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1281. Harley MS 1671

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1671
Title:
The Weye of Paradys
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-85v: The Weye of Paradys; a Middle English translation of the Middle French Voie de Paradis; imperfect at the beginning and end. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: An English poem on St Erasmus, beginning 'Of Synt herassimus here may a man rede' [th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of 14th century-1st quarter of 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1282. Harley MS 1708

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1708
Title:
Cartulary of Reading Abbey
Scope & Content:
Cartulary, arranged mainly topographically, by counties. Sections of the founder’s and other royal charters at the beginning; additions, mainly 13th–14th century, throughout. ff. 1, 247: Fragments of an identified 14th-century theological commentary, used as flyleaves. f. 2r–v: Additions from ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Oct 1257-May 1258
Extent:

1 volume

1283. Harley MS 1813

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1813
Title:
Travels of Jerome Horsey
Scope & Content:
Manuscript account of the travels in Russia of Jerome Horsey, traveller and diplomat. Title page: ‘A relacion or memorial Abstracted owt of Sir Jerom Horsey his Travells, Imploiments, services and Negociacions, observed & written with his owne hand. Wherin he spent the most part of eighten ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1589-c 1626
Extent:
1 volume

1284. Harley MS 2457

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2457
Title:
Publius Vergilius Maro, Opera
Scope & Content:
Contents: Publius Vergilius Maro, Aeneis (ff. 1r-67v). Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolica (ff. 68r-78v) Publius Vergilius Maro, Georgica (ff. 79r-99v), imperfect. Decoration: White vine initial in colours and gold (f. 12r). A few coloured initials in dark red. Some spaces for initials left blank.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1285. Harley MS 2495

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2495
Title:
Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-139r: Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae. ff 139r-139v: a chapter list of Book 8 which does not survive. Decoration: Large white vine initial in gold and colours with white vine partial border, including a wreath surrounding an unidentified coat of arms (f. 1r). 18 large white vi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1286. Harley MS 3836

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3836
Title:
Adam Murimuth, Continuatio chronicarum
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–69v: Adam Murimuth, Continuatio chronicarum, to 1347 (the assumed date of the author’s death). This manuscript was used in the edition by Edward Maunde Thompson in 1889, who postulated that it was copied from the manuscript of which fragments survive as Add MS 32167. Decoration: Two-lin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

1287. Harley MS 4835

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4835
Title:
Cartulary of Clare Friary
Scope & Content:
f. 1*r: Label noting places in the cartulary. ff. 1r–59v: Cartulary of private deeds relating to Clare, arranged topographically, with a copy of one royal charter, 1364, at the beginning (ff. 58–59 should follow f. 6). f. 60r: Added leaf (16th century) with a note on the ground belonging to th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

Paper codex

1288. Harley MS 5415

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5415
Title:
Mondonus Belvaleti, Speculum Anglorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-74v: Mondonus Belvaleti, Speculum Anglorum; a treatise on the Order of the Garter. For another manuscript with this text, see Bibliothèque de Saint-Omer, ms. 793, which ends with the words 'brevis abbrevatio'; the present manuscript ends as follows: 'Explicit Brevis abreviacio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1463-c 1475
Extent:
1 volume

1289. Harley MS 5429

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5429
Title:
Sallust, De bello Jugurthino
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-57v: Sallust, De bello Jugurthino (On the Jugurthine War). Decoration: 2 large blue initials with red penwork decoration (ff. 1r, 21r). Initials in blue or red, usually alternating. Smaller initials in blue or red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

1290. Harley MS 5583

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5583
Title:
Maḥzor מחזור and 5 other texts
Scope & Content:
Language: Hebrew A daily prayer book for festivals and fasts according to the Romanian rite. Fols 1r-313v Maḥzor. מחזור Note: In several respects the rite resembles the French form of liturgy. Fols 2r-113v Services for Pesaḥ. Note: Services for the first day begin on folio 2r (the order ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew
Date Range:
1300-1399
Extent:
313 folios

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