Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Digitised Content: No - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4632
Title:: Heraldic collections of Sir Christopher Barker
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the heraldic collections of Sir Christopher Barker (d. 1549), Garter King of Arms 1536, who compiled the manuscript between c. 1520-c. 1530. The manuscript also contains later additions, including coats of arms that may have been added in the 17th century. Contents: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:: c 1520-c 1530
Extent:: 1 volume

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4656
Title:: De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae,also known as Bracton
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-100v: De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae, attributed to Henry Bracton. Decoration: Small initials in red. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4659
Title:: Miscellany of verse lampoons
Scope & Content:: Quarto manuscript in a single cursive hand, containing mostly verse lampoons. Contents: ff. 1-1v: 'A True and perfect relation how a bould sawcy Beadle Being in the watch on Sunday February ye 26th 1670 was killed fairely by Three Dukes'. First line: Near Holbourn Lies a Parke of Great Renoune'...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4660
Title:: Miscellaneous collection of transcriptions of Old English charters and the Narratio de Sanctis qui in Anglia quiescunt; fragments of a Latin work on the Old English language
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A catalogue of fifteen charters held at Worcester Cathedral, entitled: ‘Cartarum aliquod pervetustarum quae extant in Archivis Ecclesiae Cathedralis Wirogn; Apographa’; ending with the note: ‘Harum Cartarum nulla exhibetur in Monastico Anglicana’. f. 1v: A transcription of a ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Danish, Dutch, English, English, Old, and Germanic languages
Date Range:: c 1643-c 1700
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4661
Title:: Nicolaus de Aquavilla, Sermones dominicales (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-122v: Nicolaus de Aquavilla, Sermones dominicales; imperfect, missing one leaf at the beginning. Ending on f. 122v: 'Expliciunt [sic] sermones de temporali p[er] to[tu]m annu[m] s[e]c[un]d[u]m nich[olau]m de aquavilla alias lugdinensis. Amen'. The manuscript contains a few ad...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4662
Title:: Collection of Cicero’s writings
Scope & Content:: f. 1*r: a modern introduction to the volume. ff. 1r-54r: Cicero, De natura deorum (On the Nature of Gods). ff. 54r-78v: Cicero, De divination (On Divination). ff. 78v-79v: Macrobius, commentary on Cicero’s Somnium Scipionis, Bk I, Chapter 3. ff. 79r-87r: Cicero, Paradoxa Stoicorum (Paradoxes...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4664, ff 2-8
Title:: Liturgical lections and antiphons for the feast of Corpus Christi
Scope & Content:: ff. 2r-8v: Liturgical lections and antiphons for the feast of Corpus Christi, 'In festivitate corporis Christi ad jesperas [sic] super psalmos' (with added lectiones on ff. 8r-8v). Decoration: Numerous small initials in blue or red with, respectively, red or blue penwork decoration.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 4664

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4664, ff 9-125
Title:: Breviary
Scope & Content:: ff. 9r-124r: Breviary (the 'Coldingham Breviary'), including the Temporale, with many additional instructions added in the margins. f. 125v: An instruction, written in Old French, about reading a sundial or astrolabe. Decoration: One full-page miniature on f. 125v: a Benedictine monk (pres...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: c 1270 - c 1280
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 4664

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4664, ff 126-332
Title:: Calendar; Psalter with litany of saints, hymns and biblical readings; Hymnal; Sanctorale
Scope & Content:: ff. 126r-132v: Calendar with computes for easter (ff. 132r, 132v). ff. 133r-180v: Psalter with litany of saints (ff. 175r-176v), hymns and biblical readings. ff. 181r-197v: Hymnal, including a hymn for St Cuthbert, with music notation. ff. 198r-332v: Sanctorale with several prayers added in ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 4664

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