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The Harleian Library, Harley Collection, Harleian Collection and other variants (Latin: Bibliotheca Harleiana) is one of the main "closed" collections (namely, historic collections to which new material is no longer added) of the British Library in London, formerly the library of the British Museum.

The collection comprises 7,660 manuscripts, including 2,200 illuminated manuscripts, more than 14,000 original legal documents; and more than 500 rolls. It was assembled by Robert Harley (1661–1724) and his son Edward (1689–1741). In 1753, it was purchased for £10,000 by the British government. Together with the collections of Sir Robert Cotton (the Cotton library) and Hans Sloane (the Sloane library) it formed the basis of the British Museum's collection of manuscripts, which were transferred to the new British Library in 1973.

The collection contains illuminated manuscripts spanning the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance. There are important early British manuscripts, many from Western Europe, and several Byzantine manuscripts in Greek and other languages.

Manuscripts

Among the most significant manuscripts are:

Lacnunga (Harley MS 585)
Harley Psalter (Harley MS 603)
Kildare Poems (Harley MS 913)
Annales Cambriae, in Harley MS 3859; including medieval Welsh genealogies and other items
Sumer Is Icumen In, in Harley MS 978
Inventory of Henry VIII of England (Harley MS 1419)
Gospels of Mael Brigte (Harley MS 1602)
Harley 1775, an illuminated Gospel Book produced in Italy during the last quarter of the 6th century
Minuscule 113 (Harley MS 1810) - and many others, see the category at bottom of the page
Harley Lyrics (Harley MS 2253)
Harley Golden Gospels (Harley MS 2788)
Ramsey Psalter (Harley MS 2904)
Book of Nunnaminster (Harley MS 2965)
Minuscule 3686
Harleian Genealogies (Harley MS 3859)
Minuscule 104 (Harley MS 5537)
Minuscule 505 (Harley MS 5538)
Uncial 0121a (Harley MS 5613)
Ptolemy's Geography (Harley MS 7182 & 7195)
Harley MS 7334
Harleian prayerbook (Harley MS 7653)
The Harley Glossary (eleventh-century Latin-Old English glossary, Harley MA 3376)

References

Laura Nuvoloni. The Harleian Medical Manuscripts (PDF). published by The British Library. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-07-26.
British Library. "History of the Harley Library Archived 2018-08-30 at the Wayback Machine".

Catalogue

Nares, Robert; Ellis, Henry; Horne, Thomas Hartwell, eds. (1808–1812). A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, in the British Museum. London: Record Commission. (4 vols): vol. 1 (MSS 1–1309); vol. 2 (MSS 1310–3099); vol. 3 (MSS 3100–7639); vol. 4 (indexes)

External links

The foundation collections Archived 2019-10-02 at the Wayback Machine at the Catalogue of Illuminated manuscripts
List of medicine and alchemist manuscripts Archived 2022-02-23 at the Wayback Machine PDF, 192 KB
Trilingual Psalter Archived 2018-08-11 at the Wayback Machine
Harley Bestiary (Harley MS 4751)
The Book of Nunnaminster (Harley 2965)

British Library

Named
collections

Ephemera	Ettridge Collection Evanion Collection Francis Place Collection Jaffray Collection National Reports Collection
Literature	Ashley Library Cotton Library Dexter Collection Durrell Collection Eccles Collection Ediciones Vigía Garrick Collection Hannas Collection Harold Pinter Archive King's Library Leyden Medical Dissertations Paston Letters Private Case Suppressed Safe collection Thomason Collection Todd-Bowden Collection of Tauchnitz Editions
Manuscripts	Arundel Manuscripts Coptic Language Collection Cotton Collection Egerton Collection Harleian Collection Royal manuscripts King's manuscripts Lansdowne manuscripts Stowe manuscripts Syriac Collection Stefan Zweig Collection
Maps	Beudeker Collection
Newspapers	Burney Collection
Philatelic	Bailey Collection Blackburn Collection Bojanowicz Collection Booth Papers Burnett Collection Campbell-Johnston Collection Chismon Collection Chinchen Collection Contributions Agency Collection Crawford Library Crown Agents Archive Crown Agents Collection Davies Collection Ewen Collection Feldheim Collection Fitzgerald Collection Fletcher Collection Foreign and Commonwealth Office Foreign Office Collection General Collection Ginger Collection H.M. Customs and Excise Collection H.M. Stationery Office Collection Harrison Collection Harrison & Sons Collection Heys Collection Imperial War Museum stamp collection Inland Revenue Stamping Archive Johnson Collection Kaluski Collection Kay Collection Langmead Collection Landmark Trust Lundy Archive McInroy Collection Model Collection Monks Collection Mosely Collection Muraleetharan Papers Murray Collection Photograph Collection Postal Authority Publicity Collection R.P.S.L. Handouts Collection Row Collection Ryan Collection Seymour Collection Scott Collection Shelley Collection Sherborn Collection Smith Collection Supplementary Collection Tapling Collection Treasury Excise Correspondence Turner Collection of Forgeries Turner Collection of Newspaper Tax Stamps Turner Collection of Railway Letter Stamps U.P.U. Collection Walker Collection Williams Papers Wilson-Todd Collection
Sound	British Library Sound Archive Oral History of British Science St Mary-le-Bow Debates

Other

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Manuscripts

References

Further reading

Catalogue

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