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2481. Harley MS 1499

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1499
Title:
English heraldic collection, including royal coats of arms; genealogies of English noble families; Thomas Tonge, Visitation of the Northern Counties, 1530; tracts on heraldic matters; a transcript of Domesday Book relating to Yorkshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff 1r-1v: 'A Table of the Hole Contentes of the boke Both of the Petygrees and also the Geanologees And of wych lefe every oon doth stand'. ff. 2r-4r: Arms of kings, beginning with the 'arma Christi', and the attributed arms of the Three Magi and Prester John. ff. 4v-5r: Table of co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1530
Extent:
1 volume

2482. Harley MS 1895

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1895
Title:
Pomponius Mela, De Cosmographia; Faltonia Betitita Proba, excerpts from Virgil with paraphrases of the Old and New Testaments; Cornelius Tacitus, Germania
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-22r: Pomponius Mela, De Cosmographia, in three books. ff. 23r-34v: Faltonia Betitita Proba, excerpts from Virgil with paraphrases of the Old and New Testaments. ff. 35r-42r: Cornelius Tacitus, Germania. Decoration: 1 large initial in blue with red pen-flourishing (f. 1r)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2483. Harley MS 2920

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2920
Title:
Collection of texts relating to the order of service, made for an Italian house of Poor Clares
Scope & Content:
A collection of texts relating to the order of service, probably made for an Italian house of Poor Clares, as suggested by repeated references to the Order's founders St Francis and St Clare of Assisi (e.g. ff. 10v, 16r, 27r). The manuscript was written in two parts: the first part (ff. 1-24) wa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1518-3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

2484. Harley MS 3008

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3008
Title:
Augustine of Hippo, De Medela animae and Tractatus ex Epistola Sancti Johannis; Passio Altera Sancti Andreae Apostoli
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two theological works by St Augustine of Hippo and a work concerning the miracles and martyrdom of St Andrew (Passio Altera Sancti Andreae apostoli). Its place of origin is unknown but it was probably produced in France or Germany: other copies of the Passio that have be...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century-1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

2485. Harley MS 3952

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3952
Title:
John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady; The lamentacione of ladyes for the deth of king Edward IV
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: A table of contents. ff. 2r-105v: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady. f. 105v: A poem on the death of King Edward IV, entitled ‘for the deth of king Edward the iiijth’; beginning ‘[In Ma]y whan every herte is lyghte’. The manuscript contains a number of additions: f. 105v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2486. Harley MS 5044

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5044
Title:
English statutes; Registrum Brevium; Robert Grosseteste, Rules for Household and Estate Management (Les Reules Seynt Robert), Rules for his Own Household, Statutes for the Diocese of Lincoln, Treatise on Confession; Walter of Henley, Housbondrie
Scope & Content:
This manuscript predominantly contains copies of well-known English statutes of the 13th century, but it also includes previously unknown copies of Anglo-Norman and Latin works by the 13th-century authors Robert Grosseteste (b. c. 1170, d. 1253) and Walter of Henley (fl. c. 1260). It includes hi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

2487. Harley MS 3149

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3149
Title:
Interpretatio Homiliarum Duarum Origenis In Canticum Canticorum; Origen, In Canticum Canticorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: A 'Nota' about Origen, Jerome, Benedict, and Gregory the Great: 'Origenes fuit anno domini ducentesimo vicesimo quarto qui post apostolos super omnes in ecclesia dei sciencia eloquencia et vita floruit'. f. 1v: A note on Epithalamia, excerpted from Isidore of Sevile's Etymolog...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2488. Harley MS 3895

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3895
Title:
Compilation of saints lives with devotions to saints
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript predominantly contains the lives of the martyrs St Thomas of Canterbury, St Pelagia of Antioch, St Eustace, St Katherine of Alexandria, and the confessor St Aignan, Bishop of Orléans. It also includes hymns and prayers, a theological tract, and a commentary on the So...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

2489. Harley MS 3000

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3000
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, and Psalter; Augustine, Contra Epistolam Manichæi Quam Vocant Fundamentum
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two parts. Part 1 (ff. 2-271) is a Book of Hours made in the Southern Netherlands for the English market between c. 1460 and c. 1470. Part 2 (ff. 272v-277r) is a letter by Augustine against the Manichaeans that was copied in England in 1554. Contents: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1460-1554
Extent:
1 volume

2490. Harley MS 3403

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3403
Title:
Commissione of the doge Leonardo Loredan to Francesco Barbarigo as podestà and captain of Feltre
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is an illustrated commissione issued to Francesco Barbarigo by the Venetian doge Leonardo Loredan (r. 1501-1521) in 1515. The text concerns Barbarigo's duties and rights as podestà (civil administrator) and captain of the hilltop town of Feltre in Veneto, Italy. The binding of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1515
Extent:
1 volume

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