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4411. Harley MS 3869

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3869
Title:
John Gower, Confessio amantis, Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz, pageant verses, and some short Latin verse; Marian hymns in English and Latin
Scope & Content:
Confessio amantis by John Gower (d. 1408), along with his French Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz, and some of his short Latin verse. Also includes (in the hand of another scribe), pageant verses by John Lydgate and Marian hymns in English and Latin. Contents: ff. 2r–4v: John Lydgat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

4412. Harley MS 1582

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1582
Title:
State papers, 1553-1596
Scope & Content:
This volume is entitled on the spine, 'Original Letters and Papers on State Affairs'. It contains a wide range of materials on English relations with, and intelligence on, France, the Low Countries and Germany in the late 16th century. It has also been termed, not entirely happily but with a g...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1553-1596
Extent:

1 volume.

4413. Harley MS 7578

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7578
Title:
Middle English verse, including ballads by Chaucer and Lydgate; 'The Flyting of Montgomerie and Polwart' by Alexander Montgomerie; 'Nebuchadnezzar's Fierie Furnace'; the 'Annals of Oskell'; grammatical exercises in Latin and Greek; Old songs of Durham
Scope & Content:
Miscellany compiling pages from a number of other manuscripts, which vary greatly in size and period. Major sections within the miscellany are f. 1 (verse and prose on the Ten Commandments and Seven Deadly Sins), ff. 2-20 (various ballads and other verse, some by Chaucer and Lydgate), f. 21 (a s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1400-1700
Extent:

1 volume

4414. Harley MS 6989

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6989
Title:
Letters and state warrants, 1377-1557
Scope & Content:
Letters and state warrants, from the years 1377-1557. f. 1r-1v Letter from Johannes Haukewood, Capitanus Defensoribus Civitates Senarum. 3 February 1377. Latin. f. 2r-2v Letter from Matheus Beccharis, Thomae Cardinali Eboracensi. Abinton, 30 May 1518. Latin. ff. 3r-4v Letter from L. Campegiu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1377-1557
Extent:
1 volume

4415. Harley MS 6994

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6994
Title:
Letters on state affairs, 1586–1589
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–216v: Letters on state affairs from many prominent individuals, including Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester; William Cecil, Lord Burghley; John Puckering; Sir Walter Mildmay, and Francis Walsingham, 1586–1589. ff. 1r–v: Original complimentary letter in Latin from Hieronymus Groslotiu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1586-1589
Extent:
1 volume

4416. Harley MS 7008

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7008
Title:
Correspondence of Prince Henry, 1611-1612
Scope & Content:
Letters, state warrants and correspondence of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594–1612). Volume 2 of Harley MSS 7007-7009. ff. 1r-2v: Letter from Wilhelm Kettler, Duke of Courland, to Prince Henry. Goldinga, 1 January 1611. Latin. ff. 3r-4v: Letter from François de Lorraine, Duke of Vaudemo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1611-1612
Extent:
1 volume

4417. Harley MS 2528

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2528
Title:
Marcus Valerius Probus De notis antiquis and Fabius Victor, De XIV urbis regionibus et vetustatibus opusculum
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes two late-antique tracts: ff. 1r-17r: Marcus Valerius Probus, De notis antiquis, a catalogue of abbreviations found in Latin inscriptions, incipit: 'Valerii Probi de notis antiquis. Est etiam circa perscribundas vel paucioribus litteris notandas studium necessarium.' ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1502
Extent:
Parchment codex.

4418. Harley MS 4843

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4843
Title:
Lives of St Cuthbert and other texts relating to the Cathedral Priory of St Cuthbert, Durham
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes a collection of lives of St Cuthbert, lives of other saints and historical texts relating to the Cathedral Priory of St Cuthbert, Durham: f. 1r: Life of St Nicasius, incipit 'Sancti Nicasius quirinus et scroniculus (sic) socii' (added). f. 1v: Table of contents. ff. 2...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1528
Extent:
Paper and parchment codex

4419. Harley MS 1035

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1035
Title:
Ludolf of Saxony, Meditationes vitae Iesu Christi;Richard Rolle, Parvum Iob sive Libellus in novem lectiones mortuorum; Walter Hilton, The Scale of Perfection
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-85v: Ludolf of Saxony, Meditationes vitae Iesu Christi, rubric: 'Hic incipit de vita domini nostri ihesu christi prologus', incipit: 'Fundamentum aliud nemo potest ponere.' ff. 85v-136v: Richard Rolle, Parvum Iob sive Libellus in novem lectiones mortuorum, inci...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4420. Harley MS 4385

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4385
Title:
Gilles de Rome, De regimine principum translated by Henri de Gauchy, Le gouvernement des roys et des princes
Scope & Content:
Gilles de Rome, De regimine principum, originally dedicated to his pupil, the future Philip IV of France (r. 1286-1314), in the French translation by Henri de Gauchy (or Ganchy), canon of Liege as Le gouvernement des roys et des princes. Decoration: 1 large miniature with a large decorated ini...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1410-c 1420
Extent:

Parchment codex

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