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401. Harley MS 485

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 485
Title:
Collection of theological works, including the Speculum peccatoris; Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion; Hugh of Saint-Victor, De laude caritatis, De sacramentis christianae fidei, and De virtute orandi; Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermon on Canticle of Canticles; John Chrystostom, Sermo de poenitentia; Peter of Blois, De duodecim utilitatibus tribulationis; Guigo II, Scala claustralium; Legend of Pachomius; Tripoli Prophecy
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8r: Speculum peccatoris. ff. 8v-16r: Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion. ff. 16r-22r: Hugh of Saint-Victor, De laude caritatis. ff. 22r-24r: Hugh of Saint-Victor, De sacramentis christianae fidei. ff. 24r-26v: Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo super illum locum in Cantico: 'Ecce ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

402. Harley MS 489

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 489
Title:
Treatise on the Laws of England (also known as Britton), attributed to John le Breton
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-153v: Treatise on the Laws of England (also known as Britton), attributed to John le Breton. Decoration: Small initials in blue, some with pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

403. Harley MS 494

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 494
Title:
Anne Bulkeley's prayer-book
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r-v: Elevation prayer, beginning ‘I do salute the moste holy body’. ff. 2r-4r: Latin prayers on the Five Joys, beginning ‘laudo amo adoro’, based on the Liber Specialis Gratiae, I.19. ff. 4r-4*r: Latin prayers for the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, beginning ‘Veni sancte spiritus’....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1532-1535
Extent:

1 volume

404. Harley MS 504

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 504
Title:
Sermons by various authors including Geoffrey Babio du Louroux
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 13r-20v: Various sermons (13r-19v) and verses (ff. 20r-20v). ff. 21r-163v: Sermons by various authors including Geoffrey Babio du Louroux. The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 1r-3v: Various notes in 14th/15th-century hands. ff. 4r-4v: 'De 12 signis solis' in a 15th-ce...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 volume

405. Harley MS 507

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 507
Title:
A Bible followed by Interpretatio Nominorum Hebreorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-476v: A Bible with numbered chapters. ff. 477r-519r: Interpretatio Nominorum Hebreorum (Interpretation of Hebrew Names). ff. 519v-520v: Theological notes based on Hugh of Saint-Victor. The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 1v, 2r, 521r-526r: Notes and lists of bible ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

406. Harley MS 510

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 510
Title:
Collection of sermons and theological excerpts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-49v: A collection of Sunday sermons (Sermones dominicales). ff. 50r-56v: A collection of theological excerpts. ff. 57r-128v: A collection of sermons. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 1*recto-1*verso: A fragmentary leaf from a manuscript copy of Raymond ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century-14th century
Extent:
1 volume

407. Harley MS 521

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 521
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-50v: The arms of English nobility and gentry (6 per page). ff. 51v-55r: A fragment of a heraldic manuscript with arms of Cheshire families (12 per page). ff. 56r-59r: Arms, displaying the types of crosses in heraldry (4 per page); with some marginal additions in brown ink. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

408. Harley MS 529

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 529
Title:
A collection of English statutes; Henry Bracton, De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: An untitled legal tract in Law French, beginning: '[D]e quo warento'. ff. 1v-2r: A table of contents for De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae. ff. 2v-3r: Two legal tracts in Latin, entitled 'Statutum de bigamis' and 'tractatus corone'. ff. 3v-4r: A table of contents for ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

409. 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

410. Harley MS 534

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 534
Title:
Arnold of Bonneval, De operibus sex dierum; De sex verbis Domini in cruce; Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-30r: Arnold of Bonneval, De operibus sex dierum. ff. 31r-49v: Arnold of Bonneval, De sex verbis Domini in cruce. ff. 49v-53r: Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons. Decoration: 1 large initial in red and blue on a light brown ground, with penwork decoration and reserved designs (f....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Last quarter of the 12th century or 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

411. Harley MS 535

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 535
Title:
Memoriale Credencium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-142r: Memoriale Credencium, beginning: 'Man and woman þat wilneþ to fle synne and lede clene lyif: takeþ heede to þis litle tretys þat is iwrite in english tong for lewed men þat conneþ nouȝt understande latyn ne frensch. And hit is ydrawe out of holy write bi techyng of holy d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

412. Harley MS 538

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 538
Title:
John Stow's historical papers
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-154v: Historical papers in the hand of John Stow. Decoration: A drawing of stamp of a unicorn in red ink (f. 62r, foldout).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1590s
Extent:
1 volume

413. Harley MS 545

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 545
Title:
A collection of English historical texts, largely translated and copied by John Stow
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page by Sir Simonds D’Ewes: ‘Robert of Avesburie Keeper of The Reigster of the Court of Canterburie his historie of King E.3 Concerning his marveilous geste and wonderfull victories’. f. 2r*recto: A table of contents, added by Sir Simonds D’Ewes. ff. 1r-40v: Ro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

414. Harley MS 549

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 549
Title:
Boethius, De institutione arithmetica
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-57v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), De institutione arithmetica (On the Principles of Arithmetic), with a preface, incipit: 'In dandis et accipiendis muneribus'. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 58r-58v: An unidentified religious poem, added in the late 12th ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

415. Harley MS 552

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 552
Title:
Æthelwold, Regularis Concordia (transcribed from Cotton MS Tiberius A III)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-44v: Æthelwold, Regularis Concordia; a transcript from Cotton MS Tiberius A III, ff. 174r-177r. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A title-page; added in the 16th century, possibly by Laurence Nowell.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

416. Harley MS 555

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 555
Title:
John Hales, A Declaration of the Succession of the Crowne Imperiall of Ingland; with a reply by Anthony Browne
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-10v: John Hales (b. 1516?, d. 1572), A Declaration of the Succession of the Crowne Imperiall of Ingland (1563); imperfect at the beginning, but the missing leaves have been supplied and bound together with Harley MS 555 with leaves ff. 50-55 from Harley MS 537. Here, the treati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1590s
Extent:
1 volume

417. Harley MS 556

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 556
Title:
Excerpts from the Chronicle of John of Worcester, 703-1101
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-122r: Excerpts from the Chronicle of John of Worcester (703-1101) or Chronicon ex chronicis by John of Worcester (fl. 1095–1140), a monk of Worcester Priory; with additional extracts annotated by Laurence Nowell (d. 1576), Archdeacon of Derby and then Dean of Lichfield. The ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

418. Harley MS 557

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 557
Title:
Copy of a Letere wrytten by a Master of Artes of Cambridge
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-81r: The ‘Copy of a Letere wrytten by a Master of Artes of Cambridge, to his frend in London, concerning some talke past of late betweene twoe worshipfull and grave men, about the presente state and some proceedinges of my Lord of Leicester and his frends in England, Conceved,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

419. Harley MS 559

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 559
Title:
Collection of political prophecies
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Three prophecies in Latin verse (Prophetia) written on 12 April 1554, for the years 1550, 1553 and 1554. f. 2r A prophecy (Prophetia) written on 12 April 1554, Lilium regnans (Middle English). f. 2v: An explanation of allegories in Lilium regnans (Explanatio prophetie Ante de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1500-c 1554
Extent:
1 volume

420. Harley MS 565

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 565
Title:
Chronicle of London; an English poem on the expedition of Henry V into France; John Lydgate, King Henry VI's Triumphal Entry into London
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: A list of the kings of England, from Alfred [Aelfred] (b. 848/9, d. 899), King of the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons, to Henry VI (b. 1421, d. 1471), King of England and Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine. Title (f. 1r): 'Nomina Regum & quot Annis regnarunt'. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1444
Extent:

1 volume

421. Harley MS 566

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 566
Title:
Praecedents of Barronyes by wrytte descendinge with the Lands to the heirs males and not the heris Females
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8v: A tract entitled ‘Praecedents of Barronyes by wrytte descendinge with the Lands to the heirs males and not the heris Females’. Decoration: Genealogies in brown and red ink throughout.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

422. Harley MS 568

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 568
Title:
Survey of and tracts relating to the Honor of Tutbury
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-7r: Names of villages and their officials in the Honor of Tutbury, covering parts of Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Warwickshire, here entitled: ‘Nomina Villarum de, aut infra Honor. de Tutbury, Altum-Peccum, et Castle-Dunningtone, cum membris in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

423. Harley MS 572

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 572
Title:
Juridical annals from the reign of Edward II, 1308-1314
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-201v: Juridical annals from the reign of Edward II, 1308-1314.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

1 volume

424. Harley MS 574

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 574
Title:
Year Book of King Henry IV, 1409/10
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-101r: Year Book of King Henry IV; the Michaelmas and Hilary terms of the year 1409/10. The manuscript contains later additions: f. [iii]recto: A prayer ‘Jhesus help me Amen’; written in the 15th century. f. 101v: A price: 'xvs vd [? et] vjs xjd'; added in the 15th or 16th ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and French
Date Range:
1409-1410
Extent:
1 volume

425. Harley MS 575

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 575
Title:
Statutes of the English Congregation of St Benedict
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-75r: Statutes of the English Congregation of St Benedict written in Latin, with an index (ff. 74v-75r); imperfect at the beginning. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: A title-page, ‘A Canon Law Manuscript’; added in the 17th century. ff. 1*v-2*verso:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

426. Harley MS 577

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 577
Title:
Narrationes placitorum veterum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-64r: Narrationes placitorum veterum, in French. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 12r and f. 65r: A Middle English prayer, ‘Jhesu Cryst lady helpe’; written in the 15th or 16th century. ff. 63v-64r: Account of payments; added in the early 17th century. f....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

427. Harley MS 586

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 586
Title:
Simon of Hinton, Summa iuniorum; Bonaventura, Incendium amoris; (?)Adam of Dore, Pictor in carmine; Guibert de Tournai, Sermons
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of four parts. The first part (ff. 1r-85r) was written in the 2nd half of the 13th century. The second part (ff. 86r-169v) and third part (ff. 170r-170v) were written in the 14th century. The fourth part (ff. 171r-173v) was written in the 15th century. Con...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century-15th century
Extent:
1 volume

428. Harley MS 587/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 587/1
Title:
Breviary, use of Sarum (Volume 1)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the first of two volumes, which comprise Harley MS 587 (the other being Harley MS 587/2), a Breviary, of Sarum use. This volume contains the Temporale, Dedication of the Church, and the Calendar. The Breviary was adapted for the diocese of Worcester. The Calendar includes a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1415-c 1420
Extent:

1 volume

429. Harley MS 587/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 587/2
Title:
Breviary, use of Sarum (Volume 2)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second of two volumes which comprise Harley MS 587 (the first being Harley MS 587/1), a Breviary, of Sarum use. This volume contains a Psalter with the Litany, Blessings for the lessons of Matins, the Common of the Saints, the Sanctorale, and the Office of the Dead. The ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1415-c 1420
Extent:
1 volume

430. Harley MS 590

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 590
Title:
Collection of historical papers compiled by John Foxe
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript of different historical papers was compiled by the martyrologist John Foxe (b. 1516/17, d. 1587). Contents: f. 1r: Part of an old roll, containing a survey of the Kent Marshes with drawings of the manor houses of 'Clyffe', 'Collynge', 'Halstowe', 'St Marys' and 'Alha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1540-c 1585
Extent:
1 volume

431. Harley MS 594

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 594
Title:
The first of two volumes with episcopal returns in the diocesan population census of 1563 and 1603
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the first of two volumes with original certificates from bishops concerning the state of their dioceses in reply to requests for information from the Privy Council for the diocesan population census of 1563 and 1603. In the first census, the Privy Council requested information...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1533-1603
Extent:
1 volume

432. Harley MS 595

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 595
Title:
The second of two volumes with episcopal returns in the diocesan population census of 1563 and 1603
Scope & Content:
The second of two volumes with original certificates from bishops concerning the state of their dioceses in reply to requests for information from the Privy Council for the diocesan population census of 1563 and 1603. In the first census, the Privy Council requested information on the number of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1563-1603
Extent:
1 volume

433. Harley MS 605

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 605
Title:
Transcripts of surveys of the properties of guilds, colleges and chantries granted to Edward VI
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-84r: Transcripts of surveys of the properties of guilds, colleges and chantries granted to Edward VI.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1550
Extent:
1 volume

434. Harley MS 606

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 606
Title:
The proceedings of a royal commission in the sale of royal estates
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-151v: The proceedings of a royal commission in the sale of royal estates, followed by an incomplete index of the estates (ff. 152v-153r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1555-1557
Extent:
1 volume

435. Harley MS 608

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 608
Title:
Certificates from the Court of Augmentations and the Augmentation Office concerning the value of lands sold by Mary and Philip during the 4th and 5th years of their reign
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*r: An alphabetical table of counties included in this manuscript. ff. 2*recto-3*verso, An introduction with ‘Instruccions gyven by the kinge and Quenes Majesties unto their trustie and right welbelovyd counsaillours’. ff. 1r-97v: Certificates from the Court of Augmentations a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1558-1559
Extent:
1 volume

436. Harley MS 611

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 611
Title:
Jewels and other treasures delivered to Mary Tudor
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: A letter to William Paulet, Lord High Treasurer, 1st Marques of Winchester, concerning jewels, gold, silver and books delivered by him to Lady Jane Grey, dated 1 September 1553; with an autograph signature of Queen Mary I [Mary Tudor]: ‘Mary the quene’. f. 2r: A declarat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1553-1558
Extent:
1 volume

437. Harley MS 615

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 615
Title:
Genealogies of Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Shropshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-6r: An index of names. ff. 7r-243r: Genealogies of Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Shropshire, copied by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Heralds, at his Visitation of 1569; made at the order of Alexander Evesham. The manuscript contains a few later addi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

438. Harley MS 624, ff 1v-83

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 624, ff 1v-83
Title:
Chronicles
Scope & Content:
This part of Harley MS 624 has been written by Sir Simonds d'Ewes, who compiled the manuscript between c. 1639-1643. Contents: f. 2r: A title-page. f. 2v: A table of contents. ff. 4r-20v: Anonymous, Chronica de veteribus Brittanis et Anglo-Saxonibus (Chronicle on the Old Britons and Anglo-Sa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1639-1643
Extent:

Part of Harley MS 624

439. Harley MS 624, ff 144-217

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 624, ff 144-217
Title:
Chronicles
Scope & Content:
This part of Harley MS 624 has been written by Sir Simonds d'Ewes, who compiled the manuscript between c. 1639-1643. Contents: ff. 144r-144v: A Latin inscription followed by a fragment from a letter in English referring to the inhabitants of Dalham, 17th century. f. 145r: A drawing of king W...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1639-1643
Extent:
Part of Harley MS 624

440. Harley MS 626

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 626
Title:
Account-book of Richard de Bremesgrave, keeper of stores at Berwick
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-19v: The account-book of Richard de Bremesgrave, keeper of stores at Berwick, with a title page (f. 1r): 'Compotus Ricardi de Bremsegrave de Anno Vicesimo Octavo - Berewyk - intratur et examinatur totum per [manton]'. Beginning (f. 2r): ‘Compotus Ricardi de Bremesgrave tam de ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1299-1300
Extent:
1 volume

441. Harley MS 628

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 628
Title:
Psalter with gloss in Latin
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscripts contains a Psalter with Glossa Ordinaria. Its style of decoration (Channel style) indicates that it was produced in England or France. Contents: ff. 1v-227r: The Book of Psalms with Glossa Ordinaria. ff. 227r-238r: Canticles of Isaiah, Hezekiah, Anna, Moses (E...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

442. Harley MS 632

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 632
Title:
John of Wales, Ordinarium sive Alphabetum vite religiose, Communiloquium, Summa Justiciae, and other works
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains some of the most popular works of John of Wales [John Wallensis] (d. 1285), a Franciscan theologian who taught theology at the universities of Oxford and Paris. Among them is the Breviloquium de virtutibus antiquorum principum et philosophorum, a moral work with many exe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1438
Extent:
1 volume

443. Harley MS 633

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 633
Title:
Pseudo-Anastasius Bibliothecarius, Liber pontificalis; Pseudo-Isidore, Decretales pseudo-Isidorianae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Liber pontificalis (the Book of the Popes), a collection of biographies of popes from St Peter until Pope Clement III (b. 1130, d. 1191), attributed to Anastasius Bibliothecarius (b. c. 810, d. c. 878). It also contains the Decretales Pseudo-Isidorianae (Pseudo-Isido...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

444. Harley MS 634

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 634
Title:
A Bible
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-394v: a Bible. Decoration: Numerous large puzzle initials in red and blue with penwork decoration or pen-flourishing in both colours. Smaller initials in red or blue with penwork decoration or pen-flourishing in the alternate colour. Display script in red and blue. Simple in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

445. Harley MS 635

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 635
Title:
Simon Alcock, Tractatus de modo dividendi thema pro materia sermonis dilatanda; Thomas Waleys, De modo praedicandi; Augustine, Retractationes; and other theological works by Pelagius, William Woodford, John Wycliffe, Nicholas Radcliffe, Anselm of Canterbury, Jerome, John Chrysostom, Ambrose, Hugh of Saint-Victor, and Evagrius of Antioch
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-5r: Simon Alcock, Tractatus de modo dividendi thema pro materia sermonis dilatanda; two other copies of this work survive in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 52, ff. 102–108, and Oxford, Lincoln College, MS 101, item 2. f. 5r: Jerome, Vita Malchi monachi captivi (prologue)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

446. Harley MS 643

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 643
Title:
Acts of the Privy Council, 1553-1558
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-316r: Acts of the Privy Council, 1553-1558. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*r: A title-page: ‘Extract of the Acts of Counsell during the bloudy Raignes of King Philip and Queene Marie from the 13th day of August anno Domini 1553 to the 15th day of November ann...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

447. Harley MS 648

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 648
Title:
Homilies on the Epistles and Gospels for the liturgical year
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-206v: Homilies on the Epistles and Gospels for the liturgical year, including sermons from Hrabanus Maurus, Homiliae in euangelia et epistolas. The manuscript contains a few additions: ff. 1*recto-1*verso: Leaf from a Continental liturgical manuscript with texts for the feas...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

448. Harley MS 651, ff 192-196

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 651, ff 192-196
Title:
Chronicle from the creation of the world to 1384; England from Alfred to Richard II (with continuations); Names of the kings of Britain and the Heptarchy; Miracle at the shrine of Our Lady of Ipswich
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 192r–193v: Chronicle from Creation to 1384. ff. 193v–194r: Series of kings of England from Alfred to Richard II, continued up to Edward VI by a different hand, writing in Middle English (lower margin of f. 194r). f. 194v: Names of the kings of Britain and of the Anglo-Saxons in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

Part of Harley MS 651

449. Harley MS 654

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 654
Title:
Eutropius, Historiae Romanae; Orosius, Historiae adversus paganos
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-20v: Eutropius, Historiae Romanae. ff. 20v-31r: Additions of Paul the Deacon to Eutropius. ff. 31v: List of Roman emperors. ff. 31v-96r: Orosius, Historiae contra paganos. The manuscript contains a few additions: Annotations in several 16th and 17th-century hands throu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

450. Harley MS 658

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 658
Title:
Glossed Gospel of St John; Peter of Poitiers, Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi; Theological and computistical tracts; Richard of St Victor, Commentary on Joel and Nahum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a miscellany of study aids for the Bible, bound together with a collection of scientific, poetic and theological diagrams. It includes the Gospel of St John with glosses, the Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi (A Compendium of History in the Genealogy of Christ) ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of 12th-1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

451. Harley MS 664

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 664
Title:
Forms of pleadings and declarations used in Common Law
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-157v: Forms of pleadings and declarations used in Common Law, from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (r. 1558–1603). The manuscript contains a few additions: ff. 1r-1v, 158r-158v: Leaves from a copy of Gregory the Great, Moralia in Iob; written in the last quarter of the 12th ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

452. Harley MS 666

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 666
Title:
A collection of English statutes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-338v: A book of English statutes, from 1 Edward III (r. 1327-1377) to 6 Henry VI (r. 1422-1461), imperfect. Decoration: Large puzzle initials in red and blue with reserved designs and pen-flourishing in the same colours including foliate motifs (ff. 30r, 145r (purple also used...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

453. Harley MS 668

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 668
Title:
A collection of English statutes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-435v: A book of English statutes from Edward III to Edward IV. Decoration: 2 puzzle initials in red and blue with red pen-flourishing (ff. 143r, 194v). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red or blue.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

454. Harley MS 672

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 672
Title:
'Bonus Lombardus de Ferraria', Preciosa margarita novella
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-169r: 'Bonus Lombardus de Ferraria', Preciosa margarita novella; according to an explicit in Italian (f. 169r) the work was composed in 1330. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 171v: Two verses in English: 'The good done to a good man / Is the greatest b[...] he ca...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

455. Harley MS 673

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 673
Title:
Laws and statutes of England; Genealogia Llewelini Principis Wallie; Natura Brevium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-100v: Laws and statutes of England. f. 101r-v: Erased inscriptions, possibly originally a flyleaf. ff. 102r-115v: Statute of Ruddlan. ff. 116r: Genealogia Llewelini Principis Wallie (The Genealogy of Llywelyn of Wales). ff. 117r-130v: Natura Brevium (a treatise on English...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

456. Harley MS 674

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 674
Title:
Treatise of Discretion of Spirits; The Epistle of Discretion; The Epistle of Prayer; The Cloud of Unknowing; The Book of Privy Counselling; Benjamin Minor; Denis Hid Divinity
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of seventeen extant medieval copies of The Cloud of Unknowing, a guide on contemplative prayer and meditation from the second half of the 14th century. It is one of the two manuscripts which contains all seven works that are attributed to the anonymous author (the ot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

457. Harley MS 681

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 681
Title:
The History of King James VI of Scotland
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-80r: ‘The History of James the 6th Kinge of Scotland Crouned Anno Io Etatis suae, with the Instabillity of his Regents and theire unhappy Ends; with the troubles & tumultuous Riseinge in Armes Against the Kings Regents, & the treaterous dealeings, and Banishments of Div...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1575-1595
Extent:
1 volume

458. Harley MS 682

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 682
Title:
Charles of Orléans, Collected poems
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of English poems by Charles, Duke of Orléans, composed during his captivity in England (1415-1440). The manuscript was probably produced under the Duke's supervision at the end of this period, as it includes Ballades 111 and 113, which were rewritten by the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1439-1440
Extent:

1 volume

459. Harley MS 684

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 684
Title:
William Somner, Commentary and glossary on the laws of Henry I
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Gulielmi Somneri Commentarius in Leges Henrici I cum Glossario’. ff. 1r-55r: William Somner (bap. 1598, d. 1669), antiquary and Anglo-Saxon scholar, Commentary on the laws of Henry I; dedicated to Roger Twysden (b. 1597, d. 1672), second baronet, antiquar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

460. Harley MS 699

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 699
Title:
Robert Vawdrey, Knights' Fees in Cheshire and Flintshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: An introduction, entitled: ‘The forme and order of this booke breiflie sett fourth by Robert Vaudray of Chester Collectour thereof to thentent to instructe the Reader to the true and perfecte knowledge of the making and meanynge of the same booke’. ff. 2r-70r: Book of Knight...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1555-1557
Extent:
1 volume

461. Harley MS 701

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 701
Title:
Possessions of dissolved monasteries in England
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r: A title-page: ‘Monasteria dissoluta in comitatibus Norff. Suff. Cantabr. Hunt. Hertf. Essex. Midd. et Civitat. Londone. Anno xxxvjto Henrici viij [...] .1544.’. ff. 3r-97v: ‘Valores omnium et singulorum Dominiorum, Maneriorum, Rectoriarum, Pensionum, Porcionum, ac aliarum te...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1544
Extent:
1 volume

462. Harley MS 703

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 703
Title:
State papers and tracts relating to the county of Sussex
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a large collection of state papers and tracts, many relating to the county of Sussex, dating between 1583 and 1627, apparently compiled around 1627 for Sir Walter Covert (b. c. 1544. d. 1632), High Sheriff of and Deputy Lieutenant in Sussex, and Member of Parliament for ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1583-1627
Extent:
1 volume

463. Harley MS 705

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 705
Title:
Revenues of Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-7v: An account-book entitled ‘The Quenes Majesties Revenewes 1559’. ff. 8r-38v: An account-book entitled ‘The Revenewes lately annexed to the Exchequyte’. Decoration: Calligraphically decorated initials throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1559
Extent:
1 volume

464. Harley MS 711

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 711
Title:
Mathew Hale, History and Analysis of the Common Laws of England; The Alteration Amendment or Reformation of the Lawes of England; Reflections by the Lord Cheife Justice Hale on Mr Hobbes his Dialogue of the Lawe
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2*r-186r: Sir Mathew Hale (b. 1609, d. 1676), 'The History and Analysis of the Common Law of England Copyed from the Originall of the Lord Cheife Justice Hale in his own hand'. ff. 187r-232r: Sir Mathew Hale, 'Of the Alteration Amendment or Reformation of the Lawes of England'. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

465. Harley MS 714

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 714
Title:
Copies of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Edward II
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of the Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Edward II. According to the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), p. 423, the manuscript also contained an unbound paper with a text concerning the Parliament, but this item has not been found in cataloguing the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

466. Harley MS 715

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 715
Title:
Transcripts of Rolls of Parliament for the reign of Edward III
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-544v: Transcripts of Rolls of Parliament during the reign of Edward III (4-6, 13-15, 17, 18, 20-22, 25, 27 Edward III).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

467. Harley MS 716

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 716
Title:
Transcripts of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Edward III
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-544v: Transcripts of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of King Edward III (28-29, 36-38, 40, 42-43, 45-47, 50-51 Edward III).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

468. Harley MS 717

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 717
Title:
Transcripts of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Richard II
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-568v: Transcripts of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of King Richard II (1-6 Richard II).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

469. Harley MS 718

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 718
Title:
Copies of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Richard II
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Rot. Parl. 7. 8. 9. 10. & 11. Ricardi Secundi’. f. 2*recto: ‘Rotuli Parliamenti Anno Septembri Richardi Secundi’. ff. 1r-78r: ‘Rotulus Parliamenti tenti apud Westmonasterium die Lune proxima ante Festum Omnium Sanctorum Anno Regni Regis Richardi Secu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

470. Harley MS 719

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 719
Title:
Transcripts of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Richard II
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-531r: Transcripts of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of King Richard II (13-18, 20, 21 Richard II).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

471. Harley MS 720

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 720
Title:
Transcript of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Henry IV
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-501r: A transcript of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Henry IV (1-2, 4-5 Henry IV).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

472. Harley MS 721

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 721
Title:
Transcripts of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Henry IV
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-489v: Transcripts of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Henry IV.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

473. Harley MS 722

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 722
Title:
Transcripts of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Henry V
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-555v: Transcripts of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of King Henry V (1-5, 7-9 Henry V).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

474. Harley MS 725

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 725
Title:
Transcripts of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Henry VI
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-539v: Transcripts of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Henry VI (15, 18, 20, 23 Henry VI).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

475. Harley MS 726

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 726
Title:
Transcripts of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Henry VI
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-530v: Transcripts of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of King Henry VI (25, 27-29, 31, 32 Henry VI).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

1 volume

476. Harley MS 727

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 727
Title:
Copies of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of King Henry VI
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: ‘Rot. Parl. 33. 34. 38. & 39 Hen. 6’. ff. 1r-223v: Parliamentum Anno xxxiijtio Regis Henrici Sexti; with the added note: ‘Convenit cum Recordo fra. Nilles [or ‘Milles]’. ff. 224r-332v: Rotulus Parliamenti tenti apud Coventre anno Regni Regis Henrici sexti post Conqu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

477. Harley MS 737

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 737
Title:
A collection of political papers, largely concerning the King's right to impose taxes without parliamentary consent
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: ‘A Remonstrance delivered to his Majesty in writeing after the Inhibicion given by him to the lower howse of Parliament as well by word of mouth as by letters not to proceede in the examining his right to impose without essente of Parliament’. ff. 3r-31r: ‘The Questiones ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1637-1641
Extent:
1 volume

478. Harley MS 739

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 739
Title:
Copies from the yearbooks of Edward II and Edward III
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*verso: A table of contents. ff. 1r-44r: The yearbook of King Edward II, covering the following years of his reign: 19, 1-15. ff. 44r-328v: The yearbook of King Edward III, covering the following years of his reign: 1-11. Decoration: The manuscript contains several later addi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 14th century-2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

479. Harley MS 741

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 741
Title:
Collection of secular and ecclesiastical statutes from the reign of Edward III, including charters relating to the city of Cork
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*recto-1*verso: An erased legal text. f. 1*verso: Table of contents. ff. 1r-1v: Statutum editum apud Westmonasterium anno primo Regis Edwardi II'. ff. 1r-2r: Statutum de Querela editum anno primo Regis Edwardi III. ff. 2r-3r: Statutum editum apud Norhampton anno 2 Regis E...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

480. Harley MS 748

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 748
Title:
Statutes of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8v: 'Regulae Juris super Quarto Decretalium'. ff. 8v-9r: 'Regule Juris super Quinto Decretalium'. ff. 9r-10v: 'Regule Bonifacij Papae VIII. super Sexto Decretalium'. ff. 11r-62v: 'Registrum Cancellarie'. f. 62v: 'Breve Regis Edwardi I de reddendo quodam Mesuagio Willel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

481. Harley MS 751

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 751
Title:
Extracts of statutes from the reigns of Henry III and Richard II; statutes of Henry IV and Henry V
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-18v: Nova Statuta, comprising extracts of statutes from the reigns of Edward III and Richard II; written in Law French with headings in Latin. ff. 20r-35r: Alphabetical subject index. ff. 36r-42v: 'Statuta de anno primo R. Henrici Quarti'. ff. 42v-51v: 'Statuta R. Henrici ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

482. Harley MS 753

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 753
Title:
The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (Extended Version to 1430), including John Page's poem 'The Siege of Rouen'
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-191v: The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (Extended Version to 1430), including a poem by John Page (fl. 1418–1422), 'The Siege of Rouen'. The manuscript contains several additions: f. 90r: 'Item lent to mestres Boweyarr one pell of yuarne wylliam Satyllar […] ij bollys 1 was...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1430-c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

483. Harley MS 755

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 755
Title:
Collection of sermons; treatise on the Ten Commandments
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-136v: Sermons for feasts of the Temporale. ff. 137r-148v: A subject index. ff. 149r-170r: Treatise on the Ten Commandments. ff. 171r-247v: Collection of Latin sermons, beginning: 'Hora est [...] cum sit brevis vita [nostra] Job 12: Breves dies hominis sunt'. Attributed to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

484. Harley MS 763

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 763
Title:
Henry of Bracton, De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-134v: Henry of Bracton, De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ (imperfect at the beginning). Decoration: 3 marginal miniatures in colours of a 'centaur' (a bearded man with 2 horse legs), a woman's head on legs, and a hybrid sea creature (ff. 24v, 64v, 130v) in colours. Red in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

485. Harley MS 774

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 774
Title:
Pedigrees of English families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-40v: Pedigrees with some coats of arms, going up to 1604-1609. ff. 41r-44r: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. The manuscript contains an addition: ff. 2*recto-3*verso: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, fragments of books 19 and 20; written...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

486. Harley MS 775

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 775
Title:
A catalogue of rolls in the library of Simonds D'Ewes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-9r: A catalogue of rolls in the library of Simonds D'Ewes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

487. Harley MS 776

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 776
Title:
Bartholomew de Cotton, Historia Anglicana (Book 2); Tractatus de Archiepiscopis et Episcopis Angliae (Book 3); letter of Pope Gregory X to the bishops of London and Ely; The Siege of Caerlaverock
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-31v: Bartholomew de Cotton, Historia Anglicana scilicet Liber secundus de Regibus, Anglis, Dacis, et Normannis; according to an introduction ‘Extracted out a auncient MS [Cotton MS Nero C V] written about the latter ende of the yeere 1298’. ff. 32r-45v: Tractatus de Archiepis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

488. Harley MS 785

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 785
Title:
A collection of the laws of England and Normandy
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-198r: A collection of the laws of England and Normandy including a French translation of Summa de legibus Normannie in curia laicali.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

489. Harley MS 788

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 788
Title:
A collection of transcripts relating to the history of Christ Church Priory, Canterbury
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-321v: A collection of transcripts relating to the history of the priory of Christ Church, Canterbury.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

490. Harley MS 791

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 791
Title:
Instructions for monastic visitations and ecclesiastical properties by Henry VIII; account book of George Montaigne of the Hospital of Savoy; account of the baptism of Charles I; Articles of the Church of England; William Austen, Poem on the Passion; John Milton, Hobson's Epitaph; Sir Walter Raleigh, Speech on the Scaffold; English poems by William Herbert, John Donne, Richard Corbett, Ben Jonson and John Grange; Francis Bacon, Upon the Death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of at least eight parts that were produced at separate times in the 16th and 17th centuries, and were bound together at an unknown stage before reaching the Harleian Library. Only the first three parts date to the 16th century. Contents: Part 1: ff. 1r-4v: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1540-c 1630
Extent:
1 volume

491. Harley MS 806

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 806
Title:
Baronagium Angliae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-120r: Baronagium Angliae (Diagrams of the English Peerage). [ff. 1-2 are blank]. Decoration: Numerous heraldic arms and genealogical diagrams.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1587
Extent:
1 volume

492. Harley MS 810

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 810
Title:
English pedigrees and heraldry
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-20v: Pedigrees of Leicestershire from the Visitation of 1564. ff. 21r-33v: Pedigrees and arms of Warwickshire. ff. 34v-114r: Pedigrees and arms of Lincolnshire. ff. 115r-116v: Pedigrees of Digby of Tilton in Rutlandshire. f. 117v: Pedigree of Attkirke of Lincolnshire. f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1530-1564
Extent:
1 volume

493. Harley MS 812

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 812
Title:
Elizabethan miscellany of records and letters
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8r: Forms of indentures in English from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. ff. 9r-60v: Transcripts from public records and rolls of Parliament, from the time of King Edward II to that of Queen Elizabeth I (Latin and English). ff. 61r-63r: Letters Patent by Queen Elizabeth I, s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

494. Harley MS 814

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 814
Title:
A book on forests
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: A treatise on ‘A Forest’. ff. 2r-2v: A treatise on ‘A Chase’. ff. 2v-4v: The ‘differences betwene beasts of the forest and beast of the chace’. ff. 4v-6v: A treatise ‘Of Verte’. ff. 6v-8r: A treatise on the 'Swanimote'; ff. 8r-17r: A treatise on 'Matters taken out...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

495. Harley MS 815

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 815
Title:
Certificatio Debitorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-21r: Certificatio Debitorum.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1610
Extent:
1 volume

496. Harley MS 817

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 817
Title:
Henry of Bratton [Bracton], De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-236r: Henry of Bratton [Bracton], De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ. The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 1v-3v and 236v-239r: Annotations on the text and explanations of various terms, featuring a Middle English inscription that seems to have accompanied a map of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

497. Harley MS 819

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 819
Title:
An Ordinary of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Tables of Blazoning most Coates of Armes of all Families in Eng[land]’. ff. 1r-97v: An Ordinary of Arms, with the arms of English families in blazon. Decoration: A coat of arms with a design in brown ink (some with colours) at the centre of the top marg...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

498. Harley MS 821

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 821
Title:
Names of men in service under Edward III; escheatorships under Edward I, Edward II and Edward III
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-11v: Nomina eorum qui de Rege Edwardo tertio tenuerunt in capite per servicium militare aut in Socagio ad terminum vite vel in Burgagio. ff. 12r-25v: Escheatorships under Edward I. ff. 26r-41v: Escheatorships under Edward II. ff. 42r-43r: Escheatorships under Edward III; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

499. Harley MS 826

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 826
Title:
Theological miscellanea relating to the Council of Basel (1431)
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*r: a parchment fragment containing notes about St Ælfheah of Canterbury and the consecration of a cemetery near the Charterhouse in London in 1349 during the Black Death. ff. 1r-70v: Theological miscellanea relating to the Council of Basel (1431). f. 71r: notes relating to ecum...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

500. Harley MS 827

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 827
Title:
Tracts on prohibitions, statutes and law cases
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: ‘The Civilians Peticion to his Maiestie touching Prohibitions’. f. 1v: 'The clergies Peticion to his Majestie touchinge Prohibitions’. ff. 2r-16v: ‘Certaine Articles of Abuses which are desired to be reformed in graunting of Prohibitions with the Judges severall Answear...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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