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1021. Harley MS 3859

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3859
Title:
Vegetius, De rei militari; Macrobius, Saturnalia; Pseudo-Sallust, Investiva in Ciceronem; Historia Brittonum and Annales Cambriae; Augustine, De heresibus; Solinus, Collectanea rerum memorabilium; Pseudo-Ovid, Cantus avium; De bestiis; Cosmographia; Pollio, De architectura
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-38r: Flavius Renatus Vegetius, De rei militari (On military matters) (Books 1-4), beginning: 'Antiquis temporibus mos fuit bonaru[m] artium'; ending: 'frequentior usus invenit qua[m] vet[us] doctrina monstraverat'. ff. 40v-41r: Astrological and geographical diagrams. ff. 42r-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Welsh
Date Range:
Early 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

1022. Harley MS 3861

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3861
Title:
Petrus Alfonsi, Dialogus contra Judaeos
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Dialogus contra Judaeos (Dialogue against the Jews), written by the Jewish physician and astronomer Petrus Alphonsi (b. 1062 d. 1140), born Moses Sephardi, who converted to Christianity in 1106. The polemic takes the form of an imagined debate between his f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century-3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

1023. Harley MS 3862

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3862
Title:
John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-107r: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 2574; for an edition of the text, see A Critical Edition (1961)]; beginning: 'O Thoughtful hert plonged in gret dystresse / with slombre of slowth thys long wynters nyght'; ending: 'To þe seru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

1024. Harley MS 3874

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3874
Title:
Account of the manors, lands and tenements held by the Crown from Henry III to Edward IV
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-425v: Account of the manors, lands and tenements held by the Crown from Henry III to Edward IV, divided into four parts: Henry III to Edward II (ff. 2r-71v); Edward III to Richard II (ff. 72r-242v); Henry IV to Henry V (ff. 243r-315v); Henry VI to Edward IV (ff. 316r-425v). Eac...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1470
Extent:
1 volume

1025. Harley MS 3880

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3880
Title:
A rental of the Crown lands and revenues of 1552-1553
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-189v: A rental of the Crown lands and revenues of 1552-1553.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1553
Extent:
1 volume

1026. Harley MS 3899

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3899
Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae (chronicle to the year 1239); Nicholas Trivet, Annales sex regum Angliae qui a comitibus Andegavensibus originem traxerunt (chronicle from Edward I to the year 1307)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-62r Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae (chronicle to the year 1239), beginning: 'Brittannia insularum optima in occidentali occeano inter gallam et hyberniam sita'. ff. 62r-107v: Nicholas Trivet, Annales sex regum Angliae qui a comitibus Andegavensibus originem tr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

1027. Harley MS 3901

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3901
Title:
Martin of Troppau, Chronica pontificum et imperatorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-67r: Martin of Troppau (d. 1278), Chronica pontificum et imperatorum (to the year 1245). Decoration: Initial in blue with reserved lines and pen-flourishing in red (f. 1r). Coloured initials in red or blue. Paraphs in red or blue. Capitals marked with red. Manicules and huma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

1028. Harley MS 3903

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3903
Title:
Job and Tobit in the later Wycliffite version
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-46v: The Book of Job in the later Wycliffite version. At the end, the scribe notes the manuscript's price: 'þe priis of þis book is vi.s. and viii d.' (f. 46v). ff. 47r-64v: The Book of Tobit in the later Wycliffite version. Decoration: 2 blue and pink large initials on a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1029. Harley MS 3905

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3905
Title:
Disputationes in quatuor libros Aristotelis de coelo et mundo; Disputationes in tres libros Aristotelis de anima
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-41v: 'Disputationes in quatuor libros [Aristotelis] de coelo et mundo'. ff. 42r-183r: 'Disputationes in tres libros Aristotelis de anima'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1030. Harley MS 3913

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3913
Title:
Treatise on the Seven Deadly Sins; collection of theological extracts; Apocalips of Jesu Crist
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-18v: Treatise on the Seven Deadly Sins, beginning: 'Daniel .5. Quando elevatum est cor Nabugor'. ff. 19r-111v: Collection of theological extracts with headings such as De homine; De preceptis datis; De casu primi hominis; De tribulacione, including passages from John Wyclif. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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