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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2353
Title:: Bible, including the Interpretation of Hebrew Names
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-430v: Bible, including the Interpretation of Hebrew Names. Decoration: 1 historiated initial in gold and colours with foliate decoration and winged dragon, containing Matthew seated with open book for the beginning of Matthew's Gospel (f. 320r). 1 large initial in gold and col...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2633
Title:: Macrobius, Commentary on the Dream of Scipio
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-66v: Macrobius, Commentary on the Dream of Scipio, with added glosses. Decoration: 7 diagrams or maps in brown ink: the orbs of the planets surrounding the earth ('globus terre'), with the sphere of the fixed stars at the periphery, identified by the names of the zodiacal s...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 12th century-3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2825
Title:: Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew Names
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-370v: Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew Names, imperfect; the text is missing the beginning of II Chronicles. Includes the Psalms (ff. 162r-180v) and the Interpretation of the Hebrew Names (ff. 344-370v); with the inscription on f. 343v: 'Exaucto libro sic laus et gloria...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3168
Title:: Proverbia, Ecclesiastes, Canticum Canticorum, Sapientia, Ecclesiasticus, glossed
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-172v: The biblical books of Proverbia, Ecclesiastes, Canticum Canticorum, Sapientia, Ecclesiasticus, glossed. The manuscript contains several later additions: ff. 49v-65v (and elsewhere): Added marginal and interlinear glosses, 13th/14th century. f. 172v: An early modern in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3202
Title:: Laurence of Durham, Hypognosticon, and other poems
Scope & Content:: A composite manuscript of Laurence of Durham’s Hypognosticon and several poems. Contents: f. 1r: an added inscription in an early modern hand, 'In this book 119 folia'. ff. 1r-7v: Hildebert of Lavardin, De casu huius mundi. ff. 8r-112v: Laurence of Durham, Hypognosticon, preceded by a metr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3310
Title:: Filippo Roddi, Annales of Ferrara, books 1-3
Scope & Content:: A chronicle of Ferrara, interspersed with images of prominent individuals and their families in the duchy. Written by Filippo Roddi, LLD. ff. 1-4: portrait medallions of members of the Este family of Ferrara, with captions. 1st quarter of the 16th century. f. 5r: title page. ff. 6r-39r: table...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5839
Title:: Coats of arms granted by William Camden
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. [ii]recto: A title inscription: ‘Camdens Gifts’. ff. 1*recto-3*recto: An alphabetical index of families included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-42v: Coats of arms (4 per page) granted by William Camden (b. 1551, d. 1623), Clarenceux King of Arms, dated between 1600 and 1622. ff. 4...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1622
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6105
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript relating to Hampshire
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘Hampshire’. ff. 1v-2r: Two lists of expenses for food and a banquet entitled ‘Mr Bartrands Bill’ and ‘Swering Diner when I was warden’. The second list also includes payments for ‘washing the dishes’, ‘the Cooke’, and ‘the Butler’. Next to the second list is a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6135
Title:: Genealogy of the earls Despenser and Spencer
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-12r: ‘The Genallogie of the Ancientt Noble Family of the Le despencers and Spencers Earles of Winchester Glocester and Sunderland, Barons Spencers of Wormleighton and the Rest of the Branches of that Signall Faamily gathered out of Inquissions and other Records and Authenticke ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1660-1679
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6162
Title:: Arms of the Knights of the Garter
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript contains two separately produced parts that both contain the arms of the Knights of the Garter. The first part (ff. 1-47) bears the date 1579, which is supported by the fact that the last identified knight, Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, was elected to the Orde...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1522-1579
Extent:: 1 volume

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