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681. Harley MS 4664

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4664
Title:
Breviary of Coldingham Priory
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains 3 separate parts with liturgical texts made for the Benedictine priory of Coldingham: Part I (14th century): ff. 2r-8v: Liturgical lections and antiphons for the feast of Corpus Christi, 'In festivitate corporis Christi ad jesperas [sic] super psalmos' (with added lect...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
c 1250–c 1500
Extent:
1 volume

682. Harley MS 4776

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4776
Title:
Liber Terrarum of Wales
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains land surveys and letters patent relating to Wales. Other copies of these materials can be found in Harley MS 696. Although '1565' is inscribed in an initial on f. 53v, this date may only apply to ff. 1*recto-2*recto, and ff. 41r-54r. While the texts on ff. 129v-131v we...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1500-c 1565
Extent:
1 volume

683. Harley MS 4913

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4913
Title:
Miscellany of humanistic texts
Scope & Content:
Miscellany of humanistic texts, mostly Latin, including speeches and bulls of Pius II, works by Porcelius and Flavio Biondo, extracts from Ovid and a Maximos Planoudes' translation into Greek of Macrobius' Commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

119 folios

684. Harley MS 4957

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4957
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*verso-2*recto: A full-page drawing of a composite coat of arms with supporters (mermaids). ff. 1r-23v: Genealogies of English families with arms and seals, entitled: ‘Genealogia Nobilissime et Honoratissimae familiae Baronum de Berklay necnon aliarum ornatissimarum familiarum ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

685. Harley MS 5367

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5367
Title:
Bible, without the Psalms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-569v: Bible, without the Psalms, imperfect; ending in the middle of Acts of the Apostles. Lacking Revelation. The manuscript contains various additions: Occasional marginal annotations in English hands, 14th century. ff. 1*v, 274v-275v, 571-574: Added list for Sunday readin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

686. Harley MS 5818

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5818
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A pencil drawing of a coat of arms. ff. 2r-45v: Coats of arms of English families (4 per page). ff. 46v-50v: An alphabetical index of families. Decoration: Coats of arms with crests in colours throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

687. Harley MS 5828

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5828
Title:
An English heraldic miscellany
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-60r: Full-page coats of arms, some with crests, of families of Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Rutland and Bedfordshire (late 16th or early 17th century). ff. 61r-63r, 64r-68r: Full-page escutcheons in pencil, but left unfinished. f. 63v: The spurious ‘Epistle of St ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

688. Harley MS 5833

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5833
Title:
An Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-142r: An Alphabet of Arms in English, featuring French heraldic terminology. Decoration: Occasional drawings of heraldic elements in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

689. Harley MS 5873

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5873
Title:
English coats of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-15r: Coats of arms (30 page), of English nobility and gentry; featuring the dates the date 1675 (f. 5r), 1676 (f. 8r), 1676 (f. 14r); and sections headed: ‘Coates done att the Publique worke house 1687-1690’ (ff. 15r-22r); and ‘Coates don since I breake off from the worke house...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1676-1690
Extent:
1 volume

690. Harley MS 6089

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6089
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-25r: Coats of arms with crests of English nobility and gentry (4 per page on ff. 1r-15v; varying numbers on ff. 16r-25r), some featuring dates [up to 1637]. The manuscript contains a later addition: ff. 26r, 27r: The names of towns (? relating to families in this manuscript)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1637
Extent:

1 volume

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