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1571. Harley MS 5221

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5221
Title:
Sextus Julius Frontinus, Strategemata
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Strategemata (Stratagems) by Sextus Julius Frontinus (b. c. 30, d. 104), a collection of examples of military stratagems from Greek and Roman history. The text is preceded by a Latin epitaph for a Roman woman called Claudia, composed between c. 135 and 120 BC. Cont...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Last quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

1572. Harley MS 2715

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2715
Title:
Macrobius, Saturnalia
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-191r: Macrobius, Saturnalia. [f. 191v is blank]. Decoration: 1 miniature in colours and gold of a banquet at the beginning of the text, combined with a three-sided border with foliate decoration, flowers, musician putti, birds and a lion holding coats of arms, in the low...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1573. Harley MS 631

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 631
Title:
Liber dialogorum gerarchie subcelestis; Marsilius of Padua, Defensor pacis; Johannis de Parisine, De Regia et Papali Potestate; Conrad of Gelnhausen, Epistola Concordie; Peter of Ancarano, Compilation for solving the Papal Schism
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r- 39r: Liber dialogorum gerarchie subcelestis inter orthodoxum catholicum et cathecuminum Paucascium inquirentem de reformacione ecclesie militante. ff. 41r-170v: Marsilius of Padua (b. c. 1275, d. 1342), Defensor pacis. ff. 172r-200r: ‘Magister Johannes de Parisine de ordi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1400s
Extent:
1 volume

1574. Harley MS 246

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 246
Title:
A collection of heraldic and historical notes copied from older manuscripts and rolls
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A brief chronicle of the history of the world in Latin, beginning with an entry for Pope Gregory the Great, who first called himself the ‘servant of the servants of God’ (dated to 592); the source for this information is identified as a chronicle printed at Antwerp by Joha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1607-c 1625
Extent:
1 volume

1575. Harley MS 667

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 667
Title:
Collections of statutes; lists of English kings; a prayer to St Mary Magdalene
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-253v: A large collection of English statutes and charters; including Magna Carta (ff. 15r-19v) and Summa Magna (f. 257v); written in the late 13th century or early 14th century. ff. 254r-297v: A collection of statutes, formula for oaths, a text on the office of bailiff, and '...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter 13th century-15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1576. Harley MS 1212

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1212
Title:
Wycliffite New Testament, later version with the usual prologues and table of lections
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-14r: A ‘kalendar of lessouns pistlis and gospels of al þe ȝeer’. ff. 15r-283r: Wycliffite New Testament, later version with the usual prologues and table of lections. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: A biblical quotation: 'Rev. 12.5 She bare a k...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1420
Extent:
1 volume

1577. Harley MS 1683

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1683
Title:
Barthelemy Pardoux [Bartholomaeus Perdulcis], Collection of lectures on Galen, Hippocrates and Jacobus Sylvius
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes a collection of lectures on medical authors by the French physician Barthelemy Pardoux [Bartholomaeus Perdulcis] (b. 1545, d. 1611) : Table of contents (f. 1v); Lecture on Hippocrates, De natura hominis (ff. 2r-18v); Lecture on Jacobus Sylvius, Anatomen (ff. 19r-40v); ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1578. Harley MS 2195

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2195
Title:
Copies of certificates of Hundreds in England from the time of Edward II
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-80r: A Latin letter of King Edward II to all viscounts of England, certifying existing Hundreds and their bailiffs, how many cities and villages there are therein; followed by Latin certificates of Norfolk, Suffolk, Canterbury, Huntingdonshire, Middlesex and Kent; dated to 5 M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1s quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1579. Harley MS 6347

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6347
Title:
An unidentified Latin work on the reigns of biblical kings and Roman emperors
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-55v: An unidentified Latin work on the reigns of biblical kings and Roman emperors, in 4 books; imperfect at the beginning (the entire first book and part of the second book are missing) and end (part of the fourth book is missing); from Enoch to Caracalla. Decoration: Large...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

1580. Harley MS 289

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 289
Title:
Sixteenth-century letters and papers relating to Scotland and England
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–211v: A collection of letters and papers, originals and contemporary copies, including information about Scotland; relations between Scotland and England, and diplomacy during the reigns of Tudor monarchs. f. 1r: A genealogy of the Hamiltons. f. 1v: Unfinished note beginning 'Of this ho...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

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