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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6941
Title:: Miscellaneous papers, relating principally to coinage and language
Scope & Content:: Miscellaneous papers, relating principally to coinage and language
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Greek, Ancient, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 29
Title:: Nicholas Trevet, Annales sex regum Angliae
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–58r: Nicholas Trevet, Annales sex regum Angliae, up to the end of the reign of King Henry III in 1272. Referred to in the edition by Thomas Hog. f. 59v: Pen-trials. Decoration: Space left for three-line capitals, not executed. Rubrics and paraphs in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 14th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 875
Title:: William Langland, Vision of Piers Plowman
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*recto-1*verso: a title ‘VERBA (?) [LATINA]’. f. 1*verso: Latin excerpts (partially legible) from an etymological dictionary. One excerpt (‘Delubra diceba[n]t[ur] [ve]t[er]es templa fontes h[aben]cia in quibus an[te] i[n]g[re]ssu[m] [diluebantur] un[de] diceban[tur] delubra a ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 889
Title:: Arms of the Gentlemen of Devon
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume. Inscribed on f. 1 is the title 'The Arms of the Gentilmen of Devonshire, as they were set downe in the Survey of William Harvey alias Calrentius Kinge of Armes [Clarenceux King of Arms] in the yeare of out Lord God 1565: 7 El: R: with their Pedegrees. Copied out of the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1628
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1342
Title:: Modus Tenendi Parliamentum, by Henry Elsynge
Scope & Content:: Draft of Modus Tenendi Parliamentum, by Henry Elsynge, in his own hand. With corrections, insertions and cancellations. Apparently written December 1624-May 3 1625. At the end of the first section is the author’s note: ‘Here I will ende this eight & last Chaptre of the first Booke of modus t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1624-1625
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1965
Title:: Cartulary of St Werburgh’s Abbey, Chester
Scope & Content:: f. 1v: Fragment of a 16th-century indenture in English, reused as a flyleaf. ff. 2r–3r: Contemporary table, arranged by pressmarks (distinctiones). ff. 2v–44v: Cartulary, containing abstracts of charters, arranged partly topographically and partly according to subject matter. Includes charters...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 14th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2062
Title:: Cartulary of St Werburgh’s Abbey, Chester
Scope & Content:: f. 1*r: Fragment of a former flyleaf with modern inscription. ff. 1r–29v: Cartulary, containing abstracts of charters, arranged partly topographically and partly according to subject matter. Includes charters of the Earls of Chester, kings, popes and bishops at the beginning. Ends imperfectly. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Early 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2260
Title:: William of Nassington [Nassyngton], Speculum Vitae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-183v: William of Nassington [Nassyngton], Speculum Vitae (Mirror of Life); Middle English translation with marginal headings in Latin; imperfect at the beginning (DIMEV 423-29). Decoration: Numerous 2-line initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs. C...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2509
Title:: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-186v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares, imperfect. Decoration: Numerous small initials in blue or red with dark red pen-flourishing. 7 initials have been excised (ff. 32r, 55r, 81r, 88r, 158r, 165r, 178r). Spaces for initials left blank.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2551
Title:: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Epitoma rei militaris
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-80v: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Epitoma rei militaris; with marginal annotations. The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 80r: A reused leaf from a 15th-century Italian missal (formerly a pastedown), featuring a (?) 16th-century inscription: 'Estimatur liber iste quattuor ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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