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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5159
Title:: Year books of King Henry VI
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-279v: Yearbooks of King Henry VI, recording pleas held during the 3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th, 13th, 15th, 18th, 19th, 20th and 35th years of his reign (1424-1426, 1431-1432, 1435-1437, 1440-1442, 1456-1457). Written in Law French by ‘T. Mull[e]’. The manuscript contains a few later...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 1424-1457
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5217
Title:: Mirrors for Princes attributed to Olivier de la Marche and Jean de Villiers, dedicated to Philip the Good
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-17r: Olivier de la Marche (b. c. 1425, d. 1502), military advice for a prince ('je me suis delibere de mettre par escript quelle chose cest dun gage de bataille comment le prince et le iuge si doibt conduire selon raison et bonne equite'), dedicated to Philip the Good (r. 1419...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5274
Title:: John le Breton, Britton
Scope & Content:: Previously catalogued as 'Vetera Statuta' (Ancient Statutes), this manuscript contains a copy of the Britton, the earliest summary of law in England written in French, and being an updated version of Henry Bracton's mid 13th-century De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae (Laws and Customs of Engl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5281
Title:: Book of Assizes held in the reign of Edward III
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 7r-160r: The Book of Assizes held in the reign of Edward III. The manuscript contains several additions: ff. 1v, 2v: Memorandi for payments, several referring to ‘Ricardus Mancipill’ and ‘Thomas Lyddy[n]’; added in the (?) 16th century. f. 4r: Nomina regum Angliae post Conqu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5326
Title:: Statutes of England
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4r-25r: 'Nove ordinaciones' from the reign of Edward II. ff. 26r-37v: 'Magna Carta'. ff. 37v-43r: 'Carta de Foresta'. ff. 43r-48v: 'Statuta de Merton'. ff. 48v-61r: 'Statuta de Marlebrigges'. ff. 61r-84r: 'Prima statuta Westmonasterii'. ff. 84r-89v: 'Statuta de Gloucester'...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1325
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5349
Title:: Statutes from the reign of Edward III, 1327-1355
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-99v: Statutes from the reign of Edward III, 1327-1355. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 100r: A printed indulgence (dated 1508) for those who contribute to the construction of a church dedicated to St Peter, beginning: 'Willelmus, permissione divina Cantuariensis ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5430
Title:: English statutes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3*r-7*r: A table of contents for the manuscript. ff. 1r-4v: Magna Carta. ff. 4v-6r: The Charter of the Forest (1217). ff. 6r-12v: The Statute of Malborough (1267). ff. 12v-14r: The Statute of Merton (1236). ff. 14r-17r: The Statute of Gloucester (1278). ff. 17r-28r: Th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and French, Middle
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5440
Title:: Jacobus de Cessolis, Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium sive super ludum scaccorum, translated into French by Jean de Vignay
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-82v: Jacobus de Cessolis [Jacopo da Cessole] (b. c. 1250, d. 1322), Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium sive super ludum scaccorum; a translation in French out of Latin by Jean de Vignay (b. c. 1285, d. 1348), beginning: ‘A Tres noble et excellent prince Jehan de fran...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5444
Title:: Votive masses; Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg, Compendium theologicae veritatis; William of Pagula, Oculus Sacerdotis; Jacobus de Lausanne, Commentaries on Genesis, Exodus and Job
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of four parts that were separately produced and joined together at a later point, possibly in the Harleian Library. The first part (ff. 1r-8v) is a single booklet with votive masses that was commissioned by Alicia Lygh (d. in or after 1525) of Chippenham, Wil...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1300-1503
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5762
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Paris
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-9v: Calendar, including SS Amand of Maastricht, Anthony of Bourges, Aubert, Aventin of Chartres, Blanchart, Boniface of Mayence, Brice of Tours, Clair of Vexin, Desiderius of Langres, Eloy of Noyon, Eleutherius of Tournai, Fara of Meaux, Fiacre of Meaux, Fortunat of Poitiers, F...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1460
Extent:: 1 volume

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