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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3818
Title:: English statutes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2r: Table of contents. ff. 2v-16v: Chapter lists of English statutes. ff. 17r-25r: Magna Carta. ff. 25r-29r: Carta de Foresta. ff. 29v-34r: Statutum de Merton. ff. 34r-45v: Statutum de Marleberge. ff. 45v-68v: Statutum Westmonasterii Primum. ff. 68v-74r: Statutum G...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3819
Title:: Statutes of England; Registrum Brevium
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Lists of chapters of statutes. ff. 5r-10v: Magna Carta. ff. 10v-13v: Statuta de Foresta. ff. 13v-17r: Statuta de Merton. ff. 17r-25r: Statuta de Marleberg. ff. 25r-41r: Statuta Prima Westmonasterii. ff. 41r-45r: Statuta Gloucesterie. ff. 45r-74v: Statuta Secun...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3860
Title:: History of the Kings of England and Scotland; L'estoire des Sept Sages de Rome; Le Château d'amour;Manuel des Péchés; Housebondrie
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-22r: Brevis historia Regum Angliae et Scotiae usque ad Henricum III (a brief history of the Kings of England and Scotland up to Henry III); ff. 23r-47r: Anonymous, L'estoire des Sept Sages de Rome (version A). ff. 48r-61v: Robert Grosseteste, Le Château d'amour. ff. 61r-77v:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 82 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3950
Title:: Psalter with Anglo-Norman and Latin verses
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r-v: a prayer to the Wounds of Christ in Latin (beginning 'Sacratissimo capiti tuo et beatissime corone tue'). f. 2r: the Creed in Anglo-Norman French verse (beginning 'Jo crei en Deu verrayement'; ed. Brayer and Bouly de Lesdain, 'Les prières usuelles' (1969), pp. 114-15). f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English., and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4070
Title:: Psalter in Anglo-Norman
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of the Book of Psalms in Anglo-Norman verse with the corresponding Latin verses at the beginning of each stanza. Contents: ff. 2r-123v: The Book of Psalms in verse, with a prologue, beginning ‘Ces [ver]s sunt de salu de[l] [ri]che rei ihesu nostre duz Avue’. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century - 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4388
Title:: Anglo-Norman miscellany, including Les proverbes de Salemon and Chastoiement d’un pere a son fils
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-86v: Sanson de Nantuil, Les proverbes de Salemon, the Latin text of the book of Proverbs, chapter 1 to chapter 19:27 with a translation and commentary in Anglo-Norman verse. The 12,000 octosyllabic couplets were composed by Sanson de Nantuil for Aeliz de Condet between 1136-11...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4657
Title:: Latin and Anglo-Norman devotional miscellany
Scope & Content:: A miscellany including William of Waddington's Le Manuel des Pechiez (c. 1260), and unique copies of a vernacular hymn dedicated to the Virgin Mary, a 13th-century anonymous translation of the Disticha Catonis, and a vernacular poem on the seven mortal sins. ff. 1v-4v: Apocalypsis Golliae, 'A ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: c 1300 - c 1325
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4664
Title:: Breviary of Coldingham Priory
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains 3 separate parts with liturgical texts made for the Benedictine priory of Coldingham: Part I (14th century): ff. 2r-8v: Liturgical lections and antiphons for the feast of Corpus Christi, 'In festivitate corporis Christi ad jesperas [sic] super psalmos' (with added lect...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: c 1250–c 1500
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4733
Title:: Miscellany of Middle English verse containing 'Parvus Cato' and 'Cato Major' by Benedict Burgh, 'Proverbs of Old Philosophers' and 'Destruction of Jerusalem' ('Titus and Vespasian')
Scope & Content:: Contents: 1. (ff. 3r-30r): 'Parvus Cato' and 'Cato Major': the Disticha Catonis, translated into English verse by Benedict Burgh (d. in or before 1483). See Boffey and Edwards 2005, nos. 854 and 3955. For an edition of the Benedict Burgh translation, see Fumio Kuriyagawa, Paruus Cato Magnus Ca...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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