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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 199r-203r
Title:: Nicholas Bozon, La Pleinte d'Amour
Scope & Content:: The fifth unit of the manuscript includes Nicholas Bozon, La Pleinte d'Amour; Rubric 'Ici comence la pleynte de / amour', incipit: 'Amur Amur ou estes veus'. For the text see M. Vising, La Plainte d'Amour, poèm anglo-normand (Göteborg, 1905, 1907). Decoration: 1 initial (f. 199r; 2 lines) in b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 204r-215v
Title:: Prayers, poems and recipes for making colours and dying textiles
Scope & Content:: Sixth unit includes: Prayers; incipit: 'Dona michi queso omnipotente deus' (ff. 204r-209r); Recipes to make colours for illuminating books and dying textiles, followed by poems and prayers (ff. 209r-213r); Recipes and charms for fever, cancer, gout, bloodletting, nail in the eye, child-birth...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 12 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 337
Title:: Miscellany, including a cartulary from St Augustine's, Canterbury
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of five different parts bound together in the early modern period. ff. 1r–11r: Cartulary owned by the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury; fragmentary (12th century). ff. 12r–31v: William of Waddington, Manuel de Pechiez (The Textbook of Sins), incl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 12th century-14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 337, ff 12r-31v
Title:: William of Waddington, Manuel de Pechiez (‘The Harleian Roll’)
Scope & Content:: ff. 12r-31v: William of Waddington, Manuel de Pechiez, imperfect, also known as 'The Harleian Roll' for the series of shields painted around 1314 in the upper margins of the leaves (only 161 surviving). Decoration: The shields may have been painted in the upper margins around 1314, according t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 337

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 409
Title:: Registrum Brevium; collection of statutes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-44v: Registrum Brevium. ff. 45r-52v: Statues of Westminster I, introduced as follows: ‘Ces sunt les establisemenz le Roy Edward fuiz le Roy Henri fez a Westmoster a son premer parlement general apres son coronement apres la Cluse Paske lan de son Regne tierz par son Conseil et...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: c 1280
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 453
Title:: Annalium Juridicorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*verso: Casus une homme et une femme. ff. 1r-11r: Placita et Notabilia Itineris Kancie, placitata coram Henrico de Stanton et socijs suis Justiciariis itinerantibus in Comitatu predicto, anno regni Regis Edwardi filii Regis Edwardi, sexto. ff. 11v-32r: Placita Itineris London. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 458
Title:: Coronation charters of Kings Henry I, Stephen and Henry II of England
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a bifolium of copies of the coronation charters of Kings Henry I, Stephen and Henry II in both Latin and Norman French. This is the only surviving copy of the coronation charters of Henry I and Henry II in Norman French translation. It bears the siglum 'Hl' in Felix Lieb...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 505
Title:: Dulcis Jesu Memoria; Sermones de tempore et de sanctis totius anni
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-5r: 42 octosyllabic quatrains known as Dulcis Iesu Memoria (The Sweet Memory of Jesus) in Anglo-Norman and Latin. ff. 5v-14r: A collection of sermons. ff. 15r-182v: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis totius anni preceded by a list of sermon titles (f. 14v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 524
Title:: Collection of sermons and theological tracts (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: The collection includes (f. 66) two contemporary additions relating to medicine, a charm (item 1) and a short verse on humours (item 2). Two short chapters (ff. 84, 119-11v; items 3-4) discuss the formation of the fetus and birth in theological rather than medical terms. The cataloguing of the m...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 13th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 550
Title:: Magna Carta, articles and statutes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-3r: A table of contents. ff. 3v-7v: A table of chapters. ff. 9r-13r: Magna Carta. ff. 13v-18r: Articuli editi super Cartis. ff. 18r-20r: Provisiones de Merton. ff. 20r-26r: Statutum de Marleberghe. ff. 26r-29v: Statutum de Gloucestrie. ff. 29v-41r: Statutum de Westm...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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