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2071. Harley MS 3485

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3485
Title:
Plutarch, Parallel Lives
Scope & Content:
This 15th-century manuscript contains a copy of the Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans, written by the Greek philosopher and writer Plutarch (b. 46, d. after 119). The biographies are arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1478
Extent:
1 volume

2072. Harley MS 230

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 230
Title:
Register of Abbots Thomas and Richard of Bury St Edmunds
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–7r: Alphabetical index, not including ff. 8r–53v, headed ‘Registrum Thome abbatis …’. ff. 8r–53v: William of Hoo, Letterbook. ff. 54r–133v: Register of Abbots Richard Draughton and Thomas Tottington: charters, presentations, customs, recognitions, pleas, pensions, etc., together with co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century-14th century
Extent:

1 volume

2073. Harley MS 703

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 703
Title:
State papers and tracts relating to the county of Sussex
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a large collection of state papers and tracts, many relating to the county of Sussex, dating between 1583 and 1627, apparently compiled around 1627 for Sir Walter Covert (b. c. 1544. d. 1632), High Sheriff of and Deputy Lieutenant in Sussex, and Member of Parliament for ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1583-1627
Extent:
1 volume

2074. Harley MS 2656

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2656
Title:
Terence, Comoediae, with prologues and arguments; Vita Terencii; Epitaphium Terencii
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a 12th-century copy of six comedies written by the playwright Publius Terentius Afer (b. c. 195/185, d. c. 159 BC), also known as Terence. Contents: ff. 1r-69r: Terence, Comoediae, with prologues and arguments, including: ff. 1r-12r: Andria (The Girl from Andros). ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

2075. Harley MS 6746

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6746
Title:
Collection of letters, grants, indentures and accounts concerning trading goods
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Copies of bonds and obligations in English and Latin, beginning: ‘Be it knowne to all men by theise present that I ffrancis Th. of London ydoun have remised released’, dated 16, 20, 22, 28 Elizabeth I. f. 4v: A list of payments, beginning ‘ffor the warrant of attourney’, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1580s
Extent:
1 volume

2076. Harley MS 1061

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1061
Title:
A record of the trial of the divorce of King Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-16v: A record of the trial of the divorce of King Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves; signed by ‘Ricardus Watkyns’; ‘Anthonius Huse’; and ‘Thomas Argall’ with their notarial signatures. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 2*recto: Notes about two manuscripts (including ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1550
Extent:
1 volume

2077. Harley MS 1337

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1337
Title:
The Prose Brut Chronicle, with a collection of prophecies attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer, Merlin and others
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-105r: The Prose Brut Chronicle (abbreviated version to 1419); ending with the explicit: 'Here endith a book callyd the Croniclis of Englonde made & compilid by notabil Clerkis of aventuris of kyngis þat were in þis londe and howe þey died' (f. 105r). The manuscript contai...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2078. Harley MS 2903

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2903
Title:
Breviary, Use of Rome, with a Psalter and litanies
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar, including: ‘Aniceti’ (Pope Saint Anicetus), ‘Petri de murrone’ (St Peter of Morrone, also known as Pope Celestine V; 19 May, Abruzzi, Central Italy), ‘Marie ad nives’ (in red, 5 August, Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome), the dedication of the basilica of St Saviour (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1447-c 1475
Extent:

1 volume

2079. Harley MS 4980

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4980
Title:
Augustine, Fragment from De civitate Dei; Bede, Expositio actuum apostolorum; De fide Sanctae Trinitatis et de incarnatione Christi and other Alcuin's works
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of three parts of different origin and period, perhaps bound together in the 13th century in Carcassone, according to Knibbs and Matter, Alcuini (2012). Laistner, 'The Spanish Archetype of MS Harley 4980' (1936) argues that 'textual and orthographic peculiarities' in th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
8th century-9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2080. Harley MS 7376

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7376
Title:
An inventory of the jewels of Queen Mary I; accounts on the hundreds of Sussex and Kent
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains three parts: an inventory of jewels delivered to Queen Mary I (ff. 1r-42v); an early 14th-century description of the hundreds in Sussex and Kent (ff. 44r-58v); and a 16th-century inventory of tax payments from the hundreds in Kent (ff. 63r-220v). The three part...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1312-c 1553
Extent:
1 volume

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