prayers; featuring St Bridget ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1135
Title:: A copy of the Visitation-book of Sussex of 1633-1634
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-4r: An alphabetical index of the names of families included in this manuscript. f. 4r: ‘Memorandum that the booke that this was transcribed by was part of Northamptsh. ad ffoll. […]’. ff. 7r-: Pedigrees and coats of arms of the nobility and gentry of Sussex, copied from the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1650
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1194
Title:: A copy of the Visitation Book of Sussex, 1633-1634
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-142r: A copy of the Visitation Book of the county of Sussex by John Philipot (b. 1588, d. 1645), Somerset Herald, and by George Owen (b. c. 1598, d. 1665), York Herald, in 1633-1634; with some additions (including grants of arms and copies of charters in English and Latin) and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter or 2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2259
Title:: Richard Strangways, Tractatus nobilis de lege et exposicione armorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-5v: An introduction and table of contents, beginning ‘Pensa, Successor, in tui cordis oraculo de primo Predecestore, qui hoc nobile ex pluribus libris aggregatum si dici possit non minus se ipso predilexit’. ff. 7v-10r: Lists of names of nobility that came with William the Co...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1455
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2431
Title:: Breviary, with a York calendar and other liturgical texts
Scope & Content:: This breviary is a rare surviving example of a late medieval book that is known to have been used in (at least) two parish or local church settings: at the chapel of St Giles’s Hospital near Brompton-on-Swale, and slightly later in the chantry of St Giles, in the chapel of Ravensworth Castle, bo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4285
Title:: The Book of Provisions of the city of Piacenza
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-97v: The Book of Provisions of the city of Piacenza.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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