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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6523
Title:: Textus Roffensis and Ælfric of Eynsham, Interrogationes Sigewoulfi Presbiteri, in modern facsimiles by Elizabeth Elstob
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains two modern facsimiles of Textus Roffensis (The Tome of Rochester), an Old English legal text that survives in only a single manuscript (now Rochester Cathedral Library, MS. A.3.5), and Interrogationes Sigewulfi Presbiteri (Questions of Sigewulf the Priest), a vernacular ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6524
Title:: 151 Psalms
Scope & Content:: This volume contains interlinear Psalm translation according to Ibn al-Fadl’s Arabic revision and Latin glosses. It begins: ‘We begin by the help of God…to write the blessed psalms, which were spoken by the mouth of the Prophet David, peace be upon him, through the Holy Spirit’. Contents: 150 ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: Codex, 201 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6525
Title:: Johannes Gallicus, Ritus canendi vetutissimus et novus
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of the Ritus canendi vetustissimus et novus (The oldest and the new custom of singing), a musical treatise concerning the teaching and performance of plainchant, written by the French humanist and musical theorist Johannes Gallicus (b. c. 1415, d. 147...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6526
Title:: Collection of grammatical works
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: 'The forme to construe' a sentence out of one language into another. ff. 2r-3r: 'Annotationes in Ciceronis officia'. ff. 4r-41v: 'Phrases ex Terentiij'; with English commentary; inscribed 'Andriae finis' on f. 24r. ff. 42r-43r: 'Annotationes de Fabula'. ff. 44r-45v: 'De a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1575-c 1625
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6531
Title:: Notebook of Humfrey Wanley
Scope & Content:: Notebook of Humfrey Wanley, containing a Greek-Latin lexicon, a dictionary of mathematical terms, and miscellaneous notes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1683-1687
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6545
Title:: Certen centences of the scripture and certen notes and doctrines gathered uppon the scriptures
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4v: An index of subjects. ff. 5r-94v: A collection of 'Certen centences of the scripture and certen notes and doctrines gathered uppon the scriptures', signed R. H. and dated 3 May 1582. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: An English note, largely illegib...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1582
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6546
Title:: Theological treatises
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-59v: A treatise entitled ‘Generalis controversia de habitu in communi tam naturali quam supernaturali et de illis speciebus scilicet virtute et vitio ad 22 questiones p. 2a S. Thoma scillicet a 49 usque ad 70’. ff. 60r-191v: A treatise entitled ‘Gratis controversia de eccles...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6547
Title:: Tractatus de Libero Arbitrio
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-35v: Tractatus de Libero Arbitrio. The manuscript contains a medieval endleaf: ff. 36r-36v: A fragment of the Pauline epistles (Romans 11:1-6), glossed; small blue and red initials with pen-work decoration in the opposite colour; copied in the 4th quarter of the 12th centu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 16th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6551
Title:: Prayer book
Scope & Content:: This composite prayer book consists of two parts. The first part (ff. 1-4) was written in the late 14th century. The second one (ff. 5-43) was written in the first half of the 15th century. Contents: ff. 1r-4r: Exposition on Psalm 50, entitled: 'Incipit Exposicio psalmi subsequentis'; beginni...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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