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1601. Harley MS 5289

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5289
Title:
Missal for monastic use, including a calendar
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 9r-493r: Missal for monastic use, including a calendar (ff. 2-7v), highlighting the feasts of the Deposition of St Cuthbert (f. 3r) and St Oswald (f. 5v) in gold; and musical notation (ff. 274r-276r; 285v-286r). The manuscript contains various additions: f. 1r: An inscription b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

1602. Harley MS 5391

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5391
Title:
Statutes for the Collège du Plessis, Paris
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Statutes for the Collège du Plessis, Paris, drawn up in 1571, entitled: ‘Sequuntur Regulæ et Statuta in omni bene constituta societate hominum perpetuo observanda, et observari solita ab omni ævo et antiquitate et præcipue in coetu et corona aulicorum Plessæorum quæ Vetusta...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1571
Extent:
1 volume

1603. Harley MS 6563

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6563
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum(?)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4v: the Hours of the Virgin, probably Use of Sarum (imperfect); ff. 5r-9v: the Office of the Dead (imperfect); ff. 10r-25v: the Hours of the Virgin, probably Use of Sarum (imperfect), followed by the hymn Salve Regina (continued on f. 32r); ff. 27r-31v, 33r-35r: the Hours...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1320-c. 1330
Extent:
1 volume

1604. Harley MS 6571

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6571
Title:
Book for a Simple and Devout Woman
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-68v: Book for a Simple and Devout Woman, beginning: ‘Seynt Johon þe evangelist in his boke of pryvytes telleþ þat he saw a wondirful and a degysed beste come out of þe see þat haddde a body like to a libarde . ffeet as hit were of a bere prote as hit were of alyon and he hadde ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1605. Harley MS 6776

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6776
Title:
A genealogy of the De Vere family
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-16v: A genealogy of the De Vere family in English and Latin, entitled: 'The Genalogy of the most Ancient and Illustrious Family of the Veres, Earles of Guisnes in Normandy, and of Oxford, and Lord great Chamberlands of England, being descended from the Kings of the Argives, Duk...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1676
Extent:
1 volume

1606. Harley MS 6928/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6928/1
Title:
Detached former binding of Harley MS 6928
Scope & Content:
Detached brown, reinforced, leather binding, blind-tooled. The binding was formerly attached to Harley MS 6928 and is now stored separately.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
Former binding of Harley MS 6928

1607. Harley MS 2371

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2371
Title:
John Mirk, Festial
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-141v: John Mirk, Festial (Group B version); beginning imperfectly towards the end of Advent and ending imperfectly with the opening of the Dedication of the Church; the sermon for the feast of St Thomas of Canterbury has been largely cut out (see ff. 73*-[73c]), and the remaini...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1608. Harley MS 2514

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2514
Title:
Papias, Ars grammatica
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-66v: Papias, Ars grammatica. Decoration: Large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours including flowers and foliate motifs (f. 1r). Initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour including flowers and foliate motifs (ff. 6r,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1609. Harley MS 3828

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3828
Title:
Middle Dutch prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This composite prayer-book with Middle Dutch and Latin texts consists of four distinct parts: two parts (ff. 1r-12v, and ff. 17r-75v) were made in Flanders (probably Bruges) in the 1440s; and two others (ff. 13r-16v, and ff. 76r-208r) in the Netherlands (probably North Brabant) in the 2nd half o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1440-c 1500
Extent:
1 volume

1610. Harley MS 4070

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4070
Title:
Psalter in Anglo-Norman
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Book of Psalms in Anglo-Norman verse with the corresponding Latin verses at the beginning of each stanza. Contents: ff. 2r-123v: The Book of Psalms in verse, with a prologue, beginning ‘Ces [ver]s sunt de salu de[l] [ri]che rei ihesu nostre duz Avue’. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century - 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

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