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621. Harley MS 520

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 520
Title:
Guillaume Postel, De nativitate mediatoris opus in quo totius naturae obscuritas illustratur
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-188r: Guillaume Postel, De nativitate mediatoris opus in quo totius naturae obscuritas illustratur.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

622. Harley MS 521

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 521
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-50v: The arms of English nobility and gentry (6 per page). ff. 51v-55r: A fragment of a heraldic manuscript with arms of Cheshire families (12 per page). ff. 56r-59r: Arms, displaying the types of crosses in heraldry (4 per page); with some marginal additions in brown ink. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

623. Harley MS 522

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 522
Title:
Gildas, De excidio Britanniae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-77v: Gildas, De excidio Britanniae [English translation]. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. [i]recto-2r: Notes about Gildas, printed works and history, added in the 16th century. f. 3r: A title-page added by Sir Simonds D’Ewes, added in the 17th century. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1550
Extent:
1 volume

624. Harley MS 523

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 523
Title:
Letters of Sir Philip Hoby, 1548-1553
Scope & Content:
Collection of copied letters dating from 1548-1553. Concerning Sir Philip Hoby (1504/5–1558), diplomat and administrator, the Privy Council, and others. f. 1*r: Pasted title page. ‘Sir Phillip Hobby & otheres Ambasages with the Emperore. R:S: 1616’. f. 2*r: ‘Sir Phillipe hobes letters dat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c. 1616
Extent:
1 volume

625. Harley MS 524

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 524
Title:
Collection of sermons and theological tracts (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
The collection includes (f. 66) two contemporary additions relating to medicine, a charm (item 1) and a short verse on humours (item 2). Two short chapters (ff. 84, 119-11v; items 3-4) discuss the formation of the fetus and birth in theological rather than medical terms. The cataloguing of the m...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:
1 item

626. Harley MS 525

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 525
Title:
The Seege of Troy; Robert of Cisyle; Speculum Gy de Warewyke
Scope & Content:
The manuscript's former binding is now stored separately as Harley MS 525/1. Contents: ff. 1r-34v: The Seege of Troye [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3139; for an edition, see Seege or Batayle of Troye, ed. by Barnicle (1927)]; beginning: ‘Sithyn that god this worlde wroghte’...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

627. Harley MS 525/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 525/1
Title:
Detached former binding of Harley MS 525
Scope & Content:
Detached brown leather binding, tooled in gold, with the Harleian arms gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers, and a fragment of the spine; marbled endpapers. The binding was formerly attached to Harley MS 525 (The Seege of Troy; Robert of Cisyle; Speculum Gy de Warewyke) and is now stored se...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
Former binding of Harley MS 525

628. Harley MS 526

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 526
Title:
Bede, Vita Sancti Cuthberti metrica (BHL 2020); Vita Venerabilis Bedae (BHL1069); Vita Ædwardi Regis (BHL 2421); fragment of Aelred of Rievaulx's Vita Sancti Edwardi regis and confessoris (BHL 2423) and the papal commissioners' report on St Hugh of Lincoln and Avalon; Vita Adae et Evae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains five parts: Bede's verse Vita S Cuthberti (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2020), copied in northern France at the end of the 9th century (ff. 1-27); a vita of Bede, copied in France or England in the first half of the 12th century (ff. 28-36v); the only surviving, i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
late 9th-14th century
Extent:
1 volume

629. Harley MS 526, ff 1r-27v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 526, ff 1r-27v
Title:
Bede, Vita Cuthberti Metrica (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2020)
Scope & Content:
This work contains a late 9th century copy of Bede's verse Life of Cuthbert, written in the region which is now northern France. It was in England by the mid-10th century, given the Old English names inscribed in the margin and the Old English glosses in the text (see, for example, ff. 2r, 15r)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of 9th century
Extent:
27 folios, part of a parchment codex

630. Harley MS 526, ff 28r-37v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 526, ff 28r-37v
Title:
Vita Venerabilis Bedae (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 1069)
Scope & Content:
This item contains prose life of Bede (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 1069), copied in France or England in the first half of the 12th century. The preface begins 'Inter catholicos sacrae Scripturae expositores...' Decoration: 2 coloured initials (f. 28r-v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of 12th century
Extent:
10 folios, part of a parchment codex

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