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3311. Harley MS 5269

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5269
Title:
Lucan, Pharsalia
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1: Added list of dated events, starting with the year 1408, ending with the year 1423, and mentioning the Sforza. ff. 2-114: Lucan, Pharsalia. Decoration: Full border in colours and gold with foliate and knotwork motifs, bezants, and heraldic devices in medallions (f. 2r). 9 in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3312. Harley MS 5270

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5270
Title:
Peter Lombard, Libri Quattuor Sententiarum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Peter Lombard’s Libri Quattuor Sententiarum. This copy has previously been dated to the 14th century (see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), III, p. 257), but new analysis of the script and page layout indicates that it was produced in the late 12t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

3313. Harley MS 5273

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5273
Title:
Book of Job, glossed
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-99r: The Book of Job, glossed. The manuscript contains several later additions: f. 1r: An English note: ‘This Book belong’d to the Abbey of Rival or Rievaux in the County of York. Which Abbey of Cistertians was founded in the Year 1132. There ys a Book mention’d in Capleys ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

3314. Harley MS 5274

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5274
Title:
John le Breton, Britton
Scope & Content:
Previously catalogued as 'Vetera Statuta' (Ancient Statutes), this manuscript contains a copy of the Britton, the earliest summary of law in England written in French, and being an updated version of Henry Bracton's mid 13th-century De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae (Laws and Customs of Engl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

3315. Harley MS 5274/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5274/1
Title:
Detached former binding of Harley MS 5274
Scope & Content:
Detached brown leather binding, tooled in gold, with the spine affixed to a paper fragment. The binding was formerly attached to Harley MS 5274 (a collection of English statutes).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Former binding of Harley MS 5274

3316. Harley MS 5275

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5275
Title:
Robert Grosseteste, Château d'amour
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-59v: Robert Grosseteste, Château d'amour [Latin]. Decoration: Blue initials with red penwork decoration and pen-flourishing.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3317. Harley MS 5279

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5279
Title:
Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi (Summary of the Histories of Pompeius Trogus) by the Roman historian Marcus Junianus Justinus (mid-2nd century to late 4th century), also known as Justin. Contents: ff. 1r-154v: Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3318. Harley MS 5281

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5281
Title:
Book of Assizes held in the reign of Edward III
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 7r-160r: The Book of Assizes held in the reign of Edward III. The manuscript contains several additions: ff. 1v, 2v: Memorandi for payments, several referring to ‘Ricardus Mancipill’ and ‘Thomas Lyddy[n]’; added in the (?) 16th century. f. 4r: Nomina regum Angliae post Conqu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3319. Harley MS 5284/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5284/1
Title:
Breviary
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–101v: Fragments of a noted breviary. Decoration: Major sections open with initials in colours (ff. 24v, 48v, 66v, 72r, 83v); other divisions marks with two-line initials alternating in red and blue with penwork in the opposite colour; staves in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

3320. Harley MS 5284/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5284/2
Title:
Smaragdus, Diadema monachorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-60v: Smaragdus, Diadema monachorum; beginning: 'Hunc librum Smaragdus composuit qui nomen diadema monachorum illi imposuit: quia sicut diadema gemmis ita et hic liber virtutibus’. Decoration: Large red or brown initials with minor penwork decoration in the same colour. Small...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

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