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1351. Harley MS 5875

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5875
Title:
Coats of arms of English families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-121v: Coats of arms (6 per page) of English families, some with mottos in French or Latin; many escutcheons have been left blank. ff. 122r-127r: An alphabetical index of surnames included in this manuscript. Decoration: Coats of arms, tricked, drawn in black ink throughout ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1352. Harley MS 6171

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6171
Title:
Fragment of an Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-30v: A fragment of an Alphabet of Arms, with the arms of English families (‘A’ to ‘B’) blazoned with French heraldic terminology. Decoration: Heraldic elements drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1353. Harley MS 5587

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5587
Title:
Xenophon, Cyropaedia.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1354. Harley MS 6327

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6327
Title:
Cicero, Academica
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Academica, an epistemological work by the Roman statesman and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC). Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Cicero, Academica priora; ff. 7r-34v: Cicero, Academica posteriora. Decoration: Inhabited initials in colours and go...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1355. Harley MS 202

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 202
Title:
Pierre de Langtoft, Chroniques
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Anglo-Norman Chroniques (Chronicles) by Pierre (Peter) de Langtoft (b. 1270, d. 1300) covering the period from 688 to 1294. The text has the siglum 'Ha' in Wright's critical edition. Contents: ff. 2r-89v: Pierre de Langtoft, Chroniques. [f. 1v is blank]. Decorat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

1356. Harley MS 317

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 317
Title:
Cartulary of Southwick Priory
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–5r: Brief cartulary, headed ‘Cophinus septimus’, containing copies of deeds, 1380–86, relating to the gift by Bernard Brocas of the manors of East Hoe, Hannington Lancelevy (Hampshire) and elsewhere. ff. 5r–6v: Miscellaneous additions at the end. f. 7r: Fragments from a former flyleaf w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

1357. Harley MS 1620

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1620
Title:
Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-189v: Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora (from the beginning to the reign of Richard I). The manuscript contains an addition: ff. 1*r-2*v, 190r-191v: Fragments from a 14th-century liturgical book with musical notation on 4-line red staves, used as flyleaves. Decoration: Large in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

1358. Harley MS 2886

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2886
Title:
Collectio Dacheriana, with marginalia
Scope & Content:
Contents: This manuscript consists of a collection of canons known as Collectio Dacheriana. It includes glosses throughout, added in the late 11th century or early 12th century. ff. 2r-v: Fragment from a 10th-century glossary. ff. 3r-104v: Collectio Dacheriana, imperfect at the end, with mar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

1359. Harley MS 3922

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3922
Title:
Ermolao Barbaro, Contra Poetas
Scope & Content:
A humanist copy of the Speeches against Classical Poets (Orationes contra Poetas) by Bishop Ermolao Barbaro of Verona (b. 1410, d. 1471), probably executed for the author himself (cf. Ronconi, Ermolao (1972). The work is a review of the major classical Roman poets from a moral perspective to sur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1360. Harley MS 5274

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5274
Title:
John le Breton, Britton
Scope & Content:
Previously catalogued as 'Vetera Statuta' (Ancient Statutes), this manuscript contains a copy of the Britton, the earliest summary of law in England written in French, and being an updated version of Henry Bracton's mid 13th-century De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae (Laws and Customs of Engl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

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