ff. 1r–32v: A descriptive account of jewels received by Queen Elizabeth at New Year and delivered to Mrs Katherine Howard, one of the gentlewomen of her privy chamber, for the 14th–28th years of her reign (1572–1586). Marginal notes record gifts Elizabeth made of these jewels, and if she lost the...
Contents: ff. 1r-316v: Books I-III of a Latin translation of the Therapeutics [or 'Twelve Books of Medicine'] by the Byzantine physician Alexander of Tralles [Trallianus] (b. c. 525, d. c. 605), here named: 'Alexander Yatros'. Each book is preceded by a table of contents (ff. 1r-4v; ff. 112v-11...
Mixed heraldry book, with extracts from visitation books for Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, and accounts of painter-stainers’ work
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Book in various hands containing several kinds of heraldical matter, including arms painters’ work for funerals, extracts from Visitations, and accounts of funeral work supplied by the arms painter John Saunders, 1677-1680. Contents: ff. 1-7: Alphabetical table of surnames of families in the...
Proverbia ac sententiae gallicae; Proverbes, sentences et mots dorez, recueillis des meilleurs autheurs qui ont escrit de cette matiere; Les fleurs de belles paroles sentences, proverbes, maximes, reigles, morales et politiques
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Contents: ff. 1r-32v: Proverbia ac sententiae gallicae. ff. 33r-42v: Proverbes, sentences et mots dorez, recueillis des meilleurs autheurs qui ont escrit de cette matiere. ff. 43r-60r: Les fleurs de belles paroles sentences, proverbes, maximes, reigles, morales et politiques. ff. 61r-73v: Mes...
Ivo of Chartres, Decretum; Ordo librorum qui sunt legendi per circulum anni; excerpts from Augustine and Ambrose
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Contents: ff. 1v-133v: Ivo of Chartres, Decretum; ff. 133v-134: Ordo librorum qui sunt legendi per circulum anni; f. 13: Excerpts from Augustine and Ambrose. Decoration: 1 full-page tree of consanguinity in green with some mauve and blue (f. 91v). 13 large foliate initials in green, red, b...
'Theatrum Criminalium' and other texts, mostly on various rights and powers of the Monarch and of Parliament
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This has previously been identified as a continuation of William Petyt's 'Jus Parliamentarium' (Harley MS 7165-7167), and is referred to as such on the spine of the volume. However, these texts do not appear in the published volumes of Petyt's 'Jus Parliamentarium' (1739). Manuscript written la...
John of Worcester, Chronicon; Eadmer, Historiae novorum in Anglia; Ordo succesionis archiepiscoporum Canutariensis ecclesiae a sancto Augustino Anglorum apostolo; Thomas Stubbes, Historia archiepiscopourm Ebarocensium ad Thomam Wolsey; John Philippson (Sleidanus), Latin abridgement of Jean Froissart’s Chronicles
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Contents: ff. 1r-17v, 99*recto-107v: John of Worcester, Chronicon (1057-1118); this copy may originally have been part of the same manuscript as Harley MS 96, ff. 121-180; Harley MS 397, ff. 2-8r; and Harley MS 359, ff. 9-14 (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D’Ewes (1966), p. 217 [X.75])....
Copies of the Visitation-books of Suffolk and Norfolk by William Harvey, Clarenceux King of Arms
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Contents: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘The Visitation of Suffolke made by William Harvey Clarenceux King of Armes 1561 – Transcripta per Samuel Lennard Blew-mantle .1618.’. ff. 2r-5r: The surnames of families included in the Visitation-book of Suffolk. ff. 93v: William Harvey, Clarenceux King of ...
Apocalips of Jesu Crist, with commentary; Wycliffite tracts on verses in the Gospel of Matthew
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Contents: ff. 1r-63v: A Middle English translation of the ‘Norman Apocalypse’ (earlier than and independent from the Wycliffite Bible), known as Apocalips of Jesu Crist, with commentary (Version B). ff. 64r-91r: A Wycliffite tract on verses in the Gospel of Matthew, beginning: 'Attendite a fa...
'The life of Mahomet, The Conquest of Spaine and The ruine of the Sarazine Empire'
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Quarto manuscript volume. Contents: ff. 2-6v: A short abstract of a larger work on the Life of Mahomet [Muhammad]. ff. 7-33: Writing on the Arab conquest of Spain, including a large account of the life and character of the Caliph Almanzor. An abridgement of an account from two Arabic authors fr...