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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 25
Title:: Collection of law reports
Scope & Content:: The manuscript contains a collection of Common Bench reports including cases from the years between c. 1279 and 1312, copies of plea-roll enrolments, and notes probably assembled by the Dublin Bench attorney Roger de Sancta Brigida during his sejourn in London in 1309-1312 for educational purpos...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 79
Title:: Statuta Angliae; Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is composed of two parts (ff. 1r-26r and 27r-46v) and includes: 1. Correspondence relating to Osney Abbey at Oxford, 1302 (ff. 1r-1v); 2. Statuta Angliae (ff. 2r-26r); 3. Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus (ff. 27r-46r). 4. Medical recipes (f. 46v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1300-1499
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 79, ff 2r-26r
Title:: Statuta Angliae (Vetera Statuta)
Scope & Content:: The volume comprises the texts of Magna Carta and of the Charter of Forest as reissued by Henry III in 1225, followed by a number of Statutes of England; imperfect, incipit (f. 2r): 'Henricus Dei gratia Rex Anglie dominus Hibernie Dux Normannie et Aquitanie / Archiepiscopis … salutem. Sciatis qu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 24 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 113
Title:: Statutes of the Hospital of Ewelme, Oxfordshire
Scope & Content:: f. 1r: Pen trials and inscriptions. Two parchment fragments have been pasted onto this folio. f. 2r: Inscription, 'Henricus octauus dei gracia', with ownership inscription of Richard St George. ff. 1–2** are four erased leaves of a text witten in Anglo-Norman. ff. 1v–2r are parchment leaves w...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and English, Middle
Date Range:: c 1456
Extent:: 1 volume

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

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