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791. Harley MS 1426

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1426
Title:
Achievements of English families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-32v, 35r-111r: The achievements of the English nobility from the time of James I or Charles I, with mottoes in Latin and French. f. 33v: The arms, and descents of noble persons written and painted circularly, and concentring on William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke. f. 34r: Thr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1625-c 1629
Extent:
1 volume

792. Harley MS 1591

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1591
Title:
Collection of legal treatises
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: Law notes, including a line in French: 'Pur un plaisir mille dole'. f. 1r: Recipe for sleep, including milk, treacle, saffron and ivy. ff. 2r-5v: Forms of writs from the time of Queen Elizabeth. ff. 6r-10r: 'The Manner and Order of kepinge the Quarter Cessions'. f....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

793. Harley MS 2220

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2220
Title:
Miscellaneous coats of arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Coats of arms (4-9 per page) of English nobility and gentry. f. 7r: The (attributed) coats of arms of the Nine Worthies, with Guy of Warwick. ff. 7v-9r: Coats of arms (16 per page) of ‘howses [that] have matched wyth Danvers’. ff. 9r-11r: Coats of arms (16 per page) o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1589
Extent:
1 volume

794. Harley MS 2276

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2276
Title:
Middle English sermon collection
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-146v: Sixty sermons on the Sunday gospels, certain major feast-days in the Christmas season and Ascension, from the First Sunday in Advent to the 22nd Sunday after Trinity. Translated from the 12th-century Latin Filius matris collection, with additional sermons not based on the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

795. Harley MS 2345

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2345
Title:
A collection of sermons
Scope & Content:
A collection of sermons written in England, as suggested by the presence of sermons for several English saints including Alphege, Frideswide, and Samson. Contents: ff. 1r-23r: sermons for different days of the year, mostly Sundays. ff. 23r-79r: sermons for different saints’ days. ff. 79v: vo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

796. Harley MS 2766

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2766
Title:
Iulius Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis
Scope & Content:
Iulius Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis. Decoration: Initials in red. Place left for an initial at the beginning of the prologue (f. 1r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
48 folios (including 1 blank folio after f. 2).

797. Harley MS 2835

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2835
Title:
Missal with a calendar
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-225r: Missal with a calendar (ff. 1r-6v), the latter imperfect (begins with March); and music notation (neumes on 3-line staves). The Canon of the Mass (ff. 145r-151v) has been written in a much larger script. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 225r: A poem d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1541
Extent:
1 volume

798. Harley MS 3759

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3759
Title:
Cartulary of Blyth Priory
Scope & Content:
ff. 1v–46v, 51r–v: Added rentals and memoranda, with a few deeds. ff. 47r–50v: Contemporary table of contents. ff. 52r–137v: Cartulary, containing copies of private and other deeds, late 11th–early 14th century, including four royal writs and episcopal charters. ff. 138r–153v: Added charters ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century-Early 14th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

799. Harley MS 3941

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3941
Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:
The manuscript was originally a single codex, but has been divided into two volumes, now Harley MS 3941/1 and Harley MS 3941/2. The Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville (b. 599, d. 636), an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (b. 590, d. 651), the editor of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Breton and Latin
Date Range:
9th century
Extent:

2 volumes

800. Harley MS 4857

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4857
Title:
Petrarch, Rime and Trionfi
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*r-6*r: Table of first lines. f. 1*: Added pasted on inscribed piece of parchment. ff. 1r-142v: Petrarch, Rime. ff. 143r-179v: Petrarch, Trionfi. Decoration: Three-sided white vine border inhabited by animals and putti, with 1 large initial in colours and gold and a coat of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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