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591. Harley MS 436

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 436
Title:
Cartulary of Wilton Abbey
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*r-v: a letter in the hand of George Hickes (b. 1642, d. 1715), bishop and antiquary, addressed to Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726), recording his gift of the manuscript to Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724). f. 2*r: a note concerning the ownership of the manuscript by the Earl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

592. Harley MS 437

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 437
Title:
English heraldry
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Part of an Alphabet of Arms of English families (their names starting with the letter 'B'), blazoned and tricked. ff. 5r-7r: Arms of English nobility and gentry (their names starting with the letters 'O' and 'P'), tricked. ff. 8r-11v: Part of an Alphabet of Arms of Engl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

593. Harley MS 438

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 438
Title:
A 'palaeographical' transcript of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 190 ('Archbishop Wulfstan's Handbook')
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r: notes by John and William Retchford. ff. 3r-413v: A 'palaeographical' transcript of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 190 ('Archbishop Wulfstan's Handbook').
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

594. Harley MS 439

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 439
Title:
Heliand
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Codex quatuor Evangeliorum quadrunus Franco-Theotiscus, Sive Harmonia Evangeliorum Francice Scripta. Bibl. Cotton. Thesaurus pretiosissimus Caligula A 7. I.’. ff. 1r-131r: Heliand, copied from Cotton MS Caligula A VII/1.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Saxon, Old
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

595. Harley MS 440

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 440
Title:
Enlarged Rule of Chrodegang in Latin and Old English
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r: A title-page ‘Hic Liber videtur esse scriptus primo Latine per Theodorum Archipiscopum Septimum Cant. et per Ælfricum translatus Saxonice’. ff. 2v-72r: Enlarged Rule of Chrodegang in Latin and Old English. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1v: A note on the manu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

596. Harley MS 441

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 441
Title:
A transcript of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 121
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Various notes by Edmund Gibson. f. 2r: The Nicene Creed in Old English written by Edmund Gibson. ff. 3r-96r: A 'palaeographical' transcript of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 121 (Ecclesiastical Institutes, Homilies associated with Archbishop Wulfstan).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c 1688
Extent:
1 volume

597. Harley MS 442

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 442
Title:
A collection of royal proclamations by Kings Edward IV, Henry VII and Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–182v: A collection of royal proclamations by Kings Edward IV, Henry VII and Henry VIII, followed by an index (ff. 182r–v). f. 1r: notes by Peter le Neve. ff. 2r–v: A proclamation for the raising of the price of silver bullion, from 29 s the pound weight to 33 s the pound weight, 13 Augu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

598. Harley MS 443

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 443
Title:
English law treatises
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-9v: A report of Shelley’s Case by Edward Coke, with a letter to Sir Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, dated 2 January 1581. ff. 10r-81v: A law commonplace book. ff. 82r-86v: A law treatise concerning copyhold cases. ff. 87r-85v: An index of subjects for the preceding...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

599. Harley MS 445

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 445
Title:
Liber gersumarum of Ramsey Abbey
Scope & Content:
Register of gersumae (payments, premiums or fines), recording land transfers, marriage licences and exodus fines from the manorial villages of Ramsey Abbey in Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Northamptonshire. Formerly known as the ‘Ramsey Abbey Court Book’. Calen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

600. Harley MS 446

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 446
Title:
Cartulary of Haughmond Abbey
Scope & Content:
f. 1v: Ownership inscriptions and notes by Peter Le Neve. ff. 2r–38v: Fragments of a cartulary, including copies of royal and episcopal charters, arranged geographically. Labelled in a contemporary hand as gatherings ‘x’–‘xiii’ of a volume. ff. 37v–39v: Miscellaneous additions from the late 14...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1332-1350s
Extent:

1 volume

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