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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 458
Title:: Coronation charters of Kings Henry I, Stephen and Henry II of England
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a bifolium of copies of the coronation charters of Kings Henry I, Stephen and Henry II in both Latin and Norman French. This is the only surviving copy of the coronation charters of Henry I and Henry II in Norman French translation. It bears the siglum 'Hl' in Felix Lieb...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 459
Title:: Office of St Martha
Scope & Content:: f. 2r: Table of contents (‘Contenta’), in a 16th/17th-century hand listing five texts which were bound together at that time, now Harley MSS 459–463: ‘Fragmentum veteris letaniæ / Index librorum Bibliothecæ quondam prioratus Lantoniæ / Expositio super Ezechielem ad litteram / Expositio imperfect...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 460
Title:: Catalogue of books of the Augustinian priory at Lanthony Secunda
Scope & Content:: f. 2r: Fragment of a parchment leaf, dating a revision of the catalogue to 1380: ‘Examinacio et visus librorum Lanthon’ iuxta Gloucestr’ in Ebdomeda Pasche Anno domini millesimo cccᵐᵒ· lxxxᵐᵒ·. ¶ Et memorandum quod examinacio secundum hoc Registrum fuit Vnde de libris deficientibus secundum dict...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1355-1380
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 461
Title:: Richard of Saint-Victor, In uisionem Ezechielis
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–29v: Richard of Saint-Victor, In uisionem Ezechielis. Concludes with a passage not found in printed editions, ‘De hoc monticulo dixit ysaias. erit mons in uertice montium. cm monticulus. esset paruus. et parua planicies que non posset sufficere … facta regum tam israel quam’, ending imper...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 462
Title:: Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–23r: Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea (selections, in several different hands). In the 17th century, the manuscript was bound as one volume with Harley MS 459–461 and Harley MS 463 (see table of contents in Harley MS 459, f. 2v). Decoration: Some sections open with a two-line initial...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 13th century-Early 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 463
Title:: Jacques de Vitry, Collection of exempla
Scope & Content:: Collection of exempla arranged under the following rubrics: f. 1r: ‘De membris que conspiraverunt contra ventrem’. f. 1r: ‘De diabolo reportante ampullas vacuas’. f. 1r: ‘De heremita qui patrem suum occidebat’. f. 1v: ‘Quibus solet apparere diabolus, et qualiter potest deprehendi’. f. 1v: ‘...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 465
Title:: Genealogies of English nobility and kings, up to the time of Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1: A table of contents. ff. 2r-168r: A book of genealogies of English nobility and kings, up to the time of Elizabeth I. Decoration: Circles in red ink for genealogies throughout.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 466
Title:: Journal of William Hawke on board HMS Woolf
Scope & Content:: Manuscript journal of William Hawke on board HMS Woolf, under the command of Captain George Purvis, 20 December 1690-14 November 1691. In this time HMS Woolf sailed from England to Virginia, from Virginia back to England, and then from England to Ireland. Contents: f. 1 (upside down): Extra ent...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1690-1691
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 466-467 and 5151
Title:: Three naval journals
Scope & Content:: Three journals, from different authors, detailing their voyages made in the 1690s. Harley MS 466 and Harley MS 467 are different journals from crew members of the same ship, HMS Woolf.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1690-1695
Extent:: 1 volume (3 items)

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 467
Title:: Journal of John Fairman on board HMS Woolf
Scope & Content:: Manuscript journal of John Fairman on board HMS Woolf, under the command of Captain George Purvis, 19 August 1690-19 December 1691. Contents: ff. 1-44v: Jounral of John Fairman on board HMS Woolf, 19 August 1690-19 December 1691. f. 45v: Short notes of tobacco sold by the Captain of the ship, a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1690-1694
Extent:: 1 item

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