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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4764
Title:: John Fordun, Scotichronicon, books 1 to 5; Patrick Russell's abridgement of Walter Bower's continuation of the Scotichronicon, books 6 to 10
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-113r: John Fordun, Scotichronicon, books 1 to 5. Book 1 features a verse with an achrostic of the author's name on f. 1v: 'Incipies opus hoc adonay nomine nostri / Exceptum scriptis dirigat emanuel / fauces ornate ructent dum verbula nectant'. Each book is introduced by a capit...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4765
Title:: Register of Warden Abbey
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–6v: Fragment of a register containing material relating to tithe disputes, 1368–78, etc.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4766
Title:: Rental of Plympton Priory
Scope & Content:: Rental, arranged topographically (place names differ slightly in the opening list and the headings). f. 1v: Charter of Richard I, followed by a list of contents. f. 1*v: Added notes (15th century). f. 2r: Added transcription of f. 1v (18th century). ff. 3r–7v: ‘Nyweton Kentille’/‘Newton sanc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1408
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4769
Title:: Sicco Polentone, Epitome in vitas scriptorum illustrium
Scope & Content:: Sicco Polentone, Epitome in vitas scriptorum illustrium: ff. 1r-3r: Preface, rubric: 'SICCONIS POLENTONI EPITHOMA IN SCRIPTORUM ILLUSTRIUM LATINAE LINGUAE LIBER PRIMUS INCIPIT AD FILIUM POLIDORUM FELICITER IN VITAS ILLUSTRIUM VIRORUM PREHEMIUM LIBRI SEQUENTIS'; incipit: 'Peofitetur mi Polidore ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1438
Extent:: Paper codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4770
Title:: Statutes of Venice
Scope & Content:: f. 1*r: modern table of contents. f. 1*v: short text on women. ff. 1r-40r: Statutes of Venice. ff, 42r-60v: additional statutes down to 1472. ff. [ii]-[iii] are ruled but blank. Catchwords written horizontally. Watermark of a bird (e.g. f. [66]), similar to C. M. Briquet, Les Filigranes: D...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: c 1466-c 1473
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4772
Title:: The first part of the ‘Montpellier Bible’, containing the Book of Genesis to the Book of Malachi
Scope & Content:: This is the first of two volumes of one of the nine extant copies of the Languedocian recension of the Latin Vulgate (see Berger, Histoire de la Vulgate (1893), pp. 72-88), containing the Book of Genesis to the Book of Malachi. This Bible is known as the ‘Montpellier Bible', after the location o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4773
Title:: The second part of the 'Montpellier Bible', containing the Book of Proverbs to the Book of Revelation
Scope & Content:: This is the second of two volumes of one of the nine extant copies of the Languedocian recension of the Latin Vulgate (see Berger, Histoire de la Vulgate (1893), pp. 72-88), containing the Book of Proverbs to the Book of Revelation. This Bible is known as the ‘Montpellier Bible', after the locat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4775
Title:: Gilte Legende (Middle English prose translation of the Legenda Aurea)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the so-called Gilte Legende. This is a complete Middle English prose translation of the Legenda Aurea: a Latin collection of almost 200 saints' lives compiled by the French Dominican chronicler Jacobus de Voragine [Jean de Vignay] (b. c. 1230, d. 1298), and completed aro...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4776
Title:: Liber Terrarum of Wales
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains land surveys and letters patent relating to Wales. Other copies of these materials can be found in Harley MS 696. Although '1565' is inscribed in an initial on f. 53v, this date may only apply to ff. 1*recto-2*recto, and ff. 41r-54r. While the texts on ff. 129v-131v we...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1500-c 1565
Extent:: 1 volume

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