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4141. Harley MS 3995

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3995
Title:
Collection of monastic texts
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-42v: Bonaventure, Breviloquium. ff. 43r-57r: Bonaventure, Lignum vitae (Tree of Life). ff. 57r-61v: Bonaventure, Ordinarium vite religiose (Lecture on the Religious Life). ff. 62r-99v: Rule of St Basil. ff. 99v-103v: Rule of SS Paul and Stephen. ff. 104r-122r: commentary on the Augus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

4142. Harley MS 3996

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3996
Title:
Nicolas de Nicolay, Navigation de la Mer
Scope & Content:
An account of James V’s navigation round Scotland in 1540 written by Nicolas de Nicolay (1517-83), royal geographer and lord of Arfeuille et Bel-Air. Based upon the pilot book of James’ navigator, Alexander Lindsay. A presentation copy for Cardinal Charles de Lorraine (1524-74). De Nicolay would...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1547-1566
Extent:
1 volume

4143. Harley MS 3997

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3997
Title:
Horace, Ars poetica, Odes, Epodes, Epistles and Satires
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the major works of the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (b. 65, d. 8 BC), also known as Horace. Contents: ff. 3r-12v: Horace, Ars poetica; ff. 13r-75v: Horace, Odes; ff. 75v-89v: Horace, Epodes; ff. 90r-120r: Horace, Epistles; ff. 120r-162v: Horace, Satires....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

4144. Harley MS 3999

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3999
Title:
Collection of devotional texts
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes a miscellany of devotional texts produced in one campaign as a collection: ff. 1r-24r: Le trésor attributed to Jean de Meun, rubric: 'Icy commence le tresor maistre Jehan de Mehun', incipit: 'O glorieuse trinite'. ff. 25r-65v: Pierre de Nesson, Les vigiles des morts, ru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1430-c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

4145. Harley MS 4000

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4000
Title:
An epistolary discourse in defence of the Protestant religion
Scope & Content:
f. 1r: Note suggesting that this work came from the Queen's closet due to the markings E R A F H ('Elizabetha Regina Angliae Franciae Hiberniae') on the original vellum binding that has been pasted onto f. 2r and f. 77v. ff. 3r–4r: An explanation of the contents, written in the same hand as the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1567
Extent:

1 volume

4146. Harley MS 4001

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4001
Title:
Chroniques abrégées, also known as The 'Manual' of Philip VI of France
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-144v: Chroniques abrégées, also known as The 'Manual' of Philip VI of France, compiled from the Speculum historiale of Vincent of Beauvais and sometimes attributed to a monk of Saint-Denis, beginning: '[L]a cause afait ceste compilacion'. Decoration: Rubrics in red. Marginal ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

4147. Harley MS 4003

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4003
Title:
Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae and Expugnatio Hibernica; Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae; and other historical texts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a number of historical works, including Topographia Hiberniae and Expugnatio Hibernia by the historian Gerald of Wales (b. 1146, d. 1223) and the Historia regum Britanniae of the chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth (b. c. 1095, d. c. 1155). The former binding of the manusc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter 14th century-1st quarter 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

4148. Harley MS 4003/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4003/1
Title:
Detached former binding of Harley MS 4003
Scope & Content:
Detached brown leather binding, blind-tooled. The binding was previously attached to Harley MS 4003 (a copy of Gerald of Wales' Topographia Hiberniae and Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae) and is now stored separately.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
Former binding of Harley MS 4003

4149. Harley MS 4004

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4004
Title:
Collection of English law cases; indentures of John Estrete; formulary of English Civil Law
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of three parts that were produced separately and written by different hands. Contents: Part 1: ff. 1r-107v: Collection of English law cases; written in Law French in the last quarter of the 15th century or 1st quarter of the 16th century. Part 2: ff. 108...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4150. Harley MS 4005

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4005
Title:
Book of Numbers with glossa ordinaria
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-137v: The Book of Numbers with glossa ordinaria.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century - 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

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