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4391. Harley MS 1294

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1294
Title:
Gregory the Great, Liber Pastoralis Curae; Adso of Montier-en-Der, De Antichristo; Peter Cantor, Verbum Abbreviatum; Galand of Reigny, De Colloquio Vitiorum; sermons by Peter Comestor and Hildebert of Lavardin; Allegories of the Old and New Testament; (?) William de Montibus, Peniteas cito peccator
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-39r: Gregory the Great, Liber Pastoralis Curae. ff. 39r-40v: Adso of Montier-en-Der, De Antichristo. ff. 41r-87r: Peter Cantor, Verbum Abbreviatum (abridged selections) ff. 88r-89v: Part of Galand of Reigny [Galandus Regniacensis], De Colloquio Vitiorum, from his Parabolari...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

4392. Harley MS 1917

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1917
Title:
Decretals of Gregory IX, with gloss of Bernard of Parma
Scope & Content:
A copy of the Decretals of Gregory IX compiled by Raymond of Peñafort, with the preface addressed to the university of Bologna (over an erasure), incipit: '[excised] episcopus servus servorum dei dilectis filius doctoribus et scolaribus universitatis [over an erasure] bononie. Rex pacificus'; en...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1290-c 1310
Extent:
1 volume

4393. Harley MS 3511

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3511
Title:
Verse miscellany of Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex
Scope & Content:
A quarto verse miscellany of Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex (1631-1683), Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1627-1677) and First Lord of the Treasury (1679). Containing various poems, many by anonymous authors. Cited in the Index of English Literary Manuscripts as the 'Capell MS'. f.1* contains an ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4394. Harley MS 6987

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6987
Title:
Royal letters and warrants, 1621-1624
Scope & Content:
Royal letters and warrants, from the end of the reign of King James VI and I, 1621-1624. ff. 1r-2v: Letter from King James VI and I to Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex and Lord Treasurer. Sending a reminder to furnish George Villiers, Marquess of Buckingham, with 10,000 l. for his wife’s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
1621-1624
Extent:
1 volume

4395. Harley MS 6999

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6999
Title:
Letters and state warrants, 1580-1581
Scope & Content:
Letters and state warrants, from the years 1580-1581. ff. 1r-2v: List of contents. f. 3r: Letter from Robert Bowes to Francis Walsingham. Reporting on the case of James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, and his adherents, and requesting advice as to whether he should travel to London to answer the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher and English
Date Range:
1580-1581
Extent:
1 volume

4396. Harley MS 1766

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1766
Title:
John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes (translation of Giovanni Boccaccio, De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium)
Scope & Content:
John Lydgate's The Fall of Princes, an English translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium, based on the French translation by Laurent de Premierfait, with English marginal notes in red, in the same hand as the text. Contents: ff. 1r-4r: Table of Contents t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1450-c 1460
Extent:
Parchment codex.

4397. Harley MS 4197

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4197
Title:
John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes (translation of Giovanni Boccaccio, De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-102v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes, imperfect; an English translation [with Latin marginal notes] of Laurent de Premierfait’s Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes, which is a French translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (‘On the Fates of Famous M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

4398. Harley MS 4425

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4425
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:
The text of the Roman de la Rose was begun around 1220, possibly by Guillaume de Lorris, and continued by Jean de Meun between 1269 and 1278. The text of this manuscript was copied from a printed edition published at Lyon, probably around 1487 (see Kren and McKendrick, Illuminating the Renaissan...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and French, Old
Date Range:
c 1490-c 1500
Extent:

Parchment codex

4399. Harley MS 4431

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4431
Title:
Christine de Pizan, Collected works ('The Book of the Queen')
Scope & Content:
The manuscript, known as 'The Book of the Queen', includes Works by Christine de Pizan, assembled for Isabel (Isabeau) of Bavaria, queen consort of Charles VI of France, and produced under the author's supervision. Possibly some passages are in the hand of Christine de Pizan herself. Formerly bo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1410-c 1414
Extent:

Parchment codex

4400. Harley MS 6910

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6910
Title:
Elizabethan poetry miscellany
Scope & Content:
Elizabethan poetry miscellany, compiled between 1596 and 1600. Includes copies and extracts of works by: Michael Drayton; Edmund Spenser; George Chapman; Robert Southwell; Sir John Harington; Nicholas Breton; Sir Walter Ralegh; Thomas Lodge; Thomas Nashe; Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford; Wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1596-1600
Extent:
1 volume

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