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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2215
Title:: Coats of arms of Kentish families
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4r: An alphabetical index of names of families included in this manuscript. ff. 5v-35v: Coats of arms of Kentish families (4 per page). Decoration: Coats of arms and crests, drawn and tricked in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2220
Title:: Miscellaneous coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Coats of arms (4-9 per page) of English nobility and gentry. f. 7r: The (attributed) coats of arms of the Nine Worthies, with Guy of Warwick. ff. 7v-9r: Coats of arms (16 per page) of ‘howses [that] have matched wyth Danvers’. ff. 9r-11r: Coats of arms (16 per page) o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1589
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2221
Title:: Miscellany of English coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A table of contents, with the date 1591. ff. 2r-3v: Coats of arms (10 per page) of the English archiepiscopal and episcopal sees; with the arms of the archiepiscopal see of Dublin. ff. 4r-6r: Coats of arms (10 per page) of English cities, boroughs, and Calais. f. 7r: A li...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1578-1591
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2222
Title:: Statutes and regulations of the Admiralty
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3r: 'Rules and orders to bee observed by all vice-admiralls aswell for the preservation of the Jurisdiction of the admiralty as for the better regulating the affaires and perquisites of the same for his Majesties profit and advantage'. ff. 3r-3v: 'Statuta contenta in Commissi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2249
Title:: Wycliffite Old Testament, Later Version
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-173v: Later Version of Wycliffite Old Testament; imperfect, Joshua 19-Psalm 144. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*verso: A note by Sir Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873), Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum: 'In Add MS 11.888 containing the New Testame...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2250
Title:: Middle English Life of Christ and other saints' Lives and theological texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-44r: Middle English stanzaic Life of Christ in verse (Circumcision, the first leaf of which has been misbound between ff. 44 and f. 45; Epiphay; Purification of the Virgin Mary; Innocents; Septuagesima; Sexagesima; Quinquagesima; Quadragesima; Lent; the Passion; Pilate; Judas; ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2252
Title:: The Commonplace Book of John Colyns, including Ipomydon, B version, and the stanzaic Morte Arthur
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript comprises two booklets of Middle English poetry and prose (ff. 54-85, 86-133) that were compiled into one volume in the early 16th century by John Colyns (d. c. 1542), mercer, of the parish of St Mary Woolchurch Haw, London. The manuscript contains the unique copies o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Late 15th century-Early 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2266
Title:: The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers. This is the earliest of one of the two English translations of the Liber Philosophorum Moralium Antiquorum, a Latin version of an Arabic compilation by the philosopher Al-Mubashshir ibn Fatik. The Latin work was translated into...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2271
Title:: A collection of forms or precedents of instruments made by a Devonshire lawyer towards the end of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-7v: An alphabetical table for the ensuing tract. ff. 8r-91v: A collection of forms or precedents of instruments made by a Devonshire lawyer towards the end of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign; several of these were drawn up according to the usage and custom of the city of Exeter.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2276
Title:: Middle English sermon collection
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-146v: Sixty sermons on the Sunday gospels, certain major feast-days in the Christmas season and Ascension, from the First Sunday in Advent to the 22nd Sunday after Trinity. Translated from the 12th-century Latin Filius matris collection, with additional sermons not based on the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1450
Extent:: 1 volume

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