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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 614
Title:: Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-242r: Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa. Decoration: 1 historiated initial of St Christopher carrying the Christ Child with a bar-border and sprays with foliate motifs in gold and colours (f. 5r). 2 decorated initials ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 615
Title:: Genealogies of Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Shropshire
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-6r: An index of names. ff. 7r-243r: Genealogies of Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Shropshire, copied by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Heralds, at his Visitation of 1569; made at the order of Alexander Evesham. The manuscript contains a few later addi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 616
Title:: Bible (Genesis-Psalms)
Scope & Content:: First volume of the Bible (Genesis-Psalms), incipit: 'Cist livres est apelez Genesis por ce que il est de la generation du ciel et de la terre'; ends imperfectly in Psalm 109, explicit: 'De ci a tant que je aie miste ennemis souz les...'. The second volume, containing Proverbs-Revelation, is no...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 617
Title:: Issues of arms by the Ordnance, 1558-1574
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-31v: The ‘Issue of the saide office conteyninge the charge of redie money for all Provisions delivered only by warrant from the Quenes majestie and her honorable Counsell for her service in sundrie her highnes Townes, Castles, Fortes, and Bulwarkes, as well within the Realme, a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 618
Title:: Certificates of the state of parishes of the diocese of Lincoln in the time of Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-39v: Certificates of the state of parishes of the diocese of Lincoln in the time of Queen Elizabeth I.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1560-c 1570
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 619
Title:: Miroir du Fleur de la Noblesse du Pays-Bas
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were created at different times. Part 1 (ff. 1r-81v) is dated to 1586. Part 2 (ff. 82r-89v) was copied by Sir Simonds D'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), perhaps (but not necessarily) after he acquired the first part in 1624. Contents: Part 1: f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1586-c 1650
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 620
Title:: Account book for the expenses of Cardinal Wolsey’s journey to Calais, 1521
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title page: ‘The book of Solve In my lordes graces Jorney to Cales, Bruges and other places - Mr Robert Carter occupyinge the office of Stewardeshipe [.xiij. H.8]’. ff. 2r-39r, 50r-61v: An Account book for the expenses of Cardinal Wolsey’s journey to Calais, 1521. ff. 40...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1521-1522
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 621
Title:: Du cas des nobles hommes et femmes: a translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium by Laurent de Premierfait
Scope & Content:: Du cas des nobles hommes et femmes: a translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium by Laurent de Premierfait. Imperfect. The beginning of Book I, chapter 1 is lost. Incipit (f. 1r): 'premiers partus fut grant et telle que a elle aucune aultre ne se compare'. Fol...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 622
Title:: Roman Gradual
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-1v: Lections for Easter Thursday and Easter Friday, imperfect. ff. 2r-231v: Roman Gradual. The manuscript contains several later additions: f. 156v: The hymn Sanctus, added by a 16th-century hand. Numerous marginal additions for feasts (e.g. for St Edmund and St Edward th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 623
Title:: Excerpts from Domesday Book by Sir Simonds D’Ewes
Scope & Content:: Autograph manuscript volume, in folio. Title inscribed on first folio: ‘Excerptiones ex utroque Tomo sive Volumine appellato Domesdei, augustissimo et omnium antiquissimo in Achivis Regni Angliae cimeliorum Recordo; a Domino Simonds D’Ewes De Stowhall in agro Suffolciensi. Equite durato et Bar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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