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641. Harley MS 1302

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1302
Title:
Catholic treatises; The Life of Syr Thomas More sometymes Lord Chancellor of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-37r: A commentary on the prophecy of Amos in English. f. 37r: A note by the writer ‘Thomas Denman’, stating that he left his College in 1597 and traveled to ‘foreigne Countryes where I changed my opinion of divers causes of religion and was uppon my retourne repated for a pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

642. Harley MS 1304

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1304
Title:
John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady; ‘Questiones by twene the Maister of Oxenford and his Clerke’; The ABC of Aristotle, and other proverbs
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-99r: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady (Boffey and Edwards, New Index (2005), no. 2574). ff. 100r-102v: ‘Questiones by twene the Maister of Oxenford and his Clerke’. ff. 103r-103v: The ABC of Aristotle, and other proverbs (Boffey and Edwards, New Index (2005), no. 4155). Deco...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

643. Harley MS 1311

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1311
Title:
Nova Statuta for 1-38 Edward III, and other legal texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-77r: Nova Statuta for 1-38 Edward III (1327-1365); written in Law French with headings in Latin. ff. 77r-79r: 'Judicium Rogeri de Mortuo Mari'. ff. 79r-79v: 'Judicium Simonis de Bereford'. f. 79v: 'De Restitutione Terrarium in Manibus Regis captarum'. ff. 79v-80r: 'De Q...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1365-c 1375
Extent:
1 volume

644. Harley MS 1316

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1316
Title:
Fasciculus morum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-100v: Fasciculus morum, a 14th-century handbook for preachers organized around the seven deadly sins and their opposing seven virtues; written in 7 parts, but this manuscript only contains parts 1-5, probably due to the removal of quires at the end. The current parts are imperf...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

645. Harley MS 1331

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1331
Title:
Edward Henden, Reports of trials at Westminster Hall and elsewhere
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-81v: Edward Henden, Reports of trials at Westminster Hall and elsewhere, extracted from or referring to the public rolls of these trials, in the 27th-30th years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I [1584-1588]; and other law notes. f. 82r: The 'Intituling of Bills into: The Exch...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1584-c 1588
Extent:
1 volume

646. Harley MS 1334

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1334
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)'s Jewish Wars attributed to Hegesippus, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

647. Harley MS 1336

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1336
Title:
Commentaries on English statutes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-30r: A commentary on the Statute of Westminster of 1275 (Westminster I). ff. 31r-127r: A commentary on the Statute of Westminster of 1285 (Westminster II). ff. 128r-140r : A commentary on Magna Carta.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

648. Harley MS 1337

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1337
Title:
The Prose Brut Chronicle, with a collection of prophecies attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer, Merlin and others
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-105r: The Prose Brut Chronicle (abbreviated version to 1419); ending with the explicit: 'Here endith a book callyd the Croniclis of Englonde made & compilid by notabil Clerkis of aventuris of kyngis þat were in þis londe and howe þey died' (f. 105r). The manuscript contai...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

649. Harley MS 1338

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1338
Title:
A collection of university determinationes, once including a fair copy of material relating to King Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-85v: A collection of university determinationes. It once included a fair copy of material relating to King Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

650. Harley MS 1341

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1341
Title:
A Dialogicall Discourse of Marine Affaires; distributed into six Dialogues, by Nathanael Boteler
Scope & Content:
Draft of A Dialogical discourse of marine affairs, with additions in another hand, by Nathanael Boteler or Butler. Six dialogues between an admiral and a captain, including a glossary of maritime vocabulary (dialogue four). With additions in another hand. Later printed as: Six dialogues about se...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1634
Extent:
1 volume

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