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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5747
Title:: Cicero, De Amicitia, De Senectute, and Paradoxica Stoicorum
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains three works of the Roman statesman and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC): De Amicitia (On Friendship), De Senectute (On Old Age), and Paradoxica Stoicorum (Stoic Paradoxes). Contents: ff. 1r-21v: Cicero, De Amicitia; ff. 22r-40v: Cicero, De Se...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Modern and Latin
Date Range:: Middle of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7505
Title:: Humfrey Wanley, Facsimile copies of charters and inscriptions
Scope & Content:: f. 1v: Alphabet by Wanley, imitating two biblical fragments (which originally followed the page, according to his note, but are no longer present). f. 2r–v: Charters copied by Wanley in facsimile of the originals. ff. 3r–8v: Inventory of goods (including some books), 1464, of the Collegiate Ch...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1689-1691
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2813
Title:: Bible, including the Psalms and Interpretation of the Hebrew Names, with a missal between Psalms and Proverbs
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4r-504r: Bible, imperfect at the beginning and lacking the opening of Genesis; including the Psalms and Interpretation of the Hebrew Names (ff. 485r-504r); and a booklet (ff. 227r-236v) containing texts for the liturgy between that has been inserted between the Psalms and Proverbs...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2870
Title:: Fragment of a Sequentiary for the Temporale and Sanctorale with added chants for moveable and Marian masses
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a fragment of a Sequentiary (ff. 1r-27r), containing Sequences for the Temporale and Sanctorale, with chants for moveable and Marian feasts (ff. 26v-31v), added in a German-speaking area. Contents: ff. 1r-2r: The [Christmas] Sequence: 'Letabundus exulted fidelis choru...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German, Middle High and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3874
Title:: Account of the manors, lands and tenements held by the Crown from Henry III to Edward IV
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-425v: Account of the manors, lands and tenements held by the Crown from Henry III to Edward IV, divided into four parts: Henry III to Edward II (ff. 2r-71v); Edward III to Richard II (ff. 72r-242v); Henry IV to Henry V (ff. 243r-315v); Henry VI to Edward IV (ff. 316r-425v). Eac...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1470
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2343
Title:: Collection of Middle English tracts of religious instruction, including the Lord's Prayer, the Ave Maria, the Apostle's Creed, and the Ten Commandments
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: The Lords Prayer, beginning: 'In þe name of þe fadir and of þe sone and of þe holi goost amen'. ff. 1r-1v: The Ave Maria, beginning: 'Heil marie ful of grace'. ff. 1v-2r: The Apostles Creed, beginning: 'I bileve into god fadir almy[g]ti make of hevene and of erþe'. ff. 2r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2346
Title:: Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum ecclesiae; collection of Latin sermons; treatise on the Ten Commandments; treatise on the division of the Ten Commandments; De decem Plagis et decem Praeceptis; The Long Charter of Christ; Bernart Amoros, Speculum Sacerdotum
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a composite miscellany of three parts (ff. 1r-11v; ff, 12r-33v; ff, 34r-72v) that have been written at the end of the 14th century and in the 15th century. Contents: ff. 1r-11v: Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum ecclesiae (here with the added title De gradus contemplationis), b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1375-1500
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4166
Title:: Collection of tracts on geomancy, onomancy and onomeirancy; a tract on ars memoriae; instructions for making fires and candles
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript contains a collection of seven parts that were written separately in the 14th and 15h century. The first part (ff. 1r-51v) contains two untitled geomantic works that were copied in the 15th century. The second part (ff. 52r-70v) contains another geomantic work that ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century-15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7567
Title:: Collection of fragments, copies and originals of historical and religious texts, including the Old English edicts of Æthelberht; Old English laws of Æthelred; Decretum Gratiani; Cronica de Anglia; William of St Alban, Passio Sancti Albani
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of fragments, copies and originals of medieval and early modern texts that were produced separately and may have been kept together as a loose collection in the Harleian Library. The manuscript contains at least 38 separate sections ranging from the late 12th c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1175-c 1734
Extent:: 1 volume

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