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Name Madden, Frederic, Knight, Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum, 1801-1873

61. Harley MS 3899

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3899
Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae (chronicle to the year 1239); Nicholas Trivet, Annales sex regum Angliae qui a comitibus Andegavensibus originem traxerunt (chronicle from Edward I to the year 1307)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-62r Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae (chronicle to the year 1239), beginning: 'Brittannia insularum optima in occidentali occeano inter gallam et hyberniam sita'. ff. 62r-107v: Nicholas Trivet, Annales sex regum Angliae qui a comitibus Andegavensibus originem tr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

62. Harley MS 4632

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4632
Title:
Heraldic collections of Sir Christopher Barker
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the heraldic collections of Sir Christopher Barker (d. 1549), Garter King of Arms 1536, who compiled the manuscript between c. 1520-c. 1530. The manuscript also contains later additions, including coats of arms that may have been added in the 17th century. Contents: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
c 1520-c 1530
Extent:
1 volume

63. Harley MS 4775

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4775
Title:
Gilte Legende (Middle English prose translation of the Legenda Aurea)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the so-called Gilte Legende. This is a complete Middle English prose translation of the Legenda Aurea: a Latin collection of almost 200 saints' lives compiled by the French Dominican chronicler Jacobus de Voragine [Jean de Vignay] (b. c. 1230, d. 1298), and completed aro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

64. Harley MS 6018

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6018
Title:
A catalogue of the manuscripts and printed books of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-146r: A catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631): ‘Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca Roberti Cottoni - 1621’. The heading and a number of later entries are in the hand of Robert Cotton (see Tite, The Early Records...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1621-1653
Extent:
1 volume

65. Harley MS 7640

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7640
Title:
Psalter (fragment)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-23v: Fragment of a Psalter; the surviving text consists of Psalms 80-150, with gaps, and the Canticles. The manuscript contains several additions: f. i recto: A note by Sir Frederick Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873), Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum, that the volume was...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:
1 item

66. Harley MS 7648

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7648
Title:
Collection of law cases in the Royal Court (15 Henry VIII to 25 Elizabeth I); abbreviated forms of the writs
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-201v, 206v-224v: Collection of law cases in the Royal Court, from 15 Henry VIII to 25 Elizabeth I. f. '307'recto: Folio references to specific subjects, beginning with 'Withernam'. ff. 225r-288r: Abbreviated legal forms. ff. 301v-306v: A subject index. The manuscript con...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1582-1583
Extent:
1 volume