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3241. Harley MS 4690

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4690
Title:
The Brut Chronicle; 'Richard Coer de Lion'
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the only surviving copy of the Middle English translation of the Brut Chronicle from French by John Mandeville in 1435. It also includes a poem in Middle English verse known as 'Richard Coer de Lion'. Contents: ff. 4r-108r: The so-called 'Peculiar version' of the Brut ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3242. Harley MS 4695

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4695
Title:
Marsilio Ficino, Commentary on St Paul’s Epistle to the Romans
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*r-v: pastedown with ownership marks, some excised, 16th century. ff. 1r-114v: Marsilio Ficino, Commentary on St Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, written 1497, including a prologue (ff. 1r-3r), a summary of Paul’s life (ff. 3r-v), and a summary of the epistle (ff. 3v-4v). f. 115r: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1497 to the 1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

3243. Harley MS 4698

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4698
Title:
Jewels received by Elizabeth I, 1572–1586
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–32v: A descriptive account of jewels received by Queen Elizabeth at New Year and delivered to Mrs Katherine Howard, one of the gentlewomen of her privy chamber, for the 14th–28th years of her reign (1572–1586). Marginal notes record gifts Elizabeth made of these jewels, and if she lost the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1572-1586
Extent:
1 volume

3244. Harley MS 4699

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4699
Title:
Collection of saints' Lives, including Paul the Deacon, Vita Sancti Gregorii Magni
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4r: Sulpicius Severus, Liber de Vita Sancti Martini; imperfect at the beginning. ff. 4r-33v: Paul the Deacon, Vita Sancti Gregorii Magni. ff. 33v-57v: Leontius of Neapolis, Vita Joanni Elemosynari. ff. 58r-62v: Constantius of Lyon, Vita Germani (fragment). ff. 63r-66v: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

3245. Harley MS 4700

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4700
Title:
Laws and statutes of Scotland
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-17r: 'The baron Lawis - Modus tenendi curias baronum'; written in Middle Scots. ff. 18r-22r: Tables of contents for the Regia maiestatis. f. 22v: A poem, beginning: 'Hoc trahit ad lumen antiqua statute volumen'. ff. 23r-81v: Regia maiestas, in 4 parts, ff. 82r-86v: Misc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Scots
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3246. Harley MS 4701

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4701
Title:
A formulary of English legal instruments
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-215v: A formulary of English legal instruments. This manuscript contains later additions: ff. 1v-2r, 216r-217v: various notes in 15th/16th-century hands pasted on the paper (f. 1v) and parchment (ff. 2r, 216r-217v) leaves. Decoration: A large gilded initial on a red and blu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3247. Harley MS 4703

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4703
Title:
Sermons
Scope & Content:
Collection of sermons. The manuscript is a composite volume comprising five parts written by different but contemporary scribes: part 1: ff. 3r-26r; part 2: ff. 27r-132r; part 3: ff. 133r-196v; part 4: ff. 197r-293v; part 5: ff. 294r-313r. The text is preceded by a list of contents added in th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of 13th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

3248. Harley MS 4704

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4704
Title:
Titus Maccius Plautus, Comoediae, with prologues and arguments
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of a number of Latin comedies written by the Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus (b. c. 254, d. 184 BC): Amphitryon, Asinaria (The One with Asses), Captivi (The Captives), Curculio (The Weevil), Casina, Cistellaria (The Casket), Epidicus, and Aulularia (The Lit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3249. Harley MS 4714

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4714
Title:
Cartulary of Biddlesden Abbey
Scope & Content:
General cartulary, arranged in sections with charters individually numbered in each, including royal and episcopal charters. f. 1*r: Fragment of an effaced indenture, 1620. f. 1r–6v: Foundation charters. ff. 7r–352v: Sections arranged topographically. ff. 353r–363r: Three 16th-century additi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

3250. Harley MS 4718

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4718
Title:
An inventory of the rarities of King Charles I in the Privy Gallery at Whitehall
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-85v: An inventory of the rarities of King Charles I (b. 1600, d. 1649) in the Privy Gallery at Whitehall, in the King’s new erected Cabinet Room, beginning: ‘By the King’s Especial command his Pictures & rarities which he had kept at St James’ in the Cabbenett Room were tra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1625-1649
Extent:
1 volume

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