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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 337, ff 12r-31v
Title:: William of Waddington, Manuel de Pechiez (‘The Harleian Roll’)
Scope & Content:: ff. 12r-31v: William of Waddington, Manuel de Pechiez, imperfect, also known as 'The Harleian Roll' for the series of shields painted around 1314 in the upper margins of the leaves (only 161 surviving). Decoration: The shields may have been painted in the upper margins around 1314, according t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 337

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 337, ff 32r-53v
Title:: Sentences on the Scripture with numerous extracts from Origen's Homilies
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 32r-53v: Sentences on the Scripture borrowing extracts from Origen, Homilia super Leviticum (Homily on Leviticus), Homilia super Genesim (Homily on Genesis), Homilia super Exodum (Homily on Exodus), Homilia in Jeremiam (Homily on Jeremiah), including extracts from Gregory the Grea...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 337

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 337, ff 54r-71v
Title:: Innocent III, De contemptu mundi; Expositio super Missam
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 54r-65v: Innocent III, De contemptu mundi (On the contempt of the world), beginning with Book 1, chapter 20, beginning: 'Militia est ergo vita hominis super terram', followed by a table of contents of the 3 books of De contemptu mundi (f. 57r), including a short summary for every ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 337

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 337, ff 72r-v
Title:: Pseudo-Hippocrates, Capsula Eburnea; Pseudo-Hippocrates, Indicia valetudinum
Scope & Content:: Contents: These two anonymous texts deal with medical prognostics and indications of illnesses. ff. 72r-v: Pseudo-Hippocrates, Capsula Eburnea (Ivory Chest), beginning: 'Peritissimus omnium domestica sapientia in omnibus corporibus', ending: 'scias eum vivere egrotum'. f. 72v: Pseudo-Hippocr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 337

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 338
Title:: English historical collection, mainly written by Sampson Erdeswick and John Joscelin
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A request to John Stow for drawing the descent of Herleva by Henry Savile of Banke (b. 1568, d. 1617). ff. 1*verso-1r: Notes on the descent of Herleva [Arlette], mother of William the Conqueror; by Sampson Erdeswicke (d. 1603). ff. 2r, 3r, 4r: Notes on the charter and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1590-1611
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 339
Title:: Papers of Sir Simonds D'Ewes
Scope & Content:: Quarto manuscript volume containing various papers of Sir Simonds D'Ewes. Contents: ff. 1-2v: 'A breife meaning of God's law', seemingly written by Simonds D'Ewes as a school boy to his mother, along with other notes in English and Latin. ff. 3-3v: Part of a letter from Simonds D'Ewes to a cler...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1547-1650?
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 352
Title:: An abridgment of the Acts of the Privy Council of King Edward IV
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume, containing an abridgement of the book of the Acts of the Privy Council of King Edward IV, transcribed by Mr Ralph Starkey, and signed and dated, August 1620, by him on f. 256v. ff. 257-266 contains an index to this volume created by Sir Simonds D’Ewes, which follows the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1620
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 355
Title:: Law reports of William Bendlowes, Serjeant-at-Law
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume, containing law reports of William Bendlowes, here written Benlows, Serjeant-at-Law. The reports are indexed at the front of the volume.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 356
Title:: William of Malmesbury, De Gestis Pontificum Anglorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-231v: William of Malmesbury, De Gestis Pontificum Anglorum.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 357
Title:: John of Worcester, Chronicon; Eadmer, Historiae novorum in Anglia; Ordo succesionis archiepiscoporum Canutariensis ecclesiae a sancto Augustino Anglorum apostolo; Thomas Stubbes, Historia archiepiscopourm Ebarocensium ad Thomam Wolsey; John Philippson (Sleidanus), Latin abridgement of Jean Froissart’s Chronicles
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-17v, 99*recto-107v: John of Worcester, Chronicon (1057-1118); this copy may originally have been part of the same manuscript as Harley MS 96, ff. 121-180; Harley MS 397, ff. 2-8r; and Harley MS 359, ff. 9-14 (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D’Ewes (1966), p. 217 [X.75])....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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