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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5169
Title:: The Offices and Officers of the Exchequer; 'The Articles of the unitinge of the late Court of first Fruites and Tenths of the Court of thexchequer at Westminster'
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3v: 'Thoffices and officers, names of the court of thexchequer at Westminster and of whose guiste they be 1572 - 1599'. ff. 4r-24r: 'What every of the saide officers att this Daye usually dothe by his said office'. ff. 24v-25v: 'The Articles of the unitinge of the late Court...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5177
Title:: Collection of heraldic and historical texts
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of heraldic and historical texts that were produced separately. The different components date from the late 16th century and early 17th century. Contents: f. 1*recto (parchment pastedown): '1565 Rychmond Herould'. ff. 1r-75r: 'The Plea betweene the Advo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5194
Title:: Book of Forests
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Table of contents: 'The Contents of this Booke'. f. 2r: Letter by William Fletewood to Nicholas Bacon (b. 1510, d. 1579), dated 8 June 1571. ff. 3r-38r: 'A treates upon fforestes, Parkes, Chases and ffree warrens'. ff. 39r-48v: 'A charge of the Justyce of the fforests'. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1571
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5198
Title:: Persius, Satires; Claudian, De raptu Proserpinae; Ovid, De Philomena; Latin epigrams; Virgil, Moretum; Maffeo Vegio, Astyanax; Ovid, Epistula Sapphus ad Phaonem; Homer, Batrachomyomachia; Donatus, De barbarisimo; Agostino Dati, Elegantiolae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-15r: Persius, Satires. ff. 15r-39r: Claudian, De raptu Proserpinae. ff. 39r-40v: Ovid (here attributed), De Philomena. ff. 40v-42r: Latin epigrams, including (among others): 'Maro ad augustum Caesarem'; 'Supplicat Cornelius Gallus ad Augustum ne comburatur Aeneis'; 'Suppl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1430-c 1500
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5201
Title:: Astrological miscellany
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is composed of three parts produced in different periods and locations that originally formed independent manuscripts (ff. 1r-83v; 84r-146v; 147r-183v). Contents: Pars oculi sacerdotis (ff. 1r-50v); Notes in English and Latin (ff. 51r-52v); Verba secundum modum alphabeticum,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1150-1524
Extent:: 183 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5204
Title:: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Somnium Scipionis; Macrobius, Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis; with added Latin verses by Petrarch
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of the Somnium Scipionis (Dream of Scipio), the sixth book of De re publica by the Roman statesman and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC). It is followed by a commentary on the text by the Roman author Macrobius. The volume features marginal an...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5205
Title:: Lucidarium Philosophi eximii
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-64r: Lucidarium Philosophi eximii, a tract on divinity in the form of a dialogue between a master and his scholar. Decoration: Initials in red with red penwork decoration. Rubrics and paraphs in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5209
Title:: Albius Tibullus, Elegiae; Pseudo-Ovidius, Sappho; Lactantius Firmianus, De ave Phoenice; Pseudo-Virgilius, Moretum; Publius Ovidius Maro, Epistulae ex Ponto
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-43r: Albius Tibullus, Elegiae. ff. 43v-48r: Pseudo-Ovidius, Sappho. ff. 48v-52r: Lactantius Firmianus, De ave Phoenice. ff. 52v-54v: Pseudo-Virgilius, Moretum. ff. 55r-78v: Publius Ovidius Maro, Epistulae ex Ponto.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5210
Title:: Jacobus de Varagine, Legenda aurea
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-252v: Jacobus de Varagine [Voragine], Legenda aurea, beginning with an introduction: 'Universum tempus presentis vite in quatuor distinguitur [tempora] scilicet in tempus deviationis, renovationis sive revocationis, reconciliationis et peregrinationis'; followed by a table of c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5213
Title:: English writs and statutes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-84v: Writs from the royal chancery ('Registrum Brevium cancellariae domini regis'); written in Latin. ff. 85r-163v: English statutes ('Statuta vetera'); beginning imperfectly in the Statuta de Merton; and followed by other statutes, including the Statuta de Marleberge; Statu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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