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81. Harley MS 849

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 849
Title:
Edmund Plowden, A treatise proving Mary Queen of Scots' right to the English throne, 1566
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–30v: 'A treatice prouing that if our Soueraigne Lady queen Elizabeth (whom god blesse with long lyffe & many children) shoulde die without issue; that the Quene of Scottes by her birthe in Scotlande is not disabled by the lawe of England to receiue the crowne of Inglande by discent.' ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

82. Harley MS 875

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 875
Title:
William Langland, Vision of Piers Plowman
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*recto-1*verso: a title ‘VERBA (?) [LATINA]’. f. 1*verso: Latin excerpts (partially legible) from an etymological dictionary. One excerpt (‘Delubra diceba[n]t[ur] [ve]t[er]es templa fontes h[aben]cia in quibus an[te] i[n]g[re]ssu[m] [diluebantur] un[de] diceban[tur] delubra a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

83. Harley MS 986

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 986
Title:
Richard Symonds, Notes on ensigns and officers during the First English Civil War
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. i recto: A note from the British Museum, dated to 30 October 1856: 'Memorandum: In the printed Harleian Catalogue, Vol. 1. 499, art. 4, of the present volume is described as "Original Passe from Sir John Needham Governor of Leicester, to Richard Symonds, dated Leicester, 5 March, 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1643-1644
Extent:
1 volume

84. Harley MS 1023

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1023
Title:
Gospel-book
Scope & Content:
This is a 12th-century illuminated Gospel-book with glosses in Irish and Latin, and added texts in Latin. Its close similarities in text, script and decoration with the Gospels of Mael Brigte (Harley MS 1802) and the Book of Armagh (Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 52) both made in Armagh, su...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

85. Harley MS 1239

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1239
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde; a selection from The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of works by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400): Troilus and Criseyde, and a selection from The Canterbury Tales. The latter includes The Knight's Tale, The Man of Law's Prologue and Tale, The Wife of Bath's Tale, The Clerk's Tale, and The Franklin's Tale. Con...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

86. Harley MS 1245

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1245
Title:
John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes; Defence of Holy Church
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-182v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes [Books 1-9], imperfect; an English translation of Laurent de Premierfait’s Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes, which is a French translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (‘On the Fates of Famous Men’). ff. 182v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

87. Harley MS 1304

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1304
Title:
John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady; ‘Questiones by twene the Maister of Oxenford and his Clerke’; The ABC of Aristotle, and other proverbs
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-99r: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady (Boffey and Edwards, New Index (2005), no. 2574). ff. 100r-102v: ‘Questiones by twene the Maister of Oxenford and his Clerke’. ff. 103r-103v: The ABC of Aristotle, and other proverbs (Boffey and Edwards, New Index (2005), no. 4155). Deco...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

88. Harley MS 1337

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1337
Title:
The Prose Brut Chronicle, with a collection of prophecies attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer, Merlin and others
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-105r: The Prose Brut Chronicle (abbreviated version to 1419); ending with the explicit: 'Here endith a book callyd the Croniclis of Englonde made & compilid by notabil Clerkis of aventuris of kyngis þat were in þis londe and howe þey died' (f. 105r). The manuscript contai...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

89. Harley MS 1338

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1338
Title:
A collection of university determinationes, once including a fair copy of material relating to King Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-85v: A collection of university determinationes. It once included a fair copy of material relating to King Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

90. Harley MS 1344

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1344
Title:
Narratives of events in the career of Sir Francis Vere
Scope & Content:
This volume provides copies of five narratives describing events in the career of Sir Francis Vere (b. 1560/61, d. 1609), army officer and diplomat, as Lord Marshal in the campaigns of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, against Cadiz and the Azores, and as general commanding the English compani...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1602-c 1650
Extent:
1 volume

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