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2. Harley MS 336
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 336
- Title:
- Giovanni Gigli, Questiones de observantia quadragesimali; poems on the marriage between King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, and their first son, Prince Arthur
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1v-67r: Giovanni Gigli, Questiones de observantia quadragesimali; addressed to John Russell, bishop of Lincoln (1480-1494), and Keeper of the Privy Seal. ff. 67v-69v: Giovanni Gigli, Introductory letter to Richard Fox. ff. 70r-82r: Giovanni Gigli, Poem on the marriage between ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1487
- Extent:
- 1 volume
3. Harley MS 866
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 866
- Title:
- Collection of texts on rhetoric, mathematics and other sciences, including Alain de Lille, De planctu naturae
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-7v: A treatise on rhetoric, imperfect; beginning, 'Rhetorica docet ornate loqui...' and ending with a title 'De divisione monacordi'. ff. 8r-17r: Ranulf Higden, Ars componendi sermones, with a title, 'De arte predicandi sed Ranulphum castrensis'. ff. 17r-33r: Alain de Lille...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1390-c 1410
- Extent:
-
1 volume
4. Harley MS 941
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 941
- Title:
- A collection of treatises relating to history, astrology, magic, astronomy, geography and rhetoric, comprising John Lydgate's Dietary and other verses and medical recipes
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: f. 1*v: An added abbreviated list of contents. ff. 1r-3v: De origine gigantum, an abbreviated version of the Anglo-Norman French Des Grantz Geanz, written in Latin. The short narrative tells the Story of Albina and her sisters often used as a preface to the Brut Chronicle. The leave...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
5. Harley MS 1602
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1602
- Title:
- Collection of medical treatises, alchemical recipes and charms
- Scope & Content:
- This composite manuscript is formed of four separate codicological units with materials added to the beginning and the end, when the units appear to have been bound or kept together. Part 1 (ff. 3r-4v) contains a collection alchemical recipes that was written in the 15th century. Part 2 (ff. ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 15th century-16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
6. Harley MS 1866
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1866
- Title:
- Excerpts from Textus Roffensis, in a modern facsimile by Elizabeth Elstob
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-9v: Excerpts from Textus Roffensis, including a copy of King Æthelberht's charter of the foundation or endowment of the church of Rochester (bearing the date ‘4 kal. Maias, indictione 7’), a facsimile on parchment made by Elizabeth Elstob. Decoration: 1 large historiated in...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1700-1719
- Extent:
-
1 volume
7. Harley MS 1879
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1879
- Title:
- Catalogues of the books of Henry Savile of Banke, Robert Bruce Cotton, and John Dee
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-10r: Catalogue of the library of Henry Savile of Banke (d. 1617) in English and Latin, written in the hand of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician. f. 10v: List of books wanted by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, headed: 'Books I want', fr...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1583-c 1612
- Extent:
- 1 volume
8. Harley MS 3749
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3749
- Title:
- John Norden, Survey of the Honor of Windsor
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains a survey of the Honor of Windsor that was made by the cartographer John Norden (b. c. 1547, d. 1625) for King James I in 1607. The manuscript contains 17 maps that are the result of a survey conducted on foot by Norden. The maps in this volume show communication routes, ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1607
- Extent:
- 1 volume
9. Harley MS 3813
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3813
- Title:
- Account of the counties of England, Ireland and Scotland, with engraved maps by Pieter van den Keere
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-188v: Account of the counties of England, Ireland and Scotland, written in English, with printed and coloured maps of counties (with their names in Latin and English) engraved by the Flemish engraver Pieter van den Keere ['Peter Kerius'] (b. 1571, d. c. 1646) in 1599. Decorat...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
10. Harley MS 5325
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5325
- Title:
- Helperic of Auxerre, Computus
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1*r-1*v: a fragment from an unidentified scientific text written in a 13th-century hand. ff. 1r-56v: Helperic of Auxerre, Computus. Decoration: Initials in blue or red, some with foliate motifs.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- late 11th century-early 12th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume