Place: England / Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 982
Title:: Statutes of the University of Cambridge
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-24r: Statutes of the University of Cambridge.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 985
Title:: John [of] Hoveden [Howden], Philomela; an anonymous treatise on mortal sins
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of two parts. Part 1 (ff. 1r-43v) contains a copy of John [of] Hoveden [Howden] (d. 1275), Philomela, which was copied in the 4th quarter of the 14th century. Part 2 (ff. 44r-77v) contains an anonymous treatise on mortal sins, which was copied in the 1st quar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 986
Title:: Richard Symonds, Notes on ensigns and officers during the First English Civil War
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. i recto: A note from the British Museum, dated to 30 October 1856: 'Memorandum: In the printed Harleian Catalogue, Vol. 1. 499, art. 4, of the present volume is described as "Original Passe from Sir John Needham Governor of Leicester, to Richard Symonds, dated Leicester, 5 March, 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1643-1644
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 987
Title:: Notes on the Bible; The whole booke of Psalmes [London, 1586]
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-260v: Notes on the Bible in Latin and English, featuring memoranda dated to 1605 and 1616 (f. 7r), with the added title: ‘Short Notes upon several Places of Scripture’ (f. 2r). ff. 261r-316v: A printed text with a title-page: ‘The whole booke of Psalmes, collected into Engli...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1586-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 988
Title:: Commentaries on the Song of Songs
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were written separately in the first half of the 12th century: Part 1 (ff. 1r-26v), and Part 2 (ff. 27r-71r). Both parts contain a commentary on the Song of Songs. Contents: ff. 1r-26v: Commentary on the Song of Songs, entitled: 'Incipiunt...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 990
Title:: A collection of abridged English statutes; a tract about dowry; the Assize of Weights and Measures; the verdict returned in a lawsuit in Guildford in 1396; De natura brevium; Les excepciouns ad brevia cassanda; Fet asaver; Registrum brevium
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-19r: a collection of abridged English statutes. f. 19r: a tract about dowry. ff. 19v-21r: The Assize of Weights and Measures. f. 21v: the verdict returned in a lawsuit in Guildford in 1396. ff. 22r-29v: De natura brevium. ff. 30r-35v: Les excepciouns ad brevia cassanda. f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 993
Title:: Walter Hilton, The Eight Chapters on Perfection; Treatise of Discretion of Spirits
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-23v: Walter Hilton, The Eight Chapters on Perfection, English translation of a work by written by the Aragonese Franciscan Luis de Fontibus (fl. 1383-1394); beginning: ‘Heere bigynneþ a tretis of viij chapitres necessarie for men þat ʒiven hem to perfection . whiche was founden...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 995
Title:: Works of Plutarch interpreted by Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus and translated by Guillaume Budé
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A table of contents. ff. 1r-137v: A collection of the works of Plutarch interpreted by Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus and addressed to Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York, and King Henry VIII. ff. 137v-169v: Plutarch, De la tranquillité de l’âme; translated into Latin by...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 997
Title:: Jean de La Rochelle, Summa de vitiis et virtutibus
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-166v: Jean de La Rochelle [John of Rupella] (b. c. 1190, d. 1245), Summa de vitiis et virtutibus. Beginning with a list of contents (ff. 1r-3r). Decoration: Puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in both colours (f. 3v). Initials in red or blue with pen-flouris...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 998
Title:: Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg, Compendium theologicae veritatis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 5r-155r: Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg, Compendium theologicae veritatis. ff. 155r-156v: List of chapters. ff. 157r-168r: Alphabetical subject index. The manuscript contains various additions: f. [iii]recto (pastedown): An label inscription for the manuscript: 'Compendium Theolo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Search