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51. Harley MS 1338

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1338
Title:
A collection of university determinationes, once including a fair copy of material relating to King Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-85v: A collection of university determinationes. It once included a fair copy of material relating to King Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

52. Harley MS 1732

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1732
Title:
A collection of various theological texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-174v: A collection of various theological and polemical texts.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

53. 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

54. Harley MS 6403

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6403
Title:
A conference between a Fellow of the University of Cambridge and a Catholic lawyer
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-52v: An untitled work in English, describing a conference between a Fellow of the University of Cambridge and a lawyer, a Roman catholic, in the time of Elizabeth I. Beginning: 'The epistle dedicatorie: to Mr G.M. in gracious streate in London'. Touching on the subjects of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1580-c 1603
Extent:
1 volume

55. Harley MS 5001

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5001
Title:
A copy of the household expenses of Edward Prince of Wales (the future King Edward II)
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A later (17th- or 18th-century) title inscription: ‘The account of the Wardrobe, or of the Household of Edward Prince of Wales, (after King Edward the second) in the xxxvth or last year of his ffather King Edward the ffirst.’ ff. 2r-63r: A copy of the household expenses of Ed...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

56. Harley MS 1231

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1231
Title:
A copy of the testament of John Rudston, Lord Mayor of London, with an inventory of his goods, funeral expenses, and other arrangements made following his death
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6r: A copy of the testament of John Rudston (b. 1480, d. 1531), Lord Mayor of London in 1528-1529, dated 1530. ff. 7v-13v: The ‘bying of pewkes and blakes Clothes for gownes whiche were gevyn And bequethede be Sir John Rudstone late knyght And Alderman of London whiche discea...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1530s
Extent:
1 volume

57. Harley MS 1093

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1093
Title:
A copy of the Visitation-book of Derbyshire of 1611
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: ‘Darbysheire 1611’. ff. 1r-129r: A copy of the Visitation-book of Derbyshire made by Richard St George (b. 1554/5, d. 1635) in 1611, including various additions; here entitled: ‘The Visitation of Darbysheire made by Richard St George Esquire Norroy LKing of Armes anno 16...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1611-1639
Extent:
1 volume

58. Harley MS 6065

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6065
Title:
A copy of the Visitation Book of Essex by John Raven in 1612
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-149r: A copy of the Visitation Book of Essex by John Raven (1597-1615), Richmond Herald, in 1612, with continuations up to 1627; and later additions, including a patent of arms dated to 1660 (f. 22v); a copy from the Visitation Book of the Count of Essex in 1634 [Henry Lily], a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1627
Extent:
1 volume

59. Harley MS 1083

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1083
Title:
A copy of the Visitation-book of Essex of 1634
Scope & Content:
Contents; ff. 1*verso-2*recto: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-82r: Pedigrees and arms copied from the Visitation-book of Essex of 1634 by George Owen (b. c. 1598, d. 1665) and Henry Lilly (b. 1588/89, d. 1638). Decoration: Coats of arms, tricked, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

60. Harley MS 1075

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1075
Title:
A copy of the Visitation-book of Huntingdonshire of 1613
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2*recto-3*recto: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-60r: A copy of the Visitation-book of Huntingdonshire of 1613 by Nicholas Charles, Lancaster Herald; copied by John Saunders from a book of John Philipot in the custody of Arthur Annesley ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

61. Harley MS 2086

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2086
Title:
A copy of the Visitation Book of Lancastershire by William Flower in 1567
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2*recto-2*verso: A ‘table of the Pedegrees conteyned in this booke’; ‘Lancaster’ on a paper pastedown. f. 7r: A title-page: ‘The visitacion of the Countie of Lancastre made by William fflower Esquire alias Norroy kinge of Armes: Anno Domini .1567.’. ff. 8r-104v: A copy of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

62. Harley MS 1190

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1190
Title:
A copy of the Visitation-Book of Lincolnshire of 1562
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-94v: A copy of the Visitation-Book of the county of Lincolnshire made by Robert Cooke, Chester Herald, in 1562; with many additions to the pedigrees by Henry Parker (fl. mid 17th century) and others; featuring the arms of ‘Sir Edmond Winne’ with the date 1672 on f. 1r ff. 95r-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

63. Harley MS 1480

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1480
Title:
A copy of the Visitation Book of Oxfordshire of 1634
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title inscription: ‘Oxfordshire 1634’. ff. 2*recto-3*verso: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-64r: A copy of the Visitation Book of Oxfordshire made by John Philipot (b. 1588, d. 1645), Somerset Herald, and William Ryley (d. 16...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

1 volume

64. Harley MS 1095

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1095
Title:
A copy of the Visitation-book of Oxfordshire of 1574
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2*verso-3*verso: An alphabetical index of the names of families included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-66r: Pedigrees and coats of arms from the Visitation-book of Oxfordshire made by Richard Lee, Portcullis Pursuivant, in 1574; copied by John Withie in 1621; beginning with the arm...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1621-1634
Extent:
1 volume

65. Harley MS 1136

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1136
Title:
A copy of the Visitation-book of Suffolk of 1561
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-68v: Pedigrees and arms of Suffolk families, copied from the Visitation-book of Suffolk of 1561 by William Harvey (b. 1510, d. 1567), Clarenceux King of Arms; with misbound leaves from of a copy of the Visitation-book of Buckinghamshire of 1634 by John Philipot (b. 1588, d. 164...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd quarter or 3rd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

66. Harley MS 1194

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1194
Title:
A copy of the Visitation Book of Sussex, 1633-1634
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-142r: A copy of the Visitation Book of the county of Sussex by John Philipot (b. 1588, d. 1645), Somerset Herald, and by George Owen (b. c. 1598, d. 1665), York Herald, in 1633-1634; with some additions (including grants of arms and copies of charters in English and Latin) and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter or 2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

67. Harley MS 1135

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1135
Title:
A copy of the Visitation-book of Sussex of 1633-1634
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-4r: An alphabetical index of the names of families included in this manuscript. f. 4r: ‘Memorandum that the booke that this was transcribed by was part of Northamptsh. ad ffoll. […]’. ff. 7r-: Pedigrees and coats of arms of the nobility and gentry of Sussex, copied from the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1650
Extent:
1 volume

68. Harley MS 1070

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1070
Title:
A copy of the Visitation of Cheshire of 1580 by Robert Glover and William Flower; original papers of the Visitation of Cheshire of 1613 by Richard St George and Henry St George
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-64r: A copy of the book of the Visitation of Cheshire (1580) by William Flower (b. 1497/98, d. 1588), Norroy King of Arms, and Robert Glover (b. 1543/1544, d. 1588), Herald of Somerset, 1569; probably copied in the early 17th century. According to the Catalogue of the Harleian ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

69. Harley MS 6093

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6093
Title:
A copy of the Visitation of Norfolk by William Harvey, Clarenceux King of Arms, 1563 (5th year of Queen Elizabeth I), with additions up to the year 1634
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘The visitacion of Norffolke made by William Harvy Clarencieulx kinge of Armes the xxvth day of July 1563 and in the fifth yeare of the raygne of our soveraigne Lady Queene Elizabethe’. ff. 2r-169v: A copy of the Visitation of Norfolk by William Harvey, Clarenceu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

70. Harley MS 1137

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1137
Title:
A copy of William Harvey’s Visitation-book of the county of Essex with additions by Jacob Chaloner and John Gough
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2v: An alphabetical table of the surnames of families whose pedigrees are described in this manuscript. ff. 3r-5r: An incomplete table of the arms of families represented in this manuscript. ff. 6r-6v: Pedigrees of Parker, Bugg, Ap Walter, and Hevingham. ff. 7r-10r: Sherif...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1615-1638
Extent:
1 volume

71. Harley MS 1341

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1341
Title:
A Dialogicall Discourse of Marine Affaires; distributed into six Dialogues, by Nathanael Boteler
Scope & Content:
Draft of A Dialogical discourse of marine affairs, with additions in another hand, by Nathanael Boteler or Butler. Six dialogues between an admiral and a captain, including a glossary of maritime vocabulary (dialogue four). With additions in another hand. Later printed as: Six dialogues about se...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1634
Extent:
1 volume

72. Harley MS 6352

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6352
Title:
A dictionary of Latin abbreviations
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-37r: A dictionary of Latin abbreviations used in diplomatic records, entitled ‘Abbreviaturae’; copied from Diplomata Scotiae of James Anderson (b. 1662, d. 1728) (published posthumously in 1739). The manuscript contains a later addition: f. [ii]recto: A pencil note: ‘Copied ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1740
Extent:
1 volume

73. Harley MS 3919/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3919/1
Title:
A discourse written by Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire, in defence of his marriage with Penelope Rich
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8v: Charles Blount (b. 1563, d. 1606), 1st Earl of Devonshire, 'A discourse written by me Earle of Devonshire in defence of his marriage with the Lady Riche [Penelope Rich (b. 1563, d. 1607)]'. The manuscript contains an addition: ff. [vi]recto-[vi]verso: A fragmentary leaf...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

74. Harley MS 4701

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4701
Title:
A formulary of English legal instruments
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-215v: A formulary of English legal instruments. This manuscript contains later additions: ff. 1v-2r, 216r-217v: various notes in 15th/16th-century hands pasted on the paper (f. 1v) and parchment (ff. 2r, 216r-217v) leaves. Decoration: A large gilded initial on a red and blu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

75. Cotton MS Vespasian B XI, f 83

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian B XI, f 83
Title:
A fragment of a rental
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 83r-83v: A fragment of a rental. No decoration.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vespasian B XI

76. Stowe MS 73

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 73
Title:
A genealogical chronicle of the kings of England to Edward IV
Scope & Content:
A genealogical chronicle, formerly in concertina format, now a codex. Contents: An abbreviated version in English of a genealogical chronicle from Adam to the beginning of the reign of Edward IV, of the type known as the 'Considerans' chronicle, named from the opening words of the Latin prol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1461-1499
Extent:

1 volume

77. Harley MS 951

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 951
Title:
A genealogy of English kings, from Alfred the Great to Henry III
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. [1]recto-[3]recto: ‘A Genealogie of Kings from Alfred to Henry the Third’; probably copied from a medieval genealogical roll. Decoration: Roundels in brown ink.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 roll

78. 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

79. Harley MS 1357

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1357
Title:
A generall Cathologe of all the Names and Armes of the Lord Chauncellors and Keepers of the great Seal of England ffrom the tyme of William the Conqueror, untill this present yeare Anno 1646
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title page: ‘A generall Cathologe of all the Names and Armes of the Lord Chauncellors and Keepers of the great Seal of England ffrom the tyme of William the Conqueror, untill this present yeare Anno 1646’. ff. 2r-98v: A work listing the Lord Chancellors and Lord Keepers, bu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1646
Extent:
1 volume

80. Harley MS 1030

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1030
Title:
A historical and religious miscellany
Scope & Content:
This miscellany consists of four different parts. Part one (ff. 1-6) is in English and was written in the 17th century. Part two (ff. 7-72) is in English and was written in the 17th century. Part three (ff. 73-85) is in French and was written in 1598. Part four (ff. 86-92) is in English and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1598-17th century
Extent:

1 volume

81. Harley MS 4788

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4788
Title:
A history and genealogy of Germany
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-72v: A history of Germany, with accounts of its subdivisions and genealogies of its peerage, preceded by definitions of different political systems. The work is organised into eight parts, but ends abruptly at the beginning of the seventh part. Imperfect at the beginning due to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

82. Harley MS 6100

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6100
Title:
A history of the Lord Chancellors of England, from Leofric to John Morton
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘A booke of the lorde Chaunscellors of Englande’. ff. 1r-49v: A history of the Lord Chancellors of England, beginning with Leofric, Bishop of Exeter, and ending with John Morton (d. 1500), Archbishop of Canterbury. f. 50r: The name ‘henrie deney’ [Henry ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

83. Harley MS 2435

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2435
Title:
A large collection of Latin notes for sermons
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-117v: A large collection of Latin notes and quotations for sermons. Decoration: Paraph markers in red ink throughout.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

84. Harley MS 1760

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1760
Title:
A large collection of letters written and signed by English kings and queens, and letters addressed to them by rulers in other countries
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-145v: A large collection of copies of and original letters, written and signed by English kings and queens, including Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I, and Charles II, and kings, queens, princes, dukes, duchesses, landgraves and marquesses from abroad. The latter include (among...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1596-1729
Extent:
1 volume

85. Harley MS 5240

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5240
Title:
A Latin formulary with indentures on various legal subjects for persons in Oxfordshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-66v, 68r-100v: A formulary with indentures on various legal subjects for persons in Oxfordshire. The formulary is mostly written in Latin, but various indentures in English were added at the end. The manuscript contains several additions: ff. 1*verso-3*recto: Practice inden...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

86. Harley MS 3347

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3347
Title:
A list of the magistrates and other public officers of Venice
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-72r: A list of the magistrates and other public officers of Venice, beginning: ‘Officij e Magistrati che aspetanno da esser fatti per lo eccmo cons de X’. ff. 73r-78v: A list of the Venetian noble families, entitled: ‘Nomi de tutte le casade che ogidi vive de tutta nobelta de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

87. Add MS 48039/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 48039/1
Title:
A medieval bifolium, previously used as binding for Add MS 48039
Scope & Content:
This bifolium was previously used as the cover of Add MS 48039: Papers of Robert Beale relating to religious affairs, c. 1584-1591. Contents: This unfoliated bifolium contains hitherto unidentified fragmentary sections of the Franciscan teacher Nicholas of Lyra (b. c. 1270, d. 1349)’s Postilla...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 bifolium

88. Add MS 24202

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 24202
Title:
A Middle English theological anthology with orthodox and reformist writings
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains theological texts in Middle English that were copied in the decades just before or after the year 1400. On the one hand, the collection contains orthodox treatises, such as selections from the late 14th-century Lay Folk’s Catechism by John of Gaytryge ['Gaysteke' or 'Cat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1380-c 1425
Extent:
1 volume

89. Harley MS 6140

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6140
Title:
A miscellany of arms and grants of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. i verso: A printed poem, entitled: ‘The affection of a Friend – In memory of the right Worshipfull his deceased friend’. The letters of the first lines are an acrostic for the name of ‘Sir William Stone Knight’. f. ii recto: A title inscription in pencil: ‘Pedegrees quartering Cr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

90. Harley MS 2404

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2404
Title:
A miscellany of geomantic and astrological texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: pp. 1-32: A treatise on geomancy with the title Geomancia Judeana (pp. 18 and 32), beginning: ‘Hec est geomancia Indenea que vocatur filia astronomie quam fecit unus sapientum Indie et est facta per 7 planetas’. pp. 33-59: Pseudo-Ptolemy, Archanum magni Dei de reductione geomancie; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

91. Harley MS 6033

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6033
Title:
A miscellany of heraldic and historical texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title for a heraldic (?) treatise that was never begun: ‘Compendium or abstracts of all that hath byn written [...] Of the word Arma [...] and signification thereof’. ff. 3r-4r: A list of English monasteries in Latin, incomplete. ff. 5r-5v: An English heraldic treatise on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1590s
Extent:
1 volume

92. Harley MS 2374

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2374
Title:
A miscellany of medical texts, including a botanical glossary, a collection of medical recipes, and a Middle English translation of the Antidotarium Nicolai
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript is made up of two booklets (ff. 1-28 and 29-64), both made in the 15th century. The first booklet comprises a botanical glossary, a partial copy of an antidotary (book of antidotes) and a collection of medical recipes in Middle English and Latin. The second contains an ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

93. 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

94. 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

95. Harley MS 1008

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1008
Title:
A miscellany of theological, moral, devotional, hagiographic, prophetic and mantic texts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite miscellany of seven parts (ff. 1-8; 9-[26a]; 27-44; 45-56; 57-80; 81; 82-130) containing theological, moral, devotional, hagiographic, prophetic and mantic texts. The different parts probably were all produced in England and France in the second half of the 15th ce...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

96. Harley MS 530

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 530
Title:
A miscellany of transcripts and original copies of historical works
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a miscellany largely containing early modern transcripts from medieval historical works, mostly dating to the second half of the 16th century. Several entries were copied by the antiquaries John Stow [Stowe] (b. 1524/5, d. 1605) and William Camden (b. 1551, d. 1623). However, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450-c 1626
Extent:
1 volume

97. Harley MS 5340

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5340
Title:
A notebook containing memoranda concerning ethics, law, logic, metaphysics and theology
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-63r: A notebook containing memoranda concerning ethics, law, logic, metaphysics and theology The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 2*recto, 57r-57v: Fractions, entitled: ‘Valuation of Fractio[n]’; added in the late 16th or 17th century.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

98. Harley MS 1779

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1779
Title:
A philosophical disputation known as Disputatio Unica de Distinctione Specierum Durationis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-130r: A philosophical disputation known as Disputatio Unica de Distinctione Specierum Durationis.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

99. Harley MS 966

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 966
Title:
A political treatise about the governing of the State; Generalis temporum descriptio; Praecepta politica ac rhetorica
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-12r: a political treatise about the governing of the State. ff. 13r-21r: Generalis temporum descriptio. ff. 22r-25v: Praecepta politica ac rhetorica.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1592
Extent:
1 volume

100. Harley MS 2367

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2367
Title:
A prayer book
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-74v: A prayer book, including a calendar (ff. 1r-6v), a litany (ff. 31r-32v), lacking leaves at the beginning. Decoration: Full border in colours and gold, the initial removed (f. 36r). Initials in gold on coloured grounds with gold balls and green leaves (f. 7r). Small initi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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