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1. Harley MS 48

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 48
Title:
Le Livre de l'Informacion des Princes, and other texts concerning the nobility
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: An illegible Latin inscription. f. 1v: Two prayers to St George, beginning ‘Ave gemma anglie confors angelorum miles regis glorie spes que belatorum’; ‘Deus qui nos beati georgi martyris tui meritis et intercessione laetificas’; an unidentified Latin text (faded); with the n...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

2. Harley MS 65

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 65
Title:
Natura brevium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-36v: Natura brevium. Decoration: 1 large puzzle initial with a partial (one-sided) border in blue and purple (f. 1r). Small blue initials with red penwork decoration throughout.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 209

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 209
Title:
Richard of Saint Victor, De statu interioris hominis post lapsum; Raymond de Penaforte, Summa de casibus pœnitentialis; Peter of Oxford, Summula Confessionis and other theological texts
Scope & Content:
A collection of theological and ecclesiastical texts, probably created for a monk of Abingdon Abbey. Contents: f. 1*v: Partial accounts of Abingdon Abbey, notes on sugar, and medical notes on bloodletting, 14th century. ff. 1r-30v: Collection of short theological texts and copies of ecclesias...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century-Early 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

4. Harley MS 267

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 267
Title:
Miscellany of scientific texts
Scope & Content:
A composite scientific manuscript of at least six parts (ff. 1-2, 3-9, 10-15, 16-23, 24-174, 175-235) that were produced at different locations and periods of time between c. 1300 and c. 1400. Contents: ff. 1r-2r: A computistical text. ff. 3r-9v: Gregory the Great, Gospel lections. ff. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1300-c 1400
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 395

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 395
Title:
Statutes of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-5v: 'Magna Carta'. ff. 5v-8r: 'Carta de Foresta'. ff. 8r-8v: 'Sententia Excommunicationis lata post confectionem Cartarum'. ff. 8v-11r: 'Provisiones de Merton'. ff. 11r-18r: 'Statuta de Marleberge'. ff. 18r-31v: 'Statutum Westmonasterii primum'. ff. 31v-35r: 'Statut...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 413

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 413
Title:
Statutes from King Edward III to King Henry V
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-120r: Statutes from King Edward III to King Henry V; written in French. The manuscript contains a later addition: A (?) letter in English and Latin on the inside of the paper pastedown on f. 120v; written in the 15th century.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Harley MS 431

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 431
Title:
Collection of papers and letters from the circle of John Prophete
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-124r: Collection of letters and historical documents from the circle of John Prophete [Prophet] (b. 1356, d. 1416), Secretary to King Henry VI, Keeper of the Privy Seal and Dean of Hereford and York. The collection's materials are concerned largely with resolving the Schism, especially w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 450

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 450
Title:
A collection of legal texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-80v: An 'Abridgment of olde statutes'. ff. 81r-85v: A tract entitled 'Ad Parliamentum tent. 29 die April. anno iijo E.’ ff. 86r-86v: The ‘Bylle of Granez, Whete, Rye and Barley’. ff. 86v-87r: The ‘Bylle of [Artyficers]' [replaced with: ‘Wares or thyngs that shall not be bro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 452

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 452
Title:
Year book of King Henry VI for the first 11 years of his reign
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-234v: The Year Book of King Henry VI for the first 11 years of his reign; the 5th, 6th and 8th years have been removed. The manuscript contains a few additions: ff. 1r-1v, 236r-236v: St Augustine of Hippo, De Civitate Dei; fragments from a 14th-century manuscript. f. 2v: A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 512

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 512
Title:
Bartholomeus Anglicus, Tractatus de naturis et proprietatibus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-88v: Bartholomeus Anglicus, Tractatus de naturis et proprietatibus. The manuscript contains a number of 15th-century additions in Middle French: f. 1r: François Villon, Ballade joyeuse des Taverniers. f. 1r: A saying of Aristotle. ff. 1v-2r: Sayings of Aristotle. ff. 2...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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