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981. Harley MS 5295

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5295
Title:
Cicero, De Oratore
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-145v: Cicero, De Oratore (On Oratory). Decoration: 1 large initial in colours and gold with interlace and white vine decoration forming a partial border (f. 1r). 5 large white vine initials in colours and gold (ff. 4v (with purple pen-flourishing), 44r, 46r, 107r, 110r). C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

982. Harley MS 1706

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1706
Title:
Miscellany in verse and prose
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a renowned collection of verse and prose devotional literature in Middle English including works by John Lydgate, Richard Rolle and Henry Suso. It is divided in two parts (ff. 3r-95v and 96r-216v). The flyleaves that precede and append the litterary texts include a number of me...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1474-1524
Extent:
216 folios.

983. Harley MS 699

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 699
Title:
Robert Vawdrey, Knights' Fees in Cheshire and Flintshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: An introduction, entitled: ‘The forme and order of this booke breiflie sett fourth by Robert Vaudray of Chester Collectour thereof to thentent to instructe the Reader to the true and perfecte knowledge of the making and meanynge of the same booke’. ff. 2r-70r: Book of Knight...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1555-1557
Extent:
1 volume

984. Harley MS 755

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 755
Title:
Collection of sermons; treatise on the Ten Commandments
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-136v: Sermons for feasts of the Temporale. ff. 137r-148v: A subject index. ff. 149r-170r: Treatise on the Ten Commandments. ff. 171r-247v: Collection of Latin sermons, beginning: 'Hora est [...] cum sit brevis vita [nostra] Job 12: Breves dies hominis sunt'. Attributed to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

985. Harley MS 854

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 854
Title:
William Stamford, Exposition of the King's Prerogative
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘Stamfordes boke of the prerogatyffe’. ff. 2r-72v: William Stamford (fl. 16th century), Exposition of the King's Prerogative (1567); here entitled ‘Prerogative of the kynge and Crowne of England’; introduced as ‘An exposicion of the kyngs prerogative collected o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1574-1575
Extent:
1 volume

986. Harley MS 1080

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1080
Title:
The Visitation of Devonshire of 1565 and 1620
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-440v: John Withie [Withy], copy of the Visitation of Devonshire of 1565, and 1620 by Henry St George, with additions; here entitled: ‘Visitation of Devonsheire made and taken by Henry St george Esquire Richmond Herauld, and Sampson Lennard Blew-mantle, Marshalls and Deputies t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

1 volume

987. Harley MS 1390

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1390
Title:
Pedigrees and coats of arms of Bedfordshire families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-29r: Descents and arms of Bedfordshire families, dated to 1582 and 1583; with continuations and additions by John Saunders (the latest date is 1687); featuring an epitaph poem for ‘John Welles late of Heath Esquire who departed this life in the year of our Lord God 1645’; commi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1687
Extent:
1 volume

988. Harley MS 1812

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1812
Title:
A formulary for the cathedral church of Arras
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-109r: A formulary for the cathedral church of Arras.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1634
Extent:
1 volume

989. Harley MS 2435

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2435
Title:
A large collection of Latin notes for sermons
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-117v: A large collection of Latin notes and quotations for sermons. Decoration: Paraph markers in red ink throughout.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

990. Harley MS 2458

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2458
Title:
Goro d'Arezzo, Commentary on Lucan's Pharsalia
Scope & Content:
A late medieval copy of an early Renaissance commentary on Lucan's famous epic, the Pharsalia by the grammarian Goro d'Arezzo, who lived at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries. Contents: f. 1: Inscriptions. f. 2r: Epigram in 4 lines, extracted from the work known as Disticha Catonis (IV. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1466
Extent:
1 volume

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