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111. Harley MS 61

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 61
Title:
Cartulary of Shaftesbury Abbey
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–124v: Cartulary of royal and other charters, based on an earlier landboc that was apparently arranged in chronological order, preserved here to some extent, e.g. with pre-conquest documents grouped, some in Old English (ff. 1r–22v), followed by a Middle English schedule of knight’s fees. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

112. Harley MS 63

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 63
Title:
An abridgment of the Brut chronicle
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-44v: An abridgment of the Brut chronicle to Henry VI. The manuscript includes later additions: f. 44v: a prayer by the Holy Name, beginning: 'Ihesu for thy holy name'. f. 44v: doodles and pen-trials.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

113. Harley MS 64

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 64
Title:
Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum; Epistola ad Henricum regem; a transcript of Henry of Huntingdon, Epistola ad Walterum de contemptu mundi; Abbreviationes de Saeculis aetatibus et temporibus; Chronica Sancti Albani ab Adamo usque ad Martyrium Sancti Albani; Canonizatio beati Petri Martyris, ordinis Praedicatorum, sub Innocentio III; Pope Alexander IV, Bulla de Solenni Celebratione Festi in Memoriam Petri Martyris Instituti; The Excommunication of the English barons by the Archbishop of...
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-112v: Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum (version 5, redactions A and B), including several sections transcribed in a 16th-century hand (ff. 89r-112v). ff. 113r-135r: Henry of Huntingdon, Epistola ad Henricum regem. ff. 136r-145r: A transcript of Henry of Huntingdon, Epis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

114. Harley MS 65

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 65
Title:
Natura brevium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-36v: Natura brevium. Decoration: 1 large puzzle initial with a partial (one-sided) border in blue and purple (f. 1r). Small blue initials with red penwork decoration throughout.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

115. Harley MS 66

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 66
Title:
Transcripts of the Historia Sancti Albani scripta tempore Henrici III; excerpts from a register of Westminster Abbey attributed to Sulcard; excerpts from a cartulary of Abingdon Abbey; charters of the kings of Mercia, from King Oshere to King Alfred the Great; legal documents from the reign of Henry I to James I
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an early 17th-century collection of transcripts of historical and legal documents ranging from the 9th century to the 17th century. The legal documents are written largely in Latin, but some of the early documents also contain sections in Old English (ff. 61r-61v, 62r, 6...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

116. Harley MS 67

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 67
Title:
Regalis Prosapia Anglorum descendens ab Adam
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-75v: Regalis Prosapia Anglorum descendens ab Adam.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1550
Extent:
1 volume

117. Harley MS 68

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 68
Title:
Richard Birkhead, A brief discourse for the mayntenaunce, exercise, and trayning of a convenient nombre of Englishemen wherby they may be the Soner made Souldiours for the redier diffence of this realme of Englande
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-7v: Richard Birkhead, A brief discourse for the mayntenaunce, exercise, and trayning of a convenient nombre of Englishemen wherby they may be the Soner made Souldiours for the redier diffence of this realme of Englande.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

118. Harley MS 69

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 69
Title:
The booke of certaine triumphes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-63v: A large collection of tracts, letters, and notes in English and French concerning court affairs and entertainment, jousting and the bearing of coats of arms, known as ‘The booke of certaine triumphes’. Decoration: Full-, half-, and quarter-page drawings of knights joust...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

119. Harley MS 70 and 7369

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 70 and 7369
Title:
Harley MS 70 and Harley MS 7369
Scope & Content:
Two unrelated manuscripts bound together.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

120. Harley MS 71

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 71
Title:
A survey of all royal manors, honours, castles, lordships, tenements and other hereditaments in the counties of Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Warwickshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-80r: William Homberton (‘Esquire surveyor of the possessions’) and John Harwar (‘deputie receyvour’), survey of all royal manors, honours, castles, lordships, tenements and other hereditaments in the counties of Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Warwickshire; writte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1558-1559
Extent:
1 volume

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