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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2307
Title:: A view of Devonshire, by Thomas Westcote
Scope & Content:: History and topographical account of Devonshire by ThomasWestcote (c 1567-c 1637). Published as A View of Devonshire 1630, ed. George Oliverand Pitman Jones (1845). Manuscript includes marginal notes, additions, andcorrections. The author’s postscript apology for the work, addressed ‘To thegener...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1630
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2330
Title:: Middle English translations of tracts by Pseudo-Augustine
Scope & Content:: Contents: Middle English translations of four pseudo-Augustinian texts thought to have been made by an anonymous Wycliffite translator. ff. 1r-66v: Middle English translation of Pseudo-Augustine, De salutaribus documentis (beginning 'A my dere broþir if þou coneitist to wite'). ff. 66v-97v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2351
Title:: Bible, including the Interpretation of Hebrew Names
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-354v: Bible, including the Interpretation of Hebrew Names, imperfect; Psalms incomplete (only Psalm 1 to the middle of Psalm 5 on f. 127v). Includes the Interpretation of Hebrew Names at the end (ff. 325r-350v). The manuscript contains a few additions: ff. 321v-324r: Text wi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2353
Title:: Bible, including the Interpretation of Hebrew Names
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-430v: Bible, including the Interpretation of Hebrew Names. Decoration: 1 historiated initial in gold and colours with foliate decoration and winged dragon, containing Matthew seated with open book for the beginning of Matthew's Gospel (f. 320r). 1 large initial in gold and col...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2633
Title:: Macrobius, Commentary on the Dream of Scipio
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-66v: Macrobius, Commentary on the Dream of Scipio, with added glosses. Decoration: 7 diagrams or maps in brown ink: the orbs of the planets surrounding the earth ('globus terre'), with the sphere of the fixed stars at the periphery, identified by the names of the zodiacal s...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 12th century-3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2825
Title:: Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew Names
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-370v: Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew Names, imperfect; the text is missing the beginning of II Chronicles. Includes the Psalms (ff. 162r-180v) and the Interpretation of the Hebrew Names (ff. 344-370v); with the inscription on f. 343v: 'Exaucto libro sic laus et gloria...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3168
Title:: Proverbia, Ecclesiastes, Canticum Canticorum, Sapientia, Ecclesiasticus, glossed
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-172v: The biblical books of Proverbia, Ecclesiastes, Canticum Canticorum, Sapientia, Ecclesiasticus, glossed. The manuscript contains several later additions: ff. 49v-65v (and elsewhere): Added marginal and interlinear glosses, 13th/14th century. f. 172v: An early modern in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3202
Title:: Laurence of Durham, Hypognosticon, and other poems
Scope & Content:: A composite manuscript of Laurence of Durham’s Hypognosticon and several poems. Contents: f. 1r: an added inscription in an early modern hand, 'In this book 119 folia'. ff. 1r-7v: Hildebert of Lavardin, De casu huius mundi. ff. 8r-112v: Laurence of Durham, Hypognosticon, preceded by a metr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3310
Title:: Filippo Roddi, Annales of Ferrara, books 1-3
Scope & Content:: A chronicle of Ferrara, interspersed with images of prominent individuals and their families in the duchy. Written by Filippo Roddi, LLD. ff. 1-4: portrait medallions of members of the Este family of Ferrara, with captions. 1st quarter of the 16th century. f. 5r: title page. ff. 6r-39r: table...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5839
Title:: Coats of arms granted by William Camden
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. [ii]recto: A title inscription: ‘Camdens Gifts’. ff. 1*recto-3*recto: An alphabetical index of families included in this manuscript. ff. 1r-42v: Coats of arms (4 per page) granted by William Camden (b. 1551, d. 1623), Clarenceux King of Arms, dated between 1600 and 1622. ff. 4...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1622
Extent:: 1 volume

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