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1071. Harley MS 4172

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4172
Title:
Collection of theological texts, including the Sacerdos parochialis and De Festis Duplicibus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains various items that appear to have been compiled for the use of a priest. The first part (ff. 1r-63r) contains one of the seven extant copies of the Sacerdos parochialis, a manual for parish priests in Middle English and Latin, including tracts on the Pater noster, Ave Ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1072. Harley MS 4182

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4182
Title:
Register of Council causes, 30 July 1598-10 April 1599
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-264r: A register of Council causes from 30 July 1598 to 10 April 1599, entitled: 'A register booke of Counsell causes begon the 30th day of July 1598 of the Court at Grenwich'. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: A date inscription: 'Anno 1598: 30 Julij 1598 - E...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

1073. Harley MS 4186

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4186
Title:
Journal of the Privy Council, 1579
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-137v: Journal of the Privy Council, 1579, beginning: 'An open Commission to all vice admirals, Justices of Peace, Commissioners, Formatters of piracies, and all the officers of her majesties portes for the apprehending and makeinge staie of one Philpot with his ship, beinge lat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1579
Extent:
1 volume

1074. Harley MS 4196

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4196
Title:
Expanded Northern Homily Cycle; Tractatus de legenda Sanctorum; The Gospel of Nicodemus; The Prick of Conscience
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-132r: Expanded Northern Homily Cycle. ff. 133r-205r: Tractatus de legenda Sanctorum [Sermons for saints’ days]. ff. 206r-215r: The Gospel of Nicodemus. ff. 215v-258v: The Prick of Conscience, imperfect [7 leaves missing between f. 228 and f. 229]. Decoration: Large ini...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1075. Harley MS 4197

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4197
Title:
John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes (translation of Giovanni Boccaccio, De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-102v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes, imperfect; an English translation [with Latin marginal notes] of Laurent de Premierfait’s Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes, which is a French translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (‘On the Fates of Famous M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

1076. Harley MS 4198

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4198
Title:
Heraldic collection relating to northern England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: Sketches of coats of arms. ff. 3r-8r: Alphabetical index of family names. ff. 9v-10r: Coats of arms (6 per page), tricked in brown ink. ff. 11r-13r: Wapentakes and Bailiwicks of the Ridings of Yorkshire, entitled: 'The trew and Perfect booke of the Visitations of [? ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1077. Harley MS 4203

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4203
Title:
John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-181v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes; an English translation of Laurent de Premierfait’s Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes, which is a French translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (‘On the Fates of Famous Men’); featuring Latin rubrics, and a co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1078. Harley MS 4217

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4217
Title:
An inventory of King Henry VIII’s wardrobe at London
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-25r: An inventory of King Henry VIII’s wardrobe at London (12 Henry VIII), with a title inscription on a parchment pastedown on f. 1r: ‘The boke of all the Kynges reche stuf remaignyng in his standinge warderobe of robes within the Towre of London delyvered unto the sure and sa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1520-1521
Extent:
1 volume

1079. Harley MS 4222

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4222
Title:
Collection of orders and laws for the management of the Royal Mint
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-69r: Collection of orders and laws for the management of the Royal Mint, written in different hands. Includes instructions for making money (ff. 1r-20r), 'An ordinaunce for measures and weightes owte of magna carta' (f. 21r); a document relating to Martin Bowes (b. 1496/7, d....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 16th century-3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1080. Harley MS 4239

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4239
Title:
Leges sive Statuta Cantabrigiensis, Academiae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-25v: 'Leges sive Statuta Cantabrigiensis, Academiae' (dated 26 March 1573); with the names of William Cecil, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1559, Andrew Perne, Vice-Chancellor, and the Masters of the colleges at the end. Decoration: The heraldic achievement o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
between 1628 and 1649
Extent:
1 volume

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