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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5318
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, including a calendar (ff. 1r-12v). Decoration: Large historiated initial in colours and gold with the Virgin and Child, and foliate flourishing extending in the margin (f. 13r). Large initials in blue with reserved lines and red pen-flourishing (ff. 96r (with purple...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5328
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Bourges
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 13r-19v: Gospel readings. ff. 20r-23v: 'Obsecro te'. ff. 25r-70r: Hours of the Virgin. ff. 71r-73v: Hours of the Cross. ff. 74r-76v: Hours of the Holy Spirit. ff. 77r-89r: Penitential Psalms. ff. 89r-92r: Litany. ff. 93r-123r: Office of the D...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 1480s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5400
Title:: Pseudo-Eusebius, Epistola de transitu beati Hieronymi
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-54v: Pseudo-Eusebius, Epistola de transitu beati Hieronymi (letter to Pope Damasus and Senator Theodosius on the death and of St Jerome; PL 22, cols 240-82). Decoration: 1 large initial in colours and gold with foliate extensions, forming a three-sided border (f. 1r). Small...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5406
Title:: Varro, De lingua latina, bks 5-9
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*r: table of contents, incorrectly listing De lingua Latina bks 4-9 instead of 5-9. ff. 2*v-3*r: reused folios from two other medieval manuscripts with unidentified theological texts. f. 2*v is a pastedown. ff. 1r-134v: De lingua latina libri XXV (On the Latin Language in Twenty...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5812
Title:: The Visitation of Oxfordshire of 1574
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-53v: The Visitation of Oxfordshire of 1574, beginning with the arms of Magdalen College, Christ Church, and the City of Oxford with the seal of the town and borough of Witney. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘Visitation of Oxfordshire 1574’; ad...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1574
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5843
Title:: Coats of arms of Kentish families
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*recto-1*verso: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-59r: Coats of arms of Kentish families; the latest one, added in pencil (by the same or another arms painter) on f. 58r, is dated to 1680. ff. 60r-64r: An alphabetical index of family na...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6110
Title:: Coats of arms of Shropshire families
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Salopie 1623’. f. 1**recto: Notes and sketches. ff. 1r-45r: Coats of arms of Shropshire families. f. 46v: Notes on payments. Decoration: Coats of arms, tricked, drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6123
Title:: Blazons of English coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-35v: Names with their arms blazoned, entitled: ‘Out of a manuscript in the Trinity libararie’. ff. 36r-74v: Names with their arms blazoned, entitled: ‘Out of the same volume in the Publick Library to these following is prefixed this inscription: These armes were taken forth of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6124
Title:: Arms and pedigrees of English earls
Scope & Content:: This manucsript contains the arms and pedigrees of English earls, organised according to county. Contents: f. 1*recto: An alphabetical index of the counties included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-17r: ‘Catalogus Comitum Herefordiæ’. ff. 18r-36r: ‘Catalogues Comitum Salisburiæ’. ff. 37r-53v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1590s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6125
Title:: The Visitation of Leicestershire of 1619
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*recto-4*verso: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-107v: A copy of or notes for the Visitation Book of Samson Lennard (d. 1633) and Augustine Vincent (b. c. 1584, d. 1626) for the Visitation of Leicestershire of 1619, here entitled: ‘The V...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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