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161. Harley MS 56

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 56
Title:
Osbern, Life of Dunstan
Scope & Content:
f. 1r–v: Cassiodorus, Expositio in Psalterium 104.11–18, fragment: a flyleaf with 12th-century text in two columns, lemmata in red. ff. 2r–24r: Osbern, Life of Dunstan, ending in chapter 16: ‘Epistula de vita sancti dunstani archiepiscopi et confessoris. Vniuersis catholicę matris ecclesię fili...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

162. Harley MS 57

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 57
Title:
Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus (ff. 2r-25v) and an excerpt from the Distinctiones de vita eterna (ff. 26r-27v). A small parchment label pasted on f. 1r includes a 14th-century inscription providing a table of contents for the volume signed by an early owner...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

163. Harley Ms 57, ff 2r-25v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ms 57, ff 2r-25v
Title:
Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus
Scope & Content:
Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus. This treatise by Albertus Magnus (1206-1280), scientist, philosopher, and theologian, relates to the nature of minerals, stones and metals, and was probably composed in stages between 1248 and 1262. Rubric 'Incipit liber primus mineralium qui est ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

23 folios.

164. Harley MS 57, ff 26r-27v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 57, ff 26r-27v
Title:
Excerpt from the Distinctiones de vita eterna
Scope & Content:
The manuscript also includes a fragment from the 'Distinctiones de vita eterna', a collection of concordances of biblical sentences, imperfect; incipit: 'In euangelio super illum locum faciamus hic tria tabernacula' (Math. 17: 4), explicit: 'Dixit custos. Venit mane et nox. Si queritis' (Isaiah ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

2 folios.

165. Harley MS 58

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 58
Title:
Rental of the sacrist of Bury St Edmunds for the town of Bury
Scope & Content:
ff. 1v–2v: 16th-century notes. ff. 3r–3v: Post-Dissolution table of contents. f. 4r: 16th-century notes. ff. 5r–21v: Rents of the town belonging to the sacristy (1433–34). ff. 22r–43v: Tenancies in the town from 1354. ff. 44r–136v: Releases granted by the sacrists (1354–1529/38), in chronol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 14th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

166. Harley MS 59

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 59
Title:
Pseudo-Hegesippus, Historia Iosephi de Bello Iudaico et Excidio Urbis Hierosolymitanae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript preserves the work known as Historia Iosephi de Bello Iudaico et Excidio Urbis Hierosolymitanae (The History of Josephus on the Jewish Wars and the Destruction of the City of Jerusalem), a 4th-century adaptation of Josephus' (b. 37, d. 100) Jewish Wars. The work was attributed to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

167. Harley MS 60

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 60
Title:
Account book for taxation in the diocese of London
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-88v: Pensions, spiritualities and temporalities of clergy and religious houses in the diocese of London; circa 1291. ff. 89r-92v: Beneficia non tataxata archidiaconatibus Londoniensis et Middlesexiensis. ff. 94r-97r: Documents of the monastery of Hatfield Regis Priory; refe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

168. Harley MS 61

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 61
Title:
Cartulary of Shaftesbury Abbey
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–124v: Cartulary of royal and other charters, based on an earlier landboc that was apparently arranged in chronological order, preserved here to some extent, e.g. with pre-conquest documents grouped, some in Old English (ff. 1r–22v), followed by a Middle English schedule of knight’s fees. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

169. Harley MS 63

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 63
Title:
An abridgment of the Brut chronicle
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-44v: An abridgment of the Brut chronicle to Henry VI. The manuscript includes later additions: f. 44v: a prayer by the Holy Name, beginning: 'Ihesu for thy holy name'. f. 44v: doodles and pen-trials.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

170. Harley MS 64

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 64
Title:
Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum; Epistola ad Henricum regem; a transcript of Henry of Huntingdon, Epistola ad Walterum de contemptu mundi; Abbreviationes de Saeculis aetatibus et temporibus; Chronica Sancti Albani ab Adamo usque ad Martyrium Sancti Albani; Canonizatio beati Petri Martyris, ordinis Praedicatorum, sub Innocentio III; Pope Alexander IV, Bulla de Solenni Celebratione Festi in Memoriam Petri Martyris Instituti; The Excommunication of the English barons by the Archbishop of...
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-112v: Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum (version 5, redactions A and B), including several sections transcribed in a 16th-century hand (ff. 89r-112v). ff. 113r-135r: Henry of Huntingdon, Epistola ad Henricum regem. ff. 136r-145r: A transcript of Henry of Huntingdon, Epis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

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