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4321. Harley MS 1644

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1644
Title:
Accounts of Sir Thomas Heneage, Treasurer of the Queen's Chamber, Michaelmas 1581-Michaelmas 1582, with the Queen's New Year cash payments, 1582
Scope & Content:
These are the accounts of Sir Thomas Heneage (b. in or before 1532, d. 1585) as Treasurer of the Queen's Chamber for the year Michaelmas 23 Elizabeth-Michaelmas 24 Elizabeth (i.e 29 Sep 1581-29 Sep 1582). A rich source for the array of officers paid by Heneage for the necessary functioning of th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1581-1582
Extent:

1 volume

4322. Harley MS 3210

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3210
Title:
Extracts from the Legenda Aurea on feasts of the Virgin Mary; metrical summary of Peter Lombard's Sentences; Pseudo-Linus, Acts of Peter; the martyrdom of St Paul and St James; exposition on Francis of Assissi, Regula Bullata
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-9v: The Assumption of the Virgin Mary [untitled excerpt from Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda Aurea], with a section beginning: 'In revelationibus sancte elizabeth legitur'; featuring various exempla. ff. 9v-19v: The Nativity of the Virgin Mary [untitled excerpt from Jacobus de ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

4323. Harley MS 658

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 658
Title:
Glossed Gospel of St John; Peter of Poitiers, Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi; Theological and computistical tracts; Richard of St Victor, Commentary on Joel and Nahum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a miscellany of study aids for the Bible, bound together with a collection of scientific, poetic and theological diagrams. It includes the Gospel of St John with glosses, the Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi (A Compendium of History in the Genealogy of Christ) ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of 12th-1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

4324. Harley MS 218

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 218
Title:
Collection of scientific, historical, and theological works, including Johann Lichtenberger, Prognosticatio; Pseudo-Aristotele, Problemata; John Lydgate, Testament; Meditations on the Supper; Honorius of Autun, Imago Mundi; Sextus Aurelius Victor, De viris illustribus; Jerome of Hereford's predictions for 1472; Commentary on the Ten Commandments; Treatise on the Computus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite miscellany consisting of eight different parts that were produced at different times. Parts 1 (ff. 2-49), 2 (ff. 50-51), and 5 (ff. 122-146) were all printed in the late 15th century. Part 3 (ff. 52-103) and 6 (ff. 147-158) were written by different 15th-century ha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-15th century
Extent:
1 item

4325. Harley MS 3045

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3045
Title:
Hrabanus Maurus, De laudibus Sanctae Crucis and other texts
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-47r: Hrabanus Maurus, De laudibus Sanctae Crucis. ff. 47v-49r: Catalogues of manuscripts of the Arnstein library. f. 49v: Hrabanus Maurus, De laudibus Sanctae Crucis, Carmen 3 (second copy). ff. 50v-51r: Arithmetical tables.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1170-1st half of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

4326. Harley MS 941

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941
Title:
A collection of treatises relating to history, astrology, magic, astronomy, geography and rhetoric, comprising John Lydgate's Dietary and other verses and medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*v: An added abbreviated list of contents. ff. 1r-3v: De origine gigantum, an abbreviated version of the Anglo-Norman French Des Grantz Geanz, written in Latin. The short narrative tells the Story of Albina and her sisters often used as a preface to the Brut Chronicle. The leave...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4327. Harley MS 3810

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3810
Title:
A composite Miscellany including a Romance in Verse, Moral and Devotional Poems, and Medical Texts and Recipes
Scope & Content:
A composite Miscellany including a Romance in Verse, Moral and Devotional Poems, and Medical Texts and Recipes; late 14th-15th cent. Middle English and Latin. The MS. is composite and comprises three MSS. of different origin divided into two volumes. Its cataloguing was funded by the Wellcome Tr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1360-1499
Extent:

2 volumes

4328. Harley MS 5198

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5198
Title:
Persius, Satires; Claudian, De raptu Proserpinae; Ovid, De Philomena; Latin epigrams; Virgil, Moretum; Maffeo Vegio, Astyanax; Ovid, Epistula Sapphus ad Phaonem; Homer, Batrachomyomachia; Donatus, De barbarisimo; Agostino Dati, Elegantiolae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-15r: Persius, Satires. ff. 15r-39r: Claudian, De raptu Proserpinae. ff. 39r-40v: Ovid (here attributed), De Philomena. ff. 40v-42r: Latin epigrams, including (among others): 'Maro ad augustum Caesarem'; 'Supplicat Cornelius Gallus ad Augustum ne comburatur Aeneis'; 'Suppl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1430-c 1500
Extent:
1 volume

4329. Harley MS 425

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 425
Title:
John Foxe's papers, Volume 10
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–145v: The tenth volume of the ecclesiastical historian John Foxe's papers. ff. 1r–2v: Part of a notable discourse for having the Bible in English, written about the time of Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury, c. 1410, taken ex fragmenta quodam Ecclesiae Wigorniensis. f. 3r: Subscr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
15th century-16th century
Extent:
1 volume

4330. Harley MS 461

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 461
Title:
Richard of Saint-Victor, In uisionem Ezechielis
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–29v: Richard of Saint-Victor, In uisionem Ezechielis. Concludes with a passage not found in printed editions, ‘De hoc monticulo dixit ysaias. erit mons in uertice montium. cm monticulus. esset paruus. et parua planicies que non posset sufficere … facta regum tam israel quam’, ending imper...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

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