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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4725, ff 156r-205v
Title:: Jacques de Vitry, Life of Mary of Oignies,
Scope & Content:: Jacques de Vitry, Life of Mary of Oignies, rubric: 'Incipit prefacio iacobi de vitri in vita xristi ancille sancte marie de oignies ad fulconem tolosanum episcopum', incipit: 'Precepit dominus discipulis suis.' Decoration: Large puzzle initials in red and blue with red and blue pen-flourishing ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 50 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4725, ff 206-213v
Title:: Collection of sermons
Scope & Content:: ff. 206r-210v: Tract or sermon on the Holly Cross, incipit: 'Mirabiliter cepit oriri arbor sancta de tribus virgulis composita'. ff. 210v-211v: Augustine, Sermo ad predicandum cotidianis diebus, rubric: 'Sermo sancti augustini de predicandum cotidianis', incipit: 'Oportet nos fratres carissimi ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4725, ff 214r-223v
Title:: Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew
Scope & Content:: The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, incipit: 'In diebus illis erat vir in Ierusalem nomine Ioachim'. Decoration: Initials and rubrics in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 10 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4731
Title:: Treatise on the power of the Church
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4r-120v: Treatise on the power of the Church, anonymous and untitled; featuring citations of the Church Fathers throughout. The manuscript contains several additions: f. 1v: Planetary symbols and signs of the Zodiac; added in the 16th century. f. 1v: 'Anno domini 1558 .8. De...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4733
Title:: Miscellany of Middle English verse containing 'Parvus Cato' and 'Cato Major' by Benedict Burgh, 'Proverbs of Old Philosophers' and 'Destruction of Jerusalem' ('Titus and Vespasian')
Scope & Content:: Contents: 1. (ff. 3r-30r): 'Parvus Cato' and 'Cato Major': the Disticha Catonis, translated into English verse by Benedict Burgh (d. in or before 1483). See Boffey and Edwards 2005, nos. 854 and 3955. For an edition of the Benedict Burgh translation, see Fumio Kuriyagawa, Paruus Cato Magnus Ca...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4735
Title:: Commentary on Aristotle, Physica; Nicolaus Lakmann, Formalitates
Scope & Content:: Contents: A commentary on Aristotle's Physica (ff. 1r-74v); Nicolaus Lakmann, Formalitates (ff. 75r-78r). Decoration: Initial in red at the beginning of the book 1. Space left for initials at the beginning of other books and Nicolaus Lakmann's Formalitates. Paraphs in red and first letters ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4735, ff 75r-78r
Title:: Nicolaus Lakmann, Formalitates
Scope & Content:: The Formalitates by Nicolaus Lakmann (b. 1415, d. 1479), a German Franciscan theologian, composed in 1442.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4737
Title:: Formulary for legal processes (Formularius Instrumentorum)
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-56v: Formularius Instrumentorum; formulary for legal processes in four books (one of which is missing), beginning: 'De principio et forma instrumentorum'. The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 1r (lower margin): A practice alphabet; added in the later Middle Ages. f. 1r (parchm...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1225-c 1275
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4740
Title:: Bindo Guerri da Siena, Distinctiones exemplorum Veteris et Novi Testamenti
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1v is blank. ff. 2r-163v: Bindo Guerri da Siena, Distinctiones exemplorum Veteris et Novi Testamenti. ff. 164r-175v: an index for the text. Occasional contemporary marginal notes. Decoration: 1 marginal coloured pen drawing of a brazier with fruits (f. 2r). Large initials...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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