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1851. Harley MS 495

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 495
Title:
Theological miscellany
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a miscellany of tales, sermons and short treatises. Contents: ff. 1r-3r: Excerpt from the Historia Regum Britanniae of Geoffrey of Monmouth concerning Merlin, ending, '...proferrem taceret spiritus qui me docet nec aliter ualerem loqui quam ceteri homines. Hec sunt s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
First half of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

1852. Harley MS 2758

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2758
Title:
Ovid, Heroides
Scope & Content:
This 14th-century manuscript contains a copy of the Heroides (The Heroines), a collection of 15 epistolary poems by the Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso (b. 43 BC, d. 17/18 AD), also known as Ovid. Contents: ff. 1r-48v: Ovid, Heroides. Decoration: Partial foliate border in colours and gol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

1853. Harley MS 375

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 375
Title:
Letters from Albertus Joachim to Simonds D’Ewes
Scope & Content:
Letters in Latin from Albertus Joachim, ambassador of the United Provinces, to Sir Simonds D’Ewes on English and continental affairs. Chiefly written from London, Chester and other places in England, with some from abroad, 1627-1641. Arranged chronologically. Interspersed with copies and extract...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1625-1641
Extent:
1 volume

1854. Harley MS 1783

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1783
Title:
Francis Bacon, Maxims of the Common Law
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-123v: Francis Bacon, Maxims of the Common Law, with a title 'Maximes of the Lawe written by Sir Francis Bacon January 8th Anno Domini 1596'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1596
Extent:
1 volume

1855. Harley MS 3014

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3014
Title:
Williram, Commentary on the Song of Songs
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-46r: Williram, Commentary on the Song of Songs. Williram (d. 1085), abbot of the Benedictine monastery of Ebersberg, wrote the commentary c. 1060. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: An inscription: 'VVILRAMVS OLIM ABBAS EBERSPERG.'; added in the (?) 17th century...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

1856. Harley MS 3332

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3332
Title:
Giovane Buonaccorso da Montemagno, De vera nobilitate
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of De vera nobilitate (On True Nobility), a Latin treatise written in 1438 by the Renaissance humanist Giovane Buonaccorso da Montemagno (b. 1391/93, d. 1429). This copy of the work has been attributed to the scribe Antonio Tophio (fl. c. 1460-1470), one of the mo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1857. Harley MS 3641

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3641
Title:
William of Malmesbury, Gesta pontificum Anglorum, imperfect
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-95r: William of Malmesbury, Gesta pontificum Anglorum, imperfect. The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 1r: 3 unfoliated parchment pastedowns, 2 with Harleian shelfmarks ('117. C. 17 / 3641' and '31/V C') and 1 inscribed by Humfrey Wanley: 'Hunc Codicem pervetustem Lond...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

1858. Harley MS 3907

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3907
Title:
Goffredo da Trani, Summa super titulis Decretalium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-344v: Goffredo da Trani, Summa super titulis Decretalium; ending with the words 'Explicit expliceat ludere scriptor eat' (f. 344v). The manuscript contains several additions: ff. 1**, 1***, 350, 350* and 351: Fragments from a liturgical manuscript with lections (probably Germ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

1859. Harley MS 6525

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6525
Title:
Johannes Gallicus, Ritus canendi vetutissimus et novus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of the Ritus canendi vetustissimus et novus (The oldest and the new custom of singing), a musical treatise concerning the teaching and performance of plainchant, written by the French humanist and musical theorist Johannes Gallicus (b. c. 1415, d. 147...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1860. Harley MS 1765

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1765
Title:
A short register of bills and privy seals from the reign of Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-84r: A short register of bills and privy seals from the reign of Henry VIII. ff. 85r-85v: various notes and accounts.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

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