Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1115
Title:: Heraldry book, with grants of arms by William Camden and others
Scope & Content:: Heraldry book written in several hands. Contents: f. 1*: Parchment title cut from old binding: ‘Camdens Gifts & Others with Som Frish Coats’. f. 1: Alphabetical table of surnames in the following tract. ff. 2-38: Grants or confirmations of arms or crests, varying in detail and draw...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1116
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 2r: ‘The copy of a dyde taken oute of the Evidences of thomas wolley of hamsted in the counte of Staffordshire Anno 1563’. ff. 3v-4r: Full-page drawings of a seven-headed dragon and St Michael the Archangel. ff. 5r-12v: Empty coats of arms (9 per page) in brown ink, circumscri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1117
Title:: Verses on the translation of Edward the Martyr; Bede's prose and verse Vitae sancti Cuthberti; excerpts from Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica; an office for St Cuthbert; a poem on Abbot Wigbeorht; offices of St Benedict and St Guthlac
Scope & Content:: This manuscript includes material for the cult of St Cuthbert as well as poems and offices for other English churchmen and saints and for St Benedict. Bede's Lives of Cuthbert are glossed in Latin and Old English, in a hand which seems to be contemporary with the main text. The manuscript incl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: c 1000
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1118
Title:: Registrum brevium
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-218v, 220v-289r: Registrum brevium. Including a list of contents (ff. 1r-10r); beginning on f. 13r: 'Edwardus dei gracia Rex Anglie Dominus Hibernie Dux Aquitanie Ballivis suis Lincolniensis salutem precipimus vobis quod sine dilatione plenum rectum teneatis Ade de Cerleton. de...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1119
Title:: Ranulf de Glanvill, Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus Regni Angliae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-13r: Ranulf de Glanvill (d. 1190), Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus Regni Angliae, beginning: 'Regiam potestatem non solum armis contra rebelles et gentes sibi regnoque insurgentes'. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 2v (lower margin): A writ for makin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1120
Title:: English statutes from the reigns of Henry III to Edward I
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Table of contents. ff. 5r-8r: Magna Carta. ff. 8r-9v: Carta de Foresta. ff. 9v-10r: Sententia Excommunicationis Lata in Transgressores Cartarum. ff. 10r-12r: Provisiones de Merton. ff. 12r-14r: Dictum de Kenilworth. ff. 14r-19r: Statuta Marlebergie. ff. 19r-29r: S...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 14th century-3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1121
Title:: Miscellaneous compilation including Livre de Sydrac and Robert Grosseteste, Château d’amour
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is composed of two contemporary semi-independent parts (ff. 1-140 and 141-168) and includes: 1. Table of contents and inscriptions (ff. 1*r-2v*); 2. Livre de Sydrac (ff. 1r-140r); 3. Edmund of Abingdon, Mirour de seinte eglyse (French translation of Speculumreligiosorum) (ff....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1121, f 156r (item 1)
Title:: John Chrysostom, Super Matheum
Scope & Content:: John Chrysostom, Super Matheum, chapter 3: 'Et ne velitis...'; incipit: 'Quid prodest ei quem sordidant, generatio clara'. Here attributed to Ambrose.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1121, f 156r (item 2)
Title:: La vie nostre dame seinte marie, incipit: 'Sachez que nostre dame fui de xii annzet vi mois...'
Scope & Content:: La vie nostre dame seinte marie, incipit: 'Sachez que nostre dame fui de xii annzet vi mois...'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1/2 column

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1121, ff 1*r-2v*
Title:: Table of contents and inscriptions
Scope & Content:: Table of contents in a 17th-century hand; an added ownership (?) inscription of Lucas Anstiy (Anstis?) (f. 2*r); and a dedication of the book to Robert Harley from John Anstis (f. 2*v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1400-1724
Extent:: 2 parchment flyleaves

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