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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 646
Title:: Account of his life by Sir Simonds d’Ewes
Scope & Content:: Detailed autobiographical account by Sir Simonds D’Ewes, from his birth on 18 December 1602 to 8 May 1636, ending abruptly with the death of his infant son. Also includes matters relating to his friends, and to public affairs, both national and international. ff. 1-173. The autobiography is fol...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 647
Title:: Collection of astronomical and astrological texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: 1. Astronomical texts based on Isidore of Seville, with two short prayers (ff. 1r-2r); 2. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Aratea, with 22 constellation figures containing extracts from Hyginus, Astronomica (ff. 2v-17v); 3. Excerpts from Pliny, Natural History; Macrobius, Commentary on the So...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 820-11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 648
Title:: Homilies on the Epistles and Gospels for the liturgical year
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-206v: Homilies on the Epistles and Gospels for the liturgical year, including sermons from Hrabanus Maurus, Homiliae in euangelia et epistolas. The manuscript contains a few additions: ff. 1*recto-1*verso: Leaf from a Continental liturgical manuscript with texts for the feas...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 649
Title:: Bede, In Canticum Canticorum Expositio; Venantius Fortunatus, Vita Sancti Radegundis; Bede, Expositio Actuum Apostolorum; Commentarius in Epistolas Canonicas; Homiliae Evangelii; In Tobiam; Anonymous sermons on Luke 11:33 and Luke 4:14
Scope & Content:: This early 12th-century manuscript contains a collection of biblical commentaries and homilies by the Benedictine monk Bede (b. 672/3, d. 735), and the Vita Sancti Radegundis (Life of St Radegund) by Venantius Fortunatus (b. c. 530, d. c. 600/609), a poet at the Merovingian court. The manuscript...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 650
Title:: Thomas Ebendorfer, Sermones dominicales
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-301r: Thomas Ebendorfer (b. 1388, d. 1464), Sermones dominicales. Decoration: Red initials. Marginal drawings of churches added in brown ink (ff. 59r, 60r, 153r)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 651
Title:: Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronici Canones; St Jerome, Continuation of Eusebius; Prosper of Aquitaine, Epitoma Chronicorum; Sigebert of Gembloux, Chronica; Robert de Torigni, Chronica; list concerning ecclesiastical dioceses; Chronicle from the creation of the world to 1384; England from Alfred to Richard II (with continuations); Names of the kings of Britain and the Heptarchy; Miracle at the shrine of Our Lady of Ipswich; Chronicle from the Creation to 1384; Series of English kings, from Alfred...
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of three parts that were separately produced in England. The first part (ff. 4-177) was produced in the third quarter of the 12th century, most likely at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin, Reading (Berkshire). It contains a collection of chronicles as...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter 12th century-4th quarter 14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 652
Title:: Homiliary; Lections from six lives of saints connected to St Augustine's abbey; Fragment from the homiliary attributed to Alan de Farfa
Scope & Content:: This early 12th-century manuscript from the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury, consists of a homiliary with 119 sermons for the period between Holy Saturday and the fourth Sunday after Epiphany. The main structure of the homiliary derives from the reconstructed collection of Paul the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 653
Title:: Henry Bratton [Bracton], De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-212v: Henry Bratton [Bracton] (d. 1268), De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae, imperfect at the end. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 1v-2r: A table of contents, added in the 14th century. f. 2v: Notes about marriages, issue and obits concerning nine fam...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 654
Title:: Eutropius, Historiae Romanae; Orosius, Historiae adversus paganos
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-20v: Eutropius, Historiae Romanae. ff. 20v-31r: Additions of Paul the Deacon to Eutropius. ff. 31v: List of Roman emperors. ff. 31v-96r: Orosius, Historiae contra paganos. The manuscript contains a few additions: Annotations in several 16th and 17th-century hands throu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 655
Title:: Ranulf Higden Polychronicon, to 1345, with additions including the Vita Merlini
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-13r: Alphabetical index to the Polychronicon. Incipit: 'Ad sub sequentis tabule noticiam . considerentur primo numeri foliorum'. the index includes references by book and chapter, and ends partway down column 1 of f. 13r, leaving the rest of the page ruled but blank. Explicit:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: last quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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