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2701. Harley MS 5859

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5859
Title:
Alphabets of Arms for English families, emperors, kings, saints and the Knights of the Round Table
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title inscription: ‘Alphabett in Blazon’; followed by the note: ‘att the Later end Armes of Emperour Kings Duckes and Saintes etcaetera’. ff. 1r-198r:An Alphabet of Arms, with the coats of arms of English families, blazoned in French heraldic terminology; and some illu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2702. Harley MS 1071

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1071
Title:
Coats of arms and crests of the nobility of Ireland
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume, titled 'The Nobility of Ireland their Titles, Coats, Creasts, Supporters, and Mottoes, set forth in their severall coullers by me John Withy [Withie]'. At the end of the volume are some accounts.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1613
Extent:
1 volume

2703. Harley MS 1311

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1311
Title:
Nova Statuta for 1-38 Edward III, and other legal texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-77r: Nova Statuta for 1-38 Edward III (1327-1365); written in Law French with headings in Latin. ff. 77r-79r: 'Judicium Rogeri de Mortuo Mari'. ff. 79r-79v: 'Judicium Simonis de Bereford'. f. 79v: 'De Restitutione Terrarium in Manibus Regis captarum'. ff. 79v-80r: 'De Q...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1365-c 1375
Extent:
1 volume

2704. Harley MS 1927

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1927
Title:
Poems by the Chester arms-painters Thomas Chaloner and Randle Holme
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-53v: A collection of English poems and Latin sayings by Thomas Chaloner (d. 1598), dated to 1575-1577. ff. 54r-120v: A collection of English poems and notes by Randle Holme I (b. 1570/71, d. 1655), dated to 1616-1638. One poem on ff. 60v-61r (‘The Songe called the Buttned smo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1575-1638
Extent:
1 volume

2705. Harley MS 2308

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2308
Title:
Accounts of the coronation of Edward VI and his reign
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-120r: A treatise on ‘The Maner of Coronation of Kinge Edward the Sixth’; followed by abstracts of entries in the Council book of King Edward VI from the beginning of his reign to 6 February 1549-50.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2706. Harley MS 2820/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2820/1
Title:
Detached ivory panel from Harley MS 2820 (the 'Cologne Gospels')
Scope & Content:
Ivory panel of the Crucifixion with the four symbols of the Evangelists and the Manus Dei from an earlier binding, now mounted in a post-1600 British Museum binding of brown leather, formerly attached to Harley MS 2820 (the 'Cologne Gospels).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

Ivory panel and binding

2707. Harley MS 6858

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6858
Title:
Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
The Elements of Law, a treatise on political theory and the origins of the state, was completed by Thomas Hobbes on 9 May 1640 (see f. 2v), dedicated to William Cavendish, 1st duke of Newcastle, and distributed in manuscript copies produced by professional scribes. This manuscript includes a t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1640-1699
Extent:
1 volume

2708. Harley MS 6916

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6916
Title:
Collection of poems by Charles d'Orléans and his circle
Scope & Content:
A near complete copy of Charles d'Orléans' personal manuscript (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, ms français 25458) (Poetry of Charles D’Orléans, ed. by Fox and Arn (2010), p. 827). Contents: ff. 1r-205r: A collection of poems consisting of ballades, chansons, complaintes, caroles an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2709. Harley MS 683

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 683
Title:
Grammatical miscellany
Scope & Content:
A schoolbook compiled from at least four pre-existing manuscripts, dating from the early 13th century (ff. 2–19), late 13th century (ff. 32–35, 36–62), and 14th century (ff. 20–31): f. 1r: Effaced page opening with the word ‘Debeat’ with a decorated six-line initial. f. 1v: Fragment of the Off...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
9th century-14th century
Extent:

1 volume

2710. Harley MS 208

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 208
Title:
Letters of Alcuin and Dungal
Scope & Content:
Contents: Alcuin, Epistolae (91 letters) (ff. 1r-112r); Two added letters, incipit: 'Eximiae indolis honore fulgido...'; and 'Praeconio eximiae sanctitatis recolendo Domino R episcoporum sanctissimo divina miseratione Wilelmus devotus episcopus' (f. 112r); Dungalus, Epistolae (5 letters) (ff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
9th century-17th century
Extent:

1 volume

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