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291. Harley MS 261

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 261
Title:
William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum and Gesta Pontificum Anglorum; Henry of Saltrey, Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii
Scope & Content:
This late 12th- or early 13th-century manuscript may have been produced by the cathedral priory of St Andrew in Rochester, but was certainly at the priory in the 13th or 14th century and may have remained there until the priory was dissolved in 1540. The manuscript contains the Gesta regum Anglo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

292. Harley MS 262

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 262
Title:
Kitab-i Remel - كتاب رمل
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the book of remel, or divination by means of dots. The preamble of the text tates that it was composed for Hārūn al-Rashīd by a sage known as ᶜAbdallah ibn Ani. The instructions given for consulting it are as follows: make at random an indefinite number of dots on sand or p...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 text, 82 ff

293. Harley MS 263

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 263
Title:
Dialogues of Pope Gregory the Great, translated into Greek by Zachary, Saint and Pope. Printed 1615.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

294. Harley MS 264

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 264
Title:
Guido de Monte Rocherii, Manipulus curatorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-70v: Guido de Monte Rocherii (fl. 14th century), Manipulus curatorum (A small manual for priests), preceded by a chapter list (ff. 1r-1v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

295. Harley MS 265

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 265
Title:
Cartulary of the Berkeley family
Scope & Content:
ff. 1*v–2*r: Note on the relationship of Thomas, Lord Berkeley, to the Earl of Winchester. ff. 1r–145v: Cartulary, arranged topographically, from the time of Edward I to Henry VI, relating to Wymondham, Edingthorpe and other places in Leicestershire and Norfolk. Fragmentary towards the end due ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1458-c 1470
Extent:

1 volume

296. Harley MS 266

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 266
Title:
The Brut Chronicle
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-151v: The Brut Chronicle with a title in a 16th-century hand: 'A verie large Chronicle from the beginning of E.I perfect to anno quo H. 6'. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*r: a title page written by Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), beginning: 'An Ancient a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

297. Harley MS 267

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 267
Title:
Miscellany of scientific texts
Scope & Content:
A composite scientific manuscript of at least six parts (ff. 1-2, 3-9, 10-15, 16-23, 24-174, 175-235) that were produced at different locations and periods of time between c. 1300 and c. 1400. Contents: ff. 1r-2r: A computistical text. ff. 3r-9v: Gregory the Great, Gospel lections. ff. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1300-c 1400
Extent:
1 volume

298. Harley MS 268

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 268
Title:
A collection of exempla; Etienne de Besançon, Alphabetum Narrationem
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-44r: A collection of exempla, beginning ‘Hic incipiunt exempla bona et moralia de Johanne Patriarcha’. ff. 45r-201r: Etienne de Besançon, Alphabetum Narrationem. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 1v-2r: A ‘heavenly letter’, beginning ‘This is þe copy of of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

299. Harley MS 270

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 270
Title:
Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Vie de Saint Thomas Becket; Matthaeus Platearius (attributed), Liber de simplici medicina or Circa instans
Scope & Content:
The volume is made up of two separate manuscripts (ff. 1r-122v, 123r-149v), as follows: Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Vie de Saint Thomas Becket (ff. 1r-122v); Matthaeus Platearius (attributed), Liber de simplici medicina or Circa instans (ff. 123r-149v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1175-1249
Extent:

1 volume

300. Harley MS 271

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 271
Title:
The true processe of Englysh polecie; Benedict Burgh, Parvus Cato, Cato Maior
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*r-1*v:, 45r-45v: two leaves (possibly a bifolium) from an 11th-century missal, beginning on f. 1*r: 'Deus qui tribus pueris mitigasti' and f. 45r: 'Illo manducaret et ingressus domum pharisei discubuit'. The two leaves contain old foliation numbers in black ink: '49' (f. 1r) and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-15th century
Extent:

1 volume

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