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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1084
Title:: Mixed heraldry book including extracts from Visitations of Northamptonshire, Sussex, and Yorkshire
Scope & Content:: Heraldical book written and tricked by different hands. Includes: f. 1: Arms of Guyen, Normandy, of the Earl of March, Kent, and Cornwall; of England; with some fabulous arms interspersed. ff. 2-13: Collection of arms of gentry of various counties, some specified as granted by Thomas Hawley...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1919
Title:: Berengaudus, Expositio super septem visiones libri Apocalypsis; Pseudo-Berengaudus, Expositio in cantica canticorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-224r: Berengaudus, Expositio super septem visiones libri Apocalypsis. ff. 224r-301r: Pseudo-Berengaudus, Expositio in cantica canticorum. The manuscript contains several additions: f. 1*verso: A title inscription: ‘Berengarij super Apocalypsin et Canticum Canticorum Exposit...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4083
Title:: Fratre Anthonio Hispano, Ecclesiasticos admonens ad residentiam et fidelem dispensationem suorum beneficiorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-25v: Fratre Anthonio Hispano, a monk of the Mount of Olives, Ecclesiasticos admonens ad residentiam et fidelem dispensationem suorum beneficiorum. Decoration: 2 large initials in gold on red and blue grounds (ff. 1v, 2r). 26 large plain initials in red or blue (ff. 2v, 3r, 4...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Middle of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 243/1
Title:: Detached former binding of Harley MS 243
Scope & Content:: Detached brown leather binding; paper pastedowns on the inside of the upper and lower covers. The binding was formerly attached to Harley MS 243 (a collection of theological texts) and is now stored separately.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Former binding of Harley MS 243

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 624
Title:: Chronicles; Passionale (Lives of Saints); Historica collectanea
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains three different parts gathered by Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist and antiquary. Two of these parts were written and compiled by him between c. 1639-1643, they consist of chronicles related to the history of Britain (ff. 1v-83r; 145r-217r). An...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1100-1643
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 908
Title:: A collection of arms found in Kent
Scope & Content:: Duodecimo manuscript volume, written and tricked by Mr John Withie. Contents: f. 1*v: 'Livesey of Killingborne'. f. 1: Arms of Canterbury, Rochester, and Dover See. ff. 1v-2v: Arms of various Earls, Viscounts, and Lords, of Kent. ff. 3-4: Arms of various Baronets of Kent. ff. 4v-5: Arms of Knig...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1009
Title:: William Rede (?), Astronomical tables with canons
Scope & Content:: Tha manuscript includes a series of astronomical tables with canons: William Rede, Canon tabularum (ff. 3r-8r) with his adaptation of the Alphonsine Tables, (ff. 8v-11r); 'Canon tabularum sequencium de equacionibus 12 domorum' (ff. 11v-14v); Table of 'elevationes signorum in circulo directo'...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century-17th century
Extent:: 30 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1050
Title:: Account book of John Saunders, arms painter
Scope & Content:: Manuscript volume containing the personal accounts of John Saunders, arms painter, containing the accounts for his work done as a painter-stainer from January 1652 to December 1660.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1633-1660
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1710
Title:: A Lectionary, in the earlier Wycliffite version
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-166v: A Lectionary, in the earlier Wycliffite version. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 166r: 'Omnibus omnia non mea / Sompnia dicere possum'; added in the (?) 15th century. Decoration: 1 puzzle initial in red and blue, with pen-flourishing in purple and red, e...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1390 - c 1400
Extent:: 1 volume

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