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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7025
Title:: Accounts of military operations; lists and other papers relating to Christ Church Oxford, Trinity College Cambridge, and Westminster School; letter by Pope Eugenius IV (1447); original grants of arms; 'Catalogue of the most famous orders of knighthood throughout Christendome both Ecclesiasticall and Secular'
Scope & Content:: The larger part of this manuscript contains 17th-century materials. It also features an original letter by Pope Eugenius IV (1383–1447) and original grants of arms dating to the reign of King Henry VIII (ff. 199r, 202r). Contents: ff. 1*recto-1*verso: A table of contents. ff. 2*recto-65v: 'A...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1447-1738
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 102
Title:: Nicholaus de Aquaevilla, Semones dominicales; John of Genoa, Catholicon (extract); Pseudo-Bonaventure, De passione domini; Richard Rolle of Hampole, Speculum peccatoris
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-133r: Nicholaus de Aquaevilla, Semones dominicales. f. 133v: Extract from John of Genoa, Catholicon, on the seven petitions of the Lord’s Prayer. ff. 135r-145v: Pseudo-Bonaventure, De passione domini. ff. 145v-149r: Richard Rolle of Hampole, Speculum peccatoris. Decoration:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 869
Title:: Collection of English statutes, including Ralph of Hengham, Hengham Magna and Hengham Parva, and Britton
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 5r-6r: Chapter lists for English statutes. ff. 7r-8v: Magna Carta. ff. 8v-9v: Carta de Foresta. ff. 9v-10r: Statutum de Foresta. ff. 10r-10v: Consuetudines Foreste. ff. 10v-11r: Confirmacio Cartarum per Regis Edwardi I. ff. 11r-11v: Sententia lata super Cartas (1253)....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2560
Title:: Publius Baebius Italicus, Ilias Latina; Publius Papinius Statius, Achilleid; Guarinus Veronensis (Guarino da Verona), Hypothesia; Laudatio Hieronymi; Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid), Remedia Amoris; Priscianus's Latin translation of the Periegesis by Dionysius Periegetes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-24r: Publius Baebius Italicus, Ilias Latina, attributed here to 'Pindarus', ending: 'Pindarus hunc librum fecit scitat Homerus. GRECUS HOMERUS ERAT SET PINDARUS ESSE LATINUS. DEO GRATIAS AMEN'. ff. 25r-50r: Publius Papinius Statius, Achilleid, in 5 books, ending: 'aura silet p...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 101
Title:: Origen, Commentarium in Canticum Canticorum; Hrabanus Maurus, De institutione clericorum
Scope & Content:: This manuscript was produced at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin in Reading. It was produced in a stylistic period of manuscript production at the abbey that has been dated to between 1150 and 1180. Many of the abbey’s manuscripts from this period contain patristic writings, which is ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1150-1180
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3436
Title:: Theological miscellany including Eusebius of Cremona, Epistola de morte Hieronymi
Scope & Content:: Theological miscellany containing late medieval and early Christian hagiographical texts along with works and letters by Italian humanists. Contents: f. 1r: Inscriptions. f. 1v: Added inscription: 'Nobili domino Ambrosio Spinula d. Stefani'. ff. 2r-44r: Eusebius of Cremona, Epistola de mort...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 561
Title:: Pontifical
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of fragments of a Pontifical, for English use and includes: ff. 1r-8v: Order of the consecration of a bishop, fragment, imperfect at the beginning and the end, beginning: 'Benedixisti domine terram tuam' (Psalm 84); ending: 'quam tibi offerimus pro hiis quos regenerare...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4053
Title:: Debates of the House of Commons April 1679; a historical speech in defence of Charles I; a treatise on the value of money; a historical miscellany of the Norman Conquest; St Augustine, Regula; Henry of Sawtry, De purgatorio S. Patricii
Scope & Content:: ff. 2r-35r: Debates of the house of Commons April 1679. ff. 36r-46v: A historical speech in defence of King Charles I. ff. 47r-55r: A treatise on the value of money. ff. 65r-76r: A historical miscellany of the Norman Conquest. f. 77r: A note about the articles of faith in a 17th-century han...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century - 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3510
Title:: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Carmina, Ars Poetica, Sermones, and Epistulae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-76v: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Carmina (Poems); ff. 76v-85v: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Ars Poetica (The Art of Poetry); ff. 85v-127r: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Sermones (Satires); ff. 127r-156r: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Epistulae (Epistles). Decoration: 1 historiated...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2381
Title:
Scope & Content:: Compendium of Medical Recipes; mid 15th cent. Middle English and Latin. Copies. The cataloguing of this manuscript was funded by the Wellcome Trust and only the medical texts are fully itemised in the description. The MS. contains one large collection of medical recipes and three others very sho...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

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