Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 194
Title:: The Chronicle of Queen Jane
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-93r: A pocket diary known as the 'Chronicle of Queen Jane', covering the period July 1553-1554, here entitled ‘An Annale of Queene Marie her Raigne or a great part of it ab Anonym[ous]’. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. [vi]recto: A note on the manuscript by Sir...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1553-1554
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 197
Title:: A clog-almanack
Scope & Content:: This almanack has been transferred to the British Museum. It is described in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, I (1808), p. 62, as 'An old Clog-Almanack, used in Derbyshire, or Staffordshire: cut upon [...]'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Undetermined
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: A wooden calendar

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 198
Title:: A clog-almanack
Scope & Content:: This almanack has been transferred to the British Museum. It is described in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, I (1808), p. 62, as 'A Copy of another old Clog-Almanack, lately cutt in Box [Wiltshire or Goucestershire]; it differs from the latter [Harley MS 197]'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Undetermined
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: A wooden calendar

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 200
Title:: Robert of Avesbury, Chronicles; Aelred of Rievaulx, Vita sancti Edwardi regis
Scope & Content:: Composite volume, with booklets consisting of f. 2 (late 15th century); ff. 4–147 (mid 15th century); and ff. 150–207 (first half of the 13th century), bound together with additions by Symonds D’Ewes. f. 2r: Full page miniature, 185 × 110 mm, in colours and gold of a coronation, with the heir t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century-Late 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 201
Title:: Robert of Gloucester, Chronicle of English history
Scope & Content:: ff. 4r–161r: Robert of Gloucester, Chronicle of English history in rhyming couplets (metrical chronicle). Harley MS 201 was used by Thomas Hearne for his edition of Robert of Gloucester's chronicle, since it supplies text missing in British Library, Cotton MS Caligula A XI. Decoration: Full ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 202
Title:: Pierre de Langtoft, Chroniques
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Anglo-Norman Chroniques (Chronicles) by Pierre (Peter) de Langtoft (b. 1270, d. 1300) covering the period from 688 to 1294. The text has the siglum 'Ha' in Wright's critical edition. Contents: ff. 2r-89v: Pierre de Langtoft, Chroniques. [f. 1v is blank]. Decorat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 203
Title:: Innocent III, De Officio Missae; Anselm of Canterbury's theological treatises
Scope & Content:: Composite volume consisting of two booklets (ff. 1–28, 29–98). ff. 1r–26r: Innocent III, De Officio Missae (The Office of the Mass). ff. 26r–28v: Commentary on the Apostles’ Creed and Lord’s Prayer, ‘Credo in deum patrem omnipotentem'. ff. 29r–52v: Anselm of Canterbury, De Incarnatione Verbi ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 204
Title:: `Sir John Mandeville', Voyage d'outre mer
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the popular 14th-century text Voyage d'outre mer by the supposed author 'Sir John Mandeville', commonly known as 'The Travels of Sir John Mandeville'. This 15th-century copy of the text belongs to group A of the so-called 'vulgate or insular version' and has the siglum '...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 205
Title:: Raymond of Peñafort, Summa de casibus poenitentiae
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–2v: Bifolium from the end of a 14th-century list of proverbs in alphabetical order, bound backwards. ff. 3r–67v: Raymond of Peñafort, Summa de casibus poenitentiae, with gloss, imperfect. ff. 68r–71v: Fragments from a 12th-century liturgical manuscript with musical notation, including t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 207
Title:: The Banckett of John the Reve, unto Piers Ploughman, Laurens Laborer, Thomlyn Tailyor, and Hobb of the Hille
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains an early 16th-century Catholic-Protestant disputation on the Transubstantiation. Contents: ff. 1r-29r: The Banckett of John the Reve, unto Piers Ploughman, Laurens Laborer, Thomlyn Tailyor, and Hobb of the Hille; the title page on f. 1r contains the year ‘1532’ (with ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1532
Extent:: 1 volume

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