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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1623
Title:: Cartulary of the Darell family
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v–38v: Cartulary of deeds and rentals of the Darell family, relating to lands in London, Wiltshire, Dorset, Hertfordshire, Berkshire and elsewhere, from the time of Edward I to Henry VI. Decoration: New documents begin with two-line initials, some with black penwork decoration ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1632
Title:: Genealogy of the kings of England to Henry V
Scope & Content:: Harley MS 1632 originally ended with a printed copy of the History of the Siege of Rhodes by the Grand Signior Mahomet, translated into English by Johan Kay, Poet-Laureate to King Edward IV and printed by William Caxton. This part was transferred to the Department of Early Printed Books in 1840....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1646
Title:: Collection of copies of Letters Patent of Queen Elizabeth I concerning leases of land
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-151v: Collection of copies of Letters Patent of Queen Elizabeth I concerning leases of land, from the 33rd and 34th years of her reign.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1590-1592
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1647
Title:: Thomas Busshe, A ledger book for expenses made for the construction of Sandgate Castle by Henry VIII (Volume 1)
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: ‘The fyrst. the iide. iiide. iiiith. vth. vith. viith. viiith. and the .ixth. boke of the leger of the Workes of the Kynges Castell at Sandgate in the tyme of Thomas Corkes and Rychard Keys Esquyres Commyssioners there [...]’. f. 2*recto: A Latin inscription: ‘Castrum dom...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1540
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1648
Title:: Tabula de Utilitate Orationis Dominicae; Bona et Utilis Tabula Fidei Christianae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-7r: Tabula de Utilitate Oracionis Dominice, a diagrammatic commentary on the Lord's Prayer, beginning: 'Dicit Pater noster tanquam caput omnium orationum evidenter approbatur' [Bloomfield, Incipits (1979), no. 8834; including this manuscript, and listing 4 other copies in Engli...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1651
Title:: Thomas Busshe, ledger book for expenses made for the construction of Sandgate Castle by Henry VIII (Volume 2)
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A Latin inscription on a strip of parchment: ‘thes vi bookes be truly examined’. f. 1r: A Latin inscription: ‘Castrum domini Regis de Sandegate’. f. 1r: A title inscription on a parchment fragment: ‘The .xth. the .xith. xiith. xiiith. xiiiith. xvth. xvith. xviith. xviiith. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1540-1541
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1659
Title:: Willelmus Peraldus, Summa de vitiis et virtutibus
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4r-394v: Willelmus Peraldus [William Perault (d. 1271)], Summa de vitiis et virtutibus. The manuscript features several later additions: ff. 1v-3r: Pope Innocent III, De contemptu mundi; added in the (?) 15th century. ff. 395r-97r: Theological notes in Latin, featuring a few ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1660
Title:: Nicholas de Aquevilla, Sermons
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-246v: Nicholas de Aquevilla, Sermons (Sermones dominicales), with a table of sermons listed alphabetically by subject (ff. 191-194), imperfect at the beginning and the end. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A prayer against the plague: '[...] stella de ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1661
Title:: Bible, without the Psalms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-448v: Bible, without the Psalms. ff. 449r-484v: The Interpretation of Hebrew names (added slightly later). Decoration: Puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours at the beginning of most books (except Esther) and some prologues. Initials in red...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 13th century-13rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1666
Title:: The General Prologue (Later Version) to the Wycliffite Bible
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-111v: The General Prologue (Later Version) to the Wycliffite Bible. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. iii recto: A note in pencil by Sir Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873), Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum: 'This MS is stated to have belonged to Matthew ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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