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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 114
Title:: Pierre de Langtoft, Chronicle of England in French verse to the beginning of the reign of Edward I (1307)
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–47v: Pierre de Langtoft, Chronicle: opening with a French translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth, De gestis Britonum, ‘Sermo de bruto fit sub dictamine tuto. Culpa datur petro deficiente metro. Deus le tut pussant ke cel et terre creayt …’ ff. 48r–121r: Continuation of Chronicle: Anglo-Saxo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 116
Title:: An English miscellany including Thomas Hoccleve, The Regiment of Princes; The Short Charter of Christ; Benedict Burgh, Parvus Cato and Cato Major; anonymous Middle English poems and poems by John Lydgate; Gottfried von Franken, Godfridus Super Palladium (Middle English translation); Nicholas Bollard, The Book of Planting and Grafting
Scope & Content:: This collection of Middle English and Latin poems and treatises is datable to after 1461 as the anonymous Chronicle presents Edward IV as king of England. A later hand (early 16th century) added a table of contents (f. 1* verso) and a few medical recipes (ff. 167v-168r, 169r). The cataloguing of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 202
Title:: Pierre de Langtoft, Chroniques
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Anglo-Norman Chroniques (Chronicles) by Pierre (Peter) de Langtoft (b. 1270, d. 1300) covering the period from 688 to 1294. The text has the siglum 'Ha' in Wright's critical edition. Contents: ff. 2r-89v: Pierre de Langtoft, Chroniques. [f. 1v is blank]. Decorat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 204
Title:: `Sir John Mandeville', Voyage d'outre mer
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the popular 14th-century text Voyage d'outre mer by the supposed author 'Sir John Mandeville', commonly known as 'The Travels of Sir John Mandeville'. This 15th-century copy of the text belongs to group A of the so-called 'vulgate or insular version' and has the siglum '...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 212
Title:: `Sir John Mandeville', Voyage d'outre mer
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the popular 14th-century text Voyage d'outre mer by the supposed author 'Sir John Mandeville', commonly known as 'The Travels of Sir John Mandeville'. This 15th-century copy of the text belongs to group A of the so-called 'vulgate or insular version'. Contents: ff. 1r-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century - 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 232
Title:: A miscellany of theological and ecclesiastical tracts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-5v: A selection of draft indentures relating to different ecclesiastical properties. f. 7v: Pseudo-Ignatius, First Epistle to St John the Evangelist. f. 7v: Pseudo-Ignatius, Second Epistle to St John the Evangelist. f. 7v: Pseudo-Ignatius, Epistle to the Blessed Virgin Mary,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 270
Title:: Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Vie de Saint Thomas Becket; Matthaeus Platearius (attributed), Liber de simplici medicina or Circa instans
Scope & Content:: The volume is made up of two separate manuscripts (ff. 1r-122v, 123r-149v), as follows: Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Vie de Saint Thomas Becket (ff. 1r-122v); Matthaeus Platearius (attributed), Liber de simplici medicina or Circa instans (ff. 123r-149v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1175-1249
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273
Title:: Compilation of religious and secular texts
Scope & Content:: A composite miscellany of religious and secular texts written in England (mostly in Anglo-Norman) and assembled for devotional and instructive purposes. It is made of six parts: First unit (ff. 1r-69v) includes a French Psalter with a calendar, followed by other liturgical prayers, and Hours of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 1300-1349
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 337
Title:: Miscellany, including a cartulary from St Augustine's, Canterbury
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of five different parts bound together in the early modern period. ff. 1r–11r: Cartulary owned by the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury; fragmentary (12th century). ff. 12r–31v: William of Waddington, Manuel de Pechiez (The Textbook of Sins), incl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 12th century-14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 409
Title:: Registrum Brevium; collection of statutes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-44v: Registrum Brevium. ff. 45r-52v: Statues of Westminster I, introduced as follows: ‘Ces sunt les establisemenz le Roy Edward fuiz le Roy Henri fez a Westmoster a son premer parlement general apres son coronement apres la Cluse Paske lan de son Regne tierz par son Conseil et...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: c 1280
Extent:: 1 volume

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