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1771. Harley MS 5376

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5376
Title:
Cicero, De amicitia; Paradoxica stoicorum; De senectute
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a selection of works by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC). Contents: ff. 1r-22r: Cicero, De amicitia (On friendship). ff. 23r-33v: Cicero, Paradoxica stoicorum (Stoic paradoxes). ff. 34r-53v: Cicero, De senectute (On old age). ff. 1*v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1772. Harley MS 535

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 535
Title:
Memoriale Credencium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-142r: Memoriale Credencium, beginning: 'Man and woman þat wilneþ to fle synne and lede clene lyif: takeþ heede to þis litle tretys þat is iwrite in english tong for lewed men þat conneþ nouȝt understande latyn ne frensch. And hit is ydrawe out of holy write bi techyng of holy d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1773. Harley MS 2754

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2754
Title:
Virgil, Opera
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-12r: Virgil, Eclogues. ff. 12r-41r: Virgil, Georgics. ff. 42r-174r: Virgil, Aeneid. ff. 41v and 174v are blank. Decoration: 12 very large initials in blue and red with red and brown pen-flourishing (ff. 42r, 52v, 63r, 72v, 82, 93v, 105v, 116v, 126v, 137v, 149v, 161v)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1774. Harley MS 3117

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3117
Title:
Biblical commentaries
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-37v: Gilbert Universalis (d. 1134), Glossa ordinaria in Lamentationes (Ordinary Gloss on Lamentations), with prothemata (ff. 1r-2r), ending with an author attribution: ‘que de patrum fontibus hausi ego Gillebertus autisiodorensis ecclesie archidiaconus'. Imperfect, lacking seve...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

1775. Harley MS 82

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 82
Title:
Register of Reading Abbey; Usuard, Martyrology; 'Sir John Mandeville', Voyage d’outre mer
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains three parts that were separately produced: I: ff. 1r–3v (Register); II: ff. 4r–34v (Martyrology); III: ff. 35r–104v (Voyage d'outre mer). The martyrology was written in the 12th century at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin in Reading. The first pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
12th century-14th century
Extent:

1 volume

1776. Harley MS 283

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 283
Title:
An English collection of letters, mostly from the time of Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-375r: A large collection of more than two hundred letters and papers in English, French, and Latin relating to state affairs, mostly from the reign of King Henry VIII (originals and transcripts). Includes letters by Henry VIII (with his signature), Mary Tudor, Jane Seymour, an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1524-1546
Extent:
1 volume

1777. Harley MS 422

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 422
Title:
Papers of John Foxe relating to Protestant and Catholic persecutions in England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-172v: A collection of papers relating to Protestant and Catholic persecutions in 16th-century England, including the second and third debates of the Jesuit Edmund Campion (b. 1540, d. 1581) at the Tower of London in 1581 (ff. 136r-173v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1531-1581
Extent:
1 volume

1778. Harley MS 1479

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1479
Title:
Coats of arms of Knights of the Garter and the English peerage
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: An unfinished ink sketch of the arms of Charles II. ff. 1r-24r: Full-page drawings of coats of arms of Knights of the Garter, including those of King Charles II, all circumscribed by the Garter; also featuring supporters, crowns, crests and mottoes. f. 25v: A note on t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1779. Harley MS 1838

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1838
Title:
Notes and commentary on Grotius De Jure Belli ac Pacis. Part 2.
Scope & Content:
Manuscript notes and commentary on Hugo Grotius, De Jure Belli ac Pacis (On the Law of War and Peace). Volume 2 of 3 volumes with continuous original foliation (the others are Harley MS 5057 and Harley MS 5254). At the end of the volume are unrelated letters in English written by William Dickins...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1780. Harley MS 2250

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2250
Title:
Middle English Life of Christ and other saints' Lives and theological texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-44r: Middle English stanzaic Life of Christ in verse (Circumcision, the first leaf of which has been misbound between ff. 44 and f. 45; Epiphay; Purification of the Virgin Mary; Innocents; Septuagesima; Sexagesima; Quinquagesima; Quadragesima; Lent; the Passion; Pilate; Judas; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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