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2521. Harley MS 4779

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4779
Title:
Register of cases in the Court of Common Pleas, 26-32 Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 13r-389r: A register of cases tried in the Court of Common Pleas, from 26 until 32 Elizabeth I; written in Law French. The manuscript contains an addition: ff. 12r-12v, 290r-290v: Fragments of a (?) 17th-century account book listing ships in the port of Yarmouth, including: '...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1590
Extent:
1 volume

2522. Harley MS 6076

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6076
Title:
Coats of arms of mayors and sheriffs of the City of London
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-6v: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. ff. 7r-98v: Coats of arms of mayors and sheriffs of the City of London until the year 1668, beginning with the note: 'Since the 1st Maiors of London to the yeare 1668 is 479 years'. The manuscript contai...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1668
Extent:
1 volume

2523. Harley MS 61

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 61
Title:
Cartulary of Shaftesbury Abbey
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–124v: Cartulary of royal and other charters, based on an earlier landboc that was apparently arranged in chronological order, preserved here to some extent, e.g. with pre-conquest documents grouped, some in Old English (ff. 1r–22v), followed by a Middle English schedule of knight’s fees. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

2524. Harley MS 2484

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2484
Title:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-126v: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae, with argumenta: Hercules furens (ff. 1r-17v), Thyestes (ff. 17v-31v), Oedipus (ff. 31v-45r), Phaedra (ff. 45r-61v), Phoenissae (ff. 61v-69v), Troades (ff. 69v-84v), Medea (ff. 84v-97v), Agamemnon (ff. 97v-110r), Octavia (ff. 110r-132v),...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

2525. Harley MS 2600

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2600
Title:
Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:
A 14th-century copy of a popular rhetorical manual attributed to Cicero. Contents: ff. 1*r-1*v: blank ff. 1r-52v: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica Herennium (books 1-4), with annotations. f. 53r: washed out and used as flyleaf f. 53v: ownership notes. Decoration: Small historiated initial in gold...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

2526. Harley MS 3071

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3071
Title:
Gregory the Great, Dialogi
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-123r: Gregory the Great (b. c. 540, d. 604), Dialogi (Dialogues), Books I-IV. Decoration: Small initials in red throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1427
Extent:

1 volume

2527. Harley MS 3883

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3883
Title:
Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates iudaicae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Antiquitates iudaicae (Jewish Antiquities) by the Roman-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus (b. 37, d. 100). Contents: 1r-306r: Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates iudaicae, beginning: ‘Hystoriam scribere disponentibus non una nec eandem’. Decoration: Large initials in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

2528. Harley MS 3932

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3932
Title:
Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Title-page, added in a post-medieval hand. ff. 2r-43v: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium (Rhetoric for Herennius). f. 44v: an added inscription in a 15th-century Italian hand. ff. 1v and 44r are ruled and unwritten. Decoration: White vine initial in colours and g...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2529. Harley MS 5221

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5221
Title:
Sextus Julius Frontinus, Strategemata
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Strategemata (Stratagems) by Sextus Julius Frontinus (b. c. 30, d. 104), a collection of examples of military stratagems from Greek and Roman history. The text is preceded by a Latin epitaph for a Roman woman called Claudia, composed between c. 135 and 120 BC. Cont...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Last quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

2530. Harley MS 2169

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2169
Title:
Heraldic collection
Scope & Content:
This heraldic manuscript contains a collection of arms compiled in the time of Henry VI or Edward IV. The collection focuses on English arms, as is indicated by its opening pages which feature verses on and drawings of William of Normandy (f. 1r), King Henry V (f. 2r), and King Henry VI (f. 3r)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and French, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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