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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1066
Title:: Privileges of the University of Oxford granted by the kings of England from Edward III to Edward IV
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-10r: Privileges of the University of Oxford granted by the kings of England from Edward III to Edward IV, some left incomplete. Decoration: 1 inhabited initial in red on a green background and flower motifs. 1 full-frame decorated with blue and red flowers, thistles, includin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1118
Title:: Registrum brevium
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-218v, 220v-289r: Registrum brevium. Including a list of contents (ff. 1r-10r); beginning on f. 13r: 'Edwardus dei gracia Rex Anglie Dominus Hibernie Dux Aquitanie Ballivis suis Lincolniensis salutem precipimus vobis quod sine dilatione plenum rectum teneatis Ade de Cerleton. de...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1120
Title:: English statutes from the reigns of Henry III to Edward I
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Table of contents. ff. 5r-8r: Magna Carta. ff. 8r-9v: Carta de Foresta. ff. 9v-10r: Sententia Excommunicationis Lata in Transgressores Cartarum. ff. 10r-12r: Provisiones de Merton. ff. 12r-14r: Dictum de Kenilworth. ff. 14r-19r: Statuta Marlebergie. ff. 19r-29r: S...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 14th century-3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1197/1
Title:: The Pore Caitif; Richard Lavenham, Little Treatise on the Seven Deadly Sins; The Book of Tribulation; The Five Wyles of Pharaoh; Speculum Christiani; Ars moriendi; homilies on the Epistles and Gospels for all Sundays of the year
Scope & Content:: The first of two volumes that comprise Harley MS 1197. The second volume is Harley MS 1197/2. This volume is a composite manuscript that consists of four parts that were produced separately in the 15th and 16th centuries. Part 1 (ff. 1r-76v) was written in the 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1203
Title:: Apocalips of Jesu Crist, with commentary; Wycliffite tracts on verses in the Gospel of Matthew
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-63v: A Middle English translation of the ‘Norman Apocalypse’ (earlier than and independent from the Wycliffite Bible), known as Apocalips of Jesu Crist, with commentary (Version B). ff. 64r-91r: A Wycliffite tract on verses in the Gospel of Matthew, beginning: 'Attendite a fa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1205
Title:: Prick of Conscience
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-125r: Prick of Conscience, ending: ‘Explicit expliceat ludere Scriptor eat’. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 125r: A Latin praise-complaint of the Pope entitled In papam: ‘Pauperibus sua dat gratis, nec munera curat / Curia papalis, quodmodo percipimus / Laus t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1210
Title:: Law statutes for England
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains law texts from England in Latin and French that were probably written in the late 15th century. Other law texts were added in the final decade of the 15th century and early 16th century. In the same period, a Middle English poem, instructions, recipes and notes were adde...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1212
Title:: Wycliffite New Testament, later version with the usual prologues and table of lections
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-14r: A ‘kalendar of lessouns pistlis and gospels of al þe ȝeer’. ff. 15r-283r: Wycliffite New Testament, later version with the usual prologues and table of lections. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: A biblical quotation: 'Rev. 12.5 She bare a k...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1420
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1239
Title:: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde; a selection from The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of works by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400): Troilus and Criseyde, and a selection from The Canterbury Tales. The latter includes The Knight's Tale, The Man of Law's Prologue and Tale, The Wife of Bath's Tale, The Clerk's Tale, and The Franklin's Tale. Con...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1245
Title:: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes; Defence of Holy Church
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-182v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes [Books 1-9], imperfect; an English translation of Laurent de Premierfait’s Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes, which is a French translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (‘On the Fates of Famous Men’). ff. 182v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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