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4011. Harley MS 297

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 297
Title:
Transcripts of letters and papers concerning state and foreign affairs, mostly during the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains transcripts of letters and other documents originally written during the reigns of Henry VII (r. 1485-1509), Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547), and Edward VI (r. 1547-1553). Many of the items are written in the hand of the archivist and merchant Ralph Starkey (d. 1628) and the v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4012. Harley MS 315

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 315
Title:
The Canterbury Passionale; a text on the Eucharist refuting John Wycliffe; verses and a fragment from the cartulary of St Swithun's, Winchester; a fragment from the accounts of the royal wardrobe of Edward II
Scope & Content:
Contents: This manuscript includes four parts made at different times: ff. 1r-39v: a fragment of the third volume of the Canterbury Passionale, containing Osbern's Vita Sancti Dunstani and Eadmer's Vita Sancti Anselmi originally bound with Cotton Nero MS C VII, ff. 29r-79r, and Harley MS 624,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half 12th century-1st half 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

4013. Harley MS 1952

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1952
Title:
Scope & Content:
Heraldic Treatise with Armorial Drawings and Medical Recipe for Edward IV; 1517. Middle English. Imperfect. The cataloguing of this heraldic manuscript was funded by the Wellcome Trust and only an additional medical recipe is fully itemised in the description. The main text is a heraldic tre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
1517
Extent:
1 item

4014. Harley MS 3680

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3680
Title:
Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; Cuthbert of Wearmouth, Epistola de obitu venerabilis Bedae; a tract on the conversion of Kent; Catalogus sanctorum qui in Anglia requiescunt, imperfect
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People) by the Benedictine monk Bede (b. 672/3, d. 735), the Epistola de obitu venerabilis Bedae (Letter on the Death of Bede the Venerable) by Cuthbert, a disciple of Bede, an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

4015. Harley MS 4349

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4349
Title:
Scope & Content:
Collection of Medical and Cosmetic Recipes and short Medical Treatises; circa 1510. Middle English. Copies. The MS. includes a collection of medical recipes (ff. 5-12v, 13-222v, 249-249v; item 1), short medical treatises (ff. 223-248; item 2) and cosmetic recipes (ff. 258v-260v, 262v-266; ite...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
1505-1515
Extent:
1 item

4016. Harley MS 5267/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5267/2
Title:
Cicero, Disputationes tusculanae; Bernard of Clairvaux, De gratia et libro arbitrio and De diligendo Dei, and other works
Scope & Content:
This is the second volume of Harley MS 5267. The first volume is Harley MS 5267/1. Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Pseudo-Sallust, In M. Tullium Ciceronem invectiva. ff. 7r-83v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Disputationes tusculanae. ff. 84r-101v: Bernard of Clairvaux, De gratia et libro arbitrio. ff. 10...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4017. Harley MS 4392

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4392
Title:
Octavien de Saint-Gelais, l'Histoire d'Euralius et Lucresse (C.22.b.1.)
Scope & Content:
Harley MS 4392 is a printed book that was transferred to the Department of Printed Books in May 1867. It now has the shelfmark C.22.b.1. The book contains the only printed version on vellum of the French translation of the Historia de duobus amantibus (The Tale of Two Lovers), an epistolary nove...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1493
Extent:
1 volume

4018. Harley MS 6913

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6913
Title:
Satirical poems
Scope & Content:
Quarto manuscript volume containing a miscellany of mostly satirical poetry. Contents: ff. 1-2: ‘Prologue’. First Line: ‘Gentle Reproofs have long been try’d in vain’. Attributed to John Wilmot, 2nd Earl Rochester. ff. 3-4v: ‘To Mr Julian from the Lord R.’ First line: ‘Julian in verse to ease t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1680s
Extent:
1 volume

4019. Harley MS 773

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 773
Title:
Formulary
Scope & Content:
A composite manuscript of 15th century legal and administrative documents copied to serve as models for a scribe. Contents: f. iir is a scrap of paper pasted onto an unfoliated modern endleaf, bearing the note: '12 Nou: 1661 / at the shop agst Mr Littlebury'. ff. iiir-v is a scrap of parchmen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4020. Harley MS 221

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 221
Title:
?Geoffrey the Grammarian, Promptorium parvulorum
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains a copy of the Promptorium parvulorum, a 15th-century English-Latin dictionary. Several other manuscript copies survive: British Library, Add MS 22556 (imperfect), Harley MS 2274 (fragment) and Add MS 37789 (with the Medulla grammaticae); Cambridge, Emmanuel College, 321....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

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