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661. Harley MS 671

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 671
Title:
Collection of geomantic treatises
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Two astronomical tables, entitled: ‘Tabula terminorum planetarum’ and ‘Tabula facibus Planetarum’. f. 1v: A brief note in English on the interpretation of geomantic figures for different types of man, for example: ‘Thies [two geomantic figures] signify men of trost’. f. 2r: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1477-c 1489
Extent:
1 volume

662. Harley MS 731

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 731
Title:
Rolls of Parliament, 1485-1486
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-128v: ‘A Parliament holden at Westminster on Fryday the xxiijd day of January in the First year of the reigne of King Richard the Third’; signed by (?) Francis Mylles (d. 1618). ff. 129r-185v: ‘Diverses Communes Billes & Petitions, lesquelles fuerent baillez, en c'est pres...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

663. Harley MS 774

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 774
Title:
Pedigrees of English families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-40v: Pedigrees with some coats of arms, going up to 1604-1609. ff. 41r-44r: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript. The manuscript contains an addition: ff. 2*recto-3*verso: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, fragments of books 19 and 20; written...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

664. Harley MS 814

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 814
Title:
A book on forests
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: A treatise on ‘A Forest’. ff. 2r-2v: A treatise on ‘A Chase’. ff. 2v-4v: The ‘differences betwene beasts of the forest and beast of the chace’. ff. 4v-6v: A treatise ‘Of Verte’. ff. 6v-8r: A treatise on the 'Swanimote'; ff. 8r-17r: A treatise on 'Matters taken out...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

665. Harley MS 897

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 897
Title:
English pedigrees and arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6r: A table of family names. ff. 6v-74r: A collection of notes on English nobility, including obits, pedigrees, coat of arms (tricked), and church notes; with some additions by Ralfe Brooke (b. 1553, d. 1625), Officer of Arms. ff. 75r-87r: Notes about the deaths of noblemen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

666. Harley MS 1027

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1027
Title:
Statutes of Exeter Cathedral
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-76r: Statutes of Exeter Cathedral, beginning with a statute by Bishop William [? Warelwast, bishop 1107-1137] and ending with those issued in 1387 by Thomas Brantingham, bishop 1370-1394. For a detailed list of contents, see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, I (1808), p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

667. Harley MS 1191

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1191
Title:
Pedigrees of Gloucester gentry
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-8r: An Alphabet of Arms of the Gloucestershire Nobility and Gentry, blazoned. ff. 9r-10r: A table of surnames of pedigrees in the manuscript. ff. 11r-43v: Pedigrees of Gloucester gentry, featuring on f. 19r: A letter from Prince Edward, son of King Henry VI, to John Daunt. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

668. Harley MS 1336

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1336
Title:
Commentaries on English statutes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-30r: A commentary on the Statute of Westminster of 1275 (Westminster I). ff. 31r-127r: A commentary on the Statute of Westminster of 1285 (Westminster II). ff. 128r-140r : A commentary on Magna Carta.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

669. Harley MS 1954

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1954
Title:
Laws relating to Wales
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4r: Tracts on making a testament in Latin; with examples dated to 1420-1426. f. 4v: A draft indenture by Nicholas Bolnehyll, Eschaetor of Caernaerfon, concerning Jevan ap Gruffyth ap Hoelle, dated 1443/4. f. 6r: 'Compositio monete et mensurarum'. ff. 6r-7r: 'Assisa Panis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-2rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

670. Harley MS 2324

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2324
Title:
The Lanterne of Liȝt
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains The Lanterne of Liȝt (The Lanterne of Light), a Lollard tract, written in Middle English in the early 15th century, containing an exposition, supported by passages from the Bible and from the writings of the Fathers and medieval divines, of the principal tenets of the fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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