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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Harley Roll Digitised Content Platform BL Digitised Manuscripts (2024-)

1. Harley Roll T 11

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Roll T 11
Title:
Prayer or Amulet Roll
Scope & Content:
Contents: A roll containing prayers with textual and image-based talismans, including measured illustrations of the Passion. The roll is designed to be the exact length of Christ's body and was perhaps made to be carried or worn as an amulet for protection, or as a birth girdle. The first pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
Parchment Roll

2. Harley Roll Y 6

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Roll Y 6
Title:
Life of Guthlac (the 'Guthlac Roll', or Vita Sancti Guthlaci)
Scope & Content:
Parchment roll composed of four and a half pieces of parchment, on which can be found 18 tinted drawings in roundels of the life of St Guthlac (c. 673-714). The roundels are largely in ink, now much faded, with occasional washes of green, and, more rarely, yellow. The subjects of the roundels ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1175-1215
Extent:

1 roll

3. Harley Roll Y 21

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Roll Y 21
Title:
Lincolnshire jointure of Queen Jane Seymour
Scope & Content:
Roll listing part of the jointure of Queen Jane Seymour (b. 1509, d. 1537), being the money and lands given to support her financially during her marriage to Henry VIII, who had granted her more than 100 manors. The roll begins with lands formerly belonging to King John, listing the extent and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 16th century
Extent:
1 roll