Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Level: [41] Item - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 863 ff 8-123v
Title:: Psalter, with canticles, litany for the use of Exeter, prayers, and offices (The 'Leofric Psalter')
Scope & Content:: Contents: This Psalter has been identified in other manuscripts made for Leofric, bishop of Exeter (from 1046 to 1072). ff. 8r-108v: The Gallican version of the Psalms with Canticles. A continuous interlinear Old English gloss to the Canticle 'Quicumque vult' (ff. 107r-v). ff. 108v-111v: Lit...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 863

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 866, f 48v
Title:: A treatise on chiromancy [imperfect], incipit: 'Benedictus Deus omnipotens qui machinam mundanam...'
Scope & Content:: Includes the beginning of a treatise on chiromancy. The same text is preserved in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 607.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1390-c 1410
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 866, ff 1r-7v
Title:: Treatise on rhetoric, incipit 'Rhetorica docet ornate loqui...'
Scope & Content:: A treatise on rhetoric [imperfect], ends with a title 'De divisione monacordi'. Includes 3 marginal drawings: 2 drawings of a hand pointing a stick or a verge, one of which is accompanied by an inscription 'digit viga', and a knife with an inscription 'cultellus'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1390-c 1410
Extent:: 7 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 866, ff 8r-17r
Title:: Ranulf Higden, Ars componendi sermones.
Scope & Content:: Ranulf Higden, Ars componendi sermones, with a title: 'De arte predicandi sed Ranulphum castrensis.'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1390-c 1410
Extent:: 9 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 866, ff 17r-33r
Title:: Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille), De planctu naturae.
Scope & Content:: Alain de Lille's De planctu naturae, an allegorical poem reflecting12th-century knowledge of natural sciences.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1390-c 1410
Extent:: 17 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 866, ff 33r-48r
Title:: A treatise on rhetoric, incipit: 'Hiis visis ad colores primo accedendum...'
Scope & Content:: A treatise on rhetoric, entitled in the colophon 'tractatus de arte dictandi' (f. 48r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1390-c 1410
Extent:: 16 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 887
Title:: Arms of the nobility and gentry of Essex
Scope & Content:: Heraldic manuscript, containing descriptions of the coats and crests of the nobility and gentry of Essex, as described from a visitation to Essex undertaken in 1612 by John Raven, Richmond Herald, Deputy and Marshal to William Camden, Clarencieux. At the front of the manuscript is a table of na...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 906
Title:: Arms of the gentlemen of Sussex and gentry of Surrey
Scope & Content:: Duodecimo manuscript volume, written and tricked by Mr John Withie. Contents: ff. 3-57: Arms of Sussex gentlemen. At the beginning of the volume are the arms of those Sussex families that Mr Withie took to be doubtful, after this the arms are placed alphabetically by surname. ff. 58v-81: Arms o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1631-1633
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 907
Title:: Miscellany of Mr John Withie, largely concerning heraldry
Scope & Content:: Duodecimo manuscript volume, written and tricked by Mr John Withie. Contents: ff. 1-17: Arms, tricked by Mr Withie collected from various sources, between 1631 and 1632. ff. 18-19v: Family trees of Bardwell and Herbert families. ff.20-20v: Church notes and arms, taken by Mr Withie at Bechampton...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1631-1633
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 926, ff 1r-6r
Title:: Notes relating to taxes and feudal holdings
Scope & Content:: f. 1r: 'Argumenta brevium', incipit: 'Lex equi'. f. 1v: Register of taxable goods for the diocese of Salisbury. f. 2r: Register of tithes in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. f. 2r: Register of taxes for the province of Canterbury excluding possessions of the Templars, Hospitaliers, and t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 14th century
Extent:: 6 folios.

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