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3981. Harley MS 2851

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2851
Title:
Collection of religious texts and goliardic poems, including Alan of Beverley, Tractatus metricus de Susanna, and Miracles of the Virgin
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Latin verses, beginning: 'Si bibit expedit ust sedem hauriat'. ff. 1r-1v: Geomantic verses. f. 1v: Poem, beginning: 'balnea cornici qui prodest vel meretrici'. f. 1v: Poem on the Cross. ff. 2r-9v: Alan of Beverley, 'Tractatus metricus de Susanna per fratrem Alanum monac...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

3982. Harley MS 747

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 747
Title:
Petrus Riga, Aurora, expanded by Gilles de Paris; poems by Hildebert of Lavardin
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Aurora, a moral commentary on the Bible written in verse, by the French poet Petrus Riga (b. c. 1140, d. 1209), in the expanded version by Gilles de Paris [Aegidius Parisiensis] (b. c. 1160, d. 1223/1224). The manuscript ends with a section of poems, includ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

3983. Harley MS 7640

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7640
Title:
Psalter (fragment)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-23v: Fragment of a Psalter; the surviving text consists of Psalms 80-150, with gaps, and the Canticles. The manuscript contains several additions: f. i recto: A note by Sir Frederick Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873), Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum, that the volume was...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:
1 item

3984. Harley MS 5117

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5117
Title:
Justinian, Codex and Tres libri
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is composed of two parts: a copy of Justinian's Codex (ff. 3r-199v) datable to the 1st half of the 12th century; Justinian's Tres libri Codicis (ff. 200r-239r) copied in the last quarter of the 12th century. It also includes three additions of the early 13th century: a table ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century-Early 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

3985. Harley MS 6914

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6914
Title:
Satirical poetry and other texts
Scope & Content:
Quarto manuscript volume containing a miscellany of mostly satirical poetry with some prose articles. Contents: ff. 1-2v: ‘A New Ballad by Ld. Rochester to the tune of Chevy Chase’. First line: ‘The Parsons all keep whores’. ff. 1*-6*v (these are interleaved with folios 1-6): Table of contents....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

3986. Harley MS 6993

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6993
Title:
Letters on state affairs, 1581–1586
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–132v: Letters on state affairs from many prominent individuals, including Christopher Hatton, Walter Mildmay, Henry Norreys, Richard Shelley, Thomas Smith, and Francis Walsingham, 1581–1586. ff. 1r–2v: Original letter from Mr William Badger to Francis Mylles Esquire, concerning the right...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1581-1586
Extent:
1 volume

3987. Harley MS 303

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 303
Title:
Patents granted to Anne Boleyn as Marquess of Pembroke
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a series of patents granted by Henry VIII (r. 1509–1547), King of England, to Anne Boleyn as Marquess of Pembroke. It was made for her after she was created Marquess of Pembroke on 1 September 1532, but before she became Queen of England in March 1533. The parchment, sil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1532-1533
Extent:

1 volume

3988. Harley MS 3091

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3091
Title:
Computational and theological miscellany, including Bede, De temporum ratione
Scope & Content:
Computational and theological texts mainly by Bede and Paulinus of Aquileia, with the addition of medical recipes. The manuscript includes: 1. Herbal remedies against apostemes, paralysis and other ailments (f. 1r); 2. Paulinus of Aquileia, Regula fidei metrica (ff. 1v-3v); 3. Astronomical ta...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
9th century-10th century
Extent:

1 volume

3989. Harley MSS 3799-3809

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MSS 3799-3809
Title:
Jacques Despars, Commentary on Avicenna, Canon Medicinae.
Scope & Content:
This collection of 11 volumes contains the commentary by Jacques Despars (b. c. 1380, d. 1458), regent master of medicine at the University of Paris, on Books 1 (fen I-IV), 3, and 4 (only fen I) of the medical summa by Ibn Sīnā, Abú 'Ali Al-Husain ibn 'Abd Allah (Avicenna) (d. 1037), in the Lati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1475
Extent:
11 volumes

3990. Harley MS 1304

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1304
Title:
John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady; ‘Questiones by twene the Maister of Oxenford and his Clerke’; The ABC of Aristotle, and other proverbs
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-99r: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady (Boffey and Edwards, New Index (2005), no. 2574). ff. 100r-102v: ‘Questiones by twene the Maister of Oxenford and his Clerke’. ff. 103r-103v: The ABC of Aristotle, and other proverbs (Boffey and Edwards, New Index (2005), no. 4155). Deco...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

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