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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6140
Title:: A miscellany of arms and grants of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. i verso: A printed poem, entitled: ‘The affection of a Friend – In memory of the right Worshipfull his deceased friend’. The letters of the first lines are an acrostic for the name of ‘Sir William Stone Knight’. f. ii recto: A title inscription in pencil: ‘Pedegrees quartering Cr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7550
Title:: Almanack of Allestree (1627), annotated by Symonds D’Ewes
Scope & Content:: Printed Almanack of Allestree for the year 1627, with chronological notes in the handwriting of Sir Symonds D’Ewes. Also large collections in cypher. The manuscript's former binding is now stored separately as Harley MS 7550/1.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Cipher and English
Date Range:: 1627
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1091
Title:: Devonshire heraldry book
Scope & Content:: Devonshire arms and pedigrees, chiefly copied by Jacob Chaloner (1586-1631), arms painter, from the Visitation of Devonshire 1564, by William Harvey, with additions by John Saunders (died c. 1687). Includes: ff. 2-3r: Translation of the patent of King James I, creating Sir Thomas Ridgeway Kni...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2352
Title:: William Lyndwood, Provinciale
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r–118r: William Lyndwood, Provinciale, with an index (ff. 113r–118r). Decoration: Full bar border in red and blue with 1 large initial in blue (f. 1r). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Rubrics in red. Smaller plain initials in red. Paraphs in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2626
Title:: Cicero, Disputationes Tusculanae
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r-112r: Cicero, Disputationes Tusculanae (Tusculan Disputations). Decoration: A large white vine initial in gold and colours at the beginning of each book (ff. 1r, 3r, 28v, 43v, 63v, 85r). Space for a smaller initial left blank (f. 65v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2795
Title:: The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3v: Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum ex Commentario Hieronymi in Mattheum (Prologue to the Four Gospels from St Jerome's commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew), beginning: 'Plures fuisse qui evangelia scripserunt'. ff. 4r-6v: St Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum Papam (St Jerome's e...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2838
Title:: Speculum humanae salvationis
Scope & Content:: Contents: Speculum humanae salvationis, a handbook of typology that draws parallels between episodes and prophesies in the Old and New Testaments, historical and natural events and saints' lives. ff. 1r-2v: List of chapters; f. 3r: Introduction, explaining the purpose and composition of the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1485 -1509
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2854
Title:: Book of Hours
Scope & Content:: Contents f. 2r: A 'bleeding table', in which Golden Numbers (1-19) are correlated with the 12 signs of the Zodiac, with indications of their influence: 'Aries bonum - Thaurus malum - Gemini malum [etc.]'. ff. 3r-14v: Latin Calendar with Cisioianus; the name of each month is translated into Ge...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German, Middle High and Latin
Date Range:: c 1440-c 1460
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3154
Title:: Lactantius, Divinae institutiones
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-144r: Lactantius Firmianus (fl. 305–323), Divinae institutiones (Divine Institutes), Books 1-7.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1433
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3760
Title:: Thomas Brinton, Sermons
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-163v: Thomas Brinton, Sermones (26 sermons), entitled ‘D[omi]ni Thom[ae] Bruton Rof[ensi] Ep[iscopi] Sermones’; featuring some Middle English verse. Decoration: Medium blue initials and small red initials.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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