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3661. Harley MS 636

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 636
Title:
John of Canterbury, Polistorie del Eglise de Christ de Canterbury
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the only surviving complete copy of the Polistorie del Eglise de Christ de Canterbury, written by John, a Benedictine monk at Christ Church, Canterbury, at the request of his 'cher amy Johan' (dear friend John) in 1314. The work is an Anglo-Norman chronicle (with rubrics...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

3662. Harley MS 3083

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3083
Title:
St Ambrose, Epistulae, De Obitu Theodosii and De Nabuthe Jezraelita
Scope & Content:
This volume preserves most of St Ambrose (b. c. 339, d. 397)'s Epistulae (Letters). It also includes two other works by Ambrose: De Obitu Theodosii (On the Death of Theodosius I) and De Nabuthe Jezraelita (On Naboth the Jezreelite). The manuscript may initially have been part of a larger volume ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3663. Harley MS 3404

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3404
Title:
Alexander of Villedieu, Doctrinale puerorum, with commentary by Jonas Suessionensis
Scope & Content:
One of the most popular medieval grammatical manuals of the Middle Ages was the Doctrinale puerorum written in verses by Alexandre of Villedieu in the 13th century, and commented on by several medieval authors. This 14th-century copy contains the Doctrinale with commentaries by the early-14th-ce...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

3664. Harley MS 7182

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7182
Title:
Ptolemy, Geographia, translated by Manuel Chrysoloras and Jacopo d'Angelo
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of the Geographia (Geography), an atlas and treatise on cartography originally written by the Greek mathematician and astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (b. c. 100, d. c. 170), in a Latin translation by the Renaissance humanists Manuel Chrysoloras (b. c. 135...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

3665. Harley MS 149

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 149
Title:
Dives et Pauper; Jacques Legrand, The Book of Good Manners; Cena domini; The Gospel of Nichodemus; Miracles of Christ; Legend of the Vernicle; A tretyse betwene Saynt Petre and Symon Magus; The Obyte of Pylat; The decollacyoun of Saynt Petre and Saynt Poule; Signs before Doomsday
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-182v: Dives et Pauper, imperfect at the beginning. ff. 183-252r: Jacques Legrand (Jacobus Magnus), The Book of Good Manners. ff. 252v-255v: A Middle English treatise entitled Cena domini. ff. 255r-263r: The Gospel of Nicodemus in Middle English. ff. 263r-279r: Miracles...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3666. Harley MS 532

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 532
Title:
A poem addressed to Queen Elizabeth I, A Discourse of the Buisines of Ambyona in Anno Domini 1624, and other texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: 1. A poem addressed to Queen Elizabeth I, Hymnus pastoralis in laudem serenissimae Reginae Elizabethae, ex Anglico sermone in Latinum traductus (ff. 1r-4r); 2. Correspondence between Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland and Sir Francis de Vere (ff. 6r-9v); 3. A Discourse of the B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3667. Harley MS 740

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 740
Title:
A survey relating to Barking; Walter of Bibbesworth, Tretiz de langage; Annalium Juridicorum relating to the reign of King Edward III
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4r: A survey relating to Barking. ff. 4v-7r: Walter of Bibbesworth, Tretiz de langage. ff. 8r-306v: Annalium Juridicorum relating to the reign of King Edward III. [f. 307r is blank].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

3668. Harley MS 3334

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3334
Title:
Rolandus Capellutus Parmensis, De chirurgia
Scope & Content:
An imperfect copy of the surgical treatise, also known as 'Rolandina', written by Roland of Parma in the early 13th century. The text begins imperfectly with the prologue at (f. 1r): '[asserve]runt et arbori inverse assimulaverunt et a capite quasi a ra/dice simplici inceperunt'; table of conten...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

61 folios.

3669. Harley MS 1070

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1070
Title:
A copy of the Visitation of Cheshire of 1580 by Robert Glover and William Flower; original papers of the Visitation of Cheshire of 1613 by Richard St George and Henry St George
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-64r: A copy of the book of the Visitation of Cheshire (1580) by William Flower (b. 1497/98, d. 1588), Norroy King of Arms, and Robert Glover (b. 1543/1544, d. 1588), Herald of Somerset, 1569; probably copied in the early 17th century. According to the Catalogue of the Harleian ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3670. Harley MS 64

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 64
Title:
Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum; Epistola ad Henricum regem; a transcript of Henry of Huntingdon, Epistola ad Walterum de contemptu mundi; Abbreviationes de Saeculis aetatibus et temporibus; Chronica Sancti Albani ab Adamo usque ad Martyrium Sancti Albani; Canonizatio beati Petri Martyris, ordinis Praedicatorum, sub Innocentio III; Pope Alexander IV, Bulla de Solenni Celebratione Festi in Memoriam Petri Martyris Instituti; The Excommunication of the English barons by the Archbishop of...
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-112v: Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum (version 5, redactions A and B), including several sections transcribed in a 16th-century hand (ff. 89r-112v). ff. 113r-135r: Henry of Huntingdon, Epistola ad Henricum regem. ff. 136r-145r: A transcript of Henry of Huntingdon, Epis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

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