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131. Harley MS 3652

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3652
Title:
English statutes; Registrum Cancellarie; Registrum brevium
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains collections of English statutes and laws until the reign of Richard II, written in Latin and French, including statutes for Westminster, Exeter and Winchester (ff. 1r-29r), and a chancery register (ff. 30r-54r). Contents: ff. 1r-12v: 'Statutum Westmonasterii secundum'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

132. Harley MS 3661

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3661
Title:
The elections of abbesses of Holy Trinity Abbey, Caen
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a guide to the election of abbesses of Holy Trinity Abbey in Caen, France, based upon the procedure followed at Agnès de Thieuville’s election in 1482. The guide is appended with a later account of the appointment of Anne de Montmorency as abbess in 1555, by which time a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1482
Extent:
1 volume

133. Harley MS 3674

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3674
Title:
Register of the Honour of Richmond
Scope & Content:
f. 1*r: Pen trials and a 17th-century reference to a passage in the book. ff. 1r–71v: Register of fees, fines and wards, extracts from Domesday, and other miscellaneous material. Similar, but without the drawings, to Cotton Faustina B VII, ff. 72–136; Add. MS 5466; and Oxford, Bodleian Library,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
Paper codex

134. Harley MS 3684

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3684
Title:
Peter of Blois, 'Epistolarum collectio'
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-153v: Peter of Blois, 'Epistolarum collectio', beginning: 'Epistole magistri petri blesensis bathoniensis archidyaconi'; with a table of contents (ff. 1v-4r). The manuscript contains additiona: f. 153v: A letter in Dutch concerning a payment: '[...]nard poulmans ons goed vri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, French, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

135. Harley MS 3869

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3869
Title:
John Gower, Confessio amantis, Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz, pageant verses, and some short Latin verse; Marian hymns in English and Latin
Scope & Content:
Confessio amantis by John Gower (d. 1408), along with his French Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz, and some of his short Latin verse. Also includes (in the hand of another scribe), pageant verses by John Lydgate and Marian hymns in English and Latin. Contents: ff. 2r–4v: John Lydgat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

136. Harley MS 3912

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3912
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Paris
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, Use of Paris, including calendar, French (ff. 1r-12v). f. 188r: A pastedown with a faded French inscription, 16th century. ff. 93v, 103v, 153v, 188v are blank. Decoration: 7 full-page miniatures with large decorated initials and full foliate borders, in colours and gold, for ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

137. Harley MS 3994

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3994
Title:
Statutes of England; a register of the English chancery
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-6v: Lists of chapters for major English statutes included in this manuscript. ff. 7r-11r: Magna Carta. ff. 11v-13r: Carta de Foresta. ff. 13r-13v: 'Confirmacio duarum Cartarum'. ff. 13v-14v: Sentencia Cartarum. ff. 14v-15v: Assisa Foresta. ff. 15v-18v: Statuta Glouc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1300-c 1325
Extent:
1 volume

138. Harley MS 4000

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4000
Title:
An epistolary discourse in defence of the Protestant religion
Scope & Content:
f. 1r: Note suggesting that this work came from the Queen's closet due to the markings E R A F H ('Elizabetha Regina Angliae Franciae Hiberniae') on the original vellum binding that has been pasted onto f. 2r and f. 77v. ff. 3r–4r: An explanation of the contents, written in the same hand as the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1567
Extent:

1 volume

139. Harley MS 4004

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4004
Title:
Collection of English law cases; indentures of John Estrete; formulary of English Civil Law
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of three parts that were produced separately and written by different hands. Contents: Part 1: ff. 1r-107v: Collection of English law cases; written in Law French in the last quarter of the 15th century or 1st quarter of the 16th century. Part 2: ff. 108...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

140. Harley MS 4148

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4148
Title:
Lez droix et lez establissemenz de Normendie
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-243r: Lez droix et lez establissemenz de Normendie (A treatise on the rights and laws of Normandy in verse). Decoration: 3 large puzzle initials in blue and gold with extensions in the same colours (ff. 1r, 5r, 11r). Smaller initials in red or blue. Paraphs in red or blue. Ca...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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