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4411. Harley MS 4742

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4742
Title:
Legal treatises
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-16v: 'Consultationes tres de quæstionibus legis feudalis'. ff. 17r-32r: 'Rerum criminalium tractatus continens expositionem titulorum quadragesimi octavi ff[orum], Libri, cum interpretatione philosophicæ l[is]. Respiciendum [ff] de pœnis in qua quid præstare judex, aut quomod...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1588-1589
Extent:
1 volume

4412. Harley MS 4743

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4743
Title:
Gasparo Contarini, De republica Venetorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-97r: Gasparo Contarini (b. 1483, d. 1542), De republica Venetorum, beginning: 'Non ita tamen continuum est'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

4413. Harley MS 4744

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4744
Title:
A collection of prophecies and testimonies concerning Christ drawn from the Old and New Testaments
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-138r: A collection of prophecies and testimonies concerning Christ drawn from the Old and New Testaments. f. 141r: Pen trials (?) in a figure drawn in brown ink: ‘and for the use of my god master and to and for [...]’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4414. Harley MS 4745

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4745
Title:
Walter of Châtillon, 'Alexandreis'
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-68: Walter of Châtillon, 'Alexandreis', imperfect. A different hand supplied the text on ff. 64-68. Decoration: Puzzle and interlace initial in brown ink with pen-flourishing in ink and red (f. 14v). Puzzle or interlace initials with pen-flourishing in brown ink. Marginal r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century or 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4415. Harley MS 4747

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4747
Title:
Gospels
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-2v: Calendar for the use of Coldingham priory, fragment: July-October (early 13th century). ff. 3r-58r: Four Gospels, with marginal Ammonian sections. Decoration: Large puzzle initials in red and blue, with foliate decoration in green, yellow and brown, at the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
Parchment codex.

4416. Harley MS 4748

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4748
Title:
Index of the ‘Red Book’ of the Barons Segrave
Scope & Content:
Index of ‘the evidences copied in the boke cleped the Redeboke of þe lordshipe of Segrave’ (f. 3r). ff. 1*v: Fragment of a list of churches. ff. 1r–2r: List of holdings with summaries of how they are held by the Baron Segrave. f. 3r: Preface explaining the methodology, in English. ff. 3r–7r:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:

Paper codex

4417. Harley MS 4749

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4749
Title:
Tracts on baronies
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-29r: A collection of tracts on baronies, with an account of the 'controversy touching the Descent of the Dignity and Name of the Baronie of Abergaveny', and pedigrees, entitled: 'Presidents Collected out of a Number of Others and Titles of Honours Created by Writt to descend in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1598
Extent:
1 volume

4418. Harley MS 4751

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4751
Title:
A bestiary with additions from Gerald of Wales's Topographia Hibernica
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a bestiary from the 'second family' of bestiaries (see James, The Bestiary (1928), pp. 15-16) with additions from Gerald of Wales's (b. c. 1146, d. 1223) Topographia Hibernica (Topography of Ireland) on Irish birds. Contents: ff. 1r-74v: Bestiary, beginning: 'Bestiaru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century-Early 13th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

4419. Harley MS 4754

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4754
Title:
History, arms and genealogies of the English peerage
Scope & Content:
Contents: Part 1 (c. 1600): f. 2r: A title-page: 'The Baronage of England, viz. The Modern Stemms of the Peeres of this Kingdome Delineated for the Finding of the Kinred and Affinityes by their Severall Matches - The Armes of each particular family with his Creast for onarment being added unt...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1597-c 1663
Extent:
1 volume

4420. Harley MS 4760

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4760
Title:
A Treatise of the true Causes of the Prævarication of Churches Liberties of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*verso: A title inscription: ‘A Treatise of the true Causes of the Prævarication of Churches Liberties of England’; followed by two initials ‘S [?] G’ (perhaps the treatise’s author). ff. 1r-48v: A treatise in five chapters on King Henry VIII’s marriages, jurisdiction over the C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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