Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Language: Anglo-Norman - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 7r-8v
Title:: Novele cirurgerie, excerpt
Scope & Content:: Novele cirurgerie, excerpt (365 lines); Imperfect. A collection of medical recipes in Anglo-Norman verse. Beginning at 'En eisil e chaut sure mis', breaking at 'E sur ceo la confectiun'. Text fully printed in Hunt 1987. See also Hieatt and Jones 1990.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 175r-184v
Title:: Pseudo-Hippocrates, Letter to Caesar (Regimen sanitatis)
Scope & Content:: Pseudo-Hippocrates, Letter to Caesar (Regimen sanitatis). A collection of vernacular medical recipes, followed (f. 184v) by a trilingual list of herbs. Incipit: prologue 'Ceo est la livere ce ky joe Ypocras enveye ay a Sesar qui joe a tey avoy promis', incipit: 'Checun humme verreyment et bestes ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 15 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 188r-188v
Title:: Medical recipes
Scope & Content:: Medical recipes (c. 30 recipes). Incipit: 'Pro dolore dentium vinum et peper / misse'. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The Mediaeval Academy of America Publication, 29 (London, 1963; with supplements in 1965 and 1968), p. 1132e...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3601
Title:: Liber memorandorum ecclesie conuentualis de Bernewelle
Scope & Content:: ff. 2*r–7*v: Kalendar. f. 1r: List of days on which it is not permitted to work; list of episcopal and archepiscopal seats in England and Wales. ff. 1v–2v: Office in veneration of the Holy Trinity. f. 2v: Copies of charters in a fourteenth-century hand. ff. 3r–10r: List of contents. ff. 11r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: c 1295
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3660
Title:: Cartulary of Canonsleigh Abbey
Scope & Content:: A general cartulary of Canonsleigh Abbey, Devon (founded originally as a priory for Augustinian canonesses), arranged topographically in sections, containing copies of royal and occasional episcopal charters. It has been suggested that the book was originally compiled in 1323-24 (see London, Car...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1322-1337
Extent:: 1 volume

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

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