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341. Harley MS 204

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 204
Title:
`Sir John Mandeville', Voyage d'outre mer
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the popular 14th-century text Voyage d'outre mer by the supposed author 'Sir John Mandeville', commonly known as 'The Travels of Sir John Mandeville'. This 15th-century copy of the text belongs to group A of the so-called 'vulgate or insular version' and has the siglum '...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

342. Harley MS 207

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 207
Title:
The Banckett of John the Reve, unto Piers Ploughman, Laurens Laborer, Thomlyn Tailyor, and Hobb of the Hille
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an early 16th-century Catholic-Protestant disputation on the Transubstantiation. Contents: ff. 1r-29r: The Banckett of John the Reve, unto Piers Ploughman, Laurens Laborer, Thomlyn Tailyor, and Hobb of the Hille; the title page on f. 1r contains the year ‘1532’ (with ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1532
Extent:

1 volume

343. Harley MS 212

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 212
Title:
`Sir John Mandeville', Voyage d'outre mer
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the popular 14th-century text Voyage d'outre mer by the supposed author 'Sir John Mandeville', commonly known as 'The Travels of Sir John Mandeville'. This 15th-century copy of the text belongs to group A of the so-called 'vulgate or insular version'. Contents: ff. 1r-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century - 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

344. Harley MS 218

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 218
Title:
Collection of scientific, historical, and theological works, including Johann Lichtenberger, Prognosticatio; Pseudo-Aristotele, Problemata; John Lydgate, Testament; Meditations on the Supper; Honorius of Autun, Imago Mundi; Sextus Aurelius Victor, De viris illustribus; Jerome of Hereford's predictions for 1472; Commentary on the Ten Commandments; Treatise on the Computus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite miscellany consisting of eight different parts that were produced at different times. Parts 1 (ff. 2-49), 2 (ff. 50-51), and 5 (ff. 122-146) were all printed in the late 15th century. Part 3 (ff. 52-103) and 6 (ff. 147-158) were written by different 15th-century ha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-15th century
Extent:
1 item

345. Harley MS 219

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 219
Title:
Odo of Cheriton, Fabulae; a selection of tales from the Gesta Romanorum; Libre du gouvernement des roys et des princes, an anonymous French translation of the Secretum Secretorum; Christine de Pizan, Épistre de Othéa a Hector; glossary of terms in French, Latin, and Middle English
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite miscellany, made up of three parts (ff. 1-79; ff. 80-105 plus blanks; and ff. 106-153). It contains copies of the Fabulae (Fables) of the English preacher Odo of Cheriton (b. 1180/90, d. 1256/7), a selection of tales from the Gesta Romanorum (Deeds of the Romans), ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

346. Harley MS 225

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 225
Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, De Gestis Britonum; Epistre de Sibille
Scope & Content:
ff. 3r–78r: Geoffrey of Monmouth, De Gestis Britonum (Historia Regum Britanniae), including 15th-century annotations. ff. 78v–79v: Epistre de Sibille (Epistle to Sibille), with the heading: ‘Ceste lepistre de Sibille Ffraunce’, prophecy in Old French added in the mid-14th century, beginning: 'L...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

347. Harley MS 232

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 232
Title:
A miscellany of theological and ecclesiastical tracts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-5v: A selection of draft indentures relating to different ecclesiastical properties. f. 7v: Pseudo-Ignatius, First Epistle to St John the Evangelist. f. 7v: Pseudo-Ignatius, Second Epistle to St John the Evangelist. f. 7v: Pseudo-Ignatius, Epistle to the Blessed Virgin Mary,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

1 volume

348. Harley MS 246

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 246
Title:
A collection of heraldic and historical notes copied from older manuscripts and rolls
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A brief chronicle of the history of the world in Latin, beginning with an entry for Pope Gregory the Great, who first called himself the ‘servant of the servants of God’ (dated to 592); the source for this information is identified as a chronicle printed at Antwerp by Joha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1607-c 1625
Extent:
1 volume

349. Harley MS 249

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 249
Title:
A collection of papers concerning political and legal affairs in the time of Henry VIII to James I
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-118v: A large collection of papers concerning political and legal affairs in the time of Henry VIII-James I, including transcripts and originals. The originals date to about 1546-1608. The collection opens with 'The confession taken of twentie and thre of th ecrediblest Forsath...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1546-1608
Extent:
1 volume

350. Harley MS 252

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 252
Title:
A collection of English historical, political and legal papers
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2v: A fragment concerning the issuing of subpoenas from the Court of Chancery, without Bills of Complaint; imperfect. f. 3r: A crossed-out 17th-century text. ff. 3v-4v: ‘Heare followeth the Coppy of the Assignatyon of suche Landes and Revenewes as weare appoynted for the Su...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1555-1645
Extent:
1 volume

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