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501. Harley MS 400

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 400
Title:
Registrum Brevium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-244v: Registrum Brevium. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 1v, 245v: Latin notes with reference to Henry VIII; added in the early 16th century. Decoration: Small blue initials with red pen-work decoration throughout.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

502. Harley MS 401

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 401
Title:
Floretum evangelicum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Floretum evangelicum, a Lollard text composed in Oxford between 1384 and 1396. It contains 509 sections on theological subjects that are organised alphabetically. Contents: ff. 1r-6v: A table of contents. ff. 7r-334v: Floretum evangelicum; ending: ‘Explicit flor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1396
Extent:
1 volume

503. Harley MS 402

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 402
Title:
Twelve collections (Distinctiones) of excerpts from Church Fathers and other authorities
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains twelve collections of excerpts from, or attributed to: the Church Fathers St Ambrose (b. c. 340, d. 397), St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), St John Chrysostom (b. c. 349, d. 407), St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430), St Gregory the Great (b. c. 540, d. 604), and St Isid...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

504. Harley MS 403

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 403
Title:
Hugh of Saint-Victor, De sacramentis christianae fidei (book 2)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-124r: Hugh of Saint-Victor, De sacramentis christianae fidei (book 2), with prologue and list of chapters (as published in Patrologia Latina, vol. 176, 363-613). Decoration: Initials in red, green, yellow or blue, occasionally with penwork decoration in the same or a contrast...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume.

505. Harley MS 404

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 404
Title:
Glossed New Testament
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-328r: New Testament with marginal glosses based on Anselm of Laon's Glossa Ordinaria but not identical with it. Decoration: 26 historiated initials in colours (pink, red, grey, blue and some green, white and black) and gold, occasionally including an animal or a hybrid creature (ff. 2r,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

506. Harley MS 405

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 405
Title:
Political and philosophical manuscript pamphlets
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*v-35v: ‘Leicestrensem Rempublicane: Anno Dom: 1584...Leycesters Common wealth...1615’. Catholic recusant political tract, published 1584, reprinted 1641, attributed to Robert Persons. f. 35v: ‘A godly and profitable meditation taken out of the 20th chapter of Jobe’. ff. 36-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

507. Harley MS 406

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 406
Title:
A collection of religious and moral treatises including Roger Sheepshead, The Seven Deadly Sins
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-68r: Roger Sheepshead, The Seven Deadly Sins, begins ‘Primo videndum est quid sit peccatum…’ (cf. Bloomfield, Incipits of Latin works on the virtues and vices, no. 4166) ff. 68v-93v: 'Summa virtutum de remediis anime', begins ‘Postquam dictum est de morbis ipsius animae, adde...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

508. Harley MS 407

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 407
Title:
Collection of theological texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2v: A table of contents. ff. 3r-105v: A collection of theological texts, divided in three books, beginning ‘Dominus in Evangelio Qui est ex deo verba die audit’. The manuscript contains a few additions: ff. 1*recto-1*verso, 106r-106v: A glossed juridical text, written in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

509. Harley MS 408

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 408
Title:
Statuta Angliae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-213v: Statuta Angliae. Decoration: Plain initials in red, some large, some small (3v-6v). Puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours. Blue initials with red pen-flourishing, some large, some small. Small initials in red or blue. Paraphs in red or...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

510. Harley MS 409

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 409
Title:
Registrum Brevium; collection of statutes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-44v: Registrum Brevium. ff. 45r-52v: Statues of Westminster I, introduced as follows: ‘Ces sunt les establisemenz le Roy Edward fuiz le Roy Henri fez a Westmoster a son premer parlement general apres son coronement apres la Cluse Paske lan de son Regne tierz par son Conseil et...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
c 1280
Extent:
1 volume

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