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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1605/3
Title:: The Forme of Cury (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the third of three volumes that comprise Harley MS 1605 (the others being Harley MS 1605/1 and Harley MS 1605/2). This part of the manuscript contains an imperfect copy of a Middle English collection of cookery recipes known as The Forme of Cury (The Method of Cooking). The te...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1390-early 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1606
Title:: Extracts from Corvinus, Wilkins, and Adams
Scope & Content:: Volume of extracts from theological writers. Written from both ends of the volume. ff. 1-206: Extracts from Corvinus and Wilkins. Extracts from Johannes Arnoldi Corvinus, Jus canonicum per aphorismos strictim explicatum (1648). Extracts from John Wilkins, Ecclesiastes, or, A discourse concern...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Undetermined
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1607
Title:: Psalter
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-189v: A Psalter. Preceded by a calendar (ff. 1r-6v) including saints linked to Northern France, such as Firmin (Amiens) in red and Honore (Amiens) and Angadrême (Beauvais), who also feature in the litany (ff. 180-184v) alongside Symphorien (Autun), Evroul (Normandy), Riquier (A...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1608
Title:: Registrum Brevium de Cancellaria Regis Edwardi I
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-173v: Brief register of the chancery of Edward I (Registrum Brevium de Cancellaria Regis Edwardi I). Decoration: 1 large puzzle initial in gold and blue with red and blue pen-flourishing (f. 3r). Paraphs in red or blue.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1609
Title:: Extracts from rolls of the Common Pleas
Scope & Content:: Extracts from late 13th century plea rolls. With some accounts relating to service in Cromwell’s army. Contents: ff. 1-2: Records of movements of horses. f. 4r: Accounts of money received for service in a regiment. f. 3v: Note dated December 1659 explaining source of following folios (ff. 4-4...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1650s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1610
Title:: Collection of religious and grammatical texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-13v: Theological commonplaces. ff. 14r-15r: 'Regulae accentuandi'. ff. 15r-15v: Part of a Latin vocabulary. ff. 16v-17r: 'De constructione verborum'. ff. 17v-18r: Grammatical notes. ff. 18v-19r: Poem on St Margaret. ff. 19r, 20r: Tracts on grammar, begininng: 'Ut pa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1611
Title:: Two astronomical treatises
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-52v: A treatise on the sphere, geophysics, geography and cosmology known as 'Compendium astronomiae'. ff. 53r-134v: A treatise on astronomy. Decoration: Several geometrical diagrams.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1612
Title:
Scope & Content:: Miscellany including Medical Treatises and Astrological Texts and Tables; early 15th cent. with 13th-cent. pastedowns. Middle English and Latin. Imperfect. The cataloguing of this miscellaneous and composite manuscript was funded by the Wellcome Trust. Only the medical texts are fully itemis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1613
Title:: Collection of Greek ecclesiastical hymns: kekragaria, anastasima, hexapsalmi, megalynaria, cherubica, eothina of the Emperor Leo, with late Byzantine notation.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1614
Title:: Law commonplace book
Scope & Content:: Common law collection in a single hand, by an unidentified compiler. Black ink with red ink additions and marginal notes. Chapter headings: Fee-SimpleFee-TayleTenant au Tayle apres poss’t y diss. extinctTenant per le Curtesye d’EngleterreTenant en DowerTenant a Terme de VyeTenant par Terme des ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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