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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 858, ff 120r-191v
Title:: Registrum Brevium
Scope & Content:: Registrum brevium, imperfect at the end. Decoration: Large puzzle initial in blue and red enclosing ivy patterns in green and pink, combined with pen-flourishing in red and blue extending in the margins to form a full border (f. 120r). Initials in blue or red with pen-flourishing in the other...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Early 14th century
Extent:: 72 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 859
Title:: Legal, theological and political tracts
Scope & Content:: Ten English tracts bound together. Contents: ff. 1-28: Part of ‘A Treatise of the High Court of Star Chamber’, by William Hudson. ff. 29-38: Argument Concerning Ship Money, by Sir Humphrey Davenport. 28 May 1638. ff. 39-43: On the Suppression of Jesuits, by Sir Robert Cotton. Header (...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 860
Title:: Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-197r: An Alphabet of Arms; with the arms of English gentry and aristocracy, blazoned.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 861
Title:: Compilation of texts relating to English claims to the French throne
Scope & Content:: A compilation of texts detailing English claims to the French throne and Anglo-French treaties during the Hundred Years War, compiled by Thomas Beckington (c. 1390-1465), bishop of Bath and Wells. The manuscript dates to sometime after 1443, when Beckington became bishop. The focus on the claims...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1443-1461
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 862
Title:: Collection of libella, positiones, instrumenta, appellationes, inquisitiones, litterae, licentiae, formulae and other ecclesiastical texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-317v: A collection of libella, positiones, instrumenta, appellationes, inquisitiones, litterae, licentiae, formulae and other ecclesiastical texts, some pertaining to English dioceses.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 863
Title:: Psalter ('The Leofric Psalter') with partial gloss in Old English
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a Psalter (ff. 8r-123v) that was written by scribes who also produced manuscripts made for Leofric, bishop of Exeter (from 1046 to 1072 (see Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Litanies of the Saints (1991) no. 23). The manuscript also includes a 12th-century Kalendar with many later a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 11th century-12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 863 ff 1-7v
Title:: Calendar and verses
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*r-v: A former pastedown including numerous inscriptions and pentrial of the 13th century and 14th century particularly some Latin verses as 'O Maria maris stella' (f. 1*r) and a note on 'Feria VI'. ff. 1r-6v: A liturgical calendar with numerous added obits in margins. f. 7r: A...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1173-1199
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 863

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 865
Title:: Ambrose, De Mysteriis and De Sacramentis;Jerome, Contra Jovinianum; and other theological works
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. [ii] verso: A table of contents. ff. 1r-4v: Ambrose (b. c. 339, d. 397), De Mysteriis (On Mysteries), beginning imperfectly due to the lack of the opening folio. ff. 4v-16v: Ambrose, De Sacramentis (On the Sacraments). ff. 16v-18v: Pseudo-Eusebius of Emesa (Eusebius Gallicanus),...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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