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2691. Harley MS 1927

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1927
Title:
Poems by the Chester arms-painters Thomas Chaloner and Randle Holme
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-53v: A collection of English poems and Latin sayings by Thomas Chaloner (d. 1598), dated to 1575-1577. ff. 54r-120v: A collection of English poems and notes by Randle Holme I (b. 1570/71, d. 1655), dated to 1616-1638. One poem on ff. 60v-61r (‘The Songe called the Buttned smo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1575-1638
Extent:
1 volume

2692. Harley MS 2308

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2308
Title:
Accounts of the coronation of Edward VI and his reign
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-120r: A treatise on ‘The Maner of Coronation of Kinge Edward the Sixth’; followed by abstracts of entries in the Council book of King Edward VI from the beginning of his reign to 6 February 1549-50.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2693. Harley MS 2820/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2820/1
Title:
Detached ivory panel from Harley MS 2820 (the 'Cologne Gospels')
Scope & Content:
Ivory panel of the Crucifixion with the four symbols of the Evangelists and the Manus Dei from an earlier binding, now mounted in a post-1600 British Museum binding of brown leather, formerly attached to Harley MS 2820 (the 'Cologne Gospels).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

Ivory panel and binding

2694. Harley MS 6858

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6858
Title:
Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
The Elements of Law, a treatise on political theory and the origins of the state, was completed by Thomas Hobbes on 9 May 1640 (see f. 2v), dedicated to William Cavendish, 1st duke of Newcastle, and distributed in manuscript copies produced by professional scribes. This manuscript includes a t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1640-1699
Extent:
1 volume

2695. Harley MS 6916

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6916
Title:
Collection of poems by Charles d'Orléans and his circle
Scope & Content:
A near complete copy of Charles d'Orléans' personal manuscript (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, ms français 25458) (Poetry of Charles D’Orléans, ed. by Fox and Arn (2010), p. 827). Contents: ff. 1r-205r: A collection of poems consisting of ballades, chansons, complaintes, caroles an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2696. Harley MS 683

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 683
Title:
Grammatical miscellany
Scope & Content:
A schoolbook compiled from at least four pre-existing manuscripts, dating from the early 13th century (ff. 2–19), late 13th century (ff. 32–35, 36–62), and 14th century (ff. 20–31): f. 1r: Effaced page opening with the word ‘Debeat’ with a decorated six-line initial. f. 1v: Fragment of the Off...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
9th century-14th century
Extent:

1 volume

2697. Harley MS 208

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 208
Title:
Letters of Alcuin and Dungal
Scope & Content:
Contents: Alcuin, Epistolae (91 letters) (ff. 1r-112r); Two added letters, incipit: 'Eximiae indolis honore fulgido...'; and 'Praeconio eximiae sanctitatis recolendo Domino R episcoporum sanctissimo divina miseratione Wilelmus devotus episcopus' (f. 112r); Dungalus, Epistolae (5 letters) (ff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
9th century-17th century
Extent:

1 volume

2698. Harley MS 262

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 262
Title:
Kitab-i Remel - كتاب رمل
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the book of remel, or divination by means of dots. The preamble of the text tates that it was composed for Hārūn al-Rashīd by a sage known as ᶜAbdallah ibn Ani. The instructions given for consulting it are as follows: make at random an indefinite number of dots on sand or p...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 text, 82 ff

2699. Harley MS 434

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 434
Title:
Cartulary of St Bees Priory
Scope & Content:
General cartulary of St Bees Priory, with a few additions, arranged topographically in 13 books. Includes copies of some royal charters and one or two episcopal charters passim. f. 1r: Flyleaf, a fragment of a charter. f. 1v: Memorandum in English by Robert Paddy, last prior of St Bees (Wilson...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

2700. Harley MS 2110

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2110
Title:
Cartulary of Castle Acre Priory
Scope & Content:
ff. 4*r–5*v: Fragment of Ælfric, Homilies, first series, for St John and St Stephen (1st half of the 11th century, Old English, written in insular minuscule); with a large initial and title in display capitals in red (f. 4*r); 220 × 150 mm. One bifolium, missing four lines of text in the upper p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

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