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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3436
Title:: Theological miscellany including Eusebius of Cremona, Epistola de morte Hieronymi
Scope & Content:: Theological miscellany containing late medieval and early Christian hagiographical texts along with works and letters by Italian humanists. Contents: f. 1r: Inscriptions. f. 1v: Added inscription: 'Nobili domino Ambrosio Spinula d. Stefani'. ff. 2r-44r: Eusebius of Cremona, Epistola de mort...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6635
Title:: Poem on King James VI and I’s right of succession
Scope & Content:: A decorative presentation copy of an anonymous English poem on the right of succession of King James VI and I. With a prose dedicatory address signed ‘A.H. Boreabritannus’. The poem was originally composed in 1595; this copy dates from 'manye yeares' later (f. 2v). ff. 1r-5r Dedicatory address...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1595
Extent:: 1 volume.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 561
Title:: Pontifical
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of fragments of a Pontifical, for English use and includes: ff. 1r-8v: Order of the consecration of a bishop, fragment, imperfect at the beginning and the end, beginning: 'Benedixisti domine terram tuam' (Psalm 84); ending: 'quam tibi offerimus pro hiis quos regenerare...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4053
Title:: Debates of the House of Commons April 1679; a historical speech in defence of Charles I; a treatise on the value of money; a historical miscellany of the Norman Conquest; St Augustine, Regula; Henry of Sawtry, De purgatorio S. Patricii
Scope & Content:: ff. 2r-35r: Debates of the house of Commons April 1679. ff. 36r-46v: A historical speech in defence of King Charles I. ff. 47r-55r: A treatise on the value of money. ff. 65r-76r: A historical miscellany of the Norman Conquest. f. 77r: A note about the articles of faith in a 17th-century han...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century - 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3510
Title:: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Carmina, Ars Poetica, Sermones, and Epistulae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-76v: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Carmina (Poems); ff. 76v-85v: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Ars Poetica (The Art of Poetry); ff. 85v-127r: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Sermones (Satires); ff. 127r-156r: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Epistulae (Epistles). Decoration: 1 historiated...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2381
Title:
Scope & Content:: Compendium of Medical Recipes; mid 15th cent. Middle English and Latin. Copies. The cataloguing of this manuscript was funded by the Wellcome Trust and only the medical texts are fully itemised in the description. The MS. contains one large collection of medical recipes and three others very sho...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3962
Title:: Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronicon, with continuations by Jerome and Prosper of Aquitaine
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-74v: Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronicon, with continuations (ff. 69v-74v) by Jerome and Prosper of Aquitaine. ff. 75r-82r: Alphabetical index of names in the Chronicon, attributed to Andreas Julianus of Venice (b. 1384, d. 1452), entitled: 'Andreæ Juliani viri patritii veneti et...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 979
Title:: Theological miscellany, including Innocent III, De contemptu mundi
Scope & Content:: f. 2*: Added table of contents in a near-contemporary hand. f. 1r: Three verses: ‘Sunt sacramenta septem. lauacrum caro cristi. / Ordo sacer. crismatio presulis et patientis. / Unctio postrema. confessio coniugiumque.’ ff. 1r–37v: ‘Ysagoge magistri Hugonis in euidentiam theologie. et primum de...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4333
Title:: Anthology of Moral and Didactic poems and treatises, including works by Gossouin de Metz and Marie de France
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-70r: Gossouin (Gautier) de Metz, L'image du monde, preceded by a prologue with an introduction ending with a dedication to Count Robert d'Artois (d. 1250) and Jacques de Lorraine, Bishop of Metz (d. 1260); ff. 70r-72v: 'Li Romans de la mort' or De l'unicorne; ff. 73-96r: Mari...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 117 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4941
Title:: Papers relating to the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral and other churches in the City of London
Scope & Content:: A volume, containing manuscript and printed material, relating to the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral, and other churches in the City of London, after the Great Fire of London. Contents: ff. 1-19: ‘His Majesties Commission concerning the Reparation of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Lond...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1663-1690
Extent:: 1 volume

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