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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3965
Title:: Gradual, Use of Hereford
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-142r: Gradual, Use of Hereford, imperfect. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 142r: A letter in Middle English, beginning ‘Ryght trusty and welbelovyd father and mother’; added in the late 15th or early 16th century. ff. 142r-142v: Latin quotations; one (Ps...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1350
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3995
Title:: Collection of monastic texts
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-42v: Bonaventure, Breviloquium. ff. 43r-57r: Bonaventure, Lignum vitae (Tree of Life). ff. 57r-61v: Bonaventure, Ordinarium vite religiose (Lecture on the Religious Life). ff. 62r-99v: Rule of St Basil. ff. 99v-103v: Rule of SS Paul and Stephen. ff. 104r-122r: commentary on the Augus...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4687
Title:: A history of Scotland
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-134v: A history introduced as ‘the eight book of the Chronicles of Scotland, and of the deides & acts of R. James the Second, & quat happed in his tyme’. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: A description of the manuscript, ‘This Book is a continuation of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Scots
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4954
Title:: Placita Forestae de Shirewood
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. [ii]recto (parchment pastedown): A title inscription: 'Placita forestæ de Shirwood et diversæ Cartæ terrarum ibidem'. ff. 1r-47r: Placita Forestae de Shirewood [Pleas of the Forest of Sherwood], from the time of 8 Edward III until the reign of Henry VI, entitled: 'Placita foreste...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5154
Title:: Book of law cases
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-2v: Alphabetical index of subjects. ff. 3r-273r: Book of law cases, written in Law French and organised alphabetically: beginning with 'Accompt' and ending with 'voucher'. ff. 274r-284v: Additions to the book of law cases, with legal notes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1590s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6081
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: An introduction for a genealogical manuscript, beginning: ‘The lyneall dissent of the morgans from Blederye ap Kydenor Lord of St Clere and Tredegar’. A strip of parchment, together with ff. 158-159, taken from a genealogical manuscript or roll and reused for the manuscript’s ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1604
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6157
Title:: Pedigrees of English families
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4r-15r: Pedigrees of English families, the latest is dated to ‘1572’ (f. 14v); featuring a copy of the inscription on the tomb of Sir John de Freville (d. 1312) in the Church of All Saints, Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire, with the following description of that tomb (f. 7r): ‘In S...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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