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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5711
Title:: Bible, vol. 2. Tana"kh תנ"ך
Scope & Content:: Language: Hebrew The second volume of the Bible with masorah magna and parva. Fols 1r-302v Tana"kh. תנ"ך Note: Second of a Hebrew Bible consisting of Lesser Prophets and Hagiographa. For the first volume, see The British Library, n.d.. Harley MS 5710. Decoration note: Initial-word panels w...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Hebrew
Date Range:: 1275-1299
Extent:: 302 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5716
Title:: Arba'ah Ṭurim by Jacob ben Asher ארבעה טורים
Scope & Content:: Language: Hebrew Arba'ah Ṭurim of Jacob ben Asher. Author: Jacob ben Asher (יעקב בן אשר) Arba'ah Ṭurim. ארבעה טורים Note: In two volumes: The British Library, n.d.. Harley MS 5716 (vol. 1) and The British Library, n.d.. Harley MS 5717 (vol. 2). For the colophon, see volume 2 (The British Li...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Hebrew
Date Range:: 1475
Extent:: 270 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5717
Title:: Collection of halakhic writings. Arba'ah Ṭurim by Jacob ben Asher ארבעה טורים and 1 other text
Scope & Content:: Language: Hebrew Even ha-῾ezer and Hoshen mishpaṭ of Arba῾ah Turim of Jacob ben Asher; Hilkhot de῾ot of the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides. Fols 2r-261v Author: Jacob ben Asher (יעקב בן אשר) Arba'ah Ṭurim. ארבעה טורים Note: In two volumes: The British Library, n.d.. Harley MS 5716 (vol. 1) an...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Hebrew
Date Range:: 1475
Extent:: 266 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5785
Title:: Gospel Lectionary (Gregory-Aland l 151; Scrivener evst. 151), with ecphonetic notation
Scope & Content:: Gospel Lectionary (Gregory-Aland l 151; Scrivener evst. 151), with ecphonetic notation
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: 359 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5908/1
Title:: Fragment of 'The Clerk's Tale', from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:: This single leaf contains a fragment of 'The Clerk's Tale' from The Canterbury Tales by the poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400), comprising ll. 808-891 of the text, beginning, 'Takeþ it aȝen I ȝeue ȝew leue of my grace'. The leaf was formerly f. 61 in Harley MS 5908, a 17th-century co...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 leaf

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6018
Title:: A catalogue of the manuscripts and printed books of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-146r: A catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631): ‘Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca Roberti Cottoni - 1621’. The heading and a number of later entries are in the hand of Robert Cotton (see Tite, The Early Records...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1621-1653
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6035
Title:: Journal of Sir Francis Walsingham's office, 1583-1585
Scope & Content:: Journal or memorandum book of Sir Francis Walsingham, principal secretary of state (c. 1532-1590). In the hands of Sir Francis Walsingham, Francis Mylles, Thomas Lake, Robert Beale, and others. f. i: Parchment fragment: ‘A leiger took out of the Secretaries office 1583’. ff. 1r-118v: Daily mem...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1583-1585
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6041
Title:: William Langland, Vision of Piers Plowman
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-96r: William Langland, Vision of Piers Plowman. ff. 97r-102v: A form of confession in Middle English prose; added below the text is ‘Explycit pere [p] Symele’. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 96v: Latin sayings: ‘ego sum bonus puer quem Deus amat’ and 'Equore ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6057
Title:: Verse miscellany compiled by Thomas Crosse
Scope & Content:: A quarto verse miscellany in various hands. Compiled mainly by Thomas Crosse in the 1630s, whose name appears in a poem, ‘An Acrostick upon my name’, at f. 1r. Later additions at ff. 63r-65r are dated 1677-1681. Contents include: f. 1*r: An acrostic poem on the name ‘Edward’ [deleted]. f. 1r: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1630-c 1681
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6101
Title:: A Scots heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A full-page coat of arms with crest (quarterly of nine): arms of Jermyn. f. 2r: The ‘Armes of the Balliam’. ff. 3r-17r: Royal arms, from King Malcolm III (‘Malcum Camoir’) to Mary I of Scotland [Mary, Queen of Scots] (r. 1542-1567). ff. 18r-71r: The arms of Scots peerage...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin and Scots
Date Range:: 1567-1578
Extent:: 1 volume

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