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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4826
Title:: John Lydgate, The Lives of SS Edmund and Fremund; John Lydgate and Benedict Burgh, Secrees of Old Philisoffres; Thomas Hoccleve, Regiment of Princes.
Scope & Content:: ff. 4r-50v: John Lydgate, The Lives of SS Edmund and Fremund. ff. 52r-81r: John Lydgate and Benedict Burgh, Secrees of Old Philisoffres. ff. 84r-144v: Thomas Hoccleve, Regiment of Princes. ff. 145rv-146v, and f. 139r (lower margin): Added English lyrics, 16th century. The manuscript contains...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1450 – c 1460
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4827
Title:: The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (extended version to 1419)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-157r: The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (extended version to 1419), entitled: 'Here bigynneth a booke whiche is callid Brute the Cronicles of Englond'; beginning: 'This boke treteh and telleth of þe kynges & principal lordes' The manuscript contains several later additio...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1419-c 1450
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4828
Title:: Treatise on the conduct of soldiers in war
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-32r: 'This boke Intictualled to the Practysed Soldiers for Remembraunce and to the unexpert for Instruckc[ion] Touching the noble [? art of ] the wars set on […] hand [...] B […]'. Beginning: 'When the prince of the lande is moved to the Warres and hath chosen his lyfftenaunt ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4830
Title:: Laws of the city of Avignon
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-17v: Laws of the city of Avignon, beginning with the rubric 'Aiso es la carta del covenes de la civitat de Avigno[n]', followed by the 'Convention de Beaucaire', a charter dated May 1251 ending the civil liberties of the city, as agreed between the municipal authorities of Avi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Occitan, and Occitan, Old
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4831
Title:: Paulinus of Nola, Letters and Poems
Scope & Content:: Contents: This manuscript consists of a collection of works written by Paulinus of Nola (d. 431), including letters, Carmina varia (poems) and the first ten Natalicia (a collection of poems dedicated to anniversary of St Felix of Nola). The numbers following the prose-epistles, which have not...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st or 2nd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4834
Title:: Gaius Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-146v: Gaius Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico (Commentaries on the Gallic War). [f. 147 is a ruled unwritten leaf]. Decoration: 1 three-sided white vine border in colours and gold with putti, butterflies, birds and the coat of arms of the Porzio family of Messina (f. 1r). ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4835
Title:: Cartulary of Clare Friary
Scope & Content:: f. 1*r: Label noting places in the cartulary. ff. 1r–59v: Cartulary of private deeds relating to Clare, arranged topographically, with a copy of one royal charter, 1364, at the beginning (ff. 58–59 should follow f. 6). f. 60r: Added leaf (16th century) with a note on the ground belonging to th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: Paper codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4842
Title:: Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1-87: Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni, imperfect, lacking part of Book 4, where 1 folio is ruled but nearly completely unwritten (f. 10). Written by Franciscus Caballus Montefortinas, 1464: his colophon 'Per me Fra[n]ciscum Caballum montefortinatem vigesima octav...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1464
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4843
Title:: Lives of St Cuthbert and other texts relating to the Cathedral Priory of St Cuthbert, Durham
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes a collection of lives of St Cuthbert, lives of other saints and historical texts relating to the Cathedral Priory of St Cuthbert, Durham: f. 1r: Life of St Nicasius, incipit 'Sancti Nicasius quirinus et scroniculus (sic) socii' (added). f. 1v: Table of contents. ff. 2...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1528
Extent:: Paper and parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4844/1
Title:: Sir Thomas Littleton, Littleton's Tenures
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the first volume of a set of two volumes with legal texts, together comprising Harley MS 4844. The second volume is Harley MS 4844/2. Contents: ff. 3r-112r: Sir Thomas Littleton [Lyttleton], Littleton's Tenures, divided in three books written in French (ff. 3r-50v), and begi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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