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81. Harley MS 1118

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

82. Harley MS 1120

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

83. Harley MS 1197/1

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

84. Harley MS 1203

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

85. Harley MS 1212

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

86. Harley MS 1239

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

87. Harley MS 1245

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

88. Harley MS 1304

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1304
Title:
John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady; ‘Questiones by twene the Maister of Oxenford and his Clerke’; The ABC of Aristotle, and other proverbs
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-99r: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady (Boffey and Edwards, New Index (2005), no. 2574). ff. 100r-102v: ‘Questiones by twene the Maister of Oxenford and his Clerke’. ff. 103r-103v: The ABC of Aristotle, and other proverbs (Boffey and Edwards, New Index (2005), no. 4155). Deco...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

89. Harley MS 1336

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1336
Title:
Commentaries on English statutes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-30r: A commentary on the Statute of Westminster of 1275 (Westminster I). ff. 31r-127r: A commentary on the Statute of Westminster of 1285 (Westminster II). ff. 128r-140r : A commentary on Magna Carta.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

90. Harley MS 1337

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1337
Title:
The Prose Brut Chronicle, with a collection of prophecies attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer, Merlin and others
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-105r: The Prose Brut Chronicle (abbreviated version to 1419); ending with the explicit: 'Here endith a book callyd the Croniclis of Englonde made & compilid by notabil Clerkis of aventuris of kyngis þat were in þis londe and howe þey died' (f. 105r). The manuscript contai...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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