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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2184
Title:: Year Book of King Edward II of England (imperfect), for 1311-1319
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-62v: Year Book of Edward II (imperfect), for 1311-1319 (lacking for 1315-1318).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1311-1319
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2253
Title:: Henri d'Acre, Miscellany of secular and religious lyrics (also known as the 'Harley Lyrics'), including King Horn and the Follies of Fashion, and Psalms listed for recitation at certain times (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: The manuscript divides in two parts. Part I (ff. 1r-48v) includes a collection of hagiographical texts in Anglo-Norman French. Part II (ff. 49r-140v and 142r-142v, except for folio 52v) was written in c. 1330-1340 by the so-called 'Harley scribe' and contains a miscellany of texts including secu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: Late 13th century-1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2347
Title:
Scope & Content:: Miscellaneous Collection of Medical texts and Recipes; late 15th cent., 13th cent. Latin, Anglo-Norman and Middle English. Partly imperfect. The cataloguing of this manuscript was funded by the Wellcome Trust. Texts include: - A) Collection of medical and surgical recipes in Latin, Anglo-Nor...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 13th century-15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2445
Title:: Prayer book
Scope & Content:: This prayer book was made for a female user as is indicated by prayers throughout the manuscript that have been grammatically phrased for a woman. This could account for the manuscript's high number of Marian prayers, including the Hours of the Compassion of the Virgin. It may also explain an un...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558
Title:: Thomas Fayreford, Medical miscellany and commonplace book
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is a composite miscellany of botanical, surgical, medical, magical, astrological and prognostication texts written in the 13th-14th centuries and assembled with his own autograph additions by the 15th-century English physician, Thomas Fayreford. The texts include: 1. Two dictiona...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 13th century-15th century
Extent:: 227 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3601
Title:: Liber memorandorum ecclesie conuentualis de Bernewelle
Scope & Content:: ff. 2*r–7*v: Kalendar. f. 1r: List of days on which it is not permitted to work; list of episcopal and archepiscopal seats in England and Wales. ff. 1v–2v: Office in veneration of the Holy Trinity. f. 2v: Copies of charters in a fourteenth-century hand. ff. 3r–10r: List of contents. ff. 11r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: c 1295
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3660
Title:: Cartulary of Canonsleigh Abbey
Scope & Content:: A general cartulary of Canonsleigh Abbey, Devon (founded originally as a priory for Augustinian canonesses), arranged topographically in sections, containing copies of royal and occasional episcopal charters. It has been suggested that the book was originally compiled in 1323-24 (see London, Car...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1322-1337
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3818
Title:: English statutes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2r: Table of contents. ff. 2v-16v: Chapter lists of English statutes. ff. 17r-25r: Magna Carta. ff. 25r-29r: Carta de Foresta. ff. 29v-34r: Statutum de Merton. ff. 34r-45v: Statutum de Marleberge. ff. 45v-68v: Statutum Westmonasterii Primum. ff. 68v-74r: Statutum G...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3819
Title:: Statutes of England; Registrum Brevium
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Lists of chapters of statutes. ff. 5r-10v: Magna Carta. ff. 10v-13v: Statuta de Foresta. ff. 13v-17r: Statuta de Merton. ff. 17r-25r: Statuta de Marleberg. ff. 25r-41r: Statuta Prima Westmonasterii. ff. 41r-45r: Statuta Gloucesterie. ff. 45r-74v: Statuta Secun...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3860
Title:: History of the Kings of England and Scotland; L'estoire des Sept Sages de Rome; Le Château d'amour;Manuel des Péchés; Housebondrie
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-22r: Brevis historia Regum Angliae et Scotiae usque ad Henricum III (a brief history of the Kings of England and Scotland up to Henry III); ff. 23r-47r: Anonymous, L'estoire des Sept Sages de Rome (version A). ff. 48r-61v: Robert Grosseteste, Le Château d'amour. ff. 61r-77v:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 82 folios.

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