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211. Harley MS 1776

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1776
Title:
Heraldic miscellany
Scope & Content:
Manuscript, in a single hand, on the Order of the Garter and other heraldry topics including precedence, funeral ritual, livery, ranks, etc. For a detailed description of the contents, see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, vol 2 (1808), pp. 225-226.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

212. Harley MS 2855

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2855
Title:
Carthusian Diurnal
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Table with Dominical Letters for 19 years (Metonic cycle). f. 2r: Two circular diagrams for finding the Dominical Letters and Golden Numbers. f. 2v: Instructions for finding the Golden Numbers. ff. 4r-15v: Calendar. ff. 16r-55v: The Book of Psalms. ff. 55v-57v: Litany...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1430-c 1440
Extent:
1 volume

213. Harley MS 2961

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2961
Title:
Leofric Collectar
Scope & Content:
The Leofric Collectar, comprising a collectar, a hymnal and a series of sequences for a community of secular canons. The manuscript is imperfect: it ends mid-sequence and appears to be missing its final quire. Judging by its script, it was made at Exeter during the episcopate of Bishop Leofric ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1050-1072
Extent:
1 volume

214. Harley MS 2973

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2973
Title:
Prayer book
Scope & Content:
A composite prayer book with materials from two 16th-century prayer books that were produced produced but contain identical prayers: ff. 4r-64v and ff. 65r-121v respectively. It is possible that one is a copy of the other. Contents: Part 1: f. 4r: 'A prayer called Ave rex'. f. 4v: 'A praye...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1530s-1550s
Extent:
1 volume

215. Harley MS 3410

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3410
Title:
Petrarch, Rime
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3-145v: Petrarch, Rime. f. 1 is a paper flyleaf; f. 2 is a parchment leaf. Some lines of the sonnets have been inked out (ff. 55r, 69r, and 69v). Decoration: Full white vine border in colours and gold with a portrait of Petrarch in a medallion, other medallions with geometri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

216. Harley MS 3945

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3945
Title:
Prose Brut
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-117v: The Prose Brut; Common Version to 1333. Decoration: A large gilded initial with foliate decoration in the margin reaching down to the bas de page (f. 1r). Large (3-line) initials in red up to f. 41r; after that, empty spaces for initials have occasionally been filled w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

217. Harley MS 3955

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3955
Title:
Virgil, Aeneid
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1 and 133 are a flyleaves made of fragments of book 6 of Justinian's Codex (Italy, late 14th-century) with initials in blue with red pen-flourishing and in red with purple pen-flourishing. f. 2r: Added inscription: Stefanus, early 15th century: inscribed 'Iste liber est mei stefa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1385
Extent:
1 volume

218. Harley MS 4742

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4742
Title:
Legal treatises
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-16v: 'Consultationes tres de quæstionibus legis feudalis'. ff. 17r-32r: 'Rerum criminalium tractatus continens expositionem titulorum quadragesimi octavi ff[orum], Libri, cum interpretatione philosophicæ l[is]. Respiciendum [ff] de pœnis in qua quid præstare judex, aut quomod...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1588-1589
Extent:
1 volume

219. Harley MS 5320

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5320
Title:
Spanish-Latin dictionary
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-138r: A Spanish-Latin dictionary. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: An excerpt from Stefano Guazzo, La civil conversatione (1574): 'Offende il cielo el santo amor discioglie / Quel che con empie man batte la moglie'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Spanish
Date Range:
1590
Extent:
1 volume

220. Harley MS 6551

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6551
Title:
Prayer book
Scope & Content:
This composite prayer book consists of two parts. The first part (ff. 1-4) was written in the late 14th century. The second one (ff. 5-43) was written in the first half of the 15th century. Contents: ff. 1r-4r: Exposition on Psalm 50, entitled: 'Incipit Exposicio psalmi subsequentis'; beginni...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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