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2591. Harley MS 3187-3188

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3187-3188
Title:
Short instrumental pieces. Two part books for 'mean-viall' and 'base-viall'.
Scope & Content:
A collection of instrumental pieces without titles and (with one exception) anonymous. The 'Mean-Viall' and 'Base-Viall' parts. Owing to the fragmentary character of many of the compositions and the fact that a considerable number of leaves has been torn out in each volume, it is impossible to gi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
2 volumes (28, 32 folios)

2592. Harley MS 4844/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4844/2
Title:
Law reports and cases from the reign of Henry VI
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second volume of a set of two volumes with legal texts, together comprising Harley MS 4844. The first volume is Harley MS 4844/1. Contents: ff. 113r-260v: Law reports and cases from the reign of Henry VI, written in French. The manuscript contains an addition: ff. 2...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

2593. Harley MS 5281

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5281
Title:
Book of Assizes held in the reign of Edward III
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 7r-160r: The Book of Assizes held in the reign of Edward III. The manuscript contains several additions: ff. 1v, 2v: Memorandi for payments, several referring to ‘Ricardus Mancipill’ and ‘Thomas Lyddy[n]’; added in the (?) 16th century. f. 4r: Nomina regum Angliae post Conqu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2594. Harley MS 822

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 822
Title:
Notes by James Ussher for his Bibliotheca Theologica
Scope & Content:
Notes by James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, for his Bibliotheca Theologica. In his own hand. With some damage and loss of text. At the end of the volume is an incomplete table of authors' names whose works are considered by Ussher. Interspersed are included the following letters: ff. 141-14...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2595. Harley MS 1717

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1717
Title:
Benoît de Sainte-Maure, Chronique des ducs de Normandie
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Chronique des ducs de Normandie (Chronicles of the Dukes of Normany), which is believed to have been composed by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (fl. 1160-70) while he was in the service of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. The Chronique begins with Creation and ends with th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

2596. Harley MS 2292

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2292
Title:
An English translation of Niccolò Machiavelli’s Il Principe
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title page: ‘The Prince of Nicholas Machiavill Citizen and Secretarie of Florence dedicated to the noble Prince Lawrence sonn of Peeter de medices – Translated out of Italian into English – Welcome to mee, in measure, and in meane, too much is naught, yet doe not leave mee cl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2597. Harley MS 3602

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3602
Title:
Roger of Howden, Chronicle, from 1181 to 1201
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-152r: Roger of Howden [Hoveden], Chronicle, from 1181 to 1201. Decoration: 1 large puzzle initial 'A'(nno) in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours (f. 1r). 1 smaller red initial with red and blue pen-flourishing (f. 25r). Red initials with green penwork dec...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

2598. Harley MS 5568

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5568
Title:
Polybius, 'Excerpta Antiqua' from Books VI, XVIII, X.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
3 items

2599. Harley MS 7522 B

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7522 B
Title:
Notes and collations of Patrick Young (1584-1652)
Scope & Content:
Dated 10 July 1646 (f. 33v) and 30 June 1646 (f. 43).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
c 1646
Extent:
7 items

2600. Harley MS 139

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 139
Title:
Transcripts of historical material relating to Chester written by Laurence Bostocke
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-v: Title page with signature of Ralph Starkey. ff. 2r-11r: Index. ff. 12r-221v: Transcripts of historical material relating to Chester written by Laurence Bostocke between 1566-1575. ff. 222v-228v: Index. f. 228v: Note from the Keeper of Manuscripts that parts of the MS wer...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1566-1575
Extent:
1 volume

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