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1342. Harley MS 3441
- 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
1343. Harley MS 53
- 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
1344. Harley MS 413
- 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
1345. Harley MS 487
- 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
1346. Harley MS 1135
- 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
1347. Harley MS 1194
- 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
1348. Harley MS 2259
- 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
1349. Harley MS 2431
- 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
1350. Harley MS 4285
- 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