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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1121, ff 1*r-2v*
Title:: Table of contents and inscriptions
Scope & Content:: Table of contents in a 17th-century hand; an added ownership (?) inscription of Lucas Anstiy (Anstis?) (f. 2*r); and a dedication of the book to Robert Harley from John Anstis (f. 2*v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1400-1724
Extent:: 2 parchment flyleaves

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1121, ff 1r-140r
Title:: Livre de Sydrac
Scope & Content:: Livre de Sydrac. Decoration: Diagram in blue, brown and red ink of the planets (f. 117v); large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours forming a three-sided border including foliate motifs and a dragon, at the beginning of the text (f. 1r). Initials in blue wit...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 140 leaves; 3 unfoliated leaves at the end.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1121, ff 141r-156r
Title:: Edmund of Abingdon, Mirour de seinte eglyse (French translation of Speculum religiosorum)
Scope & Content:: Edmund of Abingdon, Mirour de seinte eglyse (French translation of Speculum religiosorum). Decoration: Historiated initial of saint Edmund of Abingdon as a bishop holding a mirror, with a partial foliate bar border with a dragon and a dog pursuing a hare, at the beginning of the text (f. 141)....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 16 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1121, ff 156r-168r
Title:: Robert Grosseteste, Château d’amour
Scope & Content:: Robert Grosseteste, Château d’amour. Decoration: Initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 13 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1144
Title:: Collection of descents and arms
Scope & Content:: Heraldry collection of descents, and some arms. At the beginning of the volume is the start of a collection of gifts and confirmations of arms, limited to those of Wheeler of London, goldsmith, descended out of Worcestershire, and Peers of Westdowne, Kent. Manuscript consists of miscellaneou...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1172
Title:: Heraldic book of grants of arms or crests
Scope & Content:: Collection of grants of arms or crests to different families copied out at length, or dockets of them, in no particular order. For a selected list of contents, see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, vol. I (1808), pages 574-577. ff. 79-80: Index of surnames.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1319, ff 1r-78v
Title:: Jean Creton, Histoire rimée de Richard II (La Prinse et mort du roy Richart)
Scope & Content:: La Prinse et mort du roy Richart (Book of the Capture and Death of King Richard II) also known as La Prinse et mort du roy Richart (the Capture and Death of king Richard), the Account of the Fall of Richard II, or the Chronicle of Jean Creton), composed by Jean Creton (fl. 1386–1420), historian ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1401-c 1405
Extent:: 78 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1319, ff 79r-80v
Title:: Descriptions of the miniatures
Scope & Content:: Added descriptions of the miniatures written in 1767 by Dr Thomas Percy (b. 1729, d. 1811) who is identified in the inscription on f. 79r.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1767
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1398
Title:: Pedigrees and descents of Essex families
Scope & Content:: Heraldic manuscript of John Withie, arms painter. Contents: ff. 1-18: Pedigrees of Essex families, some of which have been taken from the visitation of Essex made in 1612 by John Raven, Richmond Herald. f. 18v: Pedigree of the Fitch family, with arms drawn by John Withie. c 1636. ff. 19v-21: Pe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Mid 17th century-Late 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1492
Title:: Minutes of the Commissioners of the Public Accounts, 13 November 1693-24 April 1694 and 17 January 1695-4 April 1695.
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume containing the minutes of the Commissioners of the Public Accounts from 13 November 1693 to 24 April 1694, and from 17 January 1695 to 4 April 1695. At this time the members of this commission included Sir Robert Rich, 2nd Baronet, Sir Thomas Clarges, Sir Peter Colleton,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1693-1695
Extent:: 1 item

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