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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 978, ff 160v-162r
Title:: A list of contents of a collection of polyphonic music and notes
Scope & Content:: A list of contents of a collection of polyphonic music (untraced) in a 14th-century hand, headed 'Ordo libri W. de Wint[onia]' and comprising the textual incipits of eight Marian tropes under the heading 'R[esponsorium] R. de Burg[ate]', 37 alleluia settings under the heading 'Postea R[esponsori...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1300-1636
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 979
Title:: Theological miscellany, including Innocent III, De contemptu mundi
Scope & Content:: f. 2*: Added table of contents in a near-contemporary hand. f. 1r: Three verses: ‘Sunt sacramenta septem. lauacrum caro cristi. / Ordo sacer. crismatio presulis et patientis. / Unctio postrema. confessio coniugiumque.’ ff. 1r–37v: ‘Ysagoge magistri Hugonis in euidentiam theologie. et primum de...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 980
Title:: A collection of historical materials compiled by Thomas Gibbons
Scope & Content:: Historical collections extracted from manuscript and printed sources, transcribed by Thomas Gibbons. Largely legal, historical and political. With some anecdotes and a few medical recipes (ff. 235v-236r) at the end. f. 1: At head of folio: 'Fragmenta Historipolitica Miscellanea' [etc.] f. 2: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1630s-1640s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 981
Title:: Expositio Rabbi Shelomonis Jarchi in Canticum Canticorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-52r: Expositio Rabbi Shelomonis Jarchi in Canticum Canticorum; with an introduction by David Stokes; dedicated to Lancelot Andrewes (b. 1555, d. 1626), bishop of Winchester.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 982
Title:: Statutes of the University of Cambridge
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-24r: Statutes of the University of Cambridge.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 983
Title:: Lists of the Knights created from 1558 to 1633
Scope & Content:: Octavo manuscript volume. Contents: ff. 1-35: A catalogue of all knights created in the time of Queen Elizabeth I. Within each letter of the alphabet, the knights are listed in chronological order of date of creation, 1558-1600. ff. 36-38: Knights made at Cales [Cadiz] by the Earl of Essex, 159...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 984
Title:: The Gospel of Matthew (Middle English)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-71v: The Gospel of Matthew in Middle English, imperfect at the beginning and end due to the loss of folios; ff. 7r-7v, 56r-56v and 64r-64v have been supplied in the 17th century to substitute lost text and appear to have been copied from the Coverdale Bible. The manuscript co...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and English, Middle
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 985
Title:: John [of] Hoveden [Howden], Philomela; an anonymous treatise on mortal sins
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of two parts. Part 1 (ff. 1r-43v) contains a copy of John [of] Hoveden [Howden] (d. 1275), Philomela, which was copied in the 4th quarter of the 14th century. Part 2 (ff. 44r-77v) contains an anonymous treatise on mortal sins, which was copied in the 1st quar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 986
Title:: Richard Symonds, Notes on ensigns and officers during the First English Civil War
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. i recto: A note from the British Museum, dated to 30 October 1856: 'Memorandum: In the printed Harleian Catalogue, Vol. 1. 499, art. 4, of the present volume is described as "Original Passe from Sir John Needham Governor of Leicester, to Richard Symonds, dated Leicester, 5 March, 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1643-1644
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 987
Title:: Notes on the Bible; The whole booke of Psalmes [London, 1586]
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-260v: Notes on the Bible in Latin and English, featuring memoranda dated to 1605 and 1616 (f. 7r), with the added title: ‘Short Notes upon several Places of Scripture’ (f. 2r). ff. 261r-316v: A printed text with a title-page: ‘The whole booke of Psalmes, collected into Engli...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1586-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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