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781. Harley MS 5044

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5044
Title:
English statutes; Registrum Brevium; Robert Grosseteste, Rules for Household and Estate Management (Les Reules Seynt Robert), Rules for his Own Household, Statutes for the Diocese of Lincoln, Treatise on Confession; Walter of Henley, Housbondrie
Scope & Content:
This manuscript predominantly contains copies of well-known English statutes of the 13th century, but it also includes previously unknown copies of Anglo-Norman and Latin works by the 13th-century authors Robert Grosseteste (b. c. 1170, d. 1253) and Walter of Henley (fl. c. 1260). It includes hi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

782. Harley MS 5085

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5085
Title:
The 'Mirrur' (Middle English translation of Robert de Gretham's Miroir)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-211v: The 'Mirrur', the Middle English translation of Robert de Gretham's Miroir. Decoration: Small initials in red. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

783. Harley MS 5086

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5086
Title:
Edward of Norwich, The Master of Game; The Babees’s Book; The ABC of Aristotle; Dietary for King Henry V; Treatise on equine medicine
Scope & Content:
This 15th-century miscellany contains Middle English and Latin verse and prose treatises relating to hunting, manners, human and veterinary medicine. The cataloguing of the manuscript was partially funded by the Wellcome Trust. Contents: ff. 1r-85r: Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York, The Ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

784. Harley MS 5144

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5144
Title:
Year Book for the reigns of Henry IV and Henry V
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-254r: Year Book, containing the Term reports in Law French for the reigns of King Henry IV (years 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 14) and King Henry V (years 9, 2 and 1). The manuscript contains a few later additions from the late 15th or early 16th century: f. 1*verso: Medical ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

785. Harley MS 5146

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5146
Title:
Tenurae; Natura Brevium; Novelli Tenores
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a number of collections of legal cases written in Latin and French. It also contains a previously unidentified stanza from the Middle English poem The Court of Sapience, usually attributed to John Lydgate, but here assigned to Geoffrey Chaucer. The poem has only been ide...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1483
Extent:
1 volume

786. Harley MS 5233

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5233
Title:
Nova Statuta
Scope & Content:
Contents: The Nova Statuta (ff. 11r-338v), preceded by an added collection of legal documents including ordinances and oaths of several officials (ff. 1v-10v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1436-c 1461
Extent:

1 volume

787. Harley MS 5233, ff 1v-10v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5233, ff 1v-10v
Title:
Statutes, ordinances, and oaths
Scope & Content:
ff. 1v-5v: An ordinance, incipit: 'H. Custodibus pacis omne ac Iustitie omnis… Quandam ordinacionem in ultimo parliamento nostro apud Westmisterum quarto die Novembris ultimo preterito tento de avisamento et assensu dominorum spiritualium et temporalium…vobis scripti facimus in hec verba: item t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450-c 1461
Extent:
10 folios, followed by 18 blank leaves.

788. Harley MS 5259

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5259
Title:
Gesta Romanorum; Raymond of Peñafort, Summa de matrimonio (excerpts); allegorical tract on the Zodiac; tract on the lineage from David to Christ; The Life of St Katherine of Alexandria (Middle English)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-125v: Gesta Romanorum; featuring three Middle English couplets on f. 60v. f. 125v: A notes on the duty of confession, excerpted from the Summa de matrimonio (Compendium on Marriage) of Raymond of Peñafort. f. 125v: A Latin text on the allegorical meaning of the signs of the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

789. Harley MS 5272

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5272
Title:
John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady; The Life of St Dorothy; The Abbey of the Holy Ghost
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-98v: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady (verse), imperfect at the beginning. ff. 99r-104v: The Life of St Dorothy (verse). ff. 105r-137v: The Abbey of the Holy Ghost; ending with the colophon 'This endith without bost / The abbey of the holigost'. Decoration: Blue initials w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

790. Harley MS 5289

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5289
Title:
Missal for monastic use, including a calendar
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 9r-493r: Missal for monastic use, including a calendar (ff. 2-7v), highlighting the feasts of the Deposition of St Cuthbert (f. 3r) and St Oswald (f. 5v) in gold; and musical notation (ff. 274r-276r; 285v-286r). The manuscript contains various additions: f. 1r: An inscription b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

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