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1. Harley MS 487

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 487
Title:
A Psalter with the Hours of the Holy Spirit
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar with astronomical information; featuring additional saints added in the late 15th- or early 16th-century. ff. 7r-177r: The Psalter. ff. 177r-193v: Canticles, hymns and Athanasian creed (Quicumque Vult). ff. 193v-200v: Litany and prayers; featuring St Bridget ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Harley MS 1118

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1118
Title:
Registrum brevium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-218v, 220v-289r: Registrum brevium. Including a list of contents (ff. 1r-10r); beginning on f. 13r: 'Edwardus dei gracia Rex Anglie Dominus Hibernie Dux Aquitanie Ballivis suis Lincolniensis salutem precipimus vobis quod sine dilatione plenum rectum teneatis Ade de Cerleton. de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 1785

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1785
Title:
Astronomical texts and tables; John Somer, Kalendarium; the Statute of the Forest of Waltham; an extract from Palladius Rutilis, De Agricultura; a treatise by Nicholas Bollarde on the ordering of trees; notes on agricultural matters
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3v: An astronomical table with, for each month of a year, 4-9 columns and 31 rows with Arabic numbers in brown or red ink. f. 3v: A Middle English astronomical text for calculating the epact, beginning: 'Yf thou wilt perfitly and brefly know the tru Age of the mone . whan so ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 2336

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2336
Title:
The Pore Caitif
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-137v: The Pore Caitif. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A letter in Englsh dated to 1536: 'Bettar it ys for all howsold ffor to hold ffor the [nigt]ly yn brestyn in ffetars off gold cosyn Rosa [...] yn my best [...] I hartely Recom[m]en [sic] me wonto ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 2349

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2349
Title:
Collection of canon law texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-22v: 'Constitutiones Oxonie'. ff. 22v-23r: 'Constitutiones Domini Ottobonis super Decimis et Nutrimentis animalium'. ff. 23r-54r: 'Constitutiones Ottobonis, miseratione Divina, Sancti Adriani Diaconi Cardinalis, Apostolice Sedis Legati; ad perpetuam Rei memoriam'. ff. 54r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1341-c 1350
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 2787

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2787
Title:
Missal, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-232v: Missal, Use of Sarum, with musical notation; damaged and beginning and ending imperfectly; beginning with a calendar (ff. 1r-6v) with numerous English saints, including, in red: Wulstani, Edwardi, Cuthberte, Ricardi, Georgii, Dunstani, Aldelmi, translation of Edmund, Barn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-1410
Extent:

1 volume

7. Harley MS 2813

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2813
Title:
Bible, including the Psalms and Interpretation of the Hebrew Names, with a missal between Psalms and Proverbs
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-504r: Bible, imperfect at the beginning and lacking the opening of Genesis; including the Psalms and Interpretation of the Hebrew Names (ff. 485r-504r); and a booklet (ff. 227r-236v) containing texts for the liturgy between that has been inserted between the Psalms and Proverbs...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 2894

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2894
Title:
Prayer book
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 7r: Prayer to God: ‘[D]eus qui nos pastores in populo vocari voluisti. presta quesumus: ut per hec que humano ore dicimus. in tuis oculis esse valeamus. Per dominum nostrum iesum’. f. 8r: Prayer to God, beginning: ‘Omnipotens sempiterne deus meritis et precibus tue matris’. ff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 2984

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2984
Title:
Missal, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-117v, 122r-281r: Missal, Use of Sarum; with musical notation on four-line red staves (f. 14v). The litanies include English saints such as Edmund, Swithun, Ethelwold (Aethelwold), Dunstan and Cuthbert (ff. 104r-104v, 268v-269v). The manuscript contains a few additions: ff. 11...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 4640

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4640
Title:
Two copies of an indenture with the last will of Hugh Denys of Osterley
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two identical copies executed by the same scribe and decorated by the same illuminator an indenture that was made in 1529/1530 for the execution of the last will of Hugh Denys of Osterley (b. c. 1440, d. 1511), a courtier of King Henry VII and King Henry VIII. In his wil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1529-1530
Extent:

1 volume

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