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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 498
Title:: Cartulary of Roger de Asphale
Scope & Content:: ff. 2–4, 24–29: Copies of approximately 25 deeds belonging to Roger de Asphale, from the time of Edward I. Parts of a roll, originally c. 1525 × 215 mm, now cut into pieces. ff. 5–23: Fragmentary memoranda of debts and payments. Decoration: Marginal titles.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 13th century–14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1359
Title:: Grants of coats and crests
Scope & Content:: Miscellaneous grants by various officers of arms, mixed together. For list of officers, see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 14. Arms drawn by John Withie (1593-c. 1678), arms painter; writing is in another h...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1620
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1844
Title:: Thomas Hobbes, Historia Ecclesiastica Romana
Scope & Content:: ‘Historia Ecclesiastica Romana Autore Pereximio Viro Thoma Hobbesio Malmesburiensi’. Contemporary manuscript of the complete poem by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), in a professional hand, with marginal corrections and annotations. The last four lines are written in the same hand as the annotations. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1667
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2267
Title:: A manual of ritual magic
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-37v: A manual of ritual magic, copied from another late 16th-century manuscript, including sections for making the 'Pentacle of the Apocalyptic Christ' (f. 1v); amulets for conjuring good and evil angels entitled 'What things are attributed to the planets' (ff. 2r-10v); 'On bin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:: 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2676
Title:: Pliny the Elder, Historia naturalis
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes Pliny the Elder, Historia naturalis. Decoration: Three-sided white vine border in colours and gold, inhabited by birds, with the Medici coat of arms in the lower margin, supported by putti, and a very large white vine initial 'L'(ibros) in colours and gold at the beginn...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1465-1467
Extent:: 356 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2943
Title:: Middle Dutch Book of Hours
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 13r-15v: Prayer for communion, with a rubric: ‘Dit gebet selmen lesen als men wil gaen totten heiligen sacrament te ontfanghen’, beginning: ‘O overste priester ende gewaer biscop here ihesu criste die di selven offerste gode dinen vader’. ff. 15v-16r: Pra...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, Middle, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 1486
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3735
Title:: Treatises on astronomy and computus
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes: Treatise on the Zodiac signs (imperfect) (f. 3r); Bede, De natura rerum (extract) (ff. 3v-5r); Treatise on calendar (f. 5v); Robert Grosseteste, Kalendarium (ff. 6r-12r); Tabula Gerlandi and other computistical tables (ff. 12v-15v); Notes on measurements (f. 16r); ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1264-1293
Extent:: 106 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4328
Title:: Life of Christ (books 6-10)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-486v: Life of Christ (books 6-10); this is the second volume of a set (see rubrics ff. 1r, 15v-16r, 16v, 486r). Decoration: 3 large miniatures in the style of the Master of Jacques de Luxembourg with full foliate borders including hybrid figures, heraldic arms and mottos, in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: c 1460-c 1468
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5531
Title:: Ba῾al ha-lashon by Joseph Zarka.
Scope & Content:: Language: Hebrew Grammatical writing. Author: Zarka, Joseph (זרקא, יוסף בן יהודה) Ba῾al ha-lashon. בעל הלשון Note: See Roth, ed Cecil. Jewish Art: An Illustrated History. [Edited by] Cecil Roth. Rev. [and enl.] ed. by Bezalel Narkiss.. Greenwich, Conn, New York Graphic Society 1971, 1971. p...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Hebrew
Date Range:: 1474
Extent:: 286 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5727
Title:: Scholia on Homer, Iliad I-XIX.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

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