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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 260
Title:: Letter-Book of Francis Walsingham as Ambassador to France, 26 Jan 1571-1 April 1573, with the reply to the French Ambassador, 20 Aug 1573
Scope & Content:: This is a scribal copy of the letter-book of Francis Walsingham covering most of his period as English Resident in Paris between early 1571 and spring 1573. The period covers the marriage negotiations of Queen Elizabeth I with two of the brothers of the King of France: Henri, Duke of Anjou (late...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1619-1628
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 261
Title:: William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum and Gesta Pontificum Anglorum; Henry of Saltrey, Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii
Scope & Content:: This late 12th- or early 13th-century manuscript may have been produced by the cathedral priory of St Andrew in Rochester, but was certainly at the priory in the 13th or 14th century and may have remained there until the priory was dissolved in 1540. The manuscript contains the Gesta regum Anglo...
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 262
Title:: Kitab-i Remel - كتاب رمل
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the book of remel, or divination by means of dots. The preamble of the text tates that it was composed for Hārūn al-Rashīd by a sage known as ᶜAbdallah ibn Ani. The instructions given for consulting it are as follows: make at random an indefinite number of dots on sand or p...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 text, 82 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 263
Title:: Dialogues of Pope Gregory the Great, translated into Greek by Zachary, Saint and Pope. Printed 1615.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 263, ff 55v-121v
Title:: Dialogue II: Life of St Benedict PL 66.125-203 (Greek and Latin text); I. Cozza-Luzi, Historia S. P. N. Benedicti, 1880.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 264
Title:: Guido de Monte Rocherii, Manipulus curatorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-70v: Guido de Monte Rocherii (fl. 14th century), Manipulus curatorum (A small manual for priests), preceded by a chapter list (ff. 1r-1v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 265
Title:: Cartulary of the Berkeley family
Scope & Content:: ff. 1*v–2*r: Note on the relationship of Thomas, Lord Berkeley, to the Earl of Winchester. ff. 1r–145v: Cartulary, arranged topographically, from the time of Edward I to Henry VI, relating to Wymondham, Edingthorpe and other places in Leicestershire and Norfolk. Fragmentary towards the end due ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1458-c 1470
Extent:: 1 volume

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