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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1245
Title:: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes; Defence of Holy Church
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-182v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes [Books 1-9], imperfect; an English translation of Laurent de Premierfait’s Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes, which is a French translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (‘On the Fates of Famous Men’). ff. 182v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1246
Title:: Homiliary
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1v: A table of content of the collection of sermons contained in this manuscript. ff. 2r-141r: A collection of 63 homilies mainly excerpted from the commentaries on the Four Gospels by the Church Fathers and Doctors of the Church, arranged for the liturgical year, beginning with B...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1247
Title:: Tracts on navigation and the navy
Scope & Content:: Book in several hands on navigation, with diagrams, and English navy matters 1658-1665. Contents: ff. 1-14: Short geometrical tract for learners, with diagrams. ff. 15-32: Explanation of some problems in the art of navigation. ff. 33-37: The doctrine of spherical triangles. f. 38v: Li...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1650s-1660s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1248
Title:: Court precedents
Scope & Content:: Book of court precedents, largely manorial courts. For a selected list of contents, see the 1808 printed catalogue of Harley MSS (Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, vol. 1, pp. 628-630). Includes extracts from the Court-Leat and Court-Baron for the manors of Clacton Mag...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1673
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1249
Title:: A transcript of the cartulary of St David's Cathedral
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a transcript of the St David's cartulary in Harley MS 6280. Contents: ff. 1*r: letter from the office of the Bishop of St David's addressed to Humphrey Wanley concerning the loan of the manuscript to the former, dated 11 June 1714. ff. 2*r: letter of Richard Smalbroke...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1250
Title:: Copies and drafts of various parliamentary papers
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume. Contents: f. 1: Incomplete table of contents. ff. 2-27: An Act to punish mutiny, sedition and desertion in soldiers; for preventing false musters; and concerning soldiers’ pay. To take effect from 10 January 1691 [1692?]. ff. 29v-74: Copy of a Bill for regulating the co...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1690s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1251
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('Hours of Eleanor Worcester')
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1: Added paper fragment of a printed 15th- or 16th-century book concerning canon law, inscribed on the recto with a book curse in Middle English verse, ‘Thys boke ys one and godes kors ys anoder they that take the ton god gef them the toder’ (DIMEV no. 5660-3), late-15th/16th cent...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1430-c 1440
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1252
Title:: Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs; Joseph and Assenath
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains 17th-century copy of apocryphal texts that appear to be copied from a 16th-century manuscript or printed book. The latter is suggested by two title-pages throughout that bear both the date ‘1660’ and the date ‘1563’ (ff. 1r, 40r). Contents: ff. 1r-137v: Testaments of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1660
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1253
Title:: An episcopal formulary for use of Norwich; a printed copy of 'Psalmes or prayers taken out of holye scripture', 1545
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-214r, 318r: An episcopal formulary for use of Norwich. ff. 215r-317v: 'Psalmes or prayers taken out of holye scripture', printed by Thomas Berthelette in London, 1545.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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