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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1662
Title:: Middle Dutch Book of Hours
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4r-15v: Calendar, including saints related to the dioceses of Utrecht, Liège and Cologne. ff. 17v-62v: The Hours of the Virgin Mary, Unidentified Use. ff. 62v-66v: The Hours of Christ, with a rubric: 'Hijr beginnen die seven getiden van onsen lieven heren ihesu Chrste seer oirb...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1463-c 1476
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1737
Title:: Boethius, De institutione arithmetica (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Boethius, De institutione arithmetica, with some later, mainly 13th-century glosses (ff. 1r-33r). Imperfect, incipit: 'ulla in re ratio utriusque latitudinis...' Decoration: Numerous tables and diagrams in red ink, 1 full-page diagram added at the end (f. 33v). Initials in red or brown, occas...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 33 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1875
Title:: Correspondence of Sir Charles Cornwallis
Scope & Content:: Correspondence and papers of Sir Charles Cornwallis as ambassador to Spain, 1605. For a description of the contents, see the printed Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, vol. 2 (1808), pp. 273-297.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1605
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1901
Title:: Letters of Sir Thomas Roe
Scope & Content:: Letters from Sir Thomas Roe, ambassador to Germany, 1642-1644. Copies in the hand of Sir Thomas Roe and his secretary. For a detailed list of contents, see the printed Catalogue of Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, vol. 2 (1808), pp. 320-344. Index of correspondents at the end (f. 126).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1642-1644
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2249
Title:: Wycliffite Old Testament, Later Version
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-173v: Later Version of Wycliffite Old Testament; imperfect, Joshua 19-Psalm 144. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*verso: A note by Sir Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873), Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum: 'In Add MS 11.888 containing the New Testame...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2434
Title:: Middle Dutch Book of Hours
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-14v: Calendar in Dutch, with a number of saints related to Utrecht including 'Sarijs' [Marius] (19 January). ff. 16r-39r: The Hours of the Holy Virgin: imperfect at the beginning. ff. 40r-72v: The Hours of the Holy Spirit, entitled: 'Hier beghint die hilige gheest getide' ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1460-c 1485
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2747
Title:: Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1-2 and ff. 107-110: Numerous added records in Italian in one hand, mostly relating to accounts, 16th century: sales (of wheat, etc.), lists of purchases, of letters written to various persons, mention of a donation towards the restoration of a church ( 'la donatione di m^a^ Maria...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4924
Title:: Thomas Osborne, Treatise on arithmetic
Scope & Content:: A treatise on arithmetic by Thomas Osborne. Decoration: The decoration of the manuscript imitates that of printed books. It comprises: A title page with the royal arms of Queen Elizabeth I supported by a lion and a dragon and encircled by the Garter, with Elizabeth's initials E R held by ang...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1601-1602
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3333
Title:: Poggio Bracciolini, Facetiae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript containing the Facetiae (Jokes) by the Italian humanist Poggio Bracciolini (b. 1380, d. 1459) was completed on 10 June 1456. The Facetiae was one of the most popular joke books of the Renaissance. Contents: ff. 1r-87r: Poggio Bracciolini, Facetiae. Decoration: Initials in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1456
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4361
Title:: Livre de Sydrac
Scope & Content:: Livre de Sydrac (ff. 7r-97v), preceded by a table of rubrics (ff. 1r-6r). Decoration: 1 foliate initial 'A'(ntens) in red and blue with partial bar border accomodating a marginal portrait of king Bochus, and a dragon, at the beginning of the text (f. 7r). Descenders or partial bar borders wit...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: c 1280-c 1300
Extent:: 97 folios.

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