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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 1-7661 Name D'Ewes, Simonds, 3rd Baronet, grandson of the Antiquary, c 1670-1722 Level [40] File

1. Harley MS 5

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5
Title:
Registrum brevium
Scope & Content:
Registrum brevium; the manuscript includes copies of writs from the beginning of the reign of Henry VI (r. 1422-1461). Includes an added list of contents (ff. 3r-3v). ff. 53v-56v, 71v-76v, 107r-111v, and 281r are ruled and unwritten. Numerous spaces are also left blank in between sections. De...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1430-c 1440
Extent:

1 volume

2. Harley MS 11

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 11
Title:
Peter Lombard, Gloss on the Psalms (Magna glosatura)
Scope & Content:
Peter Lombard, Gloss on the Psalms (Magna glosatura), ends imperfectly in Psalm 73; preface (ff. 1r-2r) with a rubric damaged at the beginning, incipit: 'sancti revelatione constet esse locutos'; commentary (f. 2r), incipit: 'Beatus, cui omnia optata succedunt'. Added numerous 13th and some ear...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

3. Harley MS 25

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 25
Title:
Collection of law reports
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains a collection of Common Bench reports including cases from the years between c. 1279 and 1312, copies of plea-roll enrolments, and notes probably assembled by the Dublin Bench attorney Roger de Sancta Brigida during his sejourn in London in 1309-1312 for educational purpos...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

4. Harley MS 49

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 49
Title:
Roman de Tristan en prose
Scope & Content:
Roman de Tristan en prose (Prose Tristan), imperfect at the beginning, with an index or table of contents (ff. 149r-154v). Incipit: 'Sadoc vient ce part & regardoit contremont & contreval....' The missing first page has been replaced with a flyleaf that had originally been a pastedown. B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

5. Harley MS 50

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 50
Title:
Glossed Gospel of Mark
Scope & Content:
Glossed Gospel of Mark, incipit: 'Marcus evangelista dei et petri in baptismate filius' Decoration: Large puzzle initials in blue and red with red and blue pen-flourishing (ff. 1r, 2r). Small initials in red or blue. Paraphs in brown. Marginal decoration in brown, including of a bird (f. 36r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

6. Harley MS 76

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 76
Title:
The ‘Bury Gospels’
Scope & Content:
ff. 1v–5r: Jerome, Letter to Damasus (‘Novum opus’) and prologue to the Gospels. ff. 6r–12v: Canon Tables. ff. 13r–126v: Four Gospels (opening leaf excised). ff. 126v–137v: Capitula to the Gospels. The remainder of the leaves (ff. 137v–141v) were originally left blank, and filled in at a lat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1020-c 1030
Extent:

Parchment codex

7. Harley MS 104

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 104
Title:
Stephen Langton, Expositio Libri Duodecim Prophetarum; Gregory the Great, De Cura Pastorali; Richard of St-Victor, Allegoriae Novi Testamenti and De Oratione Dominica; Innocent III, De Missarum Mysteriis and Sermo VI
Scope & Content:
This English manuscript from the 1st quarter of the 13th century (before c. 1225 and after 1206 or 1215) was probably written for a clerical audience since it contains works that would have helped priests in explaining biblical texts to the laity and instructed them in their duties of pastoral c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

8. Harley MS 107

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 107
Title:
Ælfric, Grammar and Glossary; grammatical dialogue
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-71v: Ælfic, Grammar and Glossary, imperfect; ff. 71v-72v: A grammatical dialogue on declensions; f. 72v: A short text beginning, ‘[Christu]s regnat. Crist rixað', ending, 'Imperator. Casere’; f. 72v: A Latin glossary of names of birds (20 lines) and fish (2 lines) (f. 72v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

1 volume

9. Harley MS 108

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 108
Title:
Historia Caroli Magni et Rolandi, an account of an expedition against Egypt, a letter from the Patriarch of Jerusalem to Pope Innocent III, the Navigatio S. Brendani, extracts from the Speculum Historiale, and a chronicle of the archbishops of York
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains: f. 1r: Title page with post-1600 title: ‘Liber Turpini Archiepiscopi Remensis De gestis Karoli et pugna inter Rotholand et Gigantem Feracutum et morte eiusdem’. f. 2r: Title page with post-1600 label: ‘Volumen sive Tomus 80’. f. 3v: Table of contents, with heading: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

10. Harley MS 180

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 180
Title:
Printed and manuscript tracts on royal marriages, collected by Sir Simonds D'Ewes
Scope & Content:
This is a collection of four tracts, the first two printed and the last two in manuscript, on royal marriages between 1555 and 1624. A Supplicacyon to the quenes maiestie [1555], an attack on the marriage of Queen Mary I to Philip of Spain (later King Philip II), was written by a Protestant ex...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1555-1627
Extent:

1 volume

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