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2111. Harley MS 5798

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5798
Title:
Account of the English nobility from before the Norman Conquest to Queen Elizabeth I; tracts regarding English and French arms and titles of peerage
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page for the manuscript: ‘[1] Creaton of Nobility; [2] The Ordenances and Statutes whiche were made by the right High and puissante Prince Thomas of Lancaster son and Brother to right Noble Kings of England and of France, Duke of Clarence, Counte D’Aumarle, Great S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2112. Harley MS 2577

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2577
Title:
Grammatical miscellany
Scope & Content:
Humanistic miscellany comprising classical, late antique and humanistic grammatical treatises. Contents: ff. 1r-91r: George of Trebizond, De Quatuor declinabilibus partibus ex Prisciani compendium. f. 91v: blank ff. 92r-123v: Priscian of Caesarea, Partitiones duodecim versuum Aeneidos princi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1475
Extent:
1 volume

2113. Harley MS 2595

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2595
Title:
Juvenal, Satires
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-69v: Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Satyrae. Decoration: 1 large blue initial with red pen-flourishing (f. 1r). 13 smaller red initials (ff. 4v, 7v, 14r, 17v, 20v, 34r, 38v, 54v, 58v, 61r, 64r, 66v, 67r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1471
Extent:
1 volume

2114. Harley MS 2670

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2670
Title:
Terence, Comoediae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript of the Comoediae (Comedies) of Publius Terentius Afer (Terence, d. c. 159 BC) has tall and narrow dimensions. Books of such dimensions are known as ‘holster books’ since they would be easy to suspend from a belt or holster (Kwakkel and Newton, Medicine at Monte Cassino (2019), pp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

2115. Harley MS 2370

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2370
Title:
Ars moriendi; Chronicle of England from the Creation to the year 1427
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-39v: Ars moriendi, beginning: ‘Cum de praesentis exilii miseria mortis transitus’; an added title inscription on f. 1r, written in a 16th-century hand, spuriously attributes the work to ‘Albertus Castellanus’. This may refer to Albertus de Castello, a Dominican friar, who edite...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2116. Harley MS 417

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 417
Title:
The second of two volumes of works and letters belonging to the martyrologist John Foxe
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-220v: The second of two volumes [the first volume is Harley MS 416] with collections of works and correspondence belonging to the martyrologist John Foxe (b. 1516/17, d. 1587). It includes an account of the life and death of Thomas Cranmer, featuring a printed leaf (ff. 92r-92v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1547-1575
Extent:
1 volume

2117. Harley MS 5580

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5580
Title:
Dionysius Periegetes, Orbis descriptio. Imperfect, comprising lines 1-793, 795-982. Acrostichs ff. 3v-4, 13-13v. Marginal notes and interlinear glosses (ff. 1-13) by the scribal hand in Latin.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 item

2118. Harley MS 651

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 651
Title:
Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronici Canones; St Jerome, Continuation of Eusebius; Prosper of Aquitaine, Epitoma Chronicorum; Sigebert of Gembloux, Chronica; Robert de Torigni, Chronica; list concerning ecclesiastical dioceses; Chronicle from the creation of the world to 1384; England from Alfred to Richard II (with continuations); Names of the kings of Britain and the Heptarchy; Miracle at the shrine of Our Lady of Ipswich; Chronicle from the Creation to 1384; Series of English kings, from Alfred...
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of three parts that were separately produced in England. The first part (ff. 4-177) was produced in the third quarter of the 12th century, most likely at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin, Reading (Berkshire). It contains a collection of chronicles as...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter 12th century-4th quarter 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2119. Harley MS 1481

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1481
Title:
Robert Glover, De Origine Antiquitate et Differentijs Armorum; coats of arms of English bishops and nobility
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*recto: A title inscription: ‘De Origine Antiquitate et Differentijs Armorum sive Insigniorum R. Gloveri alias Somerset Fecialis regij observationes aliquot’. ff. 2*recto-4*verso: An alphabetical index of surnames included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-5r: A Latin treatise by Ro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2120. Harley MS 4196

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4196
Title:
Expanded Northern Homily Cycle; Tractatus de legenda Sanctorum; The Gospel of Nicodemus; The Prick of Conscience
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-132r: Expanded Northern Homily Cycle. ff. 133r-205r: Tractatus de legenda Sanctorum [Sermons for saints’ days]. ff. 206r-215r: The Gospel of Nicodemus. ff. 215v-258v: The Prick of Conscience, imperfect [7 leaves missing between f. 228 and f. 229]. Decoration: Large ini...
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

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