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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 532, ff 53v-60r
Title:: A letter to John Dee describing the destruction of Dunwich by the sea in 1573
Scope & Content:: A letter to John Dee describing the destruction of Dunwich by the sea in 1573.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1573
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 651, ff 192-196
Title:: Chronicle from the creation of the world to 1384; England from Alfred to Richard II (with continuations); Names of the kings of Britain and the Heptarchy; Miracle at the shrine of Our Lady of Ipswich
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 192r–193v: Chronicle from Creation to 1384. ff. 193v–194r: Series of kings of England from Alfred to Richard II, continued up to Edward VI by a different hand, writing in Middle English (lower margin of f. 194r). f. 194v: Names of the kings of Britain and of the Anglo-Saxons in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 651

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4980, ff 1-2v
Title:: Fragment from Augustine, De civitate Dei
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-v: St Augustine, De civitate Dei (City of God), Book 16 chapter 8 to 16. Decoration: A quire signature (f. 2v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 8th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 4980

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 80, ff 99r-106r, ff 99r-101v
Title:: Marbodus Redonensis, Liber lapidum seu de Gemmis.
Scope & Content:: Marbodus Redonensis, Liber lapidum seu de Gemmis. A treatise relating to the properties of sixty-two stones written in verse by Marbod (1035-1123), bishop of Rennes, poet and writer, who made large use of material found in a 5th- or 6th-century Latin translation by Damigeron of a previous work i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 13th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4951, ff 1-118
Title:: John Halgren of Abbeville, Sermones dominicales
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-118v: John Halgren of Abbeville, Sermones dominicales, beginning ‘Dominicales sermones iohannis de abbatis villa · episcopi Sabinensis’. Decoration: 1 large red initial with blue penwork decoration (f. 1r). Small initials in red or brown ink. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 4951

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6322, ff 23-24v, 26-27v
Title:: Demosthenes, De pace f. 25 is in the same hand and contains (1) the same concluding part of Philippica 1 as on f. 23, inc. συνοίσειν ὑμῖν πεπεισμένος; (2) the beginning of De pace, expl. ὡς ὑπὲρ πόλεως βουλομένοις.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 80, ff 75r-84v, ff 76r-77v
Title:: De imaginibus super facies signorum, attributed to Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)
Scope & Content:: De imaginibus super facies signorum attributed to Claudius Ptolemaeus, a work on engraved images which in the manuscript tradition often follows the work by Thebit. Rubric 'Opus Omaga/rum secundum / consilium ptolomeum [sic] et / est omnibus modis propior / et veracior in probatione quoniam eius ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 532, ff 65r-72r
Title:: The order and form of the entry of Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, into Canterbury before the investiture of William Wharham as archbishop of Canterbury on 9 March 1504
Scope & Content:: The order and form of the entry of Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, into Canterbury before the investiture of William Wharham as archbishop of Canterbury on 9 March 1504 (The order and forme of the comminge of Lord Edwarde Stanfford Duke of Buckingham into Caunterbery the daye before Introni...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century, after 1504
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4374/1
Title:: Valerius Maximus, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, book 1
Scope & Content:: Contents: Valerius Maximus, translated by Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens (the first of 6 volumes): ff. 1r-2v: Translator's prologue; ff. 2v-4v: Author's prologue; ff. 4v-80v: Book 1, Religion and miraculous events (continued in Harl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: c 1473-c1480
Extent:: A parchment codex, 80 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4374/2
Title:: Valerius Maximus, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, books 1, 2 and 3
Scope & Content:: Contents: Valerius Maximus, translated by Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens (the second of 6 volumes): ff. 81r-87v: Book 1, Religion (continuation); ff. 88r-160r: Book 2, Ancient Customs; ff. 161r-168v: Book 3, Human characteristics (c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: c1473-c1480
Extent:: A parchment codex, 88 folios

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