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1541. Harley MS 2352

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2352
Title:
William Lyndwood, Provinciale
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r–118r: William Lyndwood, Provinciale, with an index (ff. 113r–118r). Decoration: Full bar border in red and blue with 1 large initial in blue (f. 1r). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Rubrics in red. Smaller plain initials in red. Paraphs in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

1542. Harley MS 3219

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3219
Title:
William of Auxerre, Summa aurea (abbreviated version)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-266v: William of Auxerre, Summa aurea (abbreviated version); preceded by a table of contents (ff. 1r-2v). Decoration: Large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours, including j-borders, at the beginning of each book (ff. 3r, 31v, 95r, 211r). Initials ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

1543. Harley MS 3207

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3207
Title:
William of Pagula, Oculus Sacerdotis; Arnold of Liège, Alphabetum narrationum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-14r: William of Pagula (d. 1332), Oculus Sacerdotis, beginning: 'Cum ecclesiae quibus preficistuntur [sic: preficiuntur] persone minus ydonee Sciencia moribus'; imperfect, ends abruptly on f. 14r, leaving f. 14v blank. ff. 15r-248v: Arnold of Liège (fl. 1290-1310), Alphabetum narrat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

1544. Harley MS 5014

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5014
Title:
William of Pagula, Summa summarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-254v: William of Pagula, Summa summarum. Decoration: 1 historiated initial and a three-sided bar-border in gold and colours with some foliage, a bird and a hybrid creature (f. 1r). 3 large decorated initials and bar-borders in gold and colours with foliate motifs, a grotesque or hyb...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

1545. Cotton MS Nero C VII, ff 2–9

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero C VII, ff 2–9
Title:
William of St Albans, Passio Sanctorum Albani et Amphibali
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-9r: William of St Albans, Passio Sanctorum Albani et Amphibali (The Passion of Saints Alban and Amphibalus), preceded by a prologue (f. 2r); beginning of the prologue: 'Quisquis beatorum martyrum gloriosa certamina'; beginning of the Vita (Life): 'Incipit passio sancti Albani anglor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero C VII

1546. Harley MS 337, ff 12r-31v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 337, ff 12r-31v
Title:
William of Waddington, Manuel de Pechiez (‘The Harleian Roll’)
Scope & Content:
ff. 12r-31v: William of Waddington, Manuel de Pechiez, imperfect, also known as 'The Harleian Roll' for the series of shields painted around 1314 in the upper margins of the leaves (only 161 surviving). Decoration: The shields may have been painted in the upper margins around 1314, according to Ains...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

Part of Harley MS 337

1547. Cotton MS Claudius E III, ff 308–333

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Claudius E III, ff 308–333
Title:
William Rishanger, Opus Chronicorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 308r-333r: William Rishanger (b. 1250, d. 1312), Opus Chronicorum (Chronicle Work), beginning: '[A]nno gracie millesimo ducentesimo quinquagesimo nono rex Anglorum Henricus'. [f. 333v is blank]. Decoration: Spaces for initials have been left unfilled.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Claudius E III

1548. Harley MS 6362

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6362
Title:
William Roper, The lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r: A title-page: ‘The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore sometyme Chancellor of Englande written by the sonne in lawe William Roper of Eltham in the Counye of Kente esquier’. ff. 3r-47v: William Roper (b. 1495x8, d. 1578), The lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte, here entitled: ‘The Lyfe of Sir Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

1549. 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, antiquary. ff. 5...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1550. Harley MS 3437

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3437
Title:
William Teshe, Poem on the Order of the Garter for Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Contents: William Teshe, Verses on the Mottoes of the Queen, sixteen of the Knights and the Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, 1582 [presentation copy for Queen Elizabeth I]. Decoration: Coats of arms of the members, in colours and gold surrounded by the garter and combined with the Latin or Fre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1582
Extent:
1 volume

1551. Harley MS 416

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 416
Title:
Works and correspondence belonging to John Foxe, the martyrologist, vol. 1
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-220v: The first of a set of volumes with collections of works and correspondence belonging to the martyrologist John Foxe (b. 1516/17, d. 1587), including a letter of the German Protestant reformer Urbanus Rhegius (b. 1489, d. 1541) to a 'German Lady' translated into English; origin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1529-c 1641
Extent:
1 volume

1552. Harley MS 995

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 995
Title:
Works of Plutarch interpreted by Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus and translated by Guillaume Budé
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A table of contents. ff. 1r-137v: A collection of the works of Plutarch interpreted by Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus and addressed to Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York, and King Henry VIII. ff. 137v-169v: Plutarch, De la tranquillité de l’âme; translated into Latin by Guillaum...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1553. Cotton Ch IV 32

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Ch IV 32
Title:
Writ of Henry VIII ordering the arrest of Sir Richard Herbert
Scope & Content:
Writ of King Henry VIII of England (r. 1509-1547) to the commissioners of the Princess Mary Tudor in the Welsh Marches, ordering them to arrest Sir Richard Herbert (d. 1539), knight and receiver of the lordships of Montgomery, Kerry and Cedewain in South Wales, and to bring him to the Privy Council ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1525-1528
Extent:
1 leaf

1554. Sloane Ch XXXIV 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane Ch XXXIV 1
Title:
Writ of King Edward the Confessor (r. 1042–1066)
Scope & Content:
Writ of King Edward declaring that he intends to have legal possession of the land at Ickworth, Suffolk (which he possesses for Westminster Abbey), and that it is to be transferred to him as soon as the present writ is read; 1047 × 1065 (Sawyer, no. 1124). Endorsed in a contemporary hand, ‘Ickilƿura...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:

1 leaf

1555. Harley MS 961

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 961
Title:
Writs from the reigns of Edward I and Edward II
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-152v: Writs from the reigns of Edward I and Edward II; written in Law French and Latin. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 153r: List of contents, beginning: 'Breve de recto patens'; added in the 14th century. f. 153v: List of (?) items, beginning: 'Novem. 15'; added ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 14th century or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

1556. Harley MS 2309

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2309
Title:
Wycliffite Gospels in the later version
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-107v: Wycliffite Gospels in the later version, imperfect, lacking Matthew 1.20-8.26 and John 20.28 to the end. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A note: 'Agrees with no. 272. Mark 1 differs in Royal Lib. 1. C. VIII'; probably written around the time of the 1884 B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1557. Harley MS 1212

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1212
Title:
Wycliffite New Testament, later version with the usual prologues and table of lections
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-14r: A ‘kalendar of lessouns pistlis and gospels of al þe ȝeer’. ff. 15r-283r: Wycliffite New Testament, later version with the usual prologues and table of lections. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: A biblical quotation: 'Rev. 12.5 She bare a knawe child a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1420
Extent:
1 volume

1558. Harley MS 2249

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2249
Title:
Wycliffite Old Testament, Later Version
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-173v: Later Version of Wycliffite Old Testament; imperfect, Joshua 19-Psalm 144. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*verso: A note by Sir Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873), Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum: 'In Add MS 11.888 containing the New Testament is wri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1559. Yates Thompson MS 52

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 52
Title:
Wycliffite Psalter and Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Modern note on the removal of a leaf, pastedown. f. 3r: Erased ownership inscription. f. 3v: Ownership inscriptions and summary of the volume’s contents, 15th and 18th century, Latin and English. ff. 4r-9v: Calendar, Latin. ff. 10r-45v: Book of Hours. ff. 46r-163r: Wycliffite Psalte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1560. Harley MS 1730

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1730
Title:
Wycliffite sermons
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-105v: Wycliffite sermons in Middle English, imperfect. Set 5 (on the Sunday epistles) of the Wycliffite sermons, beginning with the First Sunday in Advent and ending incompletely in the sermon for the 22nd Sunday after Trinity. The manuscript contains a few additions: Marginal annot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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