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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7550/1
Title:: Detached former binding of Harley MS 7550
Scope & Content:: Detached binding, marbled paper over wooden boards. The binding was formerly attached to Harley MS 7550 (Almanack of Allestree (1627), annotated by Symonds D’Ewes) and is now stored separately.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Former binding of Harley MS 7550

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7551/1
Title:: Biblical commentaries; Gospel of Luke (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Biblical commentaries and a partial copy of the Gospel of Luke. Originally bound with Harley MS 7551/2. ff. 1r-18r: Notes on the Song of Songs, Latin, 14th century. ff. 19r-32r: Notes on the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, Old English. 17th century. ff. 33r-36r: Gospel of Luke (imperfect)...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 9th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7551/2
Title:: Fascimiles of miniatures and the Epistles; Biblical commentary
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-5r: Copy of a letter sent to the Trustees of the British Museum by the Bibliotheque nationale, France, Paris, November 1877, relating to the theft of articles of the original ff. 6r-17r from the BnF by Jean Aymon in 1706 and 1707. The BnF had recovered many, but important fragm...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 9th century-c 1880
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7553
Title:: Fragments of verse and tracts on divinity, the rosary, the Trinity, and psalms
Scope & Content:: Articles 4-10, thus: Twelve leaves of vellum, containing fragments of divinity in Latin. Various irregular memoranda. Four paper leaves, containing a tract on the Rosary in English. Six leaves, containing a fragment of a sermon in English. Four leaves, being part of a Latin treatise on the Trini...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1200-c 1500
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7554
Title:: An English theological miscellany
Scope & Content:: This English manuscript is a miscellany of theological works written in Latin and English. The four parts (ff. 1-[38a]; ff. 39-55; ff. 56-66; ff. 67-90) were separately produced at different moments in time and bound together at an unknown point in time before entering or at the Harleian Library...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1400-c 1700
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7555
Title:: List of Parliamentary summons; assizes from the reign of King Edward III; grant and charters relating to the chapel and college of St Mary in the Fields, Norwich
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of parts that were written at different times. Part 1 (ff. 1-32) was written in the 16th century. Part 2 (ff. 33r-64v) was written in the middle or 2nd half of the 14th century. Part 3 (ff. 66r-72r) was written in 1546. Part 4 (ff. 74r-77v) was written in t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1350-1546
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7567
Title:: Collection of fragments, copies and originals of historical and religious texts, including the Old English edicts of Æthelberht; Old English laws of Æthelred; Decretum Gratiani; Cronica de Anglia; William of St Alban, Passio Sancti Albani
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of fragments, copies and originals of medieval and early modern texts that were produced separately and may have been kept together as a loose collection in the Harleian Library. The manuscript contains at least 38 separate sections ranging from the late 12th c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1175-c 1734
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7578
Title:: Middle English verse, including ballads by Chaucer and Lydgate; 'The Flyting of Montgomerie and Polwart' by Alexander Montgomerie; 'Nebuchadnezzar's Fierie Furnace'; the 'Annals of Oskell'; grammatical exercises in Latin and Greek; Old songs of Durham
Scope & Content:: Miscellany compiling pages from a number of other manuscripts, which vary greatly in size and period. Major sections within the miscellany are f. 1 (verse and prose on the Ten Commandments and Seven Deadly Sins), ff. 2-20 (various ballads and other verse, some by Chaucer and Lydgate), f. 21 (a s...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 1400-1700
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7581
Title:: Collection of religious texts and letters relating to English Puritanism
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of texts relating to English Puritanism. These include letters from the theologian Thomas Cartwright (b. c. 1535, d. 1603) and Henoch Clapham (fl. 1585-1614), a preacher of an English church in Amsterdam, as well as a petition directed to Elizabeth I (r. 155...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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