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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1023
Title:: Gospel-book
Scope & Content:: This is a 12th-century illuminated Gospel-book with glosses in Irish and Latin, and added texts in Latin. Its close similarities in text, script and decoration with the Gospels of Mael Brigte (Harley MS 1802) and the Book of Armagh (Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 52) both made in Armagh, su...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Irish and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5481
Title:: Defter.
Scope & Content:: Language: Latin Samaritan hymns and prayers interspersed with short extracts from the Pentateuch.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Latin
Date Range:: 1500-1599
Extent:: 62 folios (8+iii+54+iii, plus three modern leaves at the beginning and the end that serve as fillers)

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2013
Title:: The Chester Cycle
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: William Newall, Clerk of Chester, Proclamation for Whitsone Playes (1531/2); claiming that the Chester cycle was written by 'Sir Henry Frances sometyme Mooncke there'. ff. 1r-3v: The Banns (‘The Banes which are Reade Bee Fore The Beginninge of the playes of Chester 1600’...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 24
Title:: Prose Brut
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r–218v: Prose Brut (Chronicle of England; extended version to 1419, in the reign of Henry V (r. 1413–22)). For an edition of the work see The Brut or the Chronicles of England, 2 vols, ed. Friedrich W.D. Brie, Early English Text Society, 131 and 136 (Oxford: 1906–8); contains tex...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and English, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2277
Title:: South English Legendary
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-232v: South English Legendary (Legends of the saints in verse, listed according to their feast days), imperfect at the beginning. Decoration: Large plain initials in red or blue. Paraphs in red or blue. Capitals marked in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: c 1300
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5449
Title:: Mishle Sendabar. משלי סנדבר
Scope & Content:: Language: Hebrew Ethical writing. Mishle Sendabar משלי סנדבר Note: There is a Latin note at the end, folio 65v-66r, copied from the handwriting of Gilbertus Gaulmin, and stating that the latter had translated the work into Latin and added notes. In the Latin account of the manuscript on the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Hebrew
Date Range:: 1600-1699
Extent:: 66 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1743
Title:: Hebrew-Latin dictionary.
Scope & Content:: Language: Hebrew A Hebrew-Latin dictionary. Milon ῾ivri-latini. מלון עברי-לטיני Note: General title is given on folio 1r, "Observationes et Additiones ad Buxtorfii Abreviaturas ut et ejusdem et reliquorum Bibliothecas Ebraeas. Coeptae 14 Aug. 1694". Part I, dealing with abbreviations (rashe ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Hebrew and Latin
Date Range:: 1694
Extent:: 20 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5239
Title:: Genesis. Bereshit בראשית
Scope & Content:: Language: Hebrew Genesis, with punctuation and interlinear French translation by Jacques d'Auzoles Lapeyre (author). Bereshit. בראשית Colophon: achevee par Jacques D'Auzolles LapeyreLan de grace 1622. Le XVIII. Decembre. (Fol 152r) Genesis, with punctuation and interlinear French translatio...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Hebrew
Date Range:: 1622
Extent:: 152 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 542
Title:: English historical miscellany
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A note about the foundation of a hospital in Ingastone. ff. 1v-10r: John Taxtor of Bury St Edmunds, excerpts from his chronicle. ff. 11r-12v: A list of nobles who came to England with William the Conqueror. f. 13r: John Lydgate, The order of Fools, extract only. f. 14r: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and English, Middle
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1568
Title:: The Prose Brut Chronicle
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-182r: The Prose Brut Chronicle (Common version to 1419). Decoration: Historiated initial of King Diocletian and his daughters combined with a full bar border in colours and gold with floral decoration (f. 1r). Numerous historiated initials or small miniatures in colours and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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