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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 392
Title:: Cartulary of the Gainsford family of Crowhurst, Surrey
Scope & Content:: Cartulary of deeds of the Gainsford family, from the time of Edward III–Henry VI, relating to Surrey, Sussex and Kent, arranged under the following headings: f. 1r–v: ‘Rentale Iohannis Gaynesforde manerii sui de Crowherst facto duodecimo die Ianuarii anno regni Regis Henrici sextius post conque...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 420
Title:: Papers on theological matters belonging to John Foxe
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-178r: A volume of papers on theological matters belonging to the martyrologist John Foxe, including transcriptions from the register of Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury, and public records, concerning John Oldcastle and the Lollards.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 16th century-3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2510
Title:: Miscellany of texts on rhetoric, astrology and mathematics.
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is composed of 4 parts (ff. 1r-123v; 124r-131v; 132r-135v; 136r-167v). Part 1 is a palimpsest in late Carolingian script and the text and some of the coloured initials are still partly visible (ff. 1r-123v). f. 123 is the end flyleaf of part 1. Contents: Marcus Tullius Cicero,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Early 12th century-early 13th century
Extent:: 167 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2597
Title:: Sallust, De Coniuratione Catilinae and De Bello Jugurthino
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-28r: Sallust, De Coniuratione Catilinae (On the Conspiracy of Catiline); ff. 28r-81v: Sallust, De Bello Jugurthino (On the Jugurthine War). Decoration: 1 white vine initial extending into a partial border in colours and gold, with birds; in the lower margin, white vine and...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c. 1450-1460
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2643
Title:: Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae and De bello Jugurthino
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: notes on military terms and the division of philosophy. ff. 1v-14r: Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae (On the Conspiracy of Catiline). ff. 15r-38v: Sallust, De bello Jugurthino (On the Jurguthine War). f. 14v is blank. Decoration: Large initials in silver showing its red ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2660
Title:: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae and De natura rerum
Scope & Content:: The volume contains the Etymologiae by Isidore of Seville (599-636), an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (631-651), the editor of the text. Isidore of Seville's De natura rerum (ff. 33r-48v), a short treatise on physics, astronomy and geography, composed aro...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1136
Extent:: 175 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3035
Title:: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae and De natura rerum
Scope & Content:: The volume contains the Etymologiae by Isidore of Seville (599-636), an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (631-651), the editor of the text (ff. 1r-47r, 63v-264r). The text is preceded by five letters of correspondence between St. Isidore and Braulio Bishop o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1495
Extent:: 265 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3053
Title:: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, books 10-23
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the second volume of a three-volume of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job written at the Premonstratensian abbey of St Mary and Nicholas, Arnstein, founded in 1139. The first volume is Harley MS 3052, the third volume is Harley MS 3054. Contents: f. 1r: inscribed 'Secunda ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3054
Title:: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, books 24-35
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the third volume of a three-volume copy of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job,written at the Premonstratensian abbey of St Mary and Nicholas, Arnstein, founded in 1139. The first volume is Harley MS 3052, the second volume is Harley MS 3053. Contents: f. 1r: inscribed 'Ter...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3892
Title:: Miscellaneous texts on rhetoric, grammar, geometry and divination
Scope & Content:: Miscellaneous and composite volume made of 5 small manuscripts written by different scribes (ff. 1r-8v; 9r-16v; 17r-24v; 25r-42v; 43r-58v). Includes: Pseudo-Boethius, De disciplina scholarium, imperfect (ff. 1r-8v); De scholastica disciplina liber scilicet grammatica, imperfect (ff. 9r-16v);...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1400-1454
Extent:: 58 folios.

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