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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 978, ff 75r-117v
Title:: Literary miscellany
Scope & Content:: Literary miscellany in verse and prose including: Goliardic verses including poems by Walter Map (ff. 75r-107r); Rubric (f. 75r): 'Apocalipsis Golye episcopi', incipit: 'A tauro torrida lampada cynthis?', explicit: 'Tu autem domine miserere crawe. Amen'. The verses include H. Walther, Initia carm...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 43 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 978, ff 160v-162r
Title:: A list of contents of a collection of polyphonic music and notes
Scope & Content:: A list of contents of a collection of polyphonic music (untraced) in a 14th-century hand, headed 'Ordo libri W. de Wint[onia]' and comprising the textual incipits of eight Marian tropes under the heading 'R[esponsorium] R. de Burg[ate]', 37 alleluia settings under the heading 'Postea R[esponsori...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1300-1636
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1005
Title:: Bury St Edmunds customary (‘Liber albus’)
Scope & Content:: Register known as ‘Liber albus’ (‘The White Book’): an inventory of charters, arranged under the headings Regum, Privilegia, Celeraria, Sacristia, de Camera, Elemosinar., De hospitali, Pitanciaria, De domo hospitum, De infirmaria, and Abbatia, each with numbered topographical subdivisions. Bound...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: Early 12th century-Early 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1011
Title:: English statutes and other law texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-53v: English statutes and other law texts, in Latin and French.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1013
Title:: Registrum brevium; English statutes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-124r: Registrum Brevium from the reign of Edward III (r. 1327-1377). ff. 126r-129v: Magna Carta. ff. 129v-131v: Carta de Foresta. ff. 131v-132r: Sentencia lata super Cartas. ff. 132v-134v: Provisiones de Mertone. ff. 134v-139r: Statuta de Merleberge. ff. 139r-148v: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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 1121, ff 1r-140r
Title:: Livre de Sydrac
Scope & Content:: Livre de Sydrac. Decoration: Diagram in blue, brown and red ink of the planets (f. 117v); large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours forming a three-sided border including foliate motifs and a dragon, at the beginning of the text (f. 1r). Initials in blue wit...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 140 leaves; 3 unfoliated leaves at the end.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1121, ff 141r-156r
Title:: Edmund of Abingdon, Mirour de seinte eglyse (French translation of Speculum religiosorum)
Scope & Content:: Edmund of Abingdon, Mirour de seinte eglyse (French translation of Speculum religiosorum). Decoration: Historiated initial of saint Edmund of Abingdon as a bishop holding a mirror, with a partial foliate bar border with a dragon and a dog pursuing a hare, at the beginning of the text (f. 141)....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 16 folios.

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