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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1963
Title:: Collection of family crests
Scope & Content:: Manuscript volume containing crests of various families, some in pen, some painted, done in alphabetical order. This manuscript has previously been described as containing crests of families in Cheshire, but in fact contains families from many different counties.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2856
Title:: Psalter and added Breviary
Scope & Content:: Contents: A Psalter, with later additions, including a Breviary (ff. 127r-236v). f. 1v: Added prayers, including to St Aethelwold, bishop of Winchester ('De sancto Adelwaldo'), 15th century. f. 1[a] is a blank leaf. ff. 2r-7v: Calendar, including English saints such as Wulfstan, Cuthbert (...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3603
Title:: Ecclesiastical documents and histories
Scope & Content:: A composite manuscript of ecclesiastical documents and histories. ff. 1r-5v: Berengarius of Fredoli, Liber de excommunicatione et interdicto (Book of Excommunication and Interdict), abridged version of part of Chapter II, imperfect, nos 16-36, beginning mid-sentence. ff. 6r-7v: Clement V, Vox ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century or 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5302
Title:: ‘Disputatio de Gratia Sufficiente’
Scope & Content:: Manuscript disputation on sufficient grace, in Latin. Flyleaf dated ‘5 Septembris 1720’, date of acquisition by Harley of the Séguier collection, through Andrew Hay.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5308
Title:: Plans of knot gardens
Scope & Content:: Manuscript volume containing hand-drawn designs for knot gardens, neatly drawn in square frames.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5388
Title:: Bernard Ayglier, Speculum monachorum
Scope & Content:: ff. 2r–70v: Bernard Ayglier, Speculum monachorum. Decoration: 4 marginal sketches in brown ink of subjects relating to the adjacent texts (ff. 16v, 17r, 17v, 18r). Initials in brown ink with penwork decoration in the same colour, two historiated: crucifixion (f. 36r), dragon and gate (f. 47r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5390
Title:: Compendium of natural philosophy
Scope & Content:: An anonymous compendium dealing mostly with meteorology and quoting alchemical texts. The same collection is found in a 15th-century manuscript at University College London, Archives, MS Lat/29. Contents: ff. 1r-57v: An anonymous compendium of natural philosophy ('Breve ac perutile philosophie...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1469
Extent:: 1 volume

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