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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4937
Title:: Seneca, Tragoediae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1-150v: Seneca, Tragoediae, with marginal glosses, dated to the early 15th century, possibly Venice, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.Each tragedy is introduced by a prologue. f. 1r: Added post-medieval inscription. Decoration: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4939
Title:: Appian, Histoire des guerres des romains
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-95r: Appian, Histoire des guerres des romains. Decoration: 1 full-page miniature with full foliate borders, in colours and gold (f. 1r) made around 1450 in Burgundy; 1 armorial full-page miniature, in colours and gold (f. 6v). 2 full-page miniatures with large decorated initi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 1450-1517
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4940
Title:: Matfre Ermengaud, Breviari d'amor
Scope & Content:: Contents: Matfre Ermengaud (Matfres Ermengau, Eymengau) de Beziers, Breviari d'Amor. An encyclopedic work explaining how the world is an emanation of love, it consists of 34,550 lines in verse in the Occitan dialect composed between 1288 and 1292. Decoration: 2 full-page miniatures with fol...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Occitan, Old
Date Range:: Mid 14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 232 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4941
Title:: Papers relating to the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral and other churches in the City of London
Scope & Content:: A volume, containing manuscript and printed material, relating to the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral, and other churches in the City of London, after the Great Fire of London. Contents: ff. 1-19: ‘His Majesties Commission concerning the Reparation of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Lond...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1663-1690
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4943
Title:: Orders of the Privy Council, 1570-1580
Scope & Content:: Copies of orders of the Privy Council, principally between 1570 and 1580. Mainly letters from Elizabeth I (1533–1603), queen of England and Ireland. f. 1*r: Flyleaf containing pen-trials, notes in Latin and English, and two names: ‘Xtopher Troughton Julij 1624’; ‘Edw: Pynchon’. ff. 1r-14v: Two...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1570-1580
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4947
Title:: Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius, Divinae institutiones, De ira Dei, and De opificio Dei
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes works by Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius (b. c. 240, d. c. 320), early Christian author and advisor to emperor Constantine I, preceded by his short biography by Jerome: 1. Jerome, Vita Lactantii, excerpt from De viris illustribus, incipit: 'Firminus qui est Lactantius Arn...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4949
Title:: Hilary of Poitiers, De Trinitate, De Synodis, Liber contra Constantium imperatorem, Liber ad Constantium imperatorem, Contra arianos sive Contra Auxentium
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-157v: Hilary of Poitiers, De Trinitate. ff. 130r-146v: Hilary of Poitiers, De Synodis. ff. 146v-152r: Hilary of Poitiers, Liber contra Constantium imperatorem. ff. 152r-155r: Hilary of Poitiers, Liber ad Constantium imperatorem. ff. 155v-157v: Hilary of Poitiers, Contra ari...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4950
Title:: Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, Institutiones
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-217v: Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian), Institutiones. Decoration: Partial border and initial with foliate decoration in colours and gold, with two winged putti supporting a laurel medallion with arms in the bas-de-page (f. 2r). Initials in gold with foliate decoration...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4951
Title:: John Halgren of Abbeville, Sermones dominicales; Roman Gradual
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript is formed of two parts that were produced separately in Southern France. The first part (ff. 1-118) was produced in the last quarter of the 12th or 3rd quarter of the 13th century and contains the sermons for Sundays attributed to John Halgren of Abbeville (d. 1237), Fr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 11th century -1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4951, ff 1-118
Title:: John Halgren of Abbeville, Sermones dominicales
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-118v: John Halgren of Abbeville, Sermones dominicales, beginning ‘Dominicales sermones iohannis de abbatis villa · episcopi Sabinensis’. Decoration: 1 large red initial with blue penwork decoration (f. 1r). Small initials in red or brown ink. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 4951

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