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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 494
Title:: Anne Bulkeley's prayer-book
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r-v: Elevation prayer, beginning ‘I do salute the moste holy body’. ff. 2r-4r: Latin prayers on the Five Joys, beginning ‘laudo amo adoro’, based on the Liber Specialis Gratiae, I.19. ff. 4r-4*r: Latin prayers for the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, beginning ‘Veni sancte spiritus’....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1532-1535
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2474
Title:: Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-166v: Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais. Decoration: Large initial in colours and gold at the beginning of each book, with acanthus leaves, flowers, besants and brown pen-flourishing extending into the margin (ff. 1r, 13r, 38r), or more contained with foliate decoration and no...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2533
Title:: Virgil, Bucolica and Georgica
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-14v: Virgil, Bucolica. ff. 14v-48v: Virgil, Georgica. Decoration: 4 marginal pen drawings in brown ink (ff. 8r, 12r, 13r, 46r). Coloured drawing of a map of the heavens (f. 18v). Marginal coloured drawing of an ox (f. 46r). 6 large initials with interlace and zoomorphic deco...
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 2789
Title:: Bible, Proverbs to Apocalypse
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-13r: Proverbs, with preface and capitula, imperfect in the middle (Proverbs 25-29 are not included). ff. 13v-17v: Ecclesiastes, with capitula. ff. 18r-20r: Song of Songs. ff. 20r-29r: Wisdom, with capitula. ff. 29r-53r: Sirach, with preface and capitula. ff. 53r-80r: Isa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2991
Title:: Gregorian sacramentary, with benedictions
Scope & Content:: This manuscript and Harley MS 2992 are companion volumes; Harley MS 2992, which is the continuation of Harley MS 2991, has suffered more extensive water damage. Contents: ff. 1r-138v: Gregorian sacramentary, with benedictions. It includes musical notation, in the form of neumes, and was made N...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 9th century-1st quarter of the 10th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4132
Title:: Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-109v: Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica; heavily annotated by various later hands. Decoration: Several puzzle initials in red and blue with penwork decoration. Numerous simple initials in red or blue, frequently with penwork decoration in the alternate colour. Running he...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5710
Title:: Bible, vol. 1. Tana"kh תנ"ך
Scope & Content:: Language: Hebrew The first volume of the Bible with masorah magna and parva. Fols 1r-258v Tana"kh. תנ"ך Note: First of a Hebrew Bible consisting Pentateuch and Former Prophets. For the second volume, see The British Library, n.d.. Harley MS 5711 (see Margoliouth's Catalogue no. 54). Decora...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Hebrew
Date Range:: 1275-1299
Extent:: 258 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 236
Title:: Cartulary of St Mary’s Abbey, York
Scope & Content:: Cartulary, perhaps the first part of a larger compilation. Arranged in sections by subject matter: royal charters, composiitons and tithes, Appleton (Yorks NR) and elsewhere, leases in Richmondhsire, the manor of Hudswell (Yorks NR), various churches. Additions throughout, including an index, f. 1v.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1300s-1370s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1113
Title:: Arms and pedigrees of Leicestershire families
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume, seemingly written and tricked by Mr Nicholas Charles, Lancaster Herald. Contents: ff. 1-11: The arms of some members of the nobility, and many of the gentry, from the county of Leicestershire. ff. 12-34: Pedigrees with arms, of many of the gentry of Leicestershire.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1613?
Extent:: 1 volume

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