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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 624
Title:: Chronicles; Passionale (Lives of Saints); Historica collectanea
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains three different parts gathered by Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist and antiquary. Two of these parts were written and compiled by him between c. 1639-1643, they consist of chronicles related to the history of Britain (ff. 1v-83r; 145r-217r). An...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1100-1643
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 625
Title:: A collection of astronomical and mathematical treatises and tables.
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes: 1. Two sets of tables of contents (ff. 1* and 1*v); 2. Notes (ff. 1*v-1r); 3. Abd-al-Rahman al-Sufi, Tables from Book of the constellations of the fixed stars (ff. 1v-6v); 4. Hyginus, Astronomica (extract) (f. 7v); 5. Geber (Jabir ibn Aflah Abu Muhammad al-Ishbili)...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1350-1569
Extent:: 176 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 626
Title:: Account-book of Richard de Bremesgrave, keeper of stores at Berwick
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-19v: The account-book of Richard de Bremesgrave, keeper of stores at Berwick, with a title page (f. 1r): 'Compotus Ricardi de Bremsegrave de Anno Vicesimo Octavo - Berewyk - intratur et examinatur totum per [manton]'. Beginning (f. 2r): ‘Compotus Ricardi de Bremesgrave tam de ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1299-1300
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 627
Title:: Peter of Poitiers, Compendium; Petrus Riga, Aurora
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes: ff. 1v-6v, Peter of Poitiers Genealogia historiarum, incipit: 'Considerans historie'; a genealogical diagram of interconnected roundels including diagrams of the Tabernacle (f. 2v) and the Mansions in the desert (f. 5v). f. 7v: Petrus Riga, prologue to Aurora, incipit...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 628
Title:: Psalter with gloss in Latin
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscripts contains a Psalter with Glossa Ordinaria. Its style of decoration (Channel style) indicates that it was produced in England or France. Contents: ff. 1v-227r: The Book of Psalms with Glossa Ordinaria. ff. 227r-238r: Canticles of Isaiah, Hezekiah, Anna, Moses (E...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 629
Title:: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-4r: A table of contents with an introduction, beginning: 'This booke was compilid by Iohn lidgate monke of Bury at the excitacion and steryng of oure worshipful Prince kyng herry the fifthe. in the honour glorie and worshippe of the birthe of the most glorious maide wife and m...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 630
Title:: Gilte Legend
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-365r: Gilte Legend; according to the medieval foliation and content list, the manuscript lacks the first 5 folios, which include the life of St Andrew and part of the life of St Nicholas; ending with the explicit: 'Here endeth the Boke of the life of Seintes called in latyn leg...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 631
Title:: Liber dialogorum gerarchie subcelestis; Marsilius of Padua, Defensor pacis; Johannis de Parisine, De Regia et Papali Potestate; Conrad of Gelnhausen, Epistola Concordie; Peter of Ancarano, Compilation for solving the Papal Schism
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r- 39r: Liber dialogorum gerarchie subcelestis inter orthodoxum catholicum et cathecuminum Paucascium inquirentem de reformacione ecclesie militante. ff. 41r-170v: Marsilius of Padua (b. c. 1275, d. 1342), Defensor pacis. ff. 172r-200r: ‘Magister Johannes de Parisine de ordi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1400s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 632
Title:: John of Wales, Ordinarium sive Alphabetum vite religiose, Communiloquium, Summa Justiciae, and other works
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains some of the most popular works of John of Wales [John Wallensis] (d. 1285), a Franciscan theologian who taught theology at the universities of Oxford and Paris. Among them is the Breviloquium de virtutibus antiquorum principum et philosophorum, a moral work with many exe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1438
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 633
Title:: Pseudo-Anastasius Bibliothecarius, Liber pontificalis; Pseudo-Isidore, Decretales pseudo-Isidorianae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Liber pontificalis (the Book of the Popes), a collection of biographies of popes from St Peter until Pope Clement III (b. 1130, d. 1191), attributed to Anastasius Bibliothecarius (b. c. 810, d. c. 878). It also contains the Decretales Pseudo-Isidorianae (Pseudo-Isido...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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