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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 746
Title:: Legal tracts including the Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus Regni Angliae and the Leges Willelmi
Scope & Content:: A compilation of various legal tracts, including the Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus Regni Angliae (Treatise on the laws and customs of the kingdom of England), attributed to Ranulf Glanville (d. 1190). The Leges Willelmi, a late-12th-century translation of the French treatise known as L...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 748
Title:: Statutes of England
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-8v: 'Regulae Juris super Quarto Decretalium'. ff. 8v-9r: 'Regule Juris super Quinto Decretalium'. ff. 9r-10v: 'Regule Bonifacij Papae VIII. super Sexto Decretalium'. ff. 11r-62v: 'Registrum Cancellarie'. f. 62v: 'Breve Regis Edwardi I de reddendo quodam Mesuagio Willel...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 858
Title:: Vetera Statuta, Registrum Brevium
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes the statutes of the English kings from Magna Cartato the end of the reign of Edward II, known as the Vetera Statuta (ff. 1r-73v), followed by two copies of the Registrum Brevium (ff. 74r-119v and 120r-191v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: Early 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 902
Title:: Rauf de Boun, Le Petit Bruit; compilation of historical texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-11v: Rauf de Boun, Le Petit Bruit. ff. 12r-12v: 'Le serment de Feaulte qe les prelatz doibvent faire au Roy'. ff. 12v-13r: 'Des pairs de France'. f. 13v: Notes relative to Peter Abelard. ff. 13v-46r: Of the posterity of Mrs Rawson. ff. 46r-212v: a compilation of various ch...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: c 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 926
Title:: Vetera Statuta
Scope & Content:: Vetera Statuta (ff. 7r-103v) written and illuminated after 1329 and before 1340 when Edward III changed his arms from England ancient into England ancient quartered with France ancient (see Provenance). The text of Vetera Statuta is preceded by a quire including notes relating to taxes and feuda...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1329-Mid 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 926, ff 1r-6r
Title:: Notes relating to taxes and feudal holdings
Scope & Content:: f. 1r: 'Argumenta brevium', incipit: 'Lex equi'. f. 1v: Register of taxable goods for the diocese of Salisbury. f. 2r: Register of tithes in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. f. 2r: Register of taxes for the province of Canterbury excluding possessions of the Templars, Hospitaliers, and t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 14th century
Extent:: 6 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 947
Title:: Collection of statutes and writs
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-86v: Vetera Statuta. ff. 87r-106v: Nova Statuta (Statutes of Edward III only). ff. 107r-169r: Novae Narrationes. ff. 170r-304r: Registrum brevium from the royal chancery of Edward III () with added texts and notes (ff. 304v-309r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 947, ff 107r-169r
Title:: Novae narrationes
Scope & Content:: Novae narrationes, a compilation in Anglo-Norman French (with titles in Latin) presenting the forms of pleading in courts, composed in the second half of the reign of Edward I (r. 1272-1307) and later supplemented with new formulas. This mauscript includes the type C of the Novae Narrationes, wi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 14th century
Extent:: 63 folios + 1 unfoliated leaf

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 978
Title:: Collection of poems including fables and musical, calendrical, and medical texts
Scope & Content:: A miscellany or 'manual' including poems, fables, musical, and medical texts, several of which are unique to this collection, such as the song 'Sumer is icumen in', the Song of Lewes, several poems by Marie de France and Goliardic verses. The collection was possibly compiled between 1261 and 126...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 978, ff 22r-37r
Title:: Medical miscellany
Scope & Content:: Medical miscellany including: Pseudo-Aristoteles, Epistula ad Alexandrum Magnum de corpore humano sanando (from the Secretum Secretorum), translated by John of Seville (ff. 22r-23r). Rubric in the margin: 'Epistula Aristotelis ad / Alexandrum macedonem / de conservacione / sanita/tis', incipit:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 16 folios (f. 37v is blank)

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