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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1033
Title:: Statutes of England; Registrum Brevium; Ralph of Hengham, Summa Magna and Summa Parva
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2v-9r: Table of contents. f. 9v: Exposicio Verborum Anglicorum in veteribus Cartis a Regibus Concessis; containing a list with Middle English legal terms (e.g. 'Miskenninge') with explanations of their meanings in French. ff. 14r-16v: Magna Carta. ff. 16v-18r: Carta de Libe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1120
Title:: English statutes from the reigns of Henry III to Edward I
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Table of contents. ff. 5r-8r: Magna Carta. ff. 8r-9v: Carta de Foresta. ff. 9v-10r: Sententia Excommunicationis Lata in Transgressores Cartarum. ff. 10r-12r: Provisiones de Merton. ff. 12r-14r: Dictum de Kenilworth. ff. 14r-19r: Statuta Marlebergie. ff. 19r-29r: S...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 14th century-3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1121
Title:: Miscellaneous compilation including Livre de Sydrac and Robert Grosseteste, Château d’amour
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is composed of two contemporary semi-independent parts (ff. 1-140 and 141-168) and includes: 1. Table of contents and inscriptions (ff. 1*r-2v*); 2. Livre de Sydrac (ff. 1r-140r); 3. Edmund of Abingdon, Mirour de seinte eglyse (French translation of Speculumreligiosorum) (ff....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1240
Title:: Black Book of Wigmore
Scope & Content:: Deeds and evidence relating to the estate of the lords of the Mortimers. ff. 1r–7v: Indexes. ff. 8r–34v: Table of contents, similar to the inventories in Add MS 6041. ff. 35r–125r: Cartulary of deeds, 13th–14th century, relating to lands in England, Wales and Ireland, written after 1379. Ff. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1380s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1260
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (The Percy Hours)
Scope & Content:: This prayer book contains items that are typical of a Book of Hours, including a Calendar, the Hours of the Virgin, the Seven Penitential Psalms, and a Litany of Saints. However, its larger part comprises prayers in Latin and Anglo Norman that are not organised according to the canonical hours. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1370
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1317
Title:: An abridgment of the statute laws
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-94v: An abridgement of the statute laws from Magna Carta to the reign of King Henry VI, in Latin and French. f. 95v: A letter of ‘Johannis Stevenson’ to his brother ‘Capellanum Magistri Willelmi Broune Armigeri’, headed ‘Johannes Steveson suo fratri Philosopha accuratissimo ...
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 1330
Title:: Law tracts including Star Chamber and Kings Bench trials, Forest Eyre of Windsor 1632, and commentary on the Carta de Foresta
Scope & Content:: Composite volume of law tracts in several hands. Contents: f. 1: Brief contents list. ff. 2-26: Reports of trials in the Court of Star Chamber 40 Eliz. I to 13 Jac. I. Manuscript copy with variations of Francis Moore, Cases Collect and Report Per Sir Francis Moore (London, 1663). ff. 27...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1630s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1335
Title:: Law statutes from Edward I to Edward IV
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Law Statutes from Edward I to Edward IV, in Anglo-Norman. Contents: ff. 1r-37r: an alphabetical index of law terms with reference to the statutes in the manuscript. ff. 38r-106r: The Statutes of King Edward III. ff. 107r-153r: The Statutes of King Richard II. ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1345
Title:: Common law extracts
Scope & Content:: Part of a collection of extracts on common law from the year books. Page numbering starts with page 270. Contents: f. 1: Notes concerning fines levied per Baron and Feme. ff. 2-14: Extracts from the year book of King Henry VIII, 12-27 year of his reign. ff. 15-68r: Extracts from the yea...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1590
Title:: Law commonplace book
Scope & Content:: Law commonplace book compiled from statutes during the reign of James I. In a single hand. Arranged under alphabetical heads. ff. 2-3: Partial contents in another hand (letters A-H only).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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