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1. Harley MS 438

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 438
Title:
A 'palaeographical' transcript of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 190 ('Archbishop Wulfstan's Handbook')
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r: notes by John and William Retchford. ff. 3r-413v: A 'palaeographical' transcript of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 190 ('Archbishop Wulfstan's Handbook').
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Harley MS 1287

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1287
Title:
A Bible
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-416v: A Bible. Decoration: Puzzle initials in red and blue at the beginning of the prologue to Genesis and at the beginning of Genesis (ff. 2r, 4v). Plain initials in blue or red, many initials not added. Running titles.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 2442

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2442
Title:
A Bible
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-432v: A Bible, without the Psalms, imperfect. Decoration: Puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in blue or purple and red at the beginning of each book. Smaller initials in red with purple or blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Running titl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. 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

5. 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

6. Harley MS 1280

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1280
Title:
A Bible including Interpretatio Nominorum Hebreorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-427v: A Bible including Interpretatio Nominorum Hebreorum. Decoration: 1 historiated initial with bird and resting on an ox, Luke’s symbol, at the beginning of Luke’s Gospel (f. 337v). Large initial ‘I’(n principio) with foliate scrolls and dragons runs the whole height of the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd or 4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Harley MS 1748

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1748
Title:
A Bible-Missal
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-170r, 174r-346v: A Bible. The manuscript contains various additions: Marginal notes throughout the Bible, some relate to the standardisation of the order of the books on the Bible, e.g.: '[…] Ita q[uo]d lib[er] apocal[ipsis] sit u[l]tim[us] lib[er] totius biblie s[ecundum] n...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 5751

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5751
Title:
A book for the instruction of young clerks proceeding to holy orders
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-327r: A book for the instruction of young clerks proceeding to holy orders, containing guides to confession and penance, practice translations into English (f. 146r), beginning ‘Grammatica vel Grammatice est literalis sciencia radix omni scienciarum cum qua omnia sine qua nichi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. 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

10. Harley MS 1921

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1921
Title:
A catalogue of alphabets and specimens of handwriting
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-80r: A catalogue of alphabets and specimens of handwriting, including 2 printed page fragments on the topic of writing (ff. 51, 80).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

11. 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

12. Harley MS 6018

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6018
Title:
A catalogue of the manuscripts and printed books of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-146r: A catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631): ‘Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca Roberti Cottoni - 1621’. The heading and a number of later entries are in the hand of Robert Cotton (see Tite, The Early Records...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1621-1653
Extent:
1 volume

13. Harley MS 4344

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4344
Title:
A chronicle of England to the reign of King Henry VI (r. 1422-1461, 1470-1471)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-76r: A chronicle of England to the reign of King Henry VI (r. 1422-1461 and again from 1470-1471) beginning: 'Britannia que et Anglia dicitur a Bruto nomen sortita que ante ipsius adventum albion [dice]batur'. The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 76v: A fragment of th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

14. Harley MS 990

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 990
Title:
A collection of abridged English statutes; a tract about dowry; the Assize of Weights and Measures; the verdict returned in a lawsuit in Guildford in 1396; De natura brevium; Les excepciouns ad brevia cassanda; Fet asaver; Registrum brevium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-19r: a collection of abridged English statutes. f. 19r: a tract about dowry. ff. 19v-21r: The Assize of Weights and Measures. f. 21v: the verdict returned in a lawsuit in Guildford in 1396. ff. 22r-29v: De natura brevium. ff. 30r-35v: Les excepciouns ad brevia cassanda. f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

15. Harley MS 1365

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1365
Title:
A collection of Alphabets of Arms in blazon
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A blazon of the arms of 'Laurence Breterghe of Bretegheholt' in French heraldic terminology. ff. 1r-21v: An Alphabet of Arms in blazon (French heraldic terminology), including English families and attributed arms such as those of of King Arthur, Godfrey of Bouillon, and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

16. Harley MS 920

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 920
Title:
A collection of Catholic prayers
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: Commendatio Matutina, qua post nos omnes Christi fideles Deo commendamus. ff. 1v-2r: Ad B. Virginem. f. 2r: Ad omnes Sanctos, et ad S. Angelum Custodem. ff. 2r-3v: Oratio S. Augustini a Spiritu Sancto sibi revelata. f. 4r: Oratio ad Jesum. ff. 4v-5r: Oratio B. Thoma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

17. Harley MS 335

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 335
Title:
A collection of ecclesiastical constitutions and statutes mainly issued by the Archbishops of Canterbury from 1201 to 1413
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-111v: A collection of ecclesiastical constitutions and statutes mainly issued by the Archbishops of Canterbury from 1201 to 1413, and written in several hands. Decoration: Initials in blue with pen-flourished decoration in red. 'Champ' initial in colours and gold with spray a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

18. Harley MS 252

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 252
Title:
A collection of English historical, political and legal papers
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2v: A fragment concerning the issuing of subpoenas from the Court of Chancery, without Bills of Complaint; imperfect. f. 3r: A crossed-out 17th-century text. ff. 3v-4v: ‘Heare followeth the Coppy of the Assignatyon of suche Landes and Revenewes as weare appoynted for the Su...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1555-1645
Extent:
1 volume

19. 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

20. Harley MS 1584

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1584
Title:
A collection of English letters concerning foreign state affairs, dated to 1625-1628; Charles Cornwallis, The Life and Death of Our Late Noble Prince Henry; A True and Just Relation of Major-General Sir Thomas Morgans Progress in France and Flanders with the Six Thousand English in the Yeares 1657 and 1658
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-204v A collection of drafts and copies of letters with instructions to various addressees concerning foreign state affairs, dated to 1625-1628. ff. 205r-229v: Charles Cornwallis (d. 1629), The Life and Death of Our Late Noble Prince Henry. ff. 230r-240v: Anonymous, A True an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1625-1658
Extent:
1 volume

21. Harley MS 6816

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

1 volume

22. Harley MS 1209

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1209
Title:
A collection of English sermons
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-153v: A collection of English sermons; dated on f. 156v: 'October 1 Anno 1631 London'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1631
Extent:
1 volume

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. Harley MS 1021

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1021
Title:
A collection of excerpts from scriptural commentaries
Scope & Content:
A florilegium of scriptural commentaries by Augustine, Bede, Ambrose, Jerome and others. The individual excerpts are almost all without acknowledgement of the source, and they are only sometimes grouped into larger categories. It is imperfect at the end. Contents: ff. 1r-48v: Excerpts from co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1175-1225
Extent:
1 volume

27. Harley MS 2271

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2271
Title:
A collection of forms or precedents of instruments made by a Devonshire lawyer towards the end of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-7v: An alphabetical table for the ensuing tract. ff. 8r-91v: A collection of forms or precedents of instruments made by a Devonshire lawyer towards the end of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign; several of these were drawn up according to the usage and custom of the city of Exeter.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

28. Harley MS 5959

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5959
Title:
A collection of fragments of different date and origin
Scope & Content:
A collection of fragments from manuscripts of different date and origin. The volume was part of a collection of fragments from manuscripts and printed books, including maps and drawings, assembled in 64 volumes by the bookseller and antiquary John Bagford (b. 1650/51, d. 1716). During the 19th c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

29. Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/2, ff 1-157

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/2, ff 1-157
Title:
A collection of hagiographical texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Vita S. Marie Magdalene (Life of St Mary Magdalene), continued from Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/1. ff. 1r-6v: Vita S. Audoeni (The Life of St Auduin). ff. 6v-9r: Gennadius of Marseilles (fl. late 5th century), Vita S. Hieronymi (The Life of St Jerome). ff. 9r-10r: Pseudo-Sebasti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
Part of Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/2

30. Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/1
Title:
A collection of hagiographical texts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the first volume of Cotton MS Tiberius D IV. The other volume is Cotton MS Tiberius D IV/2. Contents: ff. 1r-16v: Vita et Translatio S. Sylvestri (The Life and Translation of St Sylvester). ff. 16v-25r: Vita S. Basilii (The Life of St Basil). ff. 25r-33v: Hincmar (b. 806,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1125-1225
Extent:
A parchment codex

31. Harley MS 246

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 246
Title:
A collection of heraldic and historical notes copied from older manuscripts and rolls
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A brief chronicle of the history of the world in Latin, beginning with an entry for Pope Gregory the Great, who first called himself the ‘servant of the servants of God’ (dated to 592); the source for this information is identified as a chronicle printed at Antwerp by Joha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1607-c 1625
Extent:
1 volume

32. Harley MS 1697

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1697
Title:
A collection of law cases at Queen's Bench, 1593-1597
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-143r: A collection of law cases at Queen's Bench for the period 1593-1597.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1593-1597
Extent:
1 volume

33. Harley MS 1696

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1696
Title:
A collection of law cases for the period 1562-1585
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-22v: A collection of law cases for the period 1562-1585. [f. 23 is blank].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1562-1585
Extent:
1 volume

34. Harley MS 1722

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1722
Title:
A collection of law reports for 1584-1586
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-42r: A collection of law reports for 1584-1586.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1584-1586
Extent:
1 volume

35. Harley MS 288

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 288
Title:
A collection of letters and papers relating to France, and matters between France and England from the time of Edward III to Charles I
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-289r: A large collection of letters and papers relating to France, and matters between France and England from the time of Edward III to Charles I. The letters are mostly original, dating from 1505-1639. The collection features several letters that have been partially written i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1505-1639
Extent:
1 volume

36. Harley MS 5339

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5339
Title:
A collection of medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-113v ( + the insides of the upper and lower cover): Medical recipes in Latin; with an English recipe at the beginning: ‘To Rectified Sp[irit] of Wine per Robert Boyle Armiger’ [Robert Boyle (b. 1627, d. 1691), natural philosopher]. Decoration: A drawing of an arch with two ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

37. Harley MS 1605/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1605/2
Title:
A collection of Middle English medical, trick and cosmetical recipes; a Latin charm and recipes against vermin; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Liber de modo bene vivendi ad sororem
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second of three volumes that comprise Harley MS 1605 (the others being Harley MS 1605/1 and Harley MS 1605/3). Harley MS 1605/2 contains three parts that were separately produced in the 15th century and brought together at an unknown point in time before or after they reac...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

38. Harley MS 1777

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1777
Title:
A collection of miscellaneous legal texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-114r: collection of miscellaneous legal texts.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

39. Harley MS 280

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 280
Title:
A collection of miscellaneous tracts, including accounts of the naval expeditions of Sir Francis Drake and Sir George Clifford
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*r: Added pen-trials. f. 1*v: A note by Sir Simonds D'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650) concerning the first item in the manuscript (ff. 1r-30v); dated 1637. ff. 1r-30v: A collection of notes made by Mr Paul D'Ewes on sermons preached by a certain Mr Chatterton, living in Cambridge. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:

1 volume

40. Cotton MS Julius C III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius C III
Title:
A collection of original letters addressed to Sir Robert Bruce Cotton
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the correspondence of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), first Baronet, of Conington Hall in Huntingdonshire, antiquarian and founder of the Cottonian Library. Whereas the British Museum’s catalogue describes this manuscript as a ‘collection of 328 original Lett...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1592-1649
Extent:

1 volume

41. Harley MS 296

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 296
Title:
A collection of original letters and transcripts, concerning Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Russia and Morocco
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: A discourse in French, concerning the enterprise that could be arranged for Don Antonio (b. 1531, d. 1595), a claimant for the Portuguese throne, for the recovery of his kingdom, and the effect and usefulness of this for the Netherlands and England. ff. 3r-4v: An origina...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

42. Harley MS 249

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 249
Title:
A collection of papers concerning political and legal affairs in the time of Henry VIII to James I
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-118v: A large collection of papers concerning political and legal affairs in the time of Henry VIII-James I, including transcripts and originals. The originals date to about 1546-1608. The collection opens with 'The confession taken of twentie and thre of th ecrediblest Forsath...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1546-1608
Extent:
1 volume

43. 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

44. Harley MS 4744

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4744
Title:
A collection of prophecies and testimonies concerning Christ drawn from the Old and New Testaments
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-138r: A collection of prophecies and testimonies concerning Christ drawn from the Old and New Testaments. f. 141r: Pen trials (?) in a figure drawn in brown ink: ‘and for the use of my god master and to and for [...]’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

45. Harley MS 442

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 442
Title:
A collection of royal proclamations by Kings Edward IV, Henry VII and Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–182v: A collection of royal proclamations by Kings Edward IV, Henry VII and Henry VIII, followed by an index (ff. 182r–v). f. 1r: notes by Peter le Neve. ff. 2r–v: A proclamation for the raising of the price of silver bullion, from 29 s the pound weight to 33 s the pound weight, 13 Augu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

46. Harley MS 2348

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2348
Title:
A collection of sermons
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2*r-195v: A collection of 69 sermons in Latin, from the first Sunday of Advent to Pentecost. ff. 196r-196v: A table of contents in a 14th-century hand, listing the sermons contained in the manuscript with detail added in a later hand and the folio reference in yet another hand. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 volume

47. Add MS 38818, ff 191-262

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 38818, ff 191-262
Title:
A collection of sermons; Robert of Basevorn, Forma predicandi; Isidore of Seville, Synonyma de lamentatione animae peccatricis (excerpt)
Scope & Content:
Formerly bound in a different order. This part was originally prefaced by Robert of Basevorn (fl. 14th century), Forma predicandi (Form of Preaching). Contents: ff. 191r-255v: A collection of sermons in several hands. The original order of this collection is given at the end in a list of cont...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
Part of Add MS 38818

48. 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

49. 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

50. Harley MS 941

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941
Title:
A collection of treatises relating to history, astrology, magic, astronomy, geography and rhetoric, comprising John Lydgate's Dietary and other verses and medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*v: An added abbreviated list of contents. ff. 1r-3v: De origine gigantum, an abbreviated version of the Anglo-Norman French Des Grantz Geanz, written in Latin. The short narrative tells the Story of Albina and her sisters often used as a preface to the Brut Chronicle. The leave...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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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