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4351. Harley MS 4382

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4382
Title:
Guyard des Moulins, Bible historiale, volume 2
Scope & Content:
Guyard des Moulins, Bible historiale (Bible historiale complete a prologues), a French adaptation of Petrus Comestor's Historia scholastica with additional books supplied from the French translation of the Bible made at Paris c. 1250; bound in two volumes. For the first volume, see Harley 4381. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1400
Extent:
Parchment codex.

4352. Harley MS 423

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 423
Title:
John Foxe's papers, Volume 8
Scope & Content:
The eighth volume of papers belonging to John Foxe (1516/17–1587), martyrologist. Bought from John Strype (1643–1737), historian and biographer. f. 1r-1v: Paper on the mind and exposition of Martin Bucer, on Matthew 18[.7] (‘Woe be to the World, because of Offences’). ff. 2r-9v: Paper on the p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4353. Harley MS 6057

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6057
Title:
Verse miscellany compiled by Thomas Crosse
Scope & Content:
A quarto verse miscellany in various hands. Compiled mainly by Thomas Crosse in the 1630s, whose name appears in a poem, ‘An Acrostick upon my name’, at f. 1r. Later additions at ff. 63r-65r are dated 1677-1681. Contents include: f. 1*r: An acrostic poem on the name ‘Edward’ [deleted]. f. 1r: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1630-c 1681
Extent:
1 volume

4354. Harley MS 3754

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3754
Title:
Collection of classical texts, including Virgil's Bucolica, Georgica and Aeneid and Ovid's Metamorphoses, with annotations by Petrarch
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Virgil, Bucolica. ff. 4v-14v: Virgil, Georgica. ff. 14v-61r: Virgil, Aeneid, with a verse preface. ff. 61v-101r: Lucan, De Bello Civili (On the Civil War) or Pharsalia. ff. 101r-120v: Statius, Thebaid, imperfect, comprising Bks. I-VI (up to l. 482). ff. 121r-155v:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 14th century-3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

4355. Harley MS 3059

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3059
Title:
Collection of theological works by Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux, Jerome and Augustine of Hippo; a treatise on the plague
Scope & Content:
A collection of works by Anselm of Canterbury (b. 1033/4, d. 1109), Bernard of Clairvaux (b. 1090, d. 1153), Jerome (d. 420), and Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430). Compendium de epidemia, a treatise on plague compiled by the Paris medical faculty, has been added to the end of the volume, as w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

1 volume

4356. Harley MS 3061

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3061
Title:
Paschasius Radbertus, De corpore et sanguine domini; St Augustine of Hippo, Sermon 52; Lanfranc of Canterbury, De corpore et sanguine domini; Caesarius of Arles, De igne purgatorio
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains theological texts and sermons mainly focusing on the Eucharist. The last text of the manuscript is probably a contemporary addition written by a different scribe, according to Gullick, 'Professional Scribes' (1995). Contents: f. 1r: List of contents, added in the 14th ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

4357. Harley MS 278

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 278
Title:
Statutes and Ordinances of the Order of the Garter
Scope & Content:
The Statutes and Ordinances of the Order of the Garter, revised under Henry VIII in 1522; for the printed edition see Elias Ashmole, The Institution, Laws, and Ceremonies of the Most Noble Order of the Garter (London 1672). Incipit: 'The statutis and ordynancys of the meoste noble ordre of say...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1522-c 1530
Extent:

1 volume

4358. Harley MS 398

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 398
Title:
Orations and speeches made by the Lord Keeper, Nicholas Bacon, 1558–1579
Scope & Content:
A volume of speeches and orations made by Sir Nicholas Bacon, once owned by Sir Christopher Hatton. f. 2r: Autograph note by Peter Le Neve, Rouge Croix herald, 20 July 1692, who identifies the volume as being written in Hatton's hand. ff. 3r–4r: A note of the 'matters & discourses' contain...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

4359. Harley MS 1641

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1641
Title:
Accounts of Sir Thomas Heneage, Treasurer of the Queen’s Chamber, 1585-1586
Scope & Content:
Accounts made by Sir Thomas Heneage (b. in or before 1532, d. 1595), courtier and Treasurer of the Queen’s Chamber. From the Feast of St Michael, 27 Elizabeth I, to the Feast of St Michael, 28 Elizabeth I, i.e. 29 September 1585-29 September 1586. f. 1r: Title: ‘Sommes of money Receyved by Sir ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 September 1585-29 September 1586
Extent:
1 volume. Bound with Harley MS 1642.

4360. Harley MS 2897

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2897
Title:
Breviary (the 'Breviary of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria')
Scope & Content:
Breviary of the Use of Rome, known as the 'Breviary of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria'. The manuscript is composed of two parts: Part 1 (ff. 154r-452v) is the summer portion of the breviary made for John the Fearles and his wife, Margaret of Bavaria, which formed originally a single v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1410-c 1440
Extent:
1 volume

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