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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 602
Title:: Register of St Albans Abbey
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Added charters in Latin and English. f. 1v: Ownership inscriptions. ff. 2r–95r: Miscellaneous register of St Albans Abbey, containing rentals, leases, acquittances etc., made before 1396.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 610
Title:: Liber Niger Domus Regis Edwardi IV
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-77r: Liber Niger Domus Regis Edwardi IV or 'The Coppye of the Blacke Book of the Orders of the Kinges Howshould kepte in the custodye of the Comptroler'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 613
Title:: Bible
Scope & Content:: Bible, imperfect: begins in Genesis 34:23; incipit: '[ha]bitantes simul unum efficiemus populum'. Includes: Genesis (ff. 1r-6v); Exodus (ff. 6v-18v); Leviticus (18v-24v); Numbers (ff. 24v-36r); Deuteronomy (ff. 36r-47r); Jerome's prologue to Judges (ff. 47r-47v); Joshua (ff. 47v-55v); Judges (f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 615
Title:: Genealogies of Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Shropshire
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-6r: An index of names. ff. 7r-243r: Genealogies of Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Shropshire, copied by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Heralds, at his Visitation of 1569; made at the order of Alexander Evesham. The manuscript contains a few later addi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 616
Title:: Bible (Genesis-Psalms)
Scope & Content:: First volume of the Bible (Genesis-Psalms), incipit: 'Cist livres est apelez Genesis por ce que il est de la generation du ciel et de la terre'; ends imperfectly in Psalm 109, explicit: 'De ci a tant que je aie miste ennemis souz les...'. The second volume, containing Proverbs-Revelation, is no...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 618
Title:: Certificates of the state of parishes of the diocese of Lincoln in the time of Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-39v: Certificates of the state of parishes of the diocese of Lincoln in the time of Queen Elizabeth I.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1560-c 1570
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 619
Title:: Miroir du Fleur de la Noblesse du Pays-Bas
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were created at different times. Part 1 (ff. 1r-81v) is dated to 1586. Part 2 (ff. 82r-89v) was copied by Sir Simonds D'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), perhaps (but not necessarily) after he acquired the first part in 1624. Contents: Part 1: f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1586-c 1650
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 621
Title:: Du cas des nobles hommes et femmes: a translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium by Laurent de Premierfait
Scope & Content:: Du cas des nobles hommes et femmes: a translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium by Laurent de Premierfait. Imperfect. The beginning of Book I, chapter 1 is lost. Incipit (f. 1r): 'premiers partus fut grant et telle que a elle aucune aultre ne se compare'. Fol...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 622
Title:: Roman Gradual
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-1v: Lections for Easter Thursday and Easter Friday, imperfect. ff. 2r-231v: Roman Gradual. The manuscript contains several later additions: f. 156v: The hymn Sanctus, added by a 16th-century hand. Numerous marginal additions for feasts (e.g. for St Edmund and St Edward th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 623
Title:: Excerpts from Domesday Book by Sir Simonds D’Ewes
Scope & Content:: Autograph manuscript volume, in folio. Title inscribed on first folio: ‘Excerptiones ex utroque Tomo sive Volumine appellato Domesdei, augustissimo et omnium antiquissimo in Achivis Regni Angliae cimeliorum Recordo; a Domino Simonds D’Ewes De Stowhall in agro Suffolciensi. Equite durato et Bar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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