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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2124
Title:: The Chester mysteries, copied by James Miller, 1607
Scope & Content:: The Chester Mysteries, divided into 24 pageants, with directions for their acting by the guilds of that city, copied by James Miller, in July and August, 1607. The 7th pageant, ‘De pastoribus gregem pascentibus,’ assigned to the Painters and Glaziers, contains a few notes of music to the ‘Gloria ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1607
Extent:: 1 volume (144 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3500
Title:: Latin version of the Lead Books of Sacromonte
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a Latin translation of the Lead Books of Sacromonte by the Franciscan friar and Arabic specialist Bartolomeus a Pectorano [Bartolomé de Pettorano] (d. 1688) at the Convent of Saint Isidore in Rome in 1644. The Lead Books of Sacromonte are a set of 22 books with lead leav...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1644-c 1700
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3664
Title:: Formulary for legal instruments relating to canon law
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-109v: Formulary for legal instruments relating to canon law, with examples referring to French clerics, officials and churches (e.g. 'Episcopus Ambianensis', 'ecclesie Arelatensis', 'Thesaurario Lemovicensis'), beginning: 'Processus super executione sententiæ late in causa pecu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4105
Title:: Cicero, Orationes in Verrem and Orationes in Catilinam
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-79r: Cicero, Orationes in Verrem (Speeches against Verres). ff. 80r-97r: Cicero, Orationes in Catilinam (Speeches against Catiline). ff. 30r, 79v, and 97v are blank. The manuscript was probably written by the scribe of Harley 4106 and 4921 and these manuscripts, which are similar in si...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1462
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4342
Title:: Bartholomew of San Concordio, Summa de Casibus Conscientiae
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-206v: Bartholomew of San Concordio, Summa de Casibus Conscientiae. f. 207r: ownership inscription of an Augustinian friar, 1585. 1 unfoliated ruled parchment leaf between ff. 206 and 207. f. 1*v is blank. Decoration: Full floral border in colours and gold with a decorated initial, an...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1456
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4794
Title:: Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's De somno Scipionis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-74v: Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's De somno Scipionis. f. 74v: Added pen-trials and drawing of a bearded head, 16th century. Decoration: White vine initials in colours and gold (ff. 1r, 5r, 46v). Display script in gold (f. 5r). Circular diagram in brown ink (ff. 46...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5255
Title:: Collection of orations, Italian sonnets, prophecies and letters
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-22r: Responsio domini pape Pii oratoribus regis Franciae anno domini 1462. f. 22v: Epitaphium Senecae. f. 22v: Italian verses. ff. 23r-24r: Hippolyte Sfortie, Oratio Dominae Ducissae Calabriae filiae Illustrisimi Francisci Sfortia Ducis Mediolani recitata in Conspectu san...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: c 1467
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5433
Title:: Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's De somno Scipionis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1-70: Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's De somno Scipionis, written in 1446: the scribe or a near contemporary hand added 'D. M. N. B. N.', 'Qui scripsit vivat letus semper / Propitius esto Mihi misero p. Nove[m]bris / Deo Laus. Explicit comentum macrobij die xxviii A[nno d[omini]...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1446
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6289
Title:: Lincolnshire records from the time of Henry III
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-223r: The names of villages, manors, lands, tenements and heredities in Lincolnshire during the reign of King Henry III. ff. 224r-235v: Names of freeholds ('liberorum tenencium') in Lincolnshire. The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 236r-262v: Indices of place names...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6518
Title:: Marco Girolamo Vida, Marci Hieronymi Vidae scachorum liber
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-21v: Marco Girolamo Vida (b. 1485, d. 1566), Marci Hieronymi Vidae scachorum liber [originally printed in 1529].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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