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781. Harley MS 2805

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2805
Title:
Bible
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-237v: Bible, containing most of the Old Testament (Genesis to Psalm 142), including neumes (ff. 170r-171v), with 15th-century additional folios for text, imperfect. Decoration: Sketch of an animal in brown ink (upper margin f. 27r). Large initial in brown 'E'(t) at the beginn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

782. Harley MS 2975

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2975
Title:
Breviary
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: Notes on the Calendar in Latin. f. 2r: A circular diagram with instruction for finding Sunday Letters and Golden Numbers, starting in the year 1500. f. 2v: 'Tabula duodecum signorum zodyaci'. ff. 3r-8v: Calendar, including feasts for St Ludger, Bishop of Münster in Westph...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

783. Harley MS 6290

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6290
Title:
Grammatica
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
3 items

784. Harley MS 823

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 823
Title:
Christianographia, by Ephraim Pagitt
Scope & Content:
Manuscript book of Ephraim Pagitt (1575?-1647), Rector of St Edmund King and Martyr, London. In his own hand. Includes the following at the end of the volume: ff. 237-238: ‘Literae a Patriarcha Alexandrino, ad Archiepiscopum Cantuariensem, ex Aegypto in Britanniam transmissae, ex- autographo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

785. Harley MS 834

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 834
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-44v, 46v-51vr: Part of an ordinary of arms, organised according to heraldic device. ff. 52r-58v: ‘The whole discourse of Thomas Duke of Norffolke his arrainement the xijth day of January 1571’. ff. 59r-62v: ‘The arraygnement of Philip Howard Late Earle of Arundell [1589]’. ...
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

786. Harley MS 959

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 959
Title:
The Cloud of Unknowing
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: A cancelled leaf from The Cloud of Unknowing. ff. 3r-123v: The Cloud of Unknowing, ending with the colophon: 'laus deo et honor / prey for the wryter / Qui nominatur Walterus ffytzherbert'. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1r: A note stating that: 'Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

787. Harley MS 1116

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1116
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r: ‘The copy of a dyde taken oute of the Evidences of thomas wolley of hamsted in the counte of Staffordshire Anno 1563’. ff. 3v-4r: Full-page drawings of a seven-headed dragon and St Michael the Archangel. ff. 5r-12v: Empty coats of arms (9 per page) in brown ink, circumscri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

788. Harley MS 1210

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1210
Title:
Law statutes for England
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains law texts from England in Latin and French that were probably written in the late 15th century. Other law texts were added in the final decade of the 15th century and early 16th century. In the same period, a Middle English poem, instructions, recipes and notes were adde...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

789. Harley MS 1259

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1259
Title:
Collection of English statutes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Carta Foresta. ff. 5r-6r: Sententia Excommunicationis Lata in Transgressores Cartarum. ff. 6r-8r: Consuetudines et assisae de Foresta. ff. 8r-9v: Summa de antiquo Dominico Corone. ff. 9v-10v: Statutum Religiosorum. ff. 10v-15r: Statutum Wyntonie. ff. 15r-19v: S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

790. Harley MS 1402

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1402
Title:
An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-18v: Coats of arms (4-9 per page) of deceased persons, probably of those for whom John Spicer had been employed as a painter. Decoration: Coats of arms and crests drawn and tricked in brown ink throughout the manuscript. Drawings of banners with coats of arms in brown ink an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1682
Extent:
1 volume

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