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3811. Harley MS 3373

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3373
Title:
Mnemotic hand diagrams; sermon on Psalm 38: 6 by John Chrysostom; Lives and miracles of SS Sabbatius and Zosima of Solovki
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript comprises three parts that were produced separately and joined together at a later stage, probably in the Harleian Library. Contents: Part 1: ff. 1v-8v: Mnemotic hand diagrams for learning the alphabet, counting and calculating. Part 2: ff. 9r-14v: Sermon on Psal...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Russian
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3812. Harley MS 5672

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5672
Title:
Homer, Iliad. Highly imperfect, comprising I-II.9, II.490-594, III.123-IV.246. Four fragments from the same MS in which their order was ff. 1-12, 19, 13-15, 20-23, 16-18.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

3813. Harley MS 1394

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1394
Title:
Robert Glover, The Visitation of Yorkshire and Church Notes from Yorkshire, 1584-1585; with additions by Nicholas Charles
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: A drawing of William the Conqueror giving a patent to Alan Rufus, 1st Earl of Richmond, who kneels before him [reproduced in Christopher Clarkson, The History of Richmond, in the County of York (Richmond: Bowman, 1814), plate between p. 14 and p. 15]; with a copy of the patent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

3814. Harley MS 2409

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2409
Title:
Contemplations of the Dread and Love of God; Middle English translation of William Flete’s De remediis contra temptaciones; Cleannesse of Sowle; Verses on the Nine Points of Virtue
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-51v: Contemplations of the Dread and Love of God. ff. 52r-69v: William Flete [but here attributed to Walter Hilton], De remediis contra temptaciones (Remedies against Temptations); Middle English translation. ff. 70r-75r: Cleannesse of Sowle, most complete extant Middle En...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3815. Harley MS 4400

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4400
Title:
Compilations concerning the nobility, magistrates and antiquities of Metz, including Jehan Praillon's Chronique des comtes, des voués et des échevins de Metz
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains compilations written in French, concerning the nobility, magistrates and antiquities of the city of Metz. It includes the Chronique des comtes, des voués et des échevins de Metz, also known as the Chronique de Metz, which records the history of the city between 960 and 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

3816. Harley MS 2900

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2900
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Added prayers to the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, the Holy Cross and for the Communion ('Ego sum panis vivus'), suffrages to saints, the Short Hours of the Holy Spirit (f. 3r-v), and various prayers including prayers for the dead (ff. 3v-4r). ff. 5r-16v: A calendar, includi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
The third decade of the fifteenth century
Extent:
1 volume

3817. Harley MS 300

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 300
Title:
Answer by John Bowdiche to a Bill of Complaint of Sir Simonds D'Ewes, with a catalogue of historical manuscripts in the collection of Sir Simonds D'Ewes
Scope & Content:
Folio manuscript volume. On the rectos is the answer of John Bowdiche [Bowditch?] the younger, gentleman, to the Bill of Complaint of Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Knight, Complainant. Starting from the back of the volume, on the versos, is a selected index of historical manuscripts found within the col...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3818. Harley MS 2614

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2614
Title:
Petrarch, Vita Terentii; Terence, Comoediae, with prologues and arguments
Scope & Content:
Contents: The text written by written by the scribe Angelus Frassinensis: colophon, 'Terentium hunc ego dominus Angelus Frassinensis manu propria notavi' (with the words, 'i. scripsi' written above) (f. 169r). Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather, tooled in gold; marbled endpapers ff. 1r-3v: P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3819. Harley MS 2698

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2698
Title:
Giles of Rome, De regimine principum; Cicero, De officiis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an imperfect copy of De officiis (On duties), a treatise by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC), featuring marginal and interlinear annotations. It is preceded by a fragment of Giles of Rome's De Regimine Principum, a guide book for Christian tem...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1423
Extent:
1 volume

3820. Harley MS 4000

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4000
Title:
An epistolary discourse in defence of the Protestant religion
Scope & Content:
f. 1r: Note suggesting that this work came from the Queen's closet due to the markings E R A F H ('Elizabetha Regina Angliae Franciae Hiberniae') on the original vellum binding that has been pasted onto f. 2r and f. 77v. ff. 3r–4r: An explanation of the contents, written in the same hand as the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1567
Extent:

1 volume

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