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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5834
Title:: Observations concerning the Nobility of England Auntient and Moderne
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title page: ‘Observations concerning the Nobility of England Auntient and Moderne’. ff. 1r-7v: A table of contents, listing chapters and sections. ff. 8r-43v: An English treatise in twelve chapters, entitled: ‘Observations concerning the Nobilitie of England Antient and M...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6359
Title:: Des Grantz geanz (Octosyllabic version); Brut Chronicle (Short Version)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4r: Des Grantz geanz (Octosyllabic version). ff. 4r-84v: Brut Chronicle (Short Version) down to 1329.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7056
Title:: Various manuscripts including papers of the Duke of Ormond
Scope & Content:: Various manuscripts in different hands. Papers at ff. 1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 19, are endorsed ‘W.O. 1730’ (William Oldys, the antiquary). Includes: f. 1: Original papers of the Duke of Ormond, relating to his life and the history of his own times. All docketed. f. 19: Letter to Mr Secretary Windeb...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 69
Title:: The booke of certaine triumphes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-63v: A large collection of tracts, letters, and notes in English and French concerning court affairs and entertainment, jousting and the bearing of coats of arms, known as ‘The booke of certaine triumphes’. Decoration: Full-, half-, and quarter-page drawings of knights joust...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1343
Title:: Statutes of New College, Oxford
Scope & Content:: ff. 1-71: Statute book of New College Oxford. Title on f. 1v: ‘Liber Statutorum Collegij B. Mariae Winton. in Oxon. Vulgariter nuncupati NEW-COLLEGE’. Decorated with a geometric knot design, bordered with the initials E. Y. and dated 1631. ff. 72-73: Index. f. 74: Pen trials f. 75v: Lette...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1631
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1528
Title:: The 'Harley Catalan Bible'. תנ"ך Tana"kh Bible
Scope & Content:: Language: Hebrew Bible with masorah magna and parva (the 'Harley Catalan Bible'). Fols 1r-424v Tana"kh. תנ"ך Decoration note: Full page miniatures in colours and gold of Temple implements. (Fols 7v, 8r) Decoration note: 12 full-page arcades in colours. (Fols 1v, 2r, 2v, 3r, 3v, 4r, 4v, 7r,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Hebrew
Date Range:: 1325-1374
Extent:: 424 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1605/3
Title:: The Forme of Cury (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the third of three volumes that comprise Harley MS 1605 (the others being Harley MS 1605/1 and Harley MS 1605/2). This part of the manuscript contains an imperfect copy of a Middle English collection of cookery recipes known as The Forme of Cury (The Method of Cooking). The te...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1390-early 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3702
Title:: Astronomical tracts and tables; calendar
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Short astronomical notes, beginning: 'generalis Regula pro omnibus .5. planetis'. ff. 1v-46r: Astronomical tables for the course of the planets, Sun and Moon, beginning: 'Saturni tabula prima secundum almanach'; including tables for the Sun which are attributed to a certain ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1435-c 1461
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3715
Title:: Jacobo Bracelli, De bello Hispaniensi
Scope & Content:: A humanist copy of the historical work of the Genoese chancellor Jacopo Bracelli (b. 1390, d. 1466) about the war of the Republic of Genoa and Alfonso V of Aragon (1412-1444). Contents: ff. 1r-1v: Preface, begins 'Inter maxima plurimaque...'. ff. fv-58v: Jacopo Bracelli, De bello Hispaniensi ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3814 A
Title:: Astronomical and astrological miscellany
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is the first volume of two. It is composed of four parts: I (ff. 1r-10v); II (ff. 11r-89v), III (ff. 90r-104v), and (ff. 105r-140v). Parts I and II were probaby bound together at an early date and formed a separate volume with ff. 1r-2v and 88r-89v + 1 as flyleaves. Parts III and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1230-1399
Extent:: 140 folios.

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