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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1121, ff 156r-168r
Title:: Robert Grosseteste, Château d’amour
Scope & Content:: Robert Grosseteste, Château d’amour. Decoration: Initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 13 folios.

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1602
Title:: Collection of medical treatises, alchemical recipes and charms
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript is formed of four separate codicological units with materials added to the beginning and the end, when the units appear to have been bound or kept together. Part 1 (ff. 3r-4v) contains a collection alchemical recipes that was written in the 15th century. Part 2 (ff. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century-16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1605/1
Title:: Fragments of an anonymous Anglo-Norman metrical translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Brittaniae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the first of three volumes that comprise Harley MS 1605 (the others being Harley MS 1605/2 and Harley MS 1605/3). It contains fragments of an anonymous Anglo-Norman verse translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Brittaniae. The text is known as the 'Harley Brut' bu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and English
Date Range:: c 1250
Extent:: 1 volume

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