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1141. Harley MS 909

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 909
Title:
Arms of the aldermen of the ward of Aldersgate, 1461?-1616
Scope & Content:
Duodecimo manuscript volume, written and painted by Mr John Withie. The volume contains 'the names and Armes of them that hath beene Alldermen [Aldermen] of the warde of Alldersgate [Aldersgate] since the tyme of King Henry VI, beginninge at the 39 yeare of his Reigne [1460-1461], untill this p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1616
Extent:
1 volume

1142. Harley MS 910

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 910
Title:
Account book of John Saunders, arms painter
Scope & Content:
Duodecimo manuscript volume, containing the accounts of welcomes and other work done for the Lord Mayors and Sheriffs of the City of London, from 1681-1692, by Mr John Saunders and other arms painters.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1681-1692
Extent:
1 volume

1143. Harley MS 911

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 911
Title:
Notebook of Richard Symonds containing movements of the royal army, April-August 1645, and church notes
Scope & Content:
Notebook of Richard Symonds written while accompanying the King and the royal army, from leaving the King’s winter quarters at Oxford in April 1645, passing through the Midlands and Wales, up to their arrival in Yorkshire in August. Records the progress of the army and principal events, includin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1645-Aug 1645
Extent:
1 volume

1144. Harley MS 912

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 912
Title:
Scope & Content:
Commonplace-Book including Theological and Historical Texts in Prose and Verse; mid 14th cent. Latin and Anglo-Norman. Imperfect. The commonplace-book, now in two volumes, also includes the Pseudo-Hippocrates, Epistula ad Antiochum regem (ff. 393-393v; item 1), followed (ff. 393-395v; item 2)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 14th century
Extent:
1 item

1145. Harley MS 913

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 913
Title:
The Kildare Lyrics
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-2r: A theological tract. f. 3r-6v: The Land of Cokaygne ('Fur in see bi west Spaygne / Is a lond ihote Cokaygne'). f. 6v: Bissop lorles, kyng redeles (Abuses of the age). ff. 7r-8v: Hail seint Michel wiþ þe lange sper (Satire on the people of Kildare). ff. 9r-10r: Swet ihe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

1146. Harley MS 914

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 914
Title:
Middle Dutch prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This Middle Dutch prayer-book contains a large section of prayers for liturgical feast days and Sundays, several prayers that are organised according to the canonical hours, and an exposition on the relationship between the canonical hours and biblical events. It also includes a large number of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1147. Harley MS 915

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 915
Title:
Customary of Normandy
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-106v: Customary laws of Normandy; written in Norman French. Decoration: 1 large (f. 1r) and 1 small (f. 4r) puzzle initial in blue and red. Small initials in blue or red with penwork decoration in red or green. Cadels with zoomorphic or anthropomorphic faces, and arms, on ff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 volume

1148. Harley MS 916

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 916
Title:
An abbreviated summary of William of Tocco, Ystoria sancti Thome de Aquino, with excerpts from the hearing for Thomas Aquinas' canonization in Naples, 1319
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-64r: An abbreviated summary of William of Tocco, Ystoria sancti Thome de Aquino (beginning 'Deus qui dixit de tenebris lucem splendescere modernis temporibus quasi ad mundi uesperam'), with excerpts from the hearing for Thomas Aquinas' canonization in Naples, 1319 (imperfect, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

1149. Harley MS 917

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 917
Title:
A prayer book
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: Psalm 96:6-Psalm 98; with an antiphon, beginning: ‘Gaude virgo maria cuntis hereses sola interemisti in universo mundo’. ff. 3r-5r: A prayer to Christ (beginning: ‘Domine deus pater ominpotens rex creator celi et tere’), introduced by the rubric: ‘Quicumque dixerit hanc o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1150. Harley MS 918

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 918
Title:
Theological miscellany
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains works and excerpts from various Protestant theologians. The inclusion of a work by William Twisse, published in 1632, provides a terminus post quem for the manuscript. Contents: ff. 1r-44v: Guillelmus Estius [Willem Hessels van Est], Domini Guillelmi Estii in quatuor ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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