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631. Harley MS 526, ff 38r-57v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 526, ff 38r-57v
Title:
Anonymous Vita Ædwardi Regis (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2421)
Scope & Content:
This item contains the sole surviving copy of the Vita Ædwardi, a life of Edward the Confessor (b. c 1003, d. 1066) written by an anonymous author with sections in prose and verse. The text is imperfect, possibly missing two folios each from the first and last quire. Decoration: Painted initial...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1100
Extent:
19 folios, part of a parchment codex

632. Harley MS 526, ff 58r-67v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 526, ff 58r-67v
Title:
Fragment of Ailred of Rievaulx's Vita S Edwardi Regis et Confessoris (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2423) and the papal commissioners' report on the sanctity of Bishop Hugh of Lincoln (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the last page of a copy of Ailred of Rievaulx's Vita S Edwardi Regis et Confessoris (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2423) (f. 58*r). It is followed by an imperfect copy of the papal commissioners' report on the sanctity of Bishop Hugh of Lincoln, which an early modern ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of 13th century
Extent:
12 folios, part of a parchment codex

633. Harley MS 526, ff 68r-77v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 526, ff 68r-77v
Title:
Vita Ade et Evae
Scope & Content:
This item contains a 14th-century copy of an apocryphal text, entitled 'Vita Protoplasti nostri Ade, et Eve uxoris sue, fabulosissima' in this manuscript. Decoration: 1 large initial in blue and red (f. 68r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
10 folios, part of a parchment codex

634. Harley MS 528

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 528
Title:
William of Malmesbury, De gestis rerum anglorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-243v: William of Malmesbury, De gestis rerum anglorum, imperfect at the beginning.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

635. Harley MS 529

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 529
Title:
A collection of English statutes; Henry Bracton, De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: An untitled legal tract in Law French, beginning: '[D]e quo warento'. ff. 1v-2r: A table of contents for De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae. ff. 2v-3r: Two legal tracts in Latin, entitled 'Statutum de bigamis' and 'tractatus corone'. ff. 3v-4r: A table of contents for ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

636. Harley MS 530

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 530
Title:
A miscellany of transcripts and original copies of historical works
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a miscellany largely containing early modern transcripts from medieval historical works, mostly dating to the second half of the 16th century. Several entries were copied by the antiquaries John Stow [Stowe] (b. 1524/5, d. 1605) and William Camden (b. 1551, d. 1623). However, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450-c 1626
Extent:
1 volume

637. Harley MS 531

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 531
Title:
Miscellaneous texts on astronomy, astrology and meteorology
Scope & Content:
The manuscript was probably assembled before 1474 by the Cambridge scholar and physician Roger Marschall from 8 booklets of different dates and origin (ff. 1-32; 33-47; 48-63; 64-103 + i; 104-116 + ii; 117-131 + i; 132-172; 173-184). Texts included: Table of contents (f. 1*r); Iohannes de Sa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1272-1474
Extent:
185 folios.

638. Harley MS 531, f 1*r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 531, f 1*r
Title:
Table of contents.
Scope & Content:
The table of contents was added by Roger Marchall in 1474. The last two items on the list are not included in the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1474
Extent:
1 folio preceded by an unfoliated parchment flyleaf.

639. Harley MS 531, f 32r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 531, f 32r
Title:
Mnemonic calendar verses
Scope & Content:
Mnemonic calendar verses, incipit: 'Cisio Janus ephi ergo vendicit ac feli marcel.'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1272
Extent:
1 folio.

640. Harley MS 531, f 115v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 531, f 115v
Title:
Tabula cenith solis et umbre.
Scope & Content:
Astronomical table entitled 'Tabula cenith solis et umbre.'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

1 folio.

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