Contents: f. 1v: A letter, entitled ‘Copia Epistolae Christophori Weighardi ad Jacobum Breitingum scriptae’; dated to 1601. ff. 2r-110r: ? Christoph Weickhart, Theologia Weigeliana.
Volume of miscellaneous pedigrees, arms, and other heraldical papers bound together. For a detailed list of contents, see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, vol. I (1808), pages 578-581. A British Library curatorial note pasted into the front of the volume states t...
Composite volume of political tracts in several hands. ff. 1-6: Concerning the decay of rents, and how to improve them. Headed ‘Decay of Rents’. ff. 7-9: Proposals for the better ordering the poor of an unidentified parish. ff. 10-20: Proposals for settling the peace of England, both in Ch...
Book of court precedents, largely manorial courts. For a selected list of contents, see the 1808 printed catalogue of Harley MSS (Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, vol. 1, pp. 628-630). Includes extracts from the Court-Leat and Court-Baron for the manors of Clacton Mag...
Contents: ff. 1r-95r: Axiomatum Theologicorum velut Haustuum ex paradisi fluminibus liber I - collectus a ioh[anno] Junio. ff. 96r-96v: A table of contents.
A formulary probably created for Philip Repyngdon, bishop of Lincoln (d. 1424). Formularies are collections of original or copied documents to use as a model. Most of the volume’s documents are originals relating to Derbyshire, Cheshire, and Shropshire. Contents: f. 1v: A reused trimmed leaf w...
Contents: ff. 1r-57v: Euprepia Puerpera, a devotional tract on the name of the Virgin, said to be have been 'edited' by 'Monede', beginning: 'Maria mater dei appellatur' and ending: 'Explicit libellus de nomine Virginis Marie, qui vocatur Euprepia puerperal editus a Monede propter amorem matris...
Biographies of Roman emperors, their heirs, and usurpers from Hadrian (76-138) to Numerian (d. 284), often spurious, and attributed to six authors also of doubtful authenticity (Aelius Spartianus, Julius Capitolinus, Vulcacius Gallicanus, Aelius Lampridius, Trebellius Pollio, Flavius Vopiscus Sy...
Contents: ff. 1r-162v: Ovid, Metamorphoses (ending imperfectly at Book 15, line 411, 'Id quoque quod ventis animal nutritur et aura', due to loss of leaves). Decoration: Large initial in colours with a putto and acanthus leaves extending into the margins to form a partial border (f. 1r). L...