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321. Harley MS 38

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 38
Title:
A miscellany of political papers and letters and tracts on coinage, transcribed largely by Ralph Starkey; original letters addressed to Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine, and Sir Simonds D'Ewes, 1642-1648; A Licence to travayle for Francis Davison and Edward Smith granted by Queen Elizabeth I, 1595
Scope & Content:
This manuscript mostly contains 17th-century English letters and transcripts of 16th-century documents. It also features an original licence on parchment to travel outside of England for three years granted to a ‘Francis Davison’ and ‘Edward Smith’, signed by Queen Elizabeth I and with her wax s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:
1595-1648
Extent:
1 volume

322. Harley MS 43

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 43
Title:
Benedict Burgh, Cato Major; Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, translated into English by John Walton; William Cornysh, A Treatise between Enformacione and Musyke; A Balade of Trouthe (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-86v: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae: translated by John Walton; with the Latin text in the margins added at a later stage; possibly by Thomas Chaundler up to f. 29v. The manuscript contains several later additions: ff. 3r-3v: Benedict Burgh, Cato Major (imperfect); w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

323. Harley MS 44

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 44
Title:
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, in the English translation by John Walton
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-102r: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, in the English translation by John Walton. Other manuscripts containing this English translation of Boethius's work are [Royal MS 18 A XIII and Harley MS 43. Decoration: Large gold initials in a blue and red frame with foliate fe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

324. Harley MS 46

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 46
Title:
Glossed Gospels of St Matthew and St Mark
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-v: Capitula referring to quires and folios of the manuscript. ff. 3r-4r: Preface on the Gospels, excerpted from Genesis, beginning: ‘Fecit deus duo magna luminaria’ ff. 4r-6v: Glossed prologue to the Gospel of St Matthew, beginning: ‘Mattheus ex iudea sicut in ordine’; gloss on the pro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

325. Harley MS 47

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 47
Title:
Guigo I, Epistula ad fratres de Monte Dei (fragment); Bernard of Clairvaux, Super Magnificat and Meditationes; Thomas of Celano, Vita prima sancti Francisci;Ps.-Augustine, Dialogus questionum LXV
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of three parts that were separately produced. The first and second parts (ff. 1*-12 and ff. 13-43) date to the 13th century. The third part (ff. 44-60) dates to the early 14th century. Contents: f. 1* recto: Guigo I, Epistula ad fratres de Monte Dei 2.293–30...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

326. Harley MS 51

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 51
Title:
Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae; Jacobus Palladinus de Theramo, Consolatio peccatorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-105v: Guido delle Colonne ['de Columnis' or 'de Columna'], Historia destructionis Troiae (A History of the Destruction of Troy) or Historia troiana, in 35 books with a prologue, epilogue and colophon. Prologue begins, ‘Licet cotidie vetera recentibus obruent nonnulla tamen iamd...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

327. Harley MS 52

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 52
Title:
Constitutiones clementinae and other constitutiones; theological, ecclesiastical and homiletic texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-24r: Constitutiones clementinae (Clementine Constitutions). ff. 24r-42v: Several ecclesiastical and homiletic texts. ff. 43r-81v: Several constitutiones. ff. 81v-128v: Theological and ecclesiastical texts. Decoration: Numerous initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

328. 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

329. 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

330. Harley MS 66

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 66
Title:
Transcripts of the Historia Sancti Albani scripta tempore Henrici III; excerpts from a register of Westminster Abbey attributed to Sulcard; excerpts from a cartulary of Abingdon Abbey; charters of the kings of Mercia, from King Oshere to King Alfred the Great; legal documents from the reign of Henry I to James I
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an early 17th-century collection of transcripts of historical and legal documents ranging from the 9th century to the 17th century. The legal documents are written largely in Latin, but some of the early documents also contain sections in Old English (ff. 61r-61v, 62r, 6...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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