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Container Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 1-7661

3131. Harley MS 4241

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4241
Title:
Aristotle, Metaphysica
Scope & Content:
Aristotle, Metaphysica. Decoration: Initials in red or blue at the beginning of chapters.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1450-1464
Extent:
88 folios.

3132. Harley MS 4242

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4242
Title:
Passion of St Vincent of Saragossa; Life and Miracles of St Thomas of Canterbury; Miracles of St Wulfsige of Evesham
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript comprises two different parts. Part 1 (ff. 1r-64v) features a previously unnoticed fragment of the Passion of St Vincent of Saragossa (f. 1r), and a copy of the Life and Miracles of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury (ff. 1v-64v), both from the first half of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

3133. Harley MS 4243

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4243
Title:
Collection of historical tracts and letters from the reigns of Henry VIII, Mary I and Philip II, and Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: List of payments. f. 1r: 'The chardge of a toun of wine'. f. 1v: 'The accompt of all the rentes and revenues of King Phillip yerelie due to him as they were given up Anno domini 1562'. f. 1v: The great expenses of King Phillip Anno domini 1562'. ff. 2r-2v: Lists of paym...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1589
Extent:
1 volume

3134. Harley MS 4260

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4260
Title:
John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-108r: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady, in 6 books. f. 108r: A Latin verse prayer for the king, copied twice entirely, and once partially, attributed to ‘quod Clerk .J.’. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1v: A Latin note about other copies of Lydgate’s Life of O...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

3135. Harley MS 4285

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4285
Title:
The Book of Provisions of the city of Piacenza
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-97v: The Book of Provisions of the city of Piacenza.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3136. Harley MS 4292

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4292
Title:
Sanctuary book of Beverley Minster
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–35v: Register recording those seeking sanctuary at Beverley, alternating between lists of names and entries of petitions. Written in many different hands, and seemingly compiled as petitions were made.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1478-1540
Extent:

1 volume

3137. Harley MS 4294

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4294
Title:
Hugh of Campden, Sidrak and Bokkus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-79v: Sidrak and Bokkus, a Middle English translation by Hugh of Campden of the long rhymed French Sidrac; imperfect at the end; beginning: 'If þat þou vundestonde can / Haþ vij chambrez and no moo' (edited by Burton, Sidrak and Bokkus (1998-1999); see also IMEV 772; NIVEM 772; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

3138. Harley MS 4313

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4313
Title:
Formulary for legal process in the Court of Arches at London
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-217v: Formula for legal process in the Court of Arches at London ('Formulae Instrumentorum Juris in curia de Arcubus Lonini'), mostly featuring dates from the 1560s-1580s. Largely written in Latin, but also featuring items in English.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1560s-1580s
Extent:
1 volume

3139. Harley MS 4324

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4324
Title:
Guy du Faur, Les Quatrains and Les Cinquante octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, written by Esther Inglis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Les Quatrains and Les Cinquante octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, two poetic works by Guy de Faur (b. 1529, d. 1584), Seigneur de Pibrac, written by the English calligrapher and artist Esther Inglis (b. 1570/71, d. 1624) in 1614. The manuscript features...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1614
Extent:
1 volume

3140. Harley MS 4325

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4325
Title:
Loys Papon, Pastorelle sur la victoire obtenue contre les Allemands, Reytres, Lansquenets, Souysses et Francoys rebelles a Dieu et au Roy treschretien l'an 1587
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the autograph copy of the Pastorelle sur la victoire obtenue contre les Allemands, Reytres, Lansquenets, Souysses et Francoys rebelles a Dieu et au Roy treschretien l'an 1587 (Pastoral on the victory won against the Germans, the Reytres, the Landsknecht (German military soldie...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1588
Extent:
1 volume

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