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7001. Harley MS 7315

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7315
Title:
Miscellany containing mostly political poetry
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume containing various verses and prose in two parts, by two or more professional scribes. The first part (ff. 1-149) is indexed (ff. 150-151). The second part (ff. 152-303) contains a table of contents at the front. Contents: ff. 1-7v: 'The second Advice to a Painter for dr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1703
Extent:
1 volume

7002. Harley MS 7322

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7322
Title:
Collections of Latin sermons, theological excerpts, moralized tales, moral discourses and expositions on biblical citations
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*verso-2*verso: Latin sermons. ff. 1r-12v: A collection of theological excerpts attributed to Augustine of Hippo; Bernard of Clairvaux; Bede the Venerable; Isidore of Seville; Jerome; Ambrose; Caesarius of Arles; Gregory the Great; Origen; John Chrysostom; and Seneca. Beginning...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

7003. Harley MS 7333

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7333
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, and other Middle English poetic works by Benedict Burgh, John Lydgate, Richard Sellyng, Charles d'Orléans, John Gower and Thomas Hoccleve
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-24v: Middle English Prose Brut. f. 25r: Benedict Burgh, Cato Minor. ff. 25r-30v: Benedict Burgh, Cato Major. ff. 30v-31r: Complaint of a Prisoner against Fortune. ff. 31r-32v: On the English title of Henry VI to the Crown of France. f. 32v: A roundel on the Coronation ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

7004. Harley MS 7334

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7334
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400), including the Tale of Gamelyn. See Boffey and Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (2005), no. 4019. For an edition, see Riverside (1987). The tales are in an order which is unique to this manuscript, they lack some headings and r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1410
Extent:

1 volume

7005. Harley MS 7335

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7335
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-163v: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; imperfect. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 139v: a practice alphabet and inscriptions (‘essavyd offe my master’) Decoration: The manuscript is minimally decorated. Occasional small-scale strap-work in brown ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

7006. Harley MS 7336

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7336
Title:
Catalogue of Roman and Byzantine imperial gold coinage
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a 17th-century catalogue of Roman and Byzantine imperial gold coinage. The catalogue is arranged in chronological order, beginning with the Roman general Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (b. 106, d. 48 BC) and Julius Caesar (b. 100, d. 44 BC), and ending with the Byzantine emperor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

7007. Harley MS 7337

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7337
Title:
A Collection of the most celebrated Services and Anthems used in the Church of England from the Reformation to the Restauration of K. Charles II. Volume 1.
Scope & Content:
A Collection of the most celebrated Services and Anthems used in the Church of England from the Reformation to the Restauration of K. Charles II. The Anthems included are: —1. 'I call and cry to thee, O Lord' (5 parts); originally written (as well as the three following) to Latin words. 'Tho. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1715-1720
Extent:
1 volume (196 folios)

7008. Harley MS 7337-7342

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7337-7342
Title:
'A Collection of the most celebrated Services and Anthems used in the Church of England from the Reformation to the Restauration of K. Charles II. Composed by the best masters, and collected by Thomas Tudway, D.M., Musick-Professor to the University of Cambridge, a.d. mdccxv.'
Scope & Content:
Services and anthems collected by Thomas Tudway, D.M., Musick-Professor to the University of Cambridge, 1715, and afterwards brought down to the end of Queen Anne's reign. In score. In six volumes. In a short introduction addressed to Edward, Lord Harley [2nd Earl of Oxford, 1724], for whom the ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1715-1720
Extent:

6 volumes (196, 254, 244, 268, 294, 383 folios)

7009. Harley MS 7338

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7338
Title:
A Collection of the most celebrated Services and Anthems used in the Church of England from the Reformation to the Restauration of K. Charles II. Volume 2.
Scope & Content:
'A Collection of … Services and Anthems, both ancient and modern … beginning at the Restauration of K. Charles II. . . . collected . . . a.d. mdccxvi.' Preceded by another introduction to Lord Harley, giving an account of the innovations made by Charles II in the royal Chapel and of their influe...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1715-1720
Extent:
1 volume (254 folios)

7010. Harley MS 7339

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7339
Title:
A Collection of the most celebrated Services and Anthems used in the Church of England from the Reformation to the Restauration of K. Charles II. Volume 3.
Scope & Content:
Anthems and Services 'before and since the Restauration of King Charles the IId, mdccxvi '; preceded by an introduction alluding briefly to the royal and otherwise distinguished persons who have written music, among whom the collector specially mentions Henry VIII, the Emperor Leopold I, and the...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1715-1720
Extent:
1 volume (244 folios)

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