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221. Harley MS 64

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 64
Title:
Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum; Epistola ad Henricum regem; a transcript of Henry of Huntingdon, Epistola ad Walterum de contemptu mundi; Abbreviationes de Saeculis aetatibus et temporibus; Chronica Sancti Albani ab Adamo usque ad Martyrium Sancti Albani; Canonizatio beati Petri Martyris, ordinis Praedicatorum, sub Innocentio III; Pope Alexander IV, Bulla de Solenni Celebratione Festi in Memoriam Petri Martyris Instituti; The Excommunication of the English barons by the Archbishop of...
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-112v: Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum (version 5, redactions A and B), including several sections transcribed in a 16th-century hand (ff. 89r-112v). ff. 113r-135r: Henry of Huntingdon, Epistola ad Henricum regem. ff. 136r-145r: A transcript of Henry of Huntingdon, Epis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

222. Harley MS 66

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 66
Title:
Transcripts of the Historia Sancti Albani scripta tempore Henrici III; excerpts from a register of Westminster Abbey attributed to Sulcard; excerpts from a cartulary of Abingdon Abbey; charters of the kings of Mercia, from King Oshere to King Alfred the Great; legal documents from the reign of Henry I to James I
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an early 17th-century collection of transcripts of historical and legal documents ranging from the 9th century to the 17th century. The legal documents are written largely in Latin, but some of the early documents also contain sections in Old English (ff. 61r-61v, 62r, 6...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

223. Harley MS 69

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 69
Title:
The booke of certaine triumphes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-63v: A large collection of tracts, letters, and notes in English and French concerning court affairs and entertainment, jousting and the bearing of coats of arms, known as ‘The booke of certaine triumphes’. Decoration: Full-, half-, and quarter-page drawings of knights joust...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

224. Harley MS 102

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 102
Title:
Nicholaus de Aquaevilla, Semones dominicales; John of Genoa, Catholicon (extract); Pseudo-Bonaventure, De passione domini; Richard Rolle of Hampole, Speculum peccatoris
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-133r: Nicholaus de Aquaevilla, Semones dominicales. f. 133v: Extract from John of Genoa, Catholicon, on the seven petitions of the Lord’s Prayer. ff. 135r-145v: Pseudo-Bonaventure, De passione domini. ff. 145v-149r: Richard Rolle of Hampole, Speculum peccatoris. Decoration:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

225. 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

226. Harley MS 106

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 106
Title:
Collection of theological texts
Scope & Content:
A theological collection of 157 texts, beginning with three tables of contents (ff. 2*r-3*v, 4*v-5*v), followed by short texts and extracts from authors including Augustine, Bede, Jerome, Hugh of St Vitor, Robert Grosseteste, and several anonymous writers, including a lecture on tithes (ff. 1r-1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

227. Harley MS 167

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 167
Title:
An English miscellany containing texts relating to naval matters
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-202v: A large collection of tracts and letters, primarily concerning naval matters. The manuscript contains documents on the victualling of ships, navigating, shipments, prices of goods, the custom system (taxes for good exported and imported through ports). The manuscript feat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Spanish
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

228. Harley MS 181

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 181
Title:
Ars Notoria
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains three texts of the Ars Notoria, including a set of prayers, holy and angelic names, diagrams and rituals used to gain knowledge and understanding by supernatural revelation, apparently as revealed by God to Solomon. Contents: ff. 1r-17v: Ars Memorativa, beginning: 'Yf ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

229. Harley MS 202

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 202
Title:
Pierre de Langtoft, Chroniques
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Anglo-Norman Chroniques (Chronicles) by Pierre (Peter) de Langtoft (b. 1270, d. 1300) covering the period from 688 to 1294. The text has the siglum 'Ha' in Wright's critical edition. Contents: ff. 2r-89v: Pierre de Langtoft, Chroniques. [f. 1v is blank]. Decorat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

230. Harley MS 204

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 204
Title:
`Sir John Mandeville', Voyage d'outre mer
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the popular 14th-century text Voyage d'outre mer by the supposed author 'Sir John Mandeville', commonly known as 'The Travels of Sir John Mandeville'. This 15th-century copy of the text belongs to group A of the so-called 'vulgate or insular version' and has the siglum '...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

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