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4531. Harley MS 4919

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4919
Title:
Noted Missal, use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
Noted Missal, use of Sarum, imperfect. ff. 1r-6v: Calendar. ff. 7r:-226v: Temporale. ff. 226v-229v: Mass for the dedication of the church. ff. 229v-293v: Sanctorale. ff. 293v-338v: Common of the Saints with votive masses (ff. 221v-338v). Decoration: Full bar borders and initials in colou...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-c 1400
Extent:
Parchment codex

4532. Harley MS 4920

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4920
Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistolae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-150r: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistolae. Decoration: Full border in colours and gold with a coat of arms, supported by two angels, and an historiated initial in colours and gold with a man at a lecturn (f. 1r). Partial border with rinceaux decoration, a quadripartite square in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1450-1464
Extent:
1 volume

4533. Harley MS 4922

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4922
Title:
Marcus Junianus Justinus, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-127r: Marcus Junianus Justinus (Justin), Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi. Decoration: Historiated initial with a man in profile combined with a full foliate border with birds, coats of arms, a lion and putti (f. 1r). 42 white vine initials in gold and colours (ff. 7r, 16r, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1450-1466
Extent:
1 volume

4534. Harley MS 4924

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4924
Title:
Thomas Osborne, Treatise on arithmetic
Scope & Content:
A treatise on arithmetic by Thomas Osborne. Decoration: The decoration of the manuscript imitates that of printed books. It comprises: A title page with the royal arms of Queen Elizabeth I supported by a lion and a dragon and encircled by the Garter, with Elizabeth's initials E R held by ang...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1601-1602
Extent:

1 volume

4535. Harley MS 4926

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4926
Title:
Coats of arms of English families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-73v: Coats of arms with crests (4 per page) of English families; mostly dated between c. 1560-1600. ff. 74r-75v: An alphabetical index of surnames included in this manuscript. Decoration: Coats of arms, tricked in black ink, some with red and yellow highlights.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4536. Harley MS 4927

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4927
Title:
Cicero, various speeches, De amicitia and Paradoxa Stoicorum; Pseudo-Sallust, Invectiva in Ciceronem
Scope & Content:
This manuscript preserves several of Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC)’s orations, his treatises on friendship (De amicitia) and on the paradoxes of the Stoics (Paradoxa stoicorum) as well as a work spuriously attributed to Sallust and known as Sallust's oration against Cicero (Invecti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

4537. Harley MS 4929

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4929
Title:
Cicero, De Officiis, De Amicitia, and De Senectute
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-26r: Cicero, De Officiis, books 1-3; imperfect at the beginning. ff. 26v-37v: Cicero, De Amicitia. ff. 38r-46r: Cicero, De Senectute. f. 46v: Index of chapters. Decoration: Large blue initials in frames of red penwork. Capitals (1-line) highlighted in red. Paraphs in re...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

1 volume

4538. Harley MS 4930

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4930
Title:
The Brut Chronicle
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*r-1*f, 114r-114v: 2 leaves from an unidentified copy of Constantinus Africanus' Liber Pantegni, a translation of the Al-Kitāb al-Malakī by 'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi (d. 982), known in the Latin medieval west as Haly Abbas. ff. 1-111v : The Brut Chronicle. The manuscript con...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4539. Harley MS 4931

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4931
Title:
Composite volume of tracts and papers
Scope & Content:
Composite volume of prose and verse, state papers (chiefly 1640-1641), and parliamentary reports. In various hands. With an alphabetical index in a contemporary hand prefixed (ff. 1-6). Contents: f. 1: Miscellaneous epigrams from Latin authors and other sources. ff. 2-7r: Index to the volum...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4540. Harley MS 4932

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4932
Title:
A register of the transactions of the Privy Council of Scotland (1678-1682)
Scope & Content:
This item was transferred to the General Register House, Edinburgh, on 23 July 1910. According to the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, III (1812), p. 224, it is 'A Register of the Transactions of the Privy Council of Scotland, from the 11 of Sep. 1678 to Aug. 1 1682. A paper book; fairly...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Undetermined
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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