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1. Harley MS 3

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3
Title:
John Mirfield, Breviarium Bartholomei, with glosses and recipes by John Dee
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the medical work of John Mirfield [Johannes de Mirfeld] (d. 1407), an ecclesiastic and medical writer, and chaplain of the hospital of St Bartholomew, Smithfield, in London. Towards the end of his life he wrote two encyclopedic works in Latin, the so-called Florarium Bar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1400
Extent:
1 volume

2. Harley MS 25

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 25
Title:
Collection of law reports
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains a collection of Common Bench reports including cases from the years between c. 1279 and 1312, copies of plea-roll enrolments, and notes probably assembled by the Dublin Bench attorney Roger de Sancta Brigida during his sejourn in London in 1309-1312 for educational purpos...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

3. Harley MS 30

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 30
Title:
Transcripts of Exchequer Rolls from the reign of Henry III, partly written by Simonds D'Ewes
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*r: a title page. ff. 1r-241v: Transcripts of Exchequer Rolls from the reign of Henry III, followed by an index of names (ff. 242r-256r), partly written by Simonds D'Ewes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 38

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 38
Title:
A miscellany of political papers and letters and tracts on coinage, transcribed largely by Ralph Starkey; original letters addressed to Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine, and Sir Simonds D'Ewes, 1642-1648; A Licence to travayle for Francis Davison and Edward Smith granted by Queen Elizabeth I, 1595
Scope & Content:
This manuscript mostly contains 17th-century English letters and transcripts of 16th-century documents. It also features an original licence on parchment to travel outside of England for three years granted to a ‘Francis Davison’ and ‘Edward Smith’, signed by Queen Elizabeth I and with her wax s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:
1595-1648
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 43

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 43
Title:
Benedict Burgh, Cato Major; Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, translated into English by John Walton; William Cornysh, A Treatise between Enformacione and Musyke; A Balade of Trouthe (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-86v: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae: translated by John Walton; with the Latin text in the margins added at a later stage; possibly by Thomas Chaundler up to f. 29v. The manuscript contains several later additions: ff. 3r-3v: Benedict Burgh, Cato Major (imperfect); w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

6. Harley MS 44

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 44
Title:
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, in the English translation by John Walton
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-102r: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, in the English translation by John Walton. Other manuscripts containing this English translation of Boethius's work are [Royal MS 18 A XIII and Harley MS 43. Decoration: Large gold initials in a blue and red frame with foliate fe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

7. Harley MS 47

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 47
Title:
Guigo I, Epistula ad fratres de Monte Dei (fragment); Bernard of Clairvaux, Super Magnificat and Meditationes; Thomas of Celano, Vita prima sancti Francisci;Ps.-Augustine, Dialogus questionum LXV
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of three parts that were separately produced. The first and second parts (ff. 1*-12 and ff. 13-43) date to the 13th century. The third part (ff. 44-60) dates to the early 14th century. Contents: f. 1* recto: Guigo I, Epistula ad fratres de Monte Dei 2.293–30...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

8. Harley MS 51

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 51
Title:
Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae; Jacobus Palladinus de Theramo, Consolatio peccatorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-105v: Guido delle Colonne ['de Columnis' or 'de Columna'], Historia destructionis Troiae (A History of the Destruction of Troy) or Historia troiana, in 35 books with a prologue, epilogue and colophon. Prologue begins, ‘Licet cotidie vetera recentibus obruent nonnulla tamen iamd...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

9. Harley MS 52

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 52
Title:
Constitutiones clementinae and other constitutiones; theological, ecclesiastical and homiletic texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-24r: Constitutiones clementinae (Clementine Constitutions). ff. 24r-42v: Several ecclesiastical and homiletic texts. ff. 43r-81v: Several constitutiones. ff. 81v-128v: Theological and ecclesiastical texts. Decoration: Numerous initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 64

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 64
Title:
Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum; Epistola ad Henricum regem; a transcript of Henry of Huntingdon, Epistola ad Walterum de contemptu mundi; Abbreviationes de Saeculis aetatibus et temporibus; Chronica Sancti Albani ab Adamo usque ad Martyrium Sancti Albani; Canonizatio beati Petri Martyris, ordinis Praedicatorum, sub Innocentio III; Pope Alexander IV, Bulla de Solenni Celebratione Festi in Memoriam Petri Martyris Instituti; The Excommunication of the English barons by the Archbishop of...
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-112v: Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum (version 5, redactions A and B), including several sections transcribed in a 16th-century hand (ff. 89r-112v). ff. 113r-135r: Henry of Huntingdon, Epistola ad Henricum regem. ff. 136r-145r: A transcript of Henry of Huntingdon, Epis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

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