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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 468
Title:: The Book of St Gilbert
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-128v: The Book of St Gilbert, written after c. 1202. Gilbert of Sempringham (b. 1083, d. 1189) was canonized by Innocent III in 1202 and the 'Liber sancti Gilberti' (in this manuscript headed by the rubric '(...) vita sancti gilberti confessoris') was probably assembled as a 'c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 538
Title:: John Stow's historical papers
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-154v: Historical papers in the hand of John Stow. Decoration: A drawing of stamp of a unicorn in red ink (f. 62r, foldout).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1590s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 543
Title:: Collection of English historical texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-24v: Annals from the reign of Edward III. ff. 25r-30v: Henry Knighton, Chronicon, excerpt about John Wycliffe. ff. 31r-49r: A history with the title ‘The Historie of the arrivall of K. Edward IV. in England and the finall recoverie of his kingdomes from Henry VI. in Anno D...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 550
Title:: Magna Carta, articles and statutes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-3r: A table of contents. ff. 3v-7v: A table of chapters. ff. 9r-13r: Magna Carta. ff. 13v-18r: Articuli editi super Cartis. ff. 18r-20r: Provisiones de Merton. ff. 20r-26r: Statutum de Marleberghe. ff. 26r-29v: Statutum de Gloucestrie. ff. 29v-41r: Statutum de Westm...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 573
Title:: Sir John Davies, Nosce teipsum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-51v: Sir John Davies (b. 1569, d. 1626), Nosce teipsum; dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1598-1599
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 946
Title:: Nova statuta, including Hengham Magna
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-248r: Nova statuta, including Hengham Magna (ff. 191v-229v), preceded by a table of contents (ff. 1r-1v). Decoration: Numerous small initials in red. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1018
Title:: Transcripts of medieval historical works
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-71r: A transcript of Alfred of Beverley's Historia de gestis regalibus regum. ff. 72r-73r: A transcript of the prologue of Robert of Torigni's Chronica. ff. 73r-77v: A transcript of Henry of Huntingdon's Epistola ad Walterum de contemptu mundi.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1690
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1143
Title:: Welsh armorial of Robert Glover
Scope & Content:: One of the many copies of the Welsh armorial of Robert Glover, containing 197 arms of Welsh families, in colour. On folio 1* is inscribed 'A Booke of Single Coates of Wal...', the rest being obscured by damage. Beneath this is inscribed 'AB'. The full title, inscribed on folio 1, is also partl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1307
Title:: William of Pagula, Oculus Sacerdotis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-78r: William of Pagula, Oculus Sacerdotis; dextera pars oculi. ff. 78r-142v: William of Pagula, Oculus Sacerdotis; sinistra pars oculi. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 143r, 144v: A leaf from a household book, written in the 14th century. ff. 143v-144r: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century-15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1378
Title:: Miscellaneous English coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-59v: A miscellany of various 17th-century collections of English coats of arms (1-30 per page), some with crests. Featuring the arms of Jean-Baptiste Colbert (b. 1619, d. 1683) on f. 64r, with the note: ‘Monsieur Calvert or Colbert Ambassador from Lewis the 14th King of ffrance...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1668
Extent:: 1 volume

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