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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1338
Title:: A collection of university determinationes, once including a fair copy of material relating to King Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-85v: A collection of university determinationes. It once included a fair copy of material relating to King Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1340
Title:: Vaticinia de Pontificibus attributed to Joachim of Fiore
Scope & Content:: Vaticinia de Pontificibus attributed to Joachim of Fiore, incipit: 'Ascende calve ne amplius de calveris'. The manuscript is composed of 15 leaves featuring portraits of popes and other images paired with relevant prophecies. Almost each image is accompanied by an inscription in gold identifying...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1431-c 1447
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1341
Title:: A Dialogicall Discourse of Marine Affaires; distributed into six Dialogues, by Nathanael Boteler
Scope & Content:: Draft of A Dialogical discourse of marine affairs, with additions in another hand, by Nathanael Boteler or Butler. Six dialogues between an admiral and a captain, including a glossary of maritime vocabulary (dialogue four). With additions in another hand. Later printed as: Six dialogues about se...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1634
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1342
Title:: Modus Tenendi Parliamentum, by Henry Elsynge
Scope & Content:: Draft of Modus Tenendi Parliamentum, by Henry Elsynge, in his own hand. With corrections, insertions and cancellations. Apparently written December 1624-May 3 1625. At the end of the first section is the author’s note: ‘Here I will ende this eight & last Chaptre of the first Booke of modus t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1624-1625
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1343
Title:: Statutes of New College, Oxford
Scope & Content:: ff. 1-71: Statute book of New College Oxford. Title on f. 1v: ‘Liber Statutorum Collegij B. Mariae Winton. in Oxon. Vulgariter nuncupati NEW-COLLEGE’. Decorated with a geometric knot design, bordered with the initials E. Y. and dated 1631. ff. 72-73: Index. f. 74: Pen trials f. 75v: Lette...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1631
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1344
Title:: Narratives of events in the career of Sir Francis Vere
Scope & Content:: This volume provides copies of five narratives describing events in the career of Sir Francis Vere (b. 1560/61, d. 1609), army officer and diplomat, as Lord Marshal in the campaigns of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, against Cadiz and the Azores, and as general commanding the English compani...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1602-c 1650
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1345
Title:: Common law extracts
Scope & Content:: Part of a collection of extracts on common law from the year books. Page numbering starts with page 270. Contents: f. 1: Notes concerning fines levied per Baron and Feme. ff. 2-14: Extracts from the year book of King Henry VIII, 12-27 year of his reign. ff. 15-68r: Extracts from the yea...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1346
Title:: Itinerary of John Leland
Scope & Content:: Copy of John Leland’s Itinerary. Title: ‘Itinerarium Joh[ann]is Lelandi inceptum A.D. MoDoXXXVIII. 30o Hen. VIII’. Includes some marginal place names and cross references. ff. 254-261: Index of names by William Dugdale, dated 15 July 1657. Headed: ‘Index hujus voluminis compositus per me Will...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1657
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1347
Title:: Diogenes Laertius, Vitae et sententiae philosophorum; Gregory of Nazianzus, Orationes theologicae; Pseudo-John Chrysostom, De spiritu sancto
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-205v: Diogenes Laertius (fl. ? 3rd century), Vitae et sententiae philosophorum, trans. by Ambrogio Traversari (b. 1386, d. 1439), theologian and friend of Nicholas of Cusa, for Cosimo de' Medici (b. 1389, d. 1464). ff. 206r-275r: Gregory of Nazianzus (b. 330, d. 390), Oration...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: A paper codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1348
Title:: Statutes of William the Bastard; genealogical diagram of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and family tree from Aethelberht to Edward III
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-8v: Statutes of William the Bastard, written in Latin, beginning: 'Hic eciam intimatur quid Wilhelmus Rex Anglorum cum principibus suis consituit post conquistcionem [sic] Anglie'. ff. 9r-18v: A genealogical circular diagram of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, followed by a family tr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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