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531. Harley MS 432

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 432
Title:
An Senchas Már
Scope & Content:
A detailed description of this manuscript is provided by O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts, i, pp. 146-47. Contents: f. 1*r: A paper leaf, containing brief and inaccurate notes on the manuscript's presumed age, and the titles of other Irish manuscripts in the Harley collection...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish
Date Range:
c. 1578
Extent:

1 volume

532. Harley MS 433

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 433
Title:
A collection of papers from the Signet Office, containing registers of grants, diplomatic correspondence and financial records related to the Crown, from the reigns of Edward V and Richard III
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains registers with abstracts of grants that passed the Signet Office, the king’s personal seal, during the reigns of Edward V and Richard III, and related materials. The latter include a list of office holders at the death of Edward IV, a list of the fees due to officers on ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1463-c 1547
Extent:
1 volume

533. Harley MS 434

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 434
Title:
Cartulary of St Bees Priory
Scope & Content:
General cartulary of St Bees Priory, with a few additions, arranged topographically in 13 books. Includes copies of some royal charters and one or two episcopal charters passim. f. 1r: Flyleaf, a fragment of a charter. f. 1v: Memorandum in English by Robert Paddy, last prior of St Bees (Wilson...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

534. Harley MS 435

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 435
Title:
William of Nassyngton, Speculum Vitae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-102r: William of Nassyngton, Speculum Vitae, imperfect at the beginning; ending with the verse ‘Sit tibi laus cristi quod liber explicit Iste’. The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 6r-6v, 50r-50v, and 59r-59v: 16th-century copies of the Speculum Vitae replacing missi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

535. Harley MS 436

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 436
Title:
Cartulary of Wilton Abbey
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*r-v: a letter in the hand of George Hickes (b. 1642, d. 1715), bishop and antiquary, addressed to Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726), recording his gift of the manuscript to Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724). f. 2*r: a note concerning the ownership of the manuscript by the Earl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

536. Harley MS 437

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 437
Title:
English heraldry
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Part of an Alphabet of Arms of English families (their names starting with the letter 'B'), blazoned and tricked. ff. 5r-7r: Arms of English nobility and gentry (their names starting with the letters 'O' and 'P'), tricked. ff. 8r-11v: Part of an Alphabet of Arms of Engl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

537. Harley MS 438

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 438
Title:
A 'palaeographical' transcript of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 190 ('Archbishop Wulfstan's Handbook')
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r: notes by John and William Retchford. ff. 3r-413v: A 'palaeographical' transcript of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 190 ('Archbishop Wulfstan's Handbook').
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

538. Harley MS 439

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 439
Title:
Heliand
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Codex quatuor Evangeliorum quadrunus Franco-Theotiscus, Sive Harmonia Evangeliorum Francice Scripta. Bibl. Cotton. Thesaurus pretiosissimus Caligula A 7. I.’. ff. 1r-131r: Heliand, copied from Cotton MS Caligula A VII/1.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Saxon, Old
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

539. Harley MS 440

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 440
Title:
Enlarged Rule of Chrodegang in Latin and Old English
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r: A title-page ‘Hic Liber videtur esse scriptus primo Latine per Theodorum Archipiscopum Septimum Cant. et per Ælfricum translatus Saxonice’. ff. 2v-72r: Enlarged Rule of Chrodegang in Latin and Old English. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1v: A note on the manu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

540. Harley MS 441

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 441
Title:
A transcript of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 121
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Various notes by Edmund Gibson. f. 2r: The Nicene Creed in Old English written by Edmund Gibson. ff. 3r-96r: A 'palaeographical' transcript of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 121 (Ecclesiastical Institutes, Homilies associated with Archbishop Wulfstan).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c 1688
Extent:
1 volume

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