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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1733
Title:: Miscellaneous tracts
Scope & Content:: Various tracts formerly belonging to Henry Worsley, bound together. Bound in a different order from that described in the printed catalogue of 1808, and re-foliated. ff. 1-10*: Some law cases, with notes. In law French. Folios 1 and 10* are parchment wrappers (formed of manuscript waste, namel...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1755
Title:: Collection of English legal texts, including Ralph of Hengham's Summa Parva and Summa Magna
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2v: Consuetudines Kancie; written in Anglo-Norman. ff. 2v-3r: De Sacramento Vicecomitum et aliorum Ministrourum Regis in Principio Itineris. f. 3v: Modus Calumpniandi Essonia. ff. 3v-4r: Dies communes in Banco. f. 4r-4v: Dies Dotis. ff. 4v-5v: Visus Franci-plegij. ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1756
Title:: ‘Sir John Bussy’s Book of Fees’
Scope & Content:: f. 1*v: Fragments of former binding, one with the inscription ‘Copia feodarum Iohannis Bussy militis domini de Howgham’. f. 1r: List of contents, added in a contemporary hand. ff. 54v: Deeds dated from the 13th century onwards, inquests, and acts of homage, mostly relating to Lincolnshire and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1770
Title:: A trilingual Psalter
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains two parts that were produced at Kirkham Priory in North Yorkshire. The first part (ff. 3r-157v), written in the first half of the 14th century, contains the Psalms, canticles and hymns in Latin prose with parallel Anglo-Norman translations. The second part (ff. 158r-241r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1801
Title:: Bonaventure, Breviloquium pauperis seu Compendium sacrae Scripturae;Hugh of Saint-Victor, Soliloquium de arra animae; Bernard of Clairvaux, De diligendo deo; and other theological texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4v-8v: De Inventione Sanguinis Christ in Ecclesia Fiscanensi per Ricardum I Ducem Normanniae; including an account of how a hidden portion of the Holy Blood at the Abbey of the Holy Trinity of Fécamp was rediscovered in 1171, translated to a new shrine, and a sample of it taken by...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1807
Title:: Statutes of England
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-11v: 'Lez Tenures'. f. 12r: 'Kalendare Curia Baronis'. ff. 12v-33v: 'Curia Baronis'; written in Anglo-Norman. ff. 34r-36r: 'Kalendare de Natura Brevium' and 'Kalendare de Brevibus Judicialibus'. ff. 36v-105r: 'Natura Brevium'; written in Anglo-Norman. ff. 106r-121v: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1808
Title:: Collection of chronicles, letters, and charters relating to England and York Cathedral
Scope & Content:: A collection of historical texts probably belonging to York Cathedral Priory or a member of the chapter, as indicated by the focus on York and its cathedral in several of these texts. ff. 1v-8r: annals from AD 1-1122, after c. 500 mostly focused on events in England, Latin. f. 9r: various insc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: Early 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2183
Title:: Reports of Common Bench and Eyre cases
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-196v: Reports of law cases heard on Eyre and by the Common Bench, arranged topically. The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 2*r, 196r: various notes written in a 17th-century hand. [ff. 1*r, 196v are blank].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

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