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561. Harley MS 656

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 656
Title:
Henry Bratton (Bracton), De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-11r: A table of contents. ff. 12r-315r: Henry Bratton [Bracton] (d. 1268), justice and supposed author of the legal treatise known as Bracton, De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae, Books I-V. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: Three small pastedowns with var...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 volume

562. Harley MS 657

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 657
Title:
A copy of Fleta, transcribed by Simonds D'Ewes
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume containing a copy of Fleta, a treatise originally written around 1290 on the common law of England. This manuscript copy was transcribed by Simonds D'Ewes from Cotton MS Julius B VIII. Contents: f. 1*: Illustrated title page, on vellum. ff. 2*-2*v: 'Prolegomena'. ff. 3*-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

563. Harley MS 658

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 658
Title:
Glossed Gospel of St John; Peter of Poitiers, Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi; Theological and computistical tracts; Richard of St Victor, Commentary on Joel and Nahum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a miscellany of study aids for the Bible, bound together with a collection of scientific, poetic and theological diagrams. It includes the Gospel of St John with glosses, the Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi (A Compendium of History in the Genealogy of Christ) ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of 12th-1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

564. Harley MS 659

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 659
Title:
Peter Lombard, Commentary on the Pauline Epistles
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-252r: Peter Lombard, Commentary on the Pauline Epistles. Decoration: Large and medium puzzle initials and initials in blue or red, with penwork decoration and pen-flourishing in combinations of blue, red, green and yellow (ff. 2r, 3r, 66r, 108v, 133r, 153r, 166v, 176r, 185r,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

565. Harley MS 661

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 661
Title:
John Hardyng, Chronicle in verse (second version)
Scope & Content:
This richly-decorated manuscript contains the second version of John Hardyng's verse Chronicle. It also includes a map of Scotland and genealogical trees of the kings of England and France. Contents: ff. 1r-186r: John Hardyng, Chronicle in verse. ff. 188v-189r: Seven stanzas rhyme royal vers...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1475
Extent:
1 volume

566. Harley MS 662

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 662
Title:
Cartulary of Little Dunmow Priory
Scope & Content:
f. 1r: Letter from William Nicolson to Humfrey Wanley. ff. 3r–5r: Memoranda, added in the 14th century. ff. 6r–113v: General cartulary, arranged topographically. Includes copies of royal and episcopal charters, mainly in the first section for Little Dunmow. ff. 114r–130v: Miscellaneous additi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

567. Harley MS 663

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 663
Title:
Private accounts and sermons preached by William Hull of Ashbourne, Derbyshire, with a list of plague victims of Ashbourne
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume. Contents: ff. 1*-2*v: Notes relating to the private accounts of William Hull, 1606-1621 f. 3*: Two pieces of card, pasted down. The first is inscribed 'The praise of God be ever in my mouth: and the glory of his name'. The second is inscribed 'Baron of St Johns in Oxfor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1605-1621
Extent:
1 volume

568. Harley MS 664

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 664
Title:
Forms of pleadings and declarations used in Common Law
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-157v: Forms of pleadings and declarations used in Common Law, from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (r. 1558–1603). The manuscript contains a few additions: ff. 1r-1v, 158r-158v: Leaves from a copy of Gregory the Great, Moralia in Iob; written in the last quarter of the 12th ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

569. Harley MS 665

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 665
Title:
Miscellany of rhetorics, grammar, theology, and medicine
Scope & Content:
Miscellany including Texts relating to Rhetorics, Grammar, Theology and Medicine, and other Prose and Verse; 15th cent. Latin and Middle English. Imperfect. A composite miscellany of rhetorical, grammatical and theological texts in Latin and occasional prose and verse in Middle English. The cata...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

570. Harley MS 666

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 666
Title:
A collection of English statutes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-338v: A book of English statutes, from 1 Edward III (r. 1327-1377) to 6 Henry VI (r. 1422-1461), imperfect. Decoration: Large puzzle initials in red and blue with reserved designs and pen-flourishing in the same colours including foliate motifs (ff. 30r, 145r (purple also used...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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