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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 619
Title:: Miroir du Fleur de la Noblesse du Pays-Bas
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were created at different times. Part 1 (ff. 1r-81v) is dated to 1586. Part 2 (ff. 82r-89v) was copied by Sir Simonds D'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), perhaps (but not necessarily) after he acquired the first part in 1624. Contents: Part 1: f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1586-c 1650
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 620
Title:: Account book for the expenses of Cardinal Wolsey’s journey to Calais, 1521
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title page: ‘The book of Solve In my lordes graces Jorney to Cales, Bruges and other places - Mr Robert Carter occupyinge the office of Stewardeshipe [.xiij. H.8]’. ff. 2r-39r, 50r-61v: An Account book for the expenses of Cardinal Wolsey’s journey to Calais, 1521. ff. 40...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1521-1522
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 621
Title:: Du cas des nobles hommes et femmes: a translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium by Laurent de Premierfait
Scope & Content:: Du cas des nobles hommes et femmes: a translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium by Laurent de Premierfait. Imperfect. The beginning of Book I, chapter 1 is lost. Incipit (f. 1r): 'premiers partus fut grant et telle que a elle aucune aultre ne se compare'. Fol...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 622
Title:: Roman Gradual
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-1v: Lections for Easter Thursday and Easter Friday, imperfect. ff. 2r-231v: Roman Gradual. The manuscript contains several later additions: f. 156v: The hymn Sanctus, added by a 16th-century hand. Numerous marginal additions for feasts (e.g. for St Edmund and St Edward th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 623
Title:: Excerpts from Domesday Book by Sir Simonds D’Ewes
Scope & Content:: Autograph manuscript volume, in folio. Title inscribed on first folio: ‘Excerptiones ex utroque Tomo sive Volumine appellato Domesdei, augustissimo et omnium antiquissimo in Achivis Regni Angliae cimeliorum Recordo; a Domino Simonds D’Ewes De Stowhall in agro Suffolciensi. Equite durato et Bar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 624
Title:: Chronicles; Passionale (Lives of Saints); Historica collectanea
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains three different parts gathered by Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist and antiquary. Two of these parts were written and compiled by him between c. 1639-1643, they consist of chronicles related to the history of Britain (ff. 1v-83r; 145r-217r). An...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1100-1643
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 624, ff 1v-83
Title:: Chronicles
Scope & Content:: This part of Harley MS 624 has been written by Sir Simonds d'Ewes, who compiled the manuscript between c. 1639-1643. Contents: f. 2r: A title-page. f. 2v: A table of contents. ff. 4r-20v: Anonymous, Chronica de veteribus Brittanis et Anglo-Saxonibus (Chronicle on the Old Britons and Anglo-Sa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1639-1643
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 624

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 624, ff 84-143v
Title:: Passionale (Lives of Saints), imperfect
Scope & Content:: This part of Harley MS 624 comes from a Passionale (Lives of Saints) that was written at Christ Church, Canterbury. It was originally bound with Cotton MS Nero C VII (ff. 29r-79r) and Harley MS 315 (ff. 1r-39r). Contents: ff. 84v-89v: Passio Sancti Theodoreti (Passion of St Theodore). ff. 89...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 624

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 624, ff 144-217
Title:: Chronicles
Scope & Content:: This part of Harley MS 624 has been written by Sir Simonds d'Ewes, who compiled the manuscript between c. 1639-1643. Contents: ff. 144r-144v: A Latin inscription followed by a fragment from a letter in English referring to the inhabitants of Dalham, 17th century. f. 145r: A drawing of king W...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1639-1643
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 624

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 625
Title:: A collection of astronomical and mathematical treatises and tables.
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes: 1. Two sets of tables of contents (ff. 1* and 1*v); 2. Notes (ff. 1*v-1r); 3. Abd-al-Rahman al-Sufi, Tables from Book of the constellations of the fixed stars (ff. 1v-6v); 4. Hyginus, Astronomica (extract) (f. 7v); 5. Geber (Jabir ibn Aflah Abu Muhammad al-Ishbili)...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1350-1569
Extent:: 176 folios.

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