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101. Harley MS 51

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 51
Title:
Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae; Jacobus Palladinus de Theramo, Consolatio peccatorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-105v: Guido delle Colonne ['de Columnis' or 'de Columna'], Historia destructionis Troiae (A History of the Destruction of Troy) or Historia troiana, in 35 books with a prologue, epilogue and colophon. Prologue begins, ‘Licet cotidie vetera recentibus obruent nonnulla tamen iamd...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

102. Harley MS 52

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 52
Title:
Constitutiones clementinae and other constitutiones; theological, ecclesiastical and homiletic texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-24r: Constitutiones clementinae (Clementine Constitutions). ff. 24r-42v: Several ecclesiastical and homiletic texts. ff. 43r-81v: Several constitutiones. ff. 81v-128v: Theological and ecclesiastical texts. Decoration: Numerous initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

103. Harley MS 53

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 53
Title:
Brut chronicle; a genealogy of the kings of Britain
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-11v: a genealogy of the kings of Britain from Adam to Henry VI ff. 14r-164v: the Brut chronicle. The manuscript contains later additions: f. 1r-1v: various verses and pen-trials. [ff. 12r-13r are blank]. Decoration: 1 full-page coat of arms and motto ascribed to the Stoke...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

104. Harley MS 54

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 54
Title:
Roger of Howden, Chronica
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-37v: Roger of Howden [Hoveden] (d. 1201/2), Chronica [895-1121]; here with the title (in a later hand) ‘Hystoria Saxonum et Anglorum’; beginning ‘In exordio huius operis genealogiam regum Norhtanhimbrorum libet demonstrare’. Decoration: Small red initials throughout. Manicule...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

105. Harley MS 55

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 55
Title:
Anglo-Saxon miscellany including medical remedies and Anglo-Saxon laws by Edgar and Cnut
Scope & Content:
The volume is made up of fragments from two different manuscripts. The first fragment (ff. 1r-4v; unit A) probably formed the end of the original manuscript, and includes: Bald, Leechbook, book 2, chapter 59 (ff. 1r-3r); Laws of King Edgar (r. 959-975) (ff. 3v-4v); Oswald, archbishop of Yo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
Early 11th century
Extent:

1 volume

106. Harley MS 56

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 56
Title:
Osbern, Life of Dunstan
Scope & Content:
f. 1r–v: Cassiodorus, Expositio in Psalterium 104.11–18, fragment: a flyleaf with 12th-century text in two columns, lemmata in red. ff. 2r–24r: Osbern, Life of Dunstan, ending in chapter 16: ‘Epistula de vita sancti dunstani archiepiscopi et confessoris. Vniuersis catholicę matris ecclesię fili...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

107. Harley MS 57

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 57
Title:
Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus (ff. 2r-25v) and an excerpt from the Distinctiones de vita eterna (ff. 26r-27v). A small parchment label pasted on f. 1r includes a 14th-century inscription providing a table of contents for the volume signed by an early owner...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

108. Harley MS 58

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 58
Title:
Rental of the sacrist of Bury St Edmunds for the town of Bury
Scope & Content:
ff. 1v–2v: 16th-century notes. ff. 3r–3v: Post-Dissolution table of contents. f. 4r: 16th-century notes. ff. 5r–21v: Rents of the town belonging to the sacristy (1433–34). ff. 22r–43v: Tenancies in the town from 1354. ff. 44r–136v: Releases granted by the sacrists (1354–1529/38), in chronol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 14th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

109. Harley MS 59

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 59
Title:
Pseudo-Hegesippus, Historia Iosephi de Bello Iudaico et Excidio Urbis Hierosolymitanae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript preserves the work known as Historia Iosephi de Bello Iudaico et Excidio Urbis Hierosolymitanae (The History of Josephus on the Jewish Wars and the Destruction of the City of Jerusalem), a 4th-century adaptation of Josephus' (b. 37, d. 100) Jewish Wars. The work was attributed to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

110. Harley MS 60

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 60
Title:
Account book for taxation in the diocese of London
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-88v: Pensions, spiritualities and temporalities of clergy and religious houses in the diocese of London; circa 1291. ff. 89r-92v: Beneficia non tataxata archidiaconatibus Londoniensis et Middlesexiensis. ff. 94r-97r: Documents of the monastery of Hatfield Regis Priory; refe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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