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1201. Harley MS 988

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

1202. Harley MS 989

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 989
Title:
Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-52r: Seneca’s Moral Letters to Lucilius, also known as Moral Epistles and Letters from a Stoic, imperfect, containing letters 1-52 out of 124. Glossed, mostly in the same hand. f. 52v: late medieval inscriptions, including ownership inscriptions. Decoration: Large blue initial with gre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century-3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

1203. Harley MS 990

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

1204. Harley MS 991

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 991
Title:
Historical anecdotes of Richard Symonds
Scope & Content:
Collection of historical anecdotes about prominent people during the reign of King Charles I, the Long Parliament and the Protectorate, in particular stories against Oliver Cromwell. Written in a mixture of Italian and English by Richard Symonds. Includes an incomplete name index (ff. 1-3), gene...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1205. Harley MS 992

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 992
Title:
A collection of heraldic texts and drawings
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains heraldic texts and drawings from the 2nd half of the 15th century and 1st half of the 16th century in Middle English, Middle French and Latin. Contents: ff. 1r-8r: Drawings of arms of aristocratic families, several in colours; with family names in English. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1206. Harley MS 993

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

1207. Harley MS 994

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 994
Title:
Tracts and lists relating to the Holy Roman Empire
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-9v: ‘How Germany is Devyded into .10. Kresies, that is to say Circutes, And the names of all such Estates, as dwell in ech of them particulerly’. ff. 9v-17v: ‘The yearly Contribution that Every member of the Romain Empire payeth, for Deffence Against the Turk, which Contribut...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1582
Extent:
1 volume

1208. Harley MS 995

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

1209. Harley MS 996

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 996
Title:
Notes on law cases, readings and pleadings
Scope & Content:
Octavo manuscript volume of legal notes, mostly concerning law cases, readings and pleadings from around 1633, written in Law French.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1633
Extent:
1 volume

1210. Harley MS 997

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

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