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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6091
Title:: Sir Richard Maitland, Genealogy of the House of Setton
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-19r: ‘The Genologie and History of the Illustrious house and sirname of Seton Collected and Sett furth by Sir Richard Maitland of Lethingtoun a sisters sone of the said house - With a Table of the Kings Reigns of Sctoland Since King Malcom Canmore for the Clearing of the times ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1633
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6133
Title:: Henry St George, Pedigrees of English earls and barons
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-44r: Henry St George, Pedigrees of earls and barons of England. f. 44v: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1644
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6176
Title:: A treatise on the inheritance of baronies and earldoms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-18v: A treatise on the question ‘Whether a Barony by Writt being one involved into an Earledome, may be afterwards transferred into an-other family by a daughter and heire and the Earldome continue in the male heire’; with examples dated to 1640. The manuscript contains a la...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1640
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6217
Title:: A history of the reign of King Edward III
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-21v: A history of the reign of King Edward III. The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘An historical relation of certain passages about the end of Kind Edward the 3rd & of his death’; added in the (?) 17th century; followed by a pencil note that st...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6745
Title:: Proceedings in the Queen's Bench, 35-38 Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-216v: Proceedings in the Queen's Bench from the 35th, 36th, 37th and 38th years of the reign of Elizabeth I; written in Law French. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 1*recto-2*recto: Alphabetical index of cases; written in the late 16th or early 17th centur...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1592-1596
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7356
Title:: Estates and ecclesiastical patronages of the Earl of Oxford
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-11v: Estates of the Earl of Oxford in Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Buckinghamshire, Oxford, Northamptonshire. ff. 12r-13r: Ecclesiastical patronages of the Earl of Oxford, entitled: 'Advocationes [...] abbatharum prioratuum, ecclesiarum, cantuarium ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 404
Title:: Glossed New Testament
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-328r: New Testament with marginal glosses based on Anselm of Laon's Glossa Ordinaria but not identical with it. Decoration: 26 historiated initials in colours (pink, red, grey, blue and some green, white and black) and gold, occasionally including an animal or a hybrid creature (ff. 2r,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2732
Title:: Commentaries on Horace
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: ownership inscription. ff. 1v-23r: Anonymous commentary on Horace's Carmina (Odes). ff. 23r-27v: Anonymous commentary on Horace's Epodae (Epodes). ff. 28r-v: Anonymous commentary on Horace's Carmen Saeculare (Secular Song). ff. 28r-37v: Anonymous commentary on Horace's Ars ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2830
Title:: The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3r: The Epistle of St Jerome to Damasus, with an added late 13th-century heading 'Incipit prefatio Iheronimi presbiteri', this same hand repeats the rubrics in margins. ff. 3r-5v: Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum. Prologue of St Jerome's commentary on St Matthew. ff. 5v-58v: Th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2861
Title:: Book of Hours
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 13r-72r: Hours of the Virgin with suffrages following Lauds (incomplete; lacking beginning of Lauds and Compline). ff. 72v-73v: Prayer to the Virgin Mary, beginning: ‘Te deprecor sanctissima maria’. ff. 73v-77v: Short prayers to the Image of Christ on th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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