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1431. Harley MS 6926

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6926
Title:
Thomas Legge, Ricardus Tertius
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*verso: A title inscription: 'Richardus Tertius' with the name 'Tobi [?]Huite' ff. 2r-24r: Thomas Legge (c. b. 1535, d. 1607), 1 Ricardus Tertius. ff. 24v-37r: Thomas Legge, 2 Ricardus Tertius. ff. 46v, 48r-79v: Thomas Legge, 3 Ricardus Tertius. f. 79v: A colophon: 'Henry La...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1586
Extent:
1 volume

1432. Harley MS 6927

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6927
Title:
Collection of Latin and Greek poems
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A poem dedicated to 'Richardo Shuttlewortho Militi [...] Senatus in W[a]ll[...] [? Richardus Shuttleworth (bap. 1630) of Whalley, Lancashire]; fragmentary. f. 1v: 'Praefatio'; fragmentary. ff. 2r-19v: A collection of poems in Latin and Greek, beginning: 'In Annum pacatissi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1594
Extent:
1 volume

1433. Harley MS 7025

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7025
Title:
Accounts of military operations; lists and other papers relating to Christ Church Oxford, Trinity College Cambridge, and Westminster School; letter by Pope Eugenius IV (1447); original grants of arms; 'Catalogue of the most famous orders of knighthood throughout Christendome both Ecclesiasticall and Secular'
Scope & Content:
The larger part of this manuscript contains 17th-century materials. It also features an original letter by Pope Eugenius IV (1383–1447) and original grants of arms dating to the reign of King Henry VIII (ff. 199r, 202r). Contents: ff. 1*recto-1*verso: A table of contents. ff. 2*recto-65v: 'A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1447-1738
Extent:
1 volume

1434. Harley MS 7026/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7026/2
Title:
Facsimiles of medieval manuscript leaves and fragments, copied by Philip Sproson, with descriptions by Humfrey Wanley; Matthew Buchinger, calligraphic writings; facsimile of two leaves from the Codex Claromontanus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second of two volumes that originally formed Harley MS 7026. The first volume is now Harley MS 7026/1, and contains the 'Lovell Lectionary'. The manuscript's original Harleian binding is now Harley MS 7026/3. Harley MS 7026/2 contains facsimiles of leaves and fragments f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume

1435. Harley MS 7184

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7184
Title:
John Gower, Confessio Amantis
Scope & Content:
Contents: John Gower, Confessio Amantis; beginning: 'Torpor ebes sensus scola parva labor minimusque / Causam ergo minimus ipse minora canam'; ending : 'hath do wherof his kniȝthiede / Is yit comended over all'. Imperfect: the text lacks 1 folio after f. 25 (containing English Works 1900-1901,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

1436. Harley MS 7192

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7192
Title:
Genealogy of French kings from Pharamond to Philip III
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v- 33r: Genealogy of the French kings, written in French. Beginning with Pharamond, a legendary Frankish king of Trojan descent, who is identified by the 8th-century Liber Historiae Francorum as the first king of France; his arms are gules, three toads or. Ending with Philip III ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1437. Harley MS 7333

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7333
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, and other Middle English poetic works by Benedict Burgh, John Lydgate, Richard Sellyng, Charles d'Orléans, John Gower and Thomas Hoccleve
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-24v: Middle English Prose Brut. f. 25r: Benedict Burgh, Cato Minor. ff. 25r-30v: Benedict Burgh, Cato Major. ff. 30v-31r: Complaint of a Prisoner against Fortune. ff. 31r-32v: On the English title of Henry VI to the Crown of France. f. 32v: A roundel on the Coronation ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1438. Harley MS 7336

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7336
Title:
Catalogue of Roman and Byzantine imperial gold coinage
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a 17th-century catalogue of Roman and Byzantine imperial gold coinage. The catalogue is arranged in chronological order, beginning with the Roman general Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (b. 106, d. 48 BC) and Julius Caesar (b. 100, d. 44 BC), and ending with the Byzantine emperor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1439. Harley MS 7356

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7356
Title:
Estates and ecclesiastical patronages of the Earl of Oxford
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-11v: Estates of the Earl of Oxford in Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Buckinghamshire, Oxford, Northamptonshire. ff. 12r-13r: Ecclesiastical patronages of the Earl of Oxford, entitled: 'Advocationes [...] abbatharum prioratuum, ecclesiarum, cantuarium ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1440. Harley MS 7376

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7376
Title:
An inventory of the jewels of Queen Mary I; accounts on the hundreds of Sussex and Kent
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains three parts: an inventory of jewels delivered to Queen Mary I (ff. 1r-42v); an early 14th-century description of the hundreds in Sussex and Kent (ff. 44r-58v); and a 16th-century inventory of tax payments from the hundreds in Kent (ff. 63r-220v). The three part...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1312-c 1553
Extent:
1 volume

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