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2001. Harley MS 308

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 308
Title:
‘Reeve’ or ‘Melford’ Register of Bury St Edmunds Abbey
Scope & Content:
f. 1*: Inserted slip of parchment, perhaps from a former cover; on the verso in faint red 16th-century book-hand, ‘Dompnus Edmundus Bury vestiarius – 1529; dompnus Edmundus Bury pitanciarius. 1530’. ff. 1r–139r: Indentures (1527–40), in chronological order. Later additions to 1546: leases, manu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1517-1546
Extent:

1 volume

2002. Harley MS 1864

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1864
Title:
Armorial of Knights of the Order of the Garter
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: Dedication of the manuscript by Sir William Dethick (b. 1543, d. 1612) to Queen Elizabeth I, dated 1588, beginning: 'Serenissima, Augustissima, et ubiuis longe Potentissima Regina'. f. 2r: The achievement of King Henry V, with above: 'Elizabetha potens, iam regnans pace Bryt...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1587
Extent:
1 volume

2003. Harley MS 1869

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1869
Title:
Giustificazione dei veneziani per la pace fatta col turco
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is bound together with Harley MS 1870, Harley MS 1871, Harley MS 1872, Harley MS 1873, Harley MS 1874. Contents: ff. 1r-1v, 90r-91v: leaves from an unidentified 13th/14th-century breviary, used as flyleaves in this manuscript and related to those in Harley MS 1870, ff. 37-38, H...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

Part of Harley MSS 1869-1874 (bound together as 1 volume)

2004. Harley MS 3634

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3634
Title:
Thomas Walsingham, Ypodigma Neustriae,Chronica Majora and Chronicon Angliæ
Scope & Content:
A composite manuscript of 2 parts. Part 1 (ff. 2v-125r, 195r-205r) contains Thomas Walsingham's Ypodigma Neustriae, Chronica Majora, and a continuation to Thomas Walsingham's Chronicon Angliæ, and was written in southern England in the first half of the 16th century. Part 2 (ff. 125r-195r) is...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1387-c 1550
Extent:
1 volume

2005. Harley MS 2839

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2839
Title:
The first volume of a Bible in two parts, from Genesis to the Psalms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-317v: The first volume of a Bible in two parts, from Genesis to the Psalms. The second volume is Harley MS 2840. Added prologue to Genesis (ff. 1r-4v) written in an imitative 14th-century hand. Decoration: 27 very large historiated initials in gold and colours with foliate ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

2006. Harley MS 3156

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3156
Title:
Nicholas of Lyra, Commentarius super quatuor Evangelia; Amicus (alphabetical sermon collection); two short sermons
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A description of the manuscript’s contents (‘lyra super quatuor ewangelia et quedam alijs secundum ordinem alphabeti’). ff. 2r-258r Nicholas of Lyra (b. c. 1270, d. 1349), Commentarius super quatuor Evangelia (Commentary on the Four Gospels). ff. 259r-321r: A German collect...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High and Latin
Date Range:
1459
Extent:

1 volume

2007. Harley MS 436

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 436
Title:
Cartulary of Wilton Abbey
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*r-v: a letter in the hand of George Hickes (b. 1642, d. 1715), bishop and antiquary, addressed to Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726), recording his gift of the manuscript to Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724). f. 2*r: a note concerning the ownership of the manuscript by the Earl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

2008. Harley MS 549

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 549
Title:
Boethius, De institutione arithmetica
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-57v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), De institutione arithmetica (On the Principles of Arithmetic), with a preface, incipit: 'In dandis et accipiendis muneribus'. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 58r-58v: An unidentified religious poem, added in the late 12th ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

2009. Harley MS 2516

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2516
Title:
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-39r: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae. The manuscript contains an addition: f. 1r: A Venetian statute (see Foligno, 'Codici di materia veneta nelle biblioteche inglesi' (1907), p. 367). f. 39v: Added inscriptions in mostly medieval hands, including an excerpt from Juv...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

2010. Harley MS 2768

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2768
Title:
Aulus Gellius, Noctes atticae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a 15th-century copy of Aulus Gellius' Noctes atticae (Attic Nights), a commonplace book comprising notes on grammar, history, antiquarianism and philosophy, drawn from a variety of sources. Contents: ff. 1r-297v: Aulus Gellius, Noctes atticae (Attic Nights). [ff. 2...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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