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161. Harley MS 3941/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3941/1
Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:
The first of two volumes of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville (b.c. 560, d. 636), an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (b. 590, d. 651), the editor of the text. The second volume is Harley 3941/2. Contents: f. 1r: Letter of Braulio to Isidore, imperfec...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Breton and Latin
Date Range:
9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

162. Harley MS 3943

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3943
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-116r: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3327; for an edition, see Riverside Chaucer (1987), pp. 472-575], beginning: 'The double sorow of Troilus to tellen / that was kyng Pryamys sonne of Troye / In lovyng how his aventuris...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

163. Harley MS 4000

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4000
Title:
An epistolary discourse in defence of the Protestant religion
Scope & Content:
f. 1r: Note suggesting that this work came from the Queen's closet due to the markings E R A F H ('Elizabetha Regina Angliae Franciae Hiberniae') on the original vellum binding that has been pasted onto f. 2r and f. 77v. ff. 3r–4r: An explanation of the contents, written in the same hand as the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1567
Extent:

1 volume

164. Harley MS 4011

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4011
Title:
An English miscellany including poems by John Lydgate; Craft of Dying; Duodecim Gradus Humilitatis; Counsels of Isidore; The Libel of English Policy; Osbern Bokenham, Mappula Anglie; John Skelton, Of the Death of the Noble Prince, Kynge Edwarde the Forth; John Russell, Book of Nurture
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: John Lydgate, So as the Crabbe Goth Forward; fragment. f. 1r: John Lydgate, All riȝtwisnes doþe now proced. ff. 1r-1v: John Lydgate, Translacyon by lydgate of Stans puer ad mensum. ff. 1v-2r: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes; Extract of Book III, here entitled: ‘Lenvoye t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

165. Harley MS 4203

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4203
Title:
John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-181v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes; an English translation of Laurent de Premierfait’s Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes, which is a French translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (‘On the Fates of Famous Men’); featuring Latin rubrics, and a co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

166. Harley MS 4217

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4217
Title:
An inventory of King Henry VIII’s wardrobe at London
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-25r: An inventory of King Henry VIII’s wardrobe at London (12 Henry VIII), with a title inscription on a parchment pastedown on f. 1r: ‘The boke of all the Kynges reche stuf remaignyng in his standinge warderobe of robes within the Towre of London delyvered unto the sure and sa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1520-1521
Extent:
1 volume

167. Harley MS 4260

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4260
Title:
John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-108r: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady, in 6 books. f. 108r: A Latin verse prayer for the king, copied twice entirely, and once partially, attributed to ‘quod Clerk .J.’. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1v: A Latin note about other copies of Lydgate’s Life of O...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

168. Harley MS 4292

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4292
Title:
Sanctuary book of Beverley Minster
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–35v: Register recording those seeking sanctuary at Beverley, alternating between lists of names and entries of petitions. Written in many different hands, and seemingly compiled as petitions were made.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1478-1540
Extent:

1 volume

169. Harley MS 4374/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4374/1
Title:
Valerius Maximus, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, book 1
Scope & Content:
Contents: Valerius Maximus, translated by Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens (the first of 6 volumes): ff. 1r-2v: Translator's prologue; ff. 2v-4v: Author's prologue; ff. 4v-80v: Book 1, Religion and miraculous events (continued in Harl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1473-c1480
Extent:

A parchment codex, 80 folios

170. Harley MS 4374/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4374/2
Title:
Valerius Maximus, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, books 1, 2 and 3
Scope & Content:
Contents: Valerius Maximus, translated by Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens (the second of 6 volumes): ff. 81r-87v: Book 1, Religion (continuation); ff. 88r-160r: Book 2, Ancient Customs; ff. 161r-168v: Book 3, Human characteristics (c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c1473-c1480
Extent:
A parchment codex, 88 folios

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