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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 489
Title:: Treatise on the Laws of England (also known as Britton), attributed to John le Breton
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-153v: Treatise on the Laws of England (also known as Britton), attributed to John le Breton. Decoration: Small initials in blue, some with pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 490
Title:: Walter of Bibbesworth, Tretiz de langage
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-31v: Walter of Bibbesworth (b. 1235, d. 1270), Tretiz de langage, imperfect at the beginning and end, also known as 'Aprise de franceis', 'Femme' and Femina.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 491
Title:: William of Jumièges, Gesta Normannorum ducum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r–2v: Two leaves from a Mass lectionary, probably written in Lotharingia, mid-11th-century (see Gneuss, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (2003)). ff. 3r–46v: William of Jumièges, Gesta Normannorum ducum (Deeds of the Norman Dukes). ff. 47r–48v: Two leaves from a mortuary roll for Turgot...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 492
Title:: Alanus de Rupe, De Planctu Naturae; Richard de Bury, Philobiblon
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-54v: Alanus de Rupe, De Planctu Naturae. ff. 55r-95r: Richard de Bury [here attributed to Robert Holcot], Philobiblon. The manuscript contains a few additions: ff. 1*r-1*v: An endleaf from a legal manuscript, written in the 14th century. ff. 1r*, 96v: Latin inscription...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 493/1
Title:: Statuta Angliae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the first of two volumes (the other is Harley MS 493/1) containing the Statuta Angliae (The Statutes of England). Contents: ff. 2r-289v: Statuta Angliae. [f. 1r is blank]. Decoration: Numerous small initials in red. Paragraph signs in red and blue.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 493/2
Title:: Statuta Angliae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the second of two volumes (the other is Harley MS 493/1) containing the Statuta Angliae (The Statutes of England). Contents: ff. 1r-218v: Statuta Angliae. Decoration: Numerous small initials in red. Paragraph signs in red and blue.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 494
Title:: Anne Bulkeley's prayer-book
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r-v: Elevation prayer, beginning ‘I do salute the moste holy body’. ff. 2r-4r: Latin prayers on the Five Joys, beginning ‘laudo amo adoro’, based on the Liber Specialis Gratiae, I.19. ff. 4r-4*r: Latin prayers for the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, beginning ‘Veni sancte spiritus’....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1532-1535
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 495
Title:: Theological miscellany
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a miscellany of tales, sermons and short treatises. Contents: ff. 1r-3r: Excerpt from the Historia Regum Britanniae of Geoffrey of Monmouth concerning Merlin, ending, '...proferrem taceret spiritus qui me docet nec aliter ualerem loqui quam ceteri homines. Hec sunt s...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: First half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 496
Title:: ? Elyās Yūsof Neẓāmī Ganjavī Eskandar, Eskandar-nāmeh (Book of Alexander the Great)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript was recorded missing since before 1825. The contents according to the printed Harley catalogue (1808) were as follows: 'Codex in chartris bombycinis elegantissime scriptus, atq; more Persarum illuminatus, circa A.D. 1580. sc. Eskanderia, sive Libri v Poematum celeberrimi Poetæ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: c 1580
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 497
Title:
Scope & Content:: Alcoatim, Congregatio sive liber de oculis, and other short medical Texts ; 15th cent. Latin and Italian. Copies. A copy of Alcoatim's ophthalmologic treatise in Latin translation (ff. 1-46; item 1), followed by three other short texts relating to medicine. Owned in the late 15th-early 16th ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

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