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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 229
Title:: Chronicle of Evesham Abbey; Ivo of Chartres, Epistolae
Scope & Content:: A composite manuscript, the first section (ff. 1–47) from the mid 14th century and the second (ff. 50–136) from the late 11th or early 12th century. ff. 1r–47v: Chronicle of Evesham Abbey. ff. 50r–136r: Ivo of Chartres, Epistolae, imperfect at the end, with occasional marginal glosses. Decora...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-Mid 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 230
Title:: Register of Abbots Thomas and Richard of Bury St Edmunds
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–7r: Alphabetical index, not including ff. 8r–53v, headed ‘Registrum Thome abbatis …’. ff. 8r–53v: William of Hoo, Letterbook. ff. 54r–133v: Register of Abbots Richard Draughton and Thomas Tottington: charters, presentations, customs, recognitions, pleas, pensions, etc., together with co...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 13th century-14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 231
Title:: Annals of St Saviour’s, Bermondsey, 1042–1432
Scope & Content:: f. 1*r: Sentences against those transgressing Magna Carta and the Forest Charter. ff. 1r–71v: Annalistic chronicle of St Saviour’s, Bermondsey, 1042–1432. Extra space was left throughout for additions, but never used. A heading is provided for 1433, but never filled in, suggesting that the book...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1432-1433
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 232
Title:: A miscellany of theological and ecclesiastical tracts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-5v: A selection of draft indentures relating to different ecclesiastical properties. f. 7v: Pseudo-Ignatius, First Epistle to St John the Evangelist. f. 7v: Pseudo-Ignatius, Second Epistle to St John the Evangelist. f. 7v: Pseudo-Ignatius, Epistle to the Blessed Virgin Mary,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 233
Title:: A theological miscellany, including Peter Lombard, Liber Sententiarum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-69r: Peter Lombard, Liber Sententiarum. ff. 69r-77v: Meditationes Bernardi. ff. 77v-80v: St Augustine of Hippo, De disciplina christiana. ff. 80v-81v: De XII Articulis Fidei. ff. 81v-84r: Sermo beati Bernardi de passione domini. ff. 84r-85r: Seneca de Moribus. ff. 85r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 234
Title:: Gospel of John, with marginal and interlinear Glossa Ordinaria
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century French manuscript contains the Gospel of John with commentary by Church Fathers and medieval authorities (Glossa Ordinaria) added to its margins and between the text's lines. ff. 1r–56r: The Gospel of John, with marginal and interlinear Glossa Ordinaria, imperfect at the begin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 235
Title:: Statutes of the Order of the Garter
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–29r: A mid-16th-century heraldic manuscript. A note opposite f. 1r by Frederic Madden records that this manuscript is written in the same hand as Harley MS 567 (another heraldic manuscript). f. 1r: Names of the knights of the Garter, 1584. f. 1v: Gilbert Talbot, names of the knights of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1561-1592
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 236
Title:: Cartulary of St Mary’s Abbey, York
Scope & Content:: Cartulary, perhaps the first part of a larger compilation. Arranged in sections by subject matter: royal charters, composiitons and tithes, Appleton (Yorks NR) and elsewhere, leases in Richmondhsire, the manor of Hudswell (Yorks NR), various churches. Additions throughout, including an index, f. 1v.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1300s-1370s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 237
Title:: Theological miscellany, including Speculum Christiani
Scope & Content:: f. 1*r: Added table of contents, 17th-century. ff. 1r–2v: Contemporary table of contents. ff. 3r–73v: Speculum Christiani. ff. 73v–75v: De horis canonicis, a note on how the canonical hours are to be said, beginning, ‘Hore canonice propter laudem humanum …’ Other copies in Royal MS 8 C I and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 238
Title:: Johannes de Felton, Sermones dominicales per annum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-169r: Johannes de Felton, Sermones dominicales per annum. ff. 169r-179v: An index. Decoration: Small red initials with brown penwork decoration.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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