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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5251
Title:: Pseudo-Fredegarius Scholasticus, Chronicon
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of the Chronicon (Chronicle),attributed to 'Fredegarius Scholasticus' in the 16th century; however, it is a compilation of several chronicles written by different 7th-century writers. The chronicleis composed of 4 books, which include the Liber generationis (Book of gene...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5280
Title:: Collection of Irish historical, mythological and religious texts
Scope & Content:: A collection of Irish texts from the Ulster, Finn and mythological cycles. Also some religious and glossarial material. A detailed catalogue description is provided in O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts, II, pp. 298-323. Contents: ff. 1-10 are later inserted paper leaves. ff....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:: Early 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6670
Title:: Cartulary of Coldstream Priory
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Cartulary of Coldstream Priory of St Mary, founded before 1166 by Cospatric III (d. 1166), Earl of Lothian and Dunbar. The cartulary contains copies of one charter of King Alexander II (r. 1214-1249) and several of the Earls of Dunbar, including Cospatric III (d. 116...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1434
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7003
Title:: A collection of letters, many of them written by, or addressed to, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Scope & Content:: A volume of original letters and copies, including correspondence on public foreign and domestic affairs, 1610–1717. A number of the letters are written by, or addressed to, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. ff. 1r–10v: 'A Letter to a person of Honour, Concerning the King's Disavowing the haueing...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1610-1717
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7509
Title:: Collection of copies of Greek inscriptions made in Asia Minor by William Sherard (1659-1728), Consul for the Turkey Company at Smyrna
Scope & Content:: Collection of copies of Greek inscriptions made in Asia Minor by William Sherard (1659-1728), Consul for the Turkey Company at Smyrna. Partly published in Edmund Chishull, Antiquitates Asiaticae, 1728. An index is now Add MS 5109.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7513
Title:: Grant of King Edgar of England (r. 959–975) to St Mary’s Abbey, Worcester
Scope & Content:: King Edgar grants to St Mary's Abbey, Worcester, privileges for land at Cropthorne, Overbury, Pendock, Worcestershire; Teddington, Gloucestershire; Mitton in Bredon, Sedgeberrow, Worcestershire; Northwick in Blockley, Evenlode, Daylesford, Dorn in Batsford, Icomb, Gloucestershire; Shipston-on-St...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: Early 12th century
Extent:: 1 leaf

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7653
Title:: The Harley Prayerbook
Scope & Content:: A fragment of a decorated prayerbook with an Old English gloss. Its text and decoration link it to a group of Southumbrian prayerbooks known as the 'Tiberius Group'. In particular, its script and contents are related to those in Royal MS 2 A XX (the Royal Prayerbook), Harley MS 2965 (the Book of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: late 8th to first quarter of 9th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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