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1401. Harley MS 6615

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6615
Title:
The Chastising of God's Children; Walter Hilton, Eight Chapters on Perfection (extract); Bridget of Sweden, Liber celestis revelacionum (extract, English translation); William Flete, De remediis contra temptationes (First English translation); Walter Hilton, Scale of Perfection (extract); The Lay Folk's Catechism; William Flete, De remediis contra temptationes (Second English translation)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of the twelve surviving copies of the Middle English Chastising of God's Children, an anonymous devotional text from the late 14th or early 15th century that was designed to provide guidance to religious women in contemplation and the discernment of spirits. The manu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1402. Harley MS 6620

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6620
Title:
Notes on biblical books
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-128v: Notes on biblical books, dated 1586; in English and Latin. The manuscript contains an addition: f. 1v: A largely illegible note on a parchment pastedown: ‘This Book of lond[...] for clothe which ys [...] 1573’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1586
Extent:
1 volume

1403. Harley MS 6628

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6628
Title:
St Augustine of Hippo, De Haeresibus; Petrus Wiechs of Rosenheim, Roseum memoriale divinorum eloquiorum; Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg, Compendium theologiae veritatis; Duns Scotus, Commentary on Lombard's Sententiae (excerpt); Pseudo-Bonaventura, Compendium metricum super libros Sententiarum; Articuli in quibus magister non tenetur communiter a doctoribus; Versus super quatuor libros sententiarum; Decretum abbreviatum; Werner von Schussenried, Decretum versificatum; Auctoritates Aristotelis (fl...
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-2v: St Augustine of Hippo, De Haeresibus. ff. 3r-37r: Petrus Wiechs of Rosenheim, Prior of the the Benedictine abbey of Melk (r. 1418-1423), Roseum memoriale divinorum eloquiorum (‘Biblia versificata’). ff. 39r-183r: Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg, Compendium theologiae veritat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1404. Harley MS 6643

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6643
Title:
The Counterfeit vertu of Sectes together with their entangled discord, about the Ceremonies and other thinges nakedly Uncovered and Declared dialogue Wise in Eight sonder and familiar Parlings or Communications
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-200v: An English treatise, translated from an unidentified German treatise, entitled: ‘The Counterfeit vertu of Sectes together with their entangled discord, about the Ceremonies and other thinges nakedly Uncovered and Declared dialogue wise in Eight sonder and familiar Parling...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1405. Harley MS 6644

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6644
Title:
English statutes
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: A table of contents for the manuscript. ff. 2r-2v: A table of contents for Magna Carta. ff. 4r-10v: Magna Carta de Libertatibus Angliae. ff. 10v-13v: Carta de Foresta. ff. 13v-18r: Statuta de Merton. ff. 18r-29v: Statuta de Marleberge. ff. 29v-55r: The Statute of W...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1285-c 1300
Extent:
1 volume

1406. Harley MS 6660

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6660
Title:
Commentary on the Book of Revelation, chapters 12-13
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a commentary on the Book of Revelation in English, dedicated to William Cecil (b. 1520/1521, d. 1598), 1st Baron Burghley, and perhaps given to him on his anniversary or appointment as Lord High Treasurer in 1572. Contents: ff. 1r-31r: Commentary on the Book of Revelat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Syriac, Classical, and Welsh
Date Range:
1572
Extent:
1 volume

1407. Harley MS 6669

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6669
Title:
La comence le plé de la couronne (a legal treatise on duties of the seneschal)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-9r: La comence le plé de la couronne (a legal treatise on duties of the seneschal). Decoration: 1 puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours (f. 1r). Smaller initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Paraphs in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
Last quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

1408. Harley MS 6673

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6673
Title:
Law precedents in the time of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-56r: Law precedents, particularly from the reigns of King Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth I, up to the 39th year of her reign (1596-97).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

1409. Harley MS 6689

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6689
Title:
Copies of deeds and indentures to Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and his exchange of lands with King Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-31r: Copies of deeds and indentures relating to grants of honours, castles, lordships, manors, lands, tenements, rents, reversions, franchises, liberties, and other Hereditaments to Charles Brandon (b. c. 1484, d. 1545), 1st Duke of Suffolk, and of the exchange of lands between...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1539-c 1596
Extent:
1 volume

1410. Harley MS 6691

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6691
Title:
Journal of the proceedings of the assizes held at Sarum, Exeter and throughout South-West England, 7-42 Edward III
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-70v: Journal of the proceedings of the assizes held at Sarum, Exeter and throughout South-West England, 7-42 Edward III. Written in Law French with headings in Latin in a 15th-century script. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r (inner margin): A list of place nam...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1411. Harley MS 6692

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6692
Title:
Iter Londonensis; Vetera capitula itineris Cantuariensis; Placita Corone Kantuariensis; royal letters patent
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4v: 'Iter Londonensis'; written in Law French; imperfect at the beginning. ff. 4v-6v: 'Vetera capitula itineris Cantuariensis'; including 'Nova Capitula Corone' from the time of the reign of Edward I; written in Latin. ff. 6v-8v: 'Placita Corone Kantuariensis'; written in L...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

1412. Harley MS 6697

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6697
Title:
Survey of the manors, lands and tenements of Edmund Tirrell, lord of the manor of Beaches in Rawreth, Essex
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-27r: Survey of the manors, lands and tenements of Edmund Tirrell [Tyrell] (b. c. 1510, d. 1576), lord of the manor of Beaches [Beches] in Rawreth, Essex, made by Israel Amyce [Ames] in 1597, entitled: 'The survaye of all and singular the Manors, Landes, Tenementes (and other H...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1597
Extent:
1 volume

1413. Harley MS 6698

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6698
Title:
Copies of indentures for leases of estates let and taken by John Wylde of Canterbury
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-15v: Copies of indentures in English and Latin, recording leases of estates let and taken by John Wylde of Canterbury (fl mid-16th century), a surveyor and auditor, during the reigns of Edward VI (r. 1547-1553) and Mary I (r. 1553-1558). f. 16r: an added inscription in a lat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1414. Harley MS 6700

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6700
Title:
Copies of the Book of Knights’ Fees of Leicestershire; catalogue of the market and fair towns; Spiritual Receipts and Escheators and Inquisitors of Leicestershire
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-17r: ‘Computus Johannis Saunderstedd, vicecomitis Leicestrensis, Philippi Polwill, et Willielmi Nevill de Rearefbie, collectorum rationabilis auxilii in comitatu praedicto, domino regi Edwardo tertio concessi ad primogenitum filium suum militem faciendum, anno regni ejusdem reg...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1601
Extent:
1 volume

1415. Harley MS 6707

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6707
Title:
Proceedings in the King's Bench and Exchequer from the time of the reign of Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
The manuscript's former binding is now stored separately as Harley MS 6707/1. Contents: ff. 1r-110v: Proceedings in the King's Bench and Exchequer from the time of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I; written in Law French. The manuscript contains later additions: f. 75v: Latin saying: 'Gutta c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1416. Harley MS 6725

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6725
Title:
Lists of judges, counts, lords and bishops of England; a treatise in law French
Scope & Content:
f. 1r: A table of contents. ff. 2r-3v: Catalogus summorum Angliae Justiciarorum a conquestu eiusdem anno 1066 ad obitum regis Henrici tercij anno domini 1272, quo tempore eorum auctoritas cessavit deinde. ff. 3v-5v: Capitalium Justiciariorum ad placita coram rege tenenda ad annum dominum 159...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1590-c 1625
Extent:
1 volume

1417. Harley MS 6745

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6745
Title:
Proceedings in the Queen's Bench, 35-38 Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-216v: Proceedings in the Queen's Bench from the 35th, 36th, 37th and 38th years of the reign of Elizabeth I; written in Law French. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 1*recto-2*recto: Alphabetical index of cases; written in the late 16th or early 17th centur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1592-1596
Extent:
1 volume

1418. Harley MS 6746

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6746
Title:
Collection of letters, grants, indentures and accounts concerning trading goods
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Copies of bonds and obligations in English and Latin, beginning: ‘Be it knowne to all men by theise present that I ffrancis Th. of London ydoun have remised released’, dated 16, 20, 22, 28 Elizabeth I. f. 4v: A list of payments, beginning ‘ffor the warrant of attourney’, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1580s
Extent:
1 volume

1419. Harley MS 6747

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6747
Title:
Legal precedents
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-27r: A collection of legal precedents in French. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: An indenture in French; written in the (?) 17th century.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1420. Harley MS 6776

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6776
Title:
A genealogy of the De Vere family
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-16v: A genealogy of the De Vere family in English and Latin, entitled: 'The Genalogy of the most Ancient and Illustrious Family of the Veres, Earles of Guisnes in Normandy, and of Oxford, and Lord great Chamberlands of England, being descended from the Kings of the Argives, Duk...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1676
Extent:
1 volume

1421. Harley MS 6780

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6780
Title:
Indices of English family names for heraldic manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-63v: A large index of family names, organized in columns by county and in alphabetical order [featuring the dates 1634 and 1635 on f. 60r]; undoubtedly originally belonging to or intended for a heraldic manuscript. ff. 64r-8r: A large index of families with ‘quartred coats’, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1635
Extent:
1 volume

1422. Harley MS 6792

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6792
Title:
Canon law; sermons on confession; excerpts from Gregory the Great, Dialogi
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-60v: Definitions of canon law. ff. 56v-61v: Sermons on confession. ff. 62r-133r: Excerpts from Gregory the Great, Dialogi. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: A title inscription: ‘Canones Ecclesiastici’. Decoration: Small (one-line) capitals and rubrics...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1423. Harley MS 6814

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6814
Title:
Collection of sermons in Latin and French; Quaestiones problematicae; Exemplar epistolae scriptae ad Anglum nobilem Catholicam; Catalogus librorum Sacrae canonicae scripturae veteris testamenti; collection of theological tracts from biblical excerpts; biblical proverbs in Middle English; Moralium dogma philosophorum; Aesop, Fabulae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-38v: A collection of sermons in Latin and French, written between 1650 and 1653. ff. 39v-40r: Quaestiones problematicae [inscribed on f. 39r: ‘in Sidney College’], written around the mid-16th century. ff. 40v-69r: Exemplar epistolae scriptae ad Anglum nobilem Catholicam. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1435-1653
Extent:
1 volume

1424. Harley MS 6816

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6816
Title:
A collection of English medical texts
Scope & Content:
This collection predominantly features medical texts in Latin and English. It contains a section (ff. 97r-133v) of Middle English recipes that ends with Latin prayers against the plague and an indenture from Sempringham Priory in Lincolnshire, suggesting that the recipes may originate from this ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 18th century
Extent:

1 volume

1425. Harley MS 6824

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6824
Title:
A compilation of early modern historical and scientific papers; Edward of Norwich, The Master of Game
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a compilation of different historical and scientific papers, mostly originating from the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries. It also contains a 15th-century copy of the Middle English The Master of Game, composed by Edward of Norwich (b. c. 1373, d. 1415), 2nd Duke of York, in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, English, Middle, French, Greek, Ancient, Latin, Malay, and Russian
Date Range:
c 1400-1738
Extent:
1 volume

1426. Harley MS 6830

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6830
Title:
Pedigrees and coats of arms of Cambridgeshire families
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A leaf from another manuscript with the title: ‘These are the Ancient Coate of Armes of Collings of Shropshier of [...] Robe[r]t Collings of Stapleton [...] Anno Domini 1615’ (inscribed in red pencil). ff. 2r-3v: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscrip...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1427. Harley MS 6864

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6864
Title:
Copies of inscriptions on tombstones in the city of Bath
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-19r: Copies of inscriptions on tombstones in the city of Bath of citizens who died in the 1720s and 1730s; the latest year of death is 1738.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1738
Extent:
1 volume

1428. Harley MS 6883

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6883
Title:
'The States of Poland's Letter', concerning the election of Sigismund III Vasa as King of Poland
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-19v: 'The States of Polands Letter, written and directed by them, to all Princes Christian, containing both the Election of their modern Prince King Sigismund the 3. and also all their present State; at the day of the date herof, being the xijth of October anno 1587 [Krakow]'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1587
Extent:
1 volume

1429. Harley MS 6892

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6892
Title:
An account of the foundations of Oxford and Cambridge colleges and their coats of arms; blazons of the coats of arms of the Peers of England, and the offices in the Holy Roman Empire
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a miscellany of heraldic works copied at different times in the late 16th and early 17th century. Contents: f. 1r: A catalogue description of the manuscript by an early modern owner: ‘An Account of the ffoundations and the Armes each Colledge bears in England and also...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter 16th century-1st quarter 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1430. Harley MS 6902

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6902
Title:
Henry Goldingham, The Garden Plot
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-18v: Henry Goldingham (fl. 2nd half of the 16th century), The Garden Plot. An allegorical poem dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, with an introduction, beginning: 'Madam in regarde of your magestres mild govermente over your subiectes'; and beginning: 'The pleasant tyme that dyd in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

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

1441. Harley MS 7395

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7395
Title:
Transcripts of documents and letters relating to Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a large number of 17th-century transcripts of documents and letters relating to Elizabeth I, Queen of England, and Mary, Queen of Scots, particularly the latter's execution in 1587. These contents originally seem to have been divided over five separate volumes, and bound...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1442. Harley MS 7398/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7398/1
Title:
Psalter, Use of Sarum, with a Calendar, imperfect
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-125v: Psalter, Use of Sarum, with a Calendar (ff. 1r-6v), imperfect. The calendar features a few 15th-century additions, including St Damasus and the possible consecration of an abbey (‘[...]ysy[n]g of þe abbey of [...]’). The psalms (ff. 7r-112r) begin with the end of psalm 5....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century or 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1443. Harley MS 7401

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7401
Title:
Commentary on Revelation
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-117v: Commentary on Revelation, imperfect at the end. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: A title inscription: ‘Tractatus in Apocalypsis xij Capita priora’; added in the 17th century. Decoration: Partial bar border in red and blue with a large puzzle initia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

1444. Harley MS 7507

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7507
Title:
Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (Bk. III), in an anonymous English translation
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an anonymous English translation of the third book of Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio (Discourses on the First Ten of Titus Livy) by the Italian writer and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli (b. 1469, d. 1527). The work is a commentary on the first ten boo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1445. Harley MS 7554

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7554
Title:
An English theological miscellany
Scope & Content:
This English manuscript is a miscellany of theological works written in Latin and English. The four parts (ff. 1-[38a]; ff. 39-55; ff. 56-66; ff. 67-90) were separately produced at different moments in time and bound together at an unknown point in time before entering or at the Harleian Library...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1400-c 1700
Extent:
1 volume

1446. Harley MS 7555

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7555
Title:
List of Parliamentary summons; assizes from the reign of King Edward III; grant and charters relating to the chapel and college of St Mary in the Fields, Norwich
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of parts that were written at different times. Part 1 (ff. 1-32) was written in the 16th century. Part 2 (ff. 33r-64v) was written in the middle or 2nd half of the 14th century. Part 3 (ff. 66r-72r) was written in 1546. Part 4 (ff. 74r-77v) was written in t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1350-1546
Extent:
1 volume

1447. Harley MS 7567

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7567
Title:
Collection of fragments, copies and originals of historical and religious texts, including the Old English edicts of Æthelberht; Old English laws of Æthelred; Decretum Gratiani; Cronica de Anglia; William of St Alban, Passio Sancti Albani
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of fragments, copies and originals of medieval and early modern texts that were produced separately and may have been kept together as a loose collection in the Harleian Library. The manuscript contains at least 38 separate sections ranging from the late 12th c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1175-c 1734
Extent:
1 volume

1448. Harley MS 7581

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7581
Title:
Collection of religious texts and letters relating to English Puritanism
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of texts relating to English Puritanism. These include letters from the theologian Thomas Cartwright (b. c. 1535, d. 1603) and Henoch Clapham (fl. 1585-1614), a preacher of an English church in Amsterdam, as well as a petition directed to Elizabeth I (r. 155...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1449. Harley MS 7584

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7584
Title:
Law texts from the 28th to 38th years of the reign of King Edward III
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-29v: Law texts in French from the reign of King Edward III, from the years 1354-1365, with the added (? 17th-century) title: ‘entitled ‘Annales les Reg. Edwardi 28-38’. Decoration: Large (3-line) red initials and red or yellow initials in blue frames.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1354-1365
Extent:
1 volume

1450. 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

1451. Harley MS 7641

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7641
Title:
Theological compendium on confession and penance
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-78v: A theological compilation, consisting of many expositions on biblical quotations relating to confession and penance; imperfect at the beginning and end, and in between; the first line on f. 2r begins mid-sentence with 'non gregatim cum aliis sed singulariter volans'; a few...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item

1452. Harley MS 7647

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7647
Title:
Catalogues of Cotton charters
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-12v: A copy of a Latin catalogue of Cotton charters made by Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726) in 1703. ff. 13r-52r: A copy of an English catalogue of Cotton charters made by Richard Widmore (bap. 1681, d. 1764) after 1750 [according to a note by Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1703-2nd half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

1453. 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

1454. Harley MS 7651

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7651
Title:
John [Hans] Engelbrecht, A true Relation of a Vision of Heaven and Hell
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-23r: John [Hans] Engelbrecht, ‘A true Relation of a Vision of Heaven and Hell; That is: How God hath awaked and raised mee John Engelbrecht from Death, and when my body was dead, stiff and cold (the which is known to many people in Brunswick) the same in a short time became aga...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1780-c 1800
Extent:
1 volume

1455. Harley MS 7652

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7652
Title:
Liber messahallah (Latin translation from Arabic attributed to John of Seville); Liber Hermetis de 15 stellis, de 15 lapidibus, de 15 herbis, et de 15 figuris; Albumazar de floribus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains astrological works with excerpts attributed to the Arabian astrologer Albumazar [Abu-Maaschar], 'Dorothius' (perhaps referring to the Greek astrological poet Dorotheus of Sidon), the legendary Hermes Trismegistus, the Persian Jewish astrologer and astronomer Mashallah ib...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

1456. Harley MS 7655

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7655
Title:
Theological questions and answer by a Protestant author
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-20r: Theological questions and answer by a Protestant author (referring to ‘The Papists wicked blasphemie’), beginning: ‘Q: How many commaundements are there in the first Table?’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 16th century-4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1457. Harley MS 7658

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7658
Title:
John [Hans] Engelbrecht, A true Relation of a Vision of Heaven and Hell
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-23r: John [Hans] Engelbrecht, ‘A true Relation of a Vision of Heaven and Hell; That is: How God hath awaked and raised mee John Engelbrecht from Death, and when my body was dead, stiff and cold (the which is known to many people in Brunswick) the same in a short time became aga...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

1458. Harley Roll AA 23

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Roll AA 23
Title:
Expenses of John Tamworth, Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth I, 1559-1569
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. [1]recto-[5]verso: An account of the expenses of John Tamworth (d. 1569), Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth I, 1559-1569. Decoration: Large initials with cadels in black ink.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1559-1569
Extent:
1 roll

1459. Harley Roll C 5

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Roll C 5
Title:
Genealogical roll chronicle from Noah to Henry V of England
Scope & Content:
A genealogical roll chronicle beginning with Noah and tracing the lineage of the Kings of England through Brutus to Henry V (r. 1413-1422), consisting of a genealogical diagram with a series of roundels accompanied by brief biographical entries. The dorse contains a defence of the rights of Rich...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 roll

1460. IO Islamic 4867

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 4867
Title:
Ahdname - عهدنامه
Scope & Content:
An ahdname or treaty between England and the Ottoman Empire concluded in the middle of the month of Jumādá al-Ukhrá 1086 AH (September 1675). The text opens with the following preamble: Balası hatt Humayün şevkatımkurun ile ma'nu muveşşah Ingiltere kıralı tarafına ca'ib Devlet-i Aliye-yi ebdu'l...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1086
Extent:
1 text, 23 ff

1461. Kings MS 9

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 9
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (''Anne Boleyn''s Book of Hours'')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-255v: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum; ff. 256r-303v: Devotional miscellany. Decoration: The Book of Hours (ff. 1-255) may have been illuminated by a Flemish artist, active in the Tudor court (Blackhouse, Books (1985), p. 79). The manuscript has also been attributed to a Paris...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1500
Extent:

1 volume

1462. Lansdowne MS 331

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 331
Title:
Physician's almanac
Scope & Content:
Contents: Almanac, comprising a calendar (ff. 3r-18v), tables for the calculation of eclipses and of the moon's influence (f. 19r) and a list of the signs of the zodiac (f. 20v). Decoration: Large 'KL' letters in blue with red penwork decoration. Small initials in red or blue. Tables in bro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1463
Extent:

A parchment codex, formerly a folded parchment

1463. Lansdowne MS 355

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 355
Title:
Miscellaneous letters of Greek patriarchs, metropolitans, etc., together with letters to John Covel, D.D. and his copies and drafts
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous letters of Greek patriarchs, metropolitans, etc., together with letters to John Covel, D.D. and his copies and drafts.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Modern and Latin
Date Range:
1652-1701
Extent:

1 volume

1464. Lansdowne MS 383

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 383
Title:
Psalter ('The Shaftesbury Psalter') with calendar and prayers
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: former pastedown from a 13th century text. ff. 2r-179v: Psalter, preceded by a calendar, Easter table, and cycle of full-page miniatures, and followed by Canticles, a Litany, Collects, and various longer prayers. Decoration: 8 full-page miniatures in colours and gold (f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

1465. Lansdowne MS 453

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 453
Title:
Bible
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century English manuscript contains the Bible (from the Book of Genesis to the Book of Psalms) with prologues attributed to St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420) and Pelagius (b. 360, d. 418). Contents: f. 1r-2r: St Jerome, Epistula 53 ad Paulinum (Letter 53: To Paulinus). ff. 2r-4r: St Jero...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century -3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

1466. Lansdowne MS 456

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 456
Title:
Genealogical chronicle of English kings to Edward IV
Scope & Content:
The text is written on one side of the parchment, in three vertical columns with the central column being double the width of the two flanking columns, so that they could be folded inwards. The parchment was then folded lengthwise, concertina-style, rather than rolled, to form a winged roll-code...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1461-1466
Extent:

1 volume

1467. Lansdowne MS 699

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 699
Title:
Collection of poems by John Lydgate and Geoffrey Chaucer
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r-v: John Lydgate, 'Life of St Giles', written in Middle English verse, imperfect comprising only the final six stanzas; the text beginning, '…Bi a spiryt oonly of prophecie...' (DIMEV 4129). ff. 3r-18r: John Lydgate, Fabula duorum mercatorum, written in Middle English verse, be...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

1468. Lansdowne MS 851

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 851
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, made shortly after his death, traditionally assigned to the year 1400. Contents: ff. 2r-12r: The General Prologue. ff. 12r-38v: The Knight's Tale. ff. 38v-39v: The Miller's Prologue. ff. 39v-47v: The Miller's Tale. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1410
Extent:

1 volume

1469. Lansdowne Roll 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne Roll 1
Title:
Peter of Poitiers, Compendium historiae in Genealogica Christi
Scope & Content:
Contents: Peter of Poitiers (b. 1193, d. 1205), Compendium historiae in Genealogica Christi, a biblical chronicle in roll form consisting of a series of roundels accompanied by brief biographical entries. The genealogy of Christ from Adam and Eve is depicted in the central line, with series of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 roll

1470. Lansdowne Roll 2

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne Roll 2
Title:
Genealogical roll chronicle from Noah to King Henry V
Scope & Content:
Contents: A genealogical roll chronicle beginning with Noah and tracing the lineage of the Kings of England from Brutus to Henry VI, consisting of a genealogical diagram with a series of roundels accompanied by brief biographical entries. The genealogy of the English kings is depicted in the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1438-1441
Extent:

1 roll

1471. Lansdowne Roll 3

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne Roll 3
Title:
Genealogical roll chronicle of the English kings to Richard II
Scope & Content:
Contents: Also known as Lansdowne Charter Rot. 3. Order as Lansdowne Roll 3. A genealogical chronicle, with a commentary in Anglo-Norman French, from the reign of Egbert to Henry III and a continuation to Richard II on the dorse. It is dated to the reign of Edward I (r.1272-1307) Face of the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1272-1307
Extent:

1 roll

1472. Lansdowne Roll 4

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne Roll 4
Title:
Roll chronicle of the kings of England and Scotland to Henry VI and James I
Scope & Content:
Contents: A genealogical roll chronicle of: English kings in roll form consisting of a series of roundels accompanied by a commentary. The genealogical diagram has Scottish kings on the left, from Constantine to James Stuart and English kings on the right, from Edward the Elder to Henry VI. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Between 1423 and 1460
Extent:

1 roll

1473. Lansdowne Roll 5

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne Roll 5
Title:
Genealogical roll chronicle of English kings to Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
Contents: A genealogical diagram of the kings of England consisting of a series of rectangles containing names of monarchs joined by lines of descent. On the left, the genealogy of the Anglo-Saxons begins from Egbertus with the Dukes of Normandy from Rollo to William the Conqueror in the centr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

1 roll

1474. Lansdowne Roll 6

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne Roll 6
Title:
Genealogical roll chronicle of English kings to Henry VIII and of French kings and dukes
Scope & Content:
Contents: A genealogy of the kings of England and France in four columns, produced after 1513. The French and English lines are in the centre, with the dukes of Normandy on the left, and other nobility of France on the right. A commentary on Scottish monarchs accompanies the English genealogy....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:

1 roll

1475. Lansdowne Roll 9

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne Roll 9
Title:
Genealogical roll of Helena Snakenborg, Marchioness of Northampton
Scope & Content:
This roll contains an illustrated genealogy of Elin Ulfsdotter Snakenborg (b. 1548/9, d. 1635), commonly known as Helena Snakenborg, Marchioness of Northampton. Helena was a Swedish-born noblewoman who travelled to England in 1564 as part of the retinue of Princess Cecilia of Sweden (b. 1540, d....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1640
Extent:
1 roll

1476. LFC Ch III 1

Reference (shelfmark):
LFC Ch III 1
Title:
Will of Margery de Crek
Scope & Content:
Will of Margery de Crek, widow of Bartholomew de Crek, leaving her body to be buried in the church of Flixton Priory, the nunnery that she founded in 1258, making other bequests to the priory, the bishop of Norwich, her family, and others; dated the morrow of St Luke the Evangelist [19 October],...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1282
Extent:
1 leaf

1477. LFC Ch IV 2

Reference (shelfmark):
LFC Ch IV 2
Title:
Grant by Rowney Priory to William Dolphin and Ralph Tailor of Hertford, of two acres of land
Scope & Content:
Grant by Prioress Rose and the convent of Rowney [Hertfordshire] to William Dolphin and Ralph Tailor [Parimentario] of Hertford, for the repair of the priory and for their homage and service, two acres of arable land. For this grant, Dolphin and Tailor give the priory a mark of silver. The chart...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of 13th century
Extent:
1 leaf

1478. LFC Ch V 4

Reference (shelfmark):
LFC Ch V 4
Title:
Confirmation by Margaret de Lacy, countess of Lincoln and Pembroke, widow, to John the chaplain
Scope & Content:
Confirmation by Margaret de Lacy, countess of Lincoln and Pembroke, widow, to John the chaplain, for his homage and service, of all the land which he purchased from Roger son of Simon in the fee of Bradeham; dated to between 1245, when Margaret’s second husband Walter Marshal, earl of Pembroke, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1245-1247
Extent:
1 leaf

1479. LFC Ch V 15

Reference (shelfmark):
LFC Ch V 15
Title:
Quitclaim by Muriel, daughter of William Lolle of Murlingham, to Beatrice, prioress of Flixton, of land in Flixton
Scope & Content:
Quitclaim by Muriel, daughter of William Lolle of Murlingham, to Beatrice [of Ratlesden], prioress of Flixton, of 2 acres of land in Flixton, giving details of the location in the vill. Endorsed: in a 16th-century hand, ‘Mention of a [illegible] hat / [illegible] to the [illegible]-mill. and al...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1263
Extent:
1 leaf

1480. LFC Ch XIV 25

Reference (shelfmark):
LFC Ch XIV 25
Title:
Chirograph of an agreement between Syon Abbey and Spalding Priory
Scope & Content:
Chirograph of an agreement between Elizabeth, prioress of Syon Abbey [Middlesex], and Thomas, prior of Spalding Priory [Lincolnshire], brokered by Margaret [Beaufort] (b. 1443, d. 1509), mother of Henry VII. Since Edward IV’s reign, Spalding owed Syon £10 a year but this went unpaid until the su...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1490
Extent:
1 leaf

1481. LFC Ch XXV 20

Reference (shelfmark):
LFC Ch XXV 20
Title:
Grant by Idonia of Hurst to Robertsbridge Abbey of all her lands, villeins and rents in Broomhill
Scope & Content:
Grant by Idonia of Hurst [Sussex] to Robertsbridge Abbey [Sussex] of all her lands, villeins and rents in Broomhill [Sussex] in return for one mark of silver for Idonia and a gold talent for her son Robert. Endorsed: in a 16th-century hand, ‘Idonia de Herst / Domina de Prymhell’; in an 18th-cen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of 12th century to 1st quarter of 13th century
Extent:
1 leaf

1482. LFC Ch XXV 21

Reference (shelfmark):
LFC Ch XXV 21
Title:
Grant by Albreda of Old Romney, widow, to Robertsbridge Abbey, of Dudeman’s Land in Pinhall
Scope & Content:
Grant by Albreda of Old Romney [Kent], widow, to Robertsbridge Abbey [Sussex], of all the land in Pinhall that was held by Dudeman called Dudeman’s Land, in return for sixteen marks of silver. Endorsed: in a 13th-century hand, ‘Albrede de ve… Rume’; in an 18th-century hand, ‘Sans Date'; in a di...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 leaf

1483. Royal MS 1 C IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 1 C IX
Title:
Glossed Wycliffite Bible, in the later version (from Genesis to Job)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the books of the Bible from Genesis to Job, in the later version of the Middle English translation produced by the followers of John Wycliffe (b. c. 1320s, d. 1384). Accompanying marginal glosses appear throughout the book, written in the same hand as the main text. Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1484. Royal MS 2 E XIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 2 E XIII
Title:
Pseudo-Jerome, Breviarium in psalmos
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is bound together with Royal MS 2 E XIV. Contents: ff. 1r-1v: Prologue of Pseudo-Jerome, Breviarium in psalmos (Short Commentary on the Psalms), beginning: 'Incipit Breviarium Sancti Hieronimi praesbiteri in psalterio. Proxime cum Origenis psalterium, quod encheridion ille vocab...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

Part of Royal MS 2 E XIII-XIV

1485. Royal MS 2 E XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 2 E XIV
Title:
Pseudo-Jerome, Breviarium in psalmos
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is bound with Royal 2 MS E XIII. Contents: ff. 1r-136r: Pseudo-Jerome, Breviarium in psalmos (Short Commentary on the Psalms), beginning at the end of Psalms 50 'Vel multi habent cor contricum' to Psalm 100. Decoration: Small initials in red, some with penwork decoration, with...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

Part of Royal MS 2 E XIII-XIV

1486. Royal MS 4 D II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 4 D II
Title:
Gospel of St Mark with the Glossa Ordinaria
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second volume of a set of glossed Gospels; other manuscripts are Royal 4 D. i and Royal 4 D. iii (St Matthew and St John). The fourth volume that would have included the gloss for St Luke is missing. Contents: ff. 1r-62r: Gospel of St Mark, with the Glossa Ordinaria. De...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1175-c 1225
Extent:

A parchment codex

1487. Royal MS 6 B VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 6 B VIII
Title:
Isidore of Seville, De Fide Catholica Contra Iudaeos (Book 1); Alcuin of York, Epistula ad Leonem Papam; Alcuin of York, De Fide Sancte et Individue Trinitatis; Alcuin of York, De Anime Ratione (Epistula ad Eulaliam); Alcuin of York, De Virtutibus et Vitiis; Alcuin of York, De Trinitate ad Fredegisum Questiones XXVIII
Scope & Content:
This manuscript comprises texts written at different times, ff. 1v-26r was written in the 1st quarter of the 11th century and probably decorated in Canterbury. Alcuin's epistle to Pope Leo III (ff. 27v-28v) and the first part of his De fide sancte et individue Trinitatis (On the faith of the h...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century-12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

1488. Royal MS 6 C I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 6 C I
Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Ownership marks and inscriptions relating to the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury and the Old Royal Library. ff. 2r-3v: A set of letters between Isidore of Seville and Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (631-651), written in Latin, beginning, 'Domino meo et dei servo.....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

1 volume

1489. Royal MS 7 D XXIV, f 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 7 D XXIV, f 1
Title:
Fragment of a writ
Scope & Content:
This folio contains a fragment of an ecclesiastical writ in a 16th-century hand, dated 1540. It is bound upside down in the present volume.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
Part of Royal MS 7 D XXIV

1490. Royal MS 7 D XXIV, ff 2r-81v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 7 D XXIV, ff 2r-81v
Title:
Guitmund of Aversa, De Corpore et Sanguine Christi
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-81v: Guitmund of Aversa, De Corporis et Sanguinis Christi (About the Body and the Blood of Christ), beginning 'Ad rem his temporibus necessariam' and ending, imperfect, 'in hoc mundo carnalis conversatio'. Decoration: large initial in red with penwork decoration (f. 2r). Ru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
Part of Royal MS 7 D XXIV

1491. Royal MS 7 D XXIV, ff 82r-162v, 166r-168v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 7 D XXIV, ff 82r-162v, 166r-168v
Title:
Aldhelm, De Virginitate; Aldhelm, letter to Heahfrith (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. : Aldhelm's De Virginitate, with a table of contents (ff. 82r-85v) and a sketch of a writing figure (f. 85v). One of the scribes may also have been the main hand of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 183 (see Bishop, 'Early Example' (1966), p. 247). It is followed by a copy of Aldh...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 10th century
Extent:
Part of Royal MS 7 D XXIV

1492. Royal MS 7 D XXIV, ff 163r-165v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 7 D XXIV, ff 163r-165v
Title:
Early modern copy of Aldhelm's letter to Heahfrith (Ehfrid) (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff 163r-165v : Aldhelm, Letter to Ehfrid, with corrections in the hand of Patrick Young in the 17th century. Decoration: No decoration.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
Part of Royal MS 7 D XXIV

1493. Royal MS 7 E VI, ff 104-133

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 7 E VI, ff 104-133
Title:
Fragments from the Bible including the Gospels of St Mark (imperfect), St Luke and St John followed by the Epistles of St Paul, the Epistles to the Hebrews and the Prologue of the Acts of Aposles (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 104r-133v: The Gospels of St Mark (imperfect, beginning in 15:40), St Luke and St John followed by the Epistles of St Paul, the Epistles to the Hebrews and ending with the prologue to the Acts; beginning: '[Mag]dalene et Maria Iacobi minoris, Joseph mater et Salome', ending: 'anim...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Royal MS 7 E VI

1494. Royal MS 8 E IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 8 E IV
Title:
Magnus Felix Ennodius, Dictiones, Epistule and extracts from Opuscula; Epistles
Scope & Content:
Contents: This manuscript contains the Epistles of Ennodius (d. 521) from book 1 to 9 and some extracts from the Opuscula and the Dictiones. The texts are largely corrupted and abridged. The manuscript also includes a series of anonymous epistles (ff. 50r-55r), perhaps in order to provide examp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

1495. Royal MS 12 B XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 B XIV
Title:
Bernard André, L'exposition du Pseaulme Huitesme; Vita beatae Katerinae; Aristotelis ad Magnum Alexandrum de Vite Institutione Oratio
Scope & Content:
This volume is a presentation manuscript, containing selected compositions of the French Augustinian friar and poet Bernard André (b. 1450, d. 1522), also known as Andreas. André was a noted chronicler of the reign of Henry VII of England (r. 1485-1509) and a poet laureate, who served as tutor i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1509-1517
Extent:

1 volume

1496. Royal MS 13 A I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 A I
Title:
Historia Alexandri Magni and other texts relating to Alexander the Great
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes four works forming a compendium of Alexander's legends in Latin. Contents: ff. 2r-51v: Pseudo-Callisthenes, Historia Alexandri Magni, translated from Greek into Latin by Julius Valerius, beginning, 'De nectanabi prudentia atque...' ff. 51v-78r: Epistola Alexandri ad Ar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

1497. Royal MS 13 A XI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 A XI
Title:
Miscellany of works on computus and astronomy
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Helperic of Auxerre, Computus preceded by a prologue (f. 1r) and capitula (f. 1v). ff. 12v-13r: Dies Egyptiaci (Egyptian days). ff. 13r-14r: Computus material including Ciclus annalis, De horis mensium and De singulis horis in die quomodo mensurantur cum pedibus with a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century-12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

1498. Royal MS 14 B XXXII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 B XXXII
Title:
Declaration of expenses of the navy between Wales and Ireland by Sir Anthony Poyntz, Vice-Admiral, 8 April-23 September 1523
Scope & Content:
A roll containing a declaration of expenses of Henry VIII's 'navye on the see between Wales and Irelond', by Sir Antony Poyntz (b. 1480, d. 1533), Vice-Admiral, 8 April-23 September 1523. The recto records the expenses for ten ships in the king's navy: the Minion, the George of Fowey, the Chris...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1523
Extent:
A paper roll

1499. Royal MS 15 A I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 A I
Title:
Jane Lumley, translation of Isocrates, Archidamus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Archidamus, one of the Orationes of the Ancient Greek rhetorician Isocrates (b. 436, d. 338 BC), in a Latin translation composed by Jane Lumley (b. 1537, d. 1578), Baroness Lumley. The manuscript is a presentation copy, probably intended as a New Year's gift fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1500. Royal MS 15 A II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 A II
Title:
Jane Lumley, translation of Isocrates, Evagoras
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Evagoras, one of the Orationes of the Ancient Greek rhetorician Isocrates (b. 436, d. 338 BC), in a Latin translation composed by Jane Lumley (b. 1537, d. 1578), Baroness Lumley and written in her own hand. The manuscript is a presentation copy, described in Lu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

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