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451. Harley MS 455-457

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 455-457
Title:
Papers relating to the Treaty of London and the Council of Peers in York
Scope & Content:
Three manuscripts bound together, concerning the Treaty of London and the Council of Peers in York, 1640-1641. Harley MS 455 was owned by Sir John Burroughs or Borough, and annotated by him. Harley MS 456-457 contain minutes in the hand of Sir John Burroughs or Borough.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1640-1641
Extent:
1 volume (3 items)

452. Harley MS 458

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 458
Title:
Coronation charters of Kings Henry I, Stephen and Henry II of England
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a bifolium of copies of the coronation charters of Kings Henry I, Stephen and Henry II in both Latin and Norman French. This is the only surviving copy of the coronation charters of Henry I and Henry II in Norman French translation. It bears the siglum 'Hl' in Felix Lieb...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 volume

453. Harley MS 459

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 459
Title:
Office of St Martha
Scope & Content:
f. 2r: Table of contents (‘Contenta’), in a 16th/17th-century hand listing five texts which were bound together at that time, now Harley MSS 459–463: ‘Fragmentum veteris letaniæ / Index librorum Bibliothecæ quondam prioratus Lantoniæ / Expositio super Ezechielem ad litteram / Expositio imperfect...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

454. Harley MS 460

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 460
Title:
Catalogue of books of the Augustinian priory at Lanthony Secunda
Scope & Content:
f. 2r: Fragment of a parchment leaf, dating a revision of the catalogue to 1380: ‘Examinacio et visus librorum Lanthon’ iuxta Gloucestr’ in Ebdomeda Pasche Anno domini millesimo cccᵐᵒ· lxxxᵐᵒ·. ¶ Et memorandum quod examinacio secundum hoc Registrum fuit Vnde de libris deficientibus secundum dict...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1355-1380
Extent:

1 volume

455. Harley MS 461

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 461
Title:
Richard of Saint-Victor, In uisionem Ezechielis
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–29v: Richard of Saint-Victor, In uisionem Ezechielis. Concludes with a passage not found in printed editions, ‘De hoc monticulo dixit ysaias. erit mons in uertice montium. cm monticulus. esset paruus. et parua planicies que non posset sufficere … facta regum tam israel quam’, ending imper...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

456. Harley MS 462

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 462
Title:
Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–23r: Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea (selections, in several different hands). In the 17th century, the manuscript was bound as one volume with Harley MS 459–461 and Harley MS 463 (see table of contents in Harley MS 459, f. 2v). Decoration: Some sections open with a two-line initial...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century-Early 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

457. Harley MS 463

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 463
Title:
Jacques de Vitry, Collection of exempla
Scope & Content:
Collection of exempla arranged under the following rubrics: f. 1r: ‘De membris que conspiraverunt contra ventrem’. f. 1r: ‘De diabolo reportante ampullas vacuas’. f. 1r: ‘De heremita qui patrem suum occidebat’. f. 1v: ‘Quibus solet apparere diabolus, et qualiter potest deprehendi’. f. 1v: ‘...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

458. Harley MS 465

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 465
Title:
Genealogies of English nobility and kings, up to the time of Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1: A table of contents. ff. 2r-168r: A book of genealogies of English nobility and kings, up to the time of Elizabeth I. Decoration: Circles in red ink for genealogies throughout.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

459. Harley MS 466-467 and 5151

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 466-467 and 5151
Title:
Three naval journals
Scope & Content:
Three journals, from different authors, detailing their voyages made in the 1690s. Harley MS 466 and Harley MS 467 are different journals from crew members of the same ship, HMS Woolf.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1690-1695
Extent:
1 volume (3 items)

460. Harley MS 468

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 468
Title:
The Book of St Gilbert
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-128v: The Book of St Gilbert, written after c. 1202. Gilbert of Sempringham (b. 1083, d. 1189) was canonized by Innocent III in 1202 and the 'Liber sancti Gilberti' (in this manuscript headed by the rubric '(...) vita sancti gilberti confessoris') was probably assembled as a 'c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

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