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4001. Harley MS 3872

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3872
Title:
Compilation of classical texts
Scope & Content:
f. 1r: list of contents, pastedown. f. 2r: table of contents. ff. 2v-63v: Valerius Maximus, Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX (Nine Books of Memorable Deeds and Sayings), imperfect, missing the first quire. ff. 64r-91v: Sallust, Bellum Catilinae (The War with Catiline) and Bellum Jug...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1377
Extent:
1 volume

4002. Harley MS 3873

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3873
Title:
Registra brevium for 1654 and 1655, and ‘A Breviary of Suffolk’ by Robert Ryece
Scope & Content:
Manuscript containing collections of writs for 1654-1655 and Robert Ryece’s ‘Breviary of Suffolk’. Contents: ff. 1, 1*, 1**: preliminary pages with pen trials, doodles and names. Names: ‘Mr Thomas Ruse’ (f. 1*), Richard Hankbee… 1664’ (f. 1**). ff. 2-9: Collection of writs for 1654 and 1655. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4003. Harley MS 3874

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3874
Title:
Account of the manors, lands and tenements held by the Crown from Henry III to Edward IV
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-425v: Account of the manors, lands and tenements held by the Crown from Henry III to Edward IV, divided into four parts: Henry III to Edward II (ff. 2r-71v); Edward III to Richard II (ff. 72r-242v); Henry IV to Henry V (ff. 243r-315v); Henry VI to Edward IV (ff. 316r-425v). Eac...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1470
Extent:
1 volume

4004. Harley MS 3877

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3877
Title:
Polychronicon by Ranulf Higden, with a continuation to 1377
Scope & Content:
Contents: 1. (ff. 1r-8r): Alphabetical index to the Polychronicon. Topics are keyed to book and chapter numbers. The index is on a different type of parchment and in the hand of a different scribe, who also has provided marginal notes throughout the manuscript, as well as occasional correction...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex, 217 folios

4005. Harley MS 3880

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3880
Title:
A rental of the Crown lands and revenues of 1552-1553
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-189v: A rental of the Crown lands and revenues of 1552-1553.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1553
Extent:
1 volume

4006. Harley MS 3883

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3883
Title:
Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates iudaicae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Antiquitates iudaicae (Jewish Antiquities) by the Roman-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus (b. 37, d. 100). Contents: 1r-306r: Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates iudaicae, beginning: ‘Hystoriam scribere disponentibus non una nec eandem’. Decoration: Large initials in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

4007. Harley MS 3884

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3884
Title:
Polychronicon by Ranulf Higden, with a continuation to 1454
Scope & Content:
Contents: 1. (f. 1r): Mnemonic verse on the kings of England, on a scrap of parchment pasted on, following rebinding. 'Will con Wil Rufus hen stephanus hen que secundus / Ri Ion henricus Edward tres Ri que secundus / post hos regnarunt quartus quintus & henri'. 2. (ff. 1r-229r): Polychro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1460
Extent:

1 parchment codex, 244 folios

4008. Harley MS 3885

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3885
Title:
John Scottowe, Alphabet book, with English and Latin phrases
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-24v: John Scottowe, Alphabet book, with English and Latin phrases; inscribed 'Mr Tharlton' (inside the letter 'T') with a poem about him, beginning, 'The picture here set down, / Within this letter T, / Aright doth shew the form and shape / Of Tharlton unto thee' (f. 19r). Ric...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

4009. Harley MS 3891

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3891
Title:
Cartulary of Holm Cultram Abbey
Scope & Content:
General cartulary, containing charters relating mainly to the time of Edward II (r. 1307–27) and Edward III (1327–77), arranged in 15 sections: f. 1r–v, 3r–7r: Added charters, mid 14th century. ff. 8v–9v, 2r: Contemporary table of contents (f. 2 has been misplaced after f. 9). ff. 10r–11v: Se...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

4010. Harley MS 3892

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3892
Title:
Miscellaneous texts on rhetoric, grammar, geometry and divination
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous and composite volume made of 5 small manuscripts written by different scribes (ff. 1r-8v; 9r-16v; 17r-24v; 25r-42v; 43r-58v). Includes: Pseudo-Boethius, De disciplina scholarium, imperfect (ff. 1r-8v); De scholastica disciplina liber scilicet grammatica, imperfect (ff. 9r-16v);...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1400-1454
Extent:
58 folios.

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