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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3665
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Scope & Content:: Compendium of Medical Texts; late 15th cent. Latin. Copies. The collection includes: - a) Gerardus de Solo, Introductorium iuvenum or Directorium (ff. 1-32; art. 1); - b) Arnaldus de Villanova, Contra calculum (ff. 33-44; art. 2); - c) Arnaldus de Villanova, Regimen contra catarrum (ff. 44...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3668
Title:: Chronicle based on the works of Hermann of Reichenau and Bernold of Constance; Historia Welforum; and other historical texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-167v: Chronicle compiled from those of Hermann of Reichenau (b. 1013, d. 1054) and Bernold of Constance (b. c. 1054, d. 1100). ff. 168r-182v: Historia Welforum. ff. 182v-184r: Annales Welfici Weingartenses. ff. 184r-184v: Recensio reliquiarum in capella Sanctae Mariae. ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1513
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1801
Title:: Bonaventure, Breviloquium pauperis seu Compendium sacrae Scripturae;Hugh of Saint-Victor, Soliloquium de arra animae; Bernard of Clairvaux, De diligendo deo; and other theological texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4v-8v: De Inventione Sanguinis Christ in Ecclesia Fiscanensi per Ricardum I Ducem Normanniae; including an account of how a hidden portion of the Holy Blood at the Abbey of the Holy Trinity of Fécamp was rediscovered in 1171, translated to a new shrine, and a sample of it taken by...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6991
Title:: Letters written by prominent individuals such as the Duke of Norfolk and the Earl of Leicester, 1571–1574
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–139r: A volume of letters written by prominent individuals such as the Duke of Norfolk and the Earl of Leicester, from 1571–1574. With a modern index and notes on the individuals who wrote them. ff. 1r–2v: Original letter from Gilbert Earl of Shrewsbury to the Earl of Leicester, concerni...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1571–1574
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4947
Title:: Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius, Divinae institutiones, De ira Dei, and De opificio Dei
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes works by Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius (b. c. 240, d. c. 320), early Christian author and advisor to emperor Constantine I, preceded by his short biography by Jerome: 1. Jerome, Vita Lactantii, excerpt from De viris illustribus, incipit: 'Firminus qui est Lactantius Arn...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 463
Title:: Jacques de Vitry, Collection of exempla
Scope & Content:: Collection of exempla arranged under the following rubrics: f. 1r: ‘De membris que conspiraverunt contra ventrem’. f. 1r: ‘De diabolo reportante ampullas vacuas’. f. 1r: ‘De heremita qui patrem suum occidebat’. f. 1v: ‘Quibus solet apparere diabolus, et qualiter potest deprehendi’. f. 1v: ‘...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4379
Title:: Jean Froissart, Chroniques (the 'Harley Froissart')
Scope & Content:: Jean Froissart, Chroniques, volume IV, Part 1 (the 'Harley Froissart'). The Part 2 is Harley MS 4380. Preceded by a table of contents (ff. 1r-1v). Decoration: 11 large miniatures with large decorated initials and full foliate borders including hybrid figures and birds, in colours and gold (ff....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1470-1472
Extent:: 184 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4418
Title:: Jean d'Arras, Roman de Mélusine
Scope & Content:: Jean d'Arras, Roman de Mélusine (also known as Melusine ou la noble histoire de Lusignan), a prose romance composed at the request of John, Duke of Berry, in 1392-1393. This manuscript is one of eleven surviving copies of this text; for its edition (as manuscript H) see Vincensini, Jean d'Arras ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1440-c 1450
Extent:: A parchment codex, 251 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1239
Title:: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde; a selection from The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of works by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400): Troilus and Criseyde, and a selection from The Canterbury Tales. The latter includes The Knight's Tale, The Man of Law's Prologue and Tale, The Wife of Bath's Tale, The Clerk's Tale, and The Franklin's Tale. Con...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1650
Title:: Inventory of Queen Elizabeth I's jewels and plate, 1573-1574
Scope & Content:: Inventory of Queen Elizabeth I’s jewels and plate in the custody of John Astley, courtier (c. 1507-1596), and the Treasurers of her Majesty’s jewels. 13 March, 1574. Each page signed by John Astley. f. 1*r Title-page. ff. 1r-6v ‘Juelles of golde’: list of jewels. ff. 7r-21r ‘Cuppes and Bolles...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1573-1574
Extent:: 1 volume

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