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391. Harley MS 256

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 256
Title:
Acts of the Privy Council, 1545 and 1546
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the acts of the Privy Council between 1545 and 1546. Originally, it may have been bound together with Harley MS 169, ff. 1-31, containing the acts of the Privy Council from 1558. Contents: ff. 1r-292r: Acts of the Privy Council, 1545-1546, beginning ‘A Book of the Act...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1550
Extent:
1 volume

392. Harley MS 257

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 257
Title:
The Lives of the Bishops of Lindisfarne and Durham
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-63r: The Lives of the Bishops of Lindisfarne and Durham, from Aidan to Thomas Hatfield (19 Edward III), beginning 'The Church of holy lland through the most servent faith in Crist of the glorious king in times past of Northumberland and the pretious martir Oswald did take the b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

393. Harley MS 259

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 259
Title:
The names of sheriffs of England organised by county and chronologically, extending to 4 Charles I
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-142r: ‘Nomina vicecomitum saepius tamen malefida collecta ex Rotulis Magnis Pipae per Jo. Alington clerico ibidem tempore Jacobi Regis’. ff. 143r-143v: ‘Nomina quorundam Vicecomitum temp. Regis Johannis et H. 3. collecta ex Rot. Pat.'. ff. 145r-194v: ‘Nomina vicecomitum collecta ex Rot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

394. Harley MS 260

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 260
Title:
Letter-Book of Francis Walsingham as Ambassador to France, 26 Jan 1571-1 April 1573, with the reply to the French Ambassador, 20 Aug 1573
Scope & Content:
This is a scribal copy of the letter-book of Francis Walsingham covering most of his period as English Resident in Paris between early 1571 and spring 1573. The period covers the marriage negotiations of Queen Elizabeth I with two of the brothers of the King of France: Henri, Duke of Anjou (late...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1619-1628
Extent:
1 volume

395. Harley MS 261

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 261
Title:
William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum and Gesta Pontificum Anglorum; Henry of Saltrey, Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii
Scope & Content:
This late 12th- or early 13th-century manuscript may have been produced by the cathedral priory of St Andrew in Rochester, but was certainly at the priory in the 13th or 14th century and may have remained there until the priory was dissolved in 1540. The manuscript contains the Gesta regum Anglo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

396. Harley MS 262

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 262
Title:
Kitab-i Remel - كتاب رمل
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the book of remel, or divination by means of dots. The preamble of the text tates that it was composed for Hārūn al-Rashīd by a sage known as ᶜAbdallah ibn Ani. The instructions given for consulting it are as follows: make at random an indefinite number of dots on sand or p...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 text, 82 ff

397. Harley MS 263

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 263
Title:
Dialogues of Pope Gregory the Great, translated into Greek by Zachary, Saint and Pope. Printed 1615.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

398. Harley MS 263, ff 3-55

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 263, ff 3-55
Title:
Dialogue I PL 77.150-215 (Greek and Latin text).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

399. Harley MS 263, ff 55v-121v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 263, ff 55v-121v
Title:
Dialogue II: Life of St Benedict PL 66.125-203 (Greek and Latin text); I. Cozza-Luzi, Historia S. P. N. Benedicti, 1880.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

400. Harley MS 263, ff 121v-215v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 263, ff 121v-215v
Title:
Dialogue III PL 77.215-318 (Greek and Latin text).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

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