Search

032-002045828

3891. Harley MS 3542

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3542
Title:
Scope & Content:
Collection of Alchemical and Medical Treatises and Recipes; 15th cent. Latin and Middle English. Copies. Imperfect in parts. A composite and miscellaneous volume, its first part (ff. 1-94v; items 1-19) relates mainly to alchemy and includes: - a) Mirror of lights (ff. 1-14, imperfect; item ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

3892. Harley MS 4887

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4887
Title:
Historia Britonum and other texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-11v: Historia Britonum, including excerpts from Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae, beginning: 'Britannia insularum optima in occidentali occeano inter galliam et hiberniam sita'. ff. 12r-15v: Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux (here not attributed), Meditationes, begin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1375-1425
Extent:
1 volume

3893. Harley MS 22

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 22
Title:
An abstract in English of all the Parliament Rolls in the Tower of London from the 1st year of Henry VI to the 22nd year of Edward IV, and abstracts from the 1st year of Richard III to the 31st year of Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Copies of transcripts from Parliament Rolls, 1422-1483 and 1484-1589, compiled by Simonds d’Ewes. D’Ewes has add a title-page and ‘Prolegomena’, and foliated the manuscript. In the prolegomena D’Ewes explains that ff. 1-115 are copied from transcripts by William Bowyer and his son Robert Bowyer....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3894. Harley MS 560

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 560
Title:
Folcard of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis; Liberties and privileges of the church of St John at Beverley
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-14v: Folcard of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis (excerpts), ‘Collectiones de vita et miraculis D. Johannis Berlaci [etc.]’. ff. 14v-43v: Liberties and privileges of the church of St John at Beverley (‘Liberates Ecclesiae sancti Johannis de Beverlie’); featuri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3895. Harley MS 5217

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5217
Title:
Mirrors for Princes attributed to Olivier de la Marche and Jean de Villiers, dedicated to Philip the Good
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-17r: Olivier de la Marche (b. c. 1425, d. 1502), military advice for a prince ('je me suis delibere de mettre par escript quelle chose cest dun gage de bataille comment le prince et le iuge si doibt conduire selon raison et bonne equite'), dedicated to Philip the Good (r. 1419...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3896. Harley MS 3013

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3013
Title:
Aldhelm of Sherborne, Epistola ad Ehfridum; Aldhelm of Sherborne, De laudibus virginitatis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two didactic works composed by Aldhelm of Sherborne (d. 709): the Epistola ad Ehfridum (Letter to Heahfrith), a letter promoting the schools of Theodore and Adrian of Canterbury; and the De laudibus virginitatis (In Praise of Virginity), a work in 60 chapters extolling v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

3897. Harley MS 4927

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4927
Title:
Cicero, various speeches, De amicitia and Paradoxa Stoicorum; Pseudo-Sallust, Invectiva in Ciceronem
Scope & Content:
This manuscript preserves several of Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC)’s orations, his treatises on friendship (De amicitia) and on the paradoxes of the Stoics (Paradoxa stoicorum) as well as a work spuriously attributed to Sallust and known as Sallust's oration against Cicero (Invecti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3898. Harley MS 252

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 252
Title:
A collection of English historical, political and legal papers
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2v: A fragment concerning the issuing of subpoenas from the Court of Chancery, without Bills of Complaint; imperfect. f. 3r: A crossed-out 17th-century text. ff. 3v-4v: ‘Heare followeth the Coppy of the Assignatyon of suche Landes and Revenewes as weare appoynted for the Su...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1555-1645
Extent:
1 volume

3899. Harley MS 3509

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3509
Title:
Cicero, De inventione; Boethius, Topica; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:
This scholarly manuscript contains three texts concerning the art of rhetoric. Its contents and evidence of intensive use attest to the study of Classical texts in the Middle Ages, especially those concerning the rhetorical arts. The manuscript contains marginal or interlinear notes on almost ev...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

3900. Harley MS 6576

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6576
Title:
Collection of theological texts, including Walter Hilton, Scala Perfectionis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-127v: Walter Hilton, Scala Perfectionis; Latin translation by Thomas Fishlake (fl. 1377). ff. 128r-136r: Liber Vitae, beginning: 'De hiis que primo consideranda sunt tendenti ad perfeccionem contemplationis et ad vitam religiosam'. ff. 136v-138v: John Chrysostom, De eo quod...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

Limit your search

more »
more »
more »
more »