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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 113r-198r, ff 113r-190v
Title:: William of Waddington, Manuel des péchés
Scope & Content:: William of Waddington, Manuel des pechiez; Rubric 'Le prologe del manuel des pechiez', incipit: 'La vertue del seint espirit'. Last section (ff. 181v-191v) copied by the Ludlow scribe and compiler, including (ff. 190v-191r) a table of venial and mortal sins. An edition of the text from the prese...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 77 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 113r-198r, ff 191v-198v
Title:: Purgatoire de S. Patrice
Scope & Content:: Purgatoire de S. Patrice; incipit: 'Ici comence purgatorie seint patric / [P]ur la bone gent conforter'. Written by the Ludlow scribe in collaboration with another scribe who copied lines 373-550: see C. Revard 1970. For the text and the manuscript see Vising 1916.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1314-1329
Extent:: 8 folios followed by 1 blank folio

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 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 583
Title:: Collection of justices' charges
Scope & Content:: Manuscript collection of justices’ charges, in law French and English, with some brief legal arguments on poisoning, treason, etc. ff. 1-6r: Sir John Doderidge’s first charge to the Grand Jury of Middlesex. Hilary Term, 17 James I. f. 6v-8r: Arraignment of Williams, barrister of the Middle Templ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and English
Date Range:: 1610-1642
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 636
Title:: John of Canterbury, Polistorie del Eglise de Christ de Canterbury
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the only surviving complete copy of the Polistorie del Eglise de Christ de Canterbury, written by John, a Benedictine monk at Christ Church, Canterbury, at the request of his 'cher amy Johan' (dear friend John) in 1314. The work is an Anglo-Norman chronicle (with rubrics...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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