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4381. Harley MS 3444

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3444
Title:
Miles Huggarde, ‘A treatise declaring howe Christ…was banished out of this realme’
Scope & Content:
Treatise by Miles Huggarde (fl. 1533–1557), poet and religious polemicist. Titled ‘A treatise declaring howe Christ by perverse preachyng was banished out of this realme, and howe it hath pleased God to bryng Christ home againe by Mary our moost gracious Quene’. With a dedicatory verse epistle ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
July 1553-July 1554
Extent:

1 volume

4382. Harley MS 523

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 523
Title:
Letters of Sir Philip Hoby, 1548-1553
Scope & Content:
Collection of copied letters dating from 1548-1553. Concerning Sir Philip Hoby (1504/5–1558), diplomat and administrator, the Privy Council, and others. f. 1*r: Pasted title page. ‘Sir Phillip Hobby & otheres Ambasages with the Emperore. R:S: 1616’. f. 2*r: ‘Sir Phillipe hobes letters dat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c. 1616
Extent:
1 volume

4383. Harley MS 6345

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6345
Title:
Copybook of Cardinal Wolsey's letters
Scope & Content:
ff. 1*r–216v: A copybook of Cardinal Wolsey's letters. It also includes a copy of Princess Mary's confession (ff. 211r–v) along with unrelated material from the 17th century. f. 1*r: Note about Lady De La Warr's ownership of the volume, with the original ownership note pasted on. f. 5*v: The b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1627
Extent:
1 volume

4384. Harley MS 1319

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1319
Title:
Jean Creton, Histoire rimée de Richard II (La Prinse et mort du roy Richart)
Scope & Content:
La Prinse et mort du roy Richart (ff. 1r-78v). Added descriptions of the miniatures written in 1767 by Dr Thomas Percy (ff. 79r-80v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1401-1767
Extent:

1 volume

4385. Harley MS 2620

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2620
Title:
L. Annaeus Florus, Epitoma de Tito Livio and T. Livius, Ab urbe condita (Periochae)
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes two abridged version of Livy's Ab urbe condita: L. Annaeus Florus, Epitoma de Tito Livio (ff. 1r-43r); and the so-called Periochae, a list of contents of T. Livius, Ab urbe condita, books 1-8 (ff. 43r-46r). Decoration: Initials originally in red and capital letters highl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

4386. Harley MS 2724

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2724
Title:
Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), Works, with added texts regarding Horace's poetry and life
Scope & Content:
Six works by the Roman poet Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace): ff. 2r-46r: Carmina. ff. 47r-54v: Ars Poetica. ff. 55r-66r: Epodae. ff. 66r-67r: Carmen saeculare. ff. 67v-94v: Epistulae. ff. 94v-130r Sermones. ff. 130r-130v: Vita Horatii attributed to Helenius Acro, and Servius, De metris Horat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:

1 volume

4387. Harley MS 219

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 219
Title:
Odo of Cheriton, Fabulae; a selection of tales from the Gesta Romanorum; Libre du gouvernement des roys et des princes, an anonymous French translation of the Secretum Secretorum; Christine de Pizan, Épistre de Othéa a Hector; glossary of terms in French, Latin, and Middle English
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite miscellany, made up of three parts (ff. 1-79; ff. 80-105 plus blanks; and ff. 106-153). It contains copies of the Fabulae (Fables) of the English preacher Odo of Cheriton (b. 1180/90, d. 1256/7), a selection of tales from the Gesta Romanorum (Deeds of the Romans), ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4388. Harley MS 5086

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5086
Title:
Edward of Norwich, The Master of Game; The Babees’s Book; The ABC of Aristotle; Dietary for King Henry V; Treatise on equine medicine
Scope & Content:
This 15th-century miscellany contains Middle English and Latin verse and prose treatises relating to hunting, manners, human and veterinary medicine. The cataloguing of the manuscript was partially funded by the Wellcome Trust. Contents: ff. 1r-85r: Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York, The Ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

4389. Harley MS 4725

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4725
Title:
A theological miscellany including Usuard's Martyrology
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a composite codex comprising 8 parts made in different periods of time between the 12th and 14th century and assembled together at a later date. Parts 1-6 formed one volume some time at the beginning of the 15th century when the the table of contents was added (f. 2*v). Part 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century-14th century
Extent:
1 volume

4390. Harley MS 525

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 525
Title:
The Seege of Troy; Robert of Cisyle; Speculum Gy de Warewyke
Scope & Content:
The manuscript's former binding is now stored separately as Harley MS 525/1. Contents: ff. 1r-34v: The Seege of Troye [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3139; for an edition, see Seege or Batayle of Troye, ed. by Barnicle (1927)]; beginning: ‘Sithyn that god this worlde wroghte’...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

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