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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6707/1
Title:: Detached former binding of Harley MS 6707
Scope & Content:: Detached binding, marbled paper over wooden boards. The binding was formerly attached to Harley MS 6707 (Proceedings in the King's Bench and Exchequer from the time of the reign of Elizabeth I) and is now stored separately.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Former binding of Harley MS 6707

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7550/1
Title:: Detached former binding of Harley MS 7550
Scope & Content:: Detached binding, marbled paper over wooden boards. The binding was formerly attached to Harley MS 7550 (Almanack of Allestree (1627), annotated by Symonds D’Ewes) and is now stored separately.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Former binding of Harley MS 7550

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 184
Title:: Law commonplace book
Scope & Content:: Manuscript book of legal notes, in Law French, arranged in alphabetical sections, in the hand of Simonds D’Ewes. Entries arranged alphabetically: only sections from A to E present in the volume. Table of legal books of authority on folio 1v. The Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the Brit...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 187
Title:: Law commonplace book
Scope & Content:: Manuscript book of legal notes, in Law French, arranged in alphabetical sections, in the hand of Simonds D’Ewes. Entries are arranged in two alphabetical sequences (ff. 1-13 and ff. 14-29). Entries are sparse and most pages are blank. The printed Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the Bri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 224
Title:: William Lyndwood, Provinciale
Scope & Content:: ff. 3r*–4*r: Table of contents, keyed to folio. ff. 1r–62r: William Lyndwood, Provinciale (Constitutions of the province of Canterbury). ff. 62r–63r: ‘Ordinacio super approbacione testamentorum.’ ff. 63r–64r: ‘Statutum editum contra hereticos.’ ff. 64r–65r: ‘Constiutio contra excessiua stipe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1703
Title:: William Forrest, Poems
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3v: A ‘Prologe in the warke followinge’. ff. 3v-22v: A ‘Treatyse uppon the Salutation of the moste gloryous virgyn Marye, and that all praysinges that eaver hathe beene saide of her (After the sayinge of saincte Augustyne) are farre Insuffycient to her worthynes, and honoure:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1572
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2797
Title:: The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6v: The Eusebian Canon tables. ff. 7r-8v: St Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum Papam (Epistle to Pope Damasus), preceded by the prologue (ff. 7r-8r). ff. 8v-9v: St Jerome, Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum (The Prologue of St Jerome's commentary on St Matthew). ff. 9v-10v: Eusebius,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3031
Title:: Ambrose, Super psalmos
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-157v: Ambrose, Super psalmos. Decoration: 5 large initials in red or blue, with reserved designs, with brown penwork decoration or pen-flourishing, partly including zoomorphic figures or flowers, with yellow and green wash (ff. 2r, 7r, 44v, 52v, 66v [unfinished]). 1 small in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1489
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3237
Title:: St Jerome, Epistles
Scope & Content:: The first volume of a collection of St Jerome's letters. The second volume is Salisbury Cathedral MS 143. This volume contains items 1-51 of the 117 items listed at the end of Salisbury Cathedral MS 143. Contents: ff. 1r-106v: St Jerome, Epistles. The manuscript contains a few later addition...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3916
Title:: Cicero, De Amicitia
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-48v: Cicero, De Amicitia (On Friendship). [f. 49v is blank]. Decoration: 1 large white vine initial in colours and gold and an unidentified coat of arms in the lower margin (f. 1r). Protagonists' names and rubrics in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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