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41. Harley MS 838

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 838
Title:
Collection of heraldic and genealogical works, including Mirabilia Orientis, Mirabilia Anglie, and a Middle English translation of Christine de Pizan's Epistre d'Othéa; Annales Cambriae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of two distinct parts that were copied separately and joined together at an unknown point before the manuscript reached the Harleian Library. The first part (ff. 1r-95r) contains heraldic works, chronicles and other historical items, and one of the two extant independen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

42. Harley MS 861

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 861
Title:
Compilation of texts relating to English claims to the French throne
Scope & Content:
A compilation of texts detailing English claims to the French throne and Anglo-French treaties during the Hundred Years War, compiled by Thomas Beckington (c. 1390-1465), bishop of Bath and Wells. The manuscript dates to sometime after 1443, when Beckington became bishop. The focus on the claims...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1443-1461
Extent:
1 volume

43. Harley MS 867

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 867
Title:
Statutes from Henry III to Richard II
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains statutes from the reigns of Henry III to Richard II. For an item-level description of the statutes included in this manuscript, see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, I (1808), pp. 463-64. Contents: ff. 4*recto-7*verso: Table of statutes for Henry II. ff. 1r-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

44. Harley MS 869

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 869
Title:
Collection of English statutes, including Ralph of Hengham, Hengham Magna and Hengham Parva, and Britton
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 5r-6r: Chapter lists for English statutes. ff. 7r-8v: Magna Carta. ff. 8v-9v: Carta de Foresta. ff. 9v-10r: Statutum de Foresta. ff. 10r-10v: Consuetudines Foreste. ff. 10v-11r: Confirmacio Cartarum per Regis Edwardi I. ff. 11r-11v: Sententia lata super Cartas (1253)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

45. Harley MS 915

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 915
Title:
Customary of Normandy
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-106v: Customary laws of Normandy; written in Norman French. Decoration: 1 large (f. 1r) and 1 small (f. 4r) puzzle initial in blue and red. Small initials in blue or red with penwork decoration in red or green. Cadels with zoomorphic or anthropomorphic faces, and arms, on ff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 volume

46. Harley MS 945

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 945
Title:
Statutes from the reigns of Edward III and Richard II
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-11v: 'Capitula Statutorum Regis Edward Tercij'. ff. 11v-14v: 'Capitula Statutorum Regis Ricardi Secundi'; ending: 'Plus in fine libri' (reference to f. 256v). ff. 15r-181v: Statutes of 1-50 Edward III (1327–1377); written in French. ff. 181v-257r: Statutes of 1-13 Richard...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1390
Extent:
1 volume

47. Harley MS 961

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 961
Title:
Writs from the reigns of Edward I and Edward II
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-152v: Writs from the reigns of Edward I and Edward II; written in Law French and Latin. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 153r: List of contents, beginning: 'Breve de recto patens'; added in the 14th century. f. 153v: List of (?) items, beginning: 'Novem. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 14th century or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

48. Harley MS 992

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 992
Title:
A collection of heraldic texts and drawings
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains heraldic texts and drawings from the 2nd half of the 15th century and 1st half of the 16th century in Middle English, Middle French and Latin. Contents: ff. 1r-8r: Drawings of arms of aristocratic families, several in colours; with family names in English. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-16th century
Extent:
1 volume

49. Harley MS 1008

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1008
Title:
A miscellany of theological, moral, devotional, hagiographic, prophetic and mantic texts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite miscellany of seven parts (ff. 1-8; 9-[26a]; 27-44; 45-56; 57-80; 81; 82-130) containing theological, moral, devotional, hagiographic, prophetic and mantic texts. The different parts probably were all produced in England and France in the second half of the 15th ce...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

50. Harley MS 1024

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1024
Title:
Nova Statuta for Edward III and Richard II
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-10r: The Capitula of the Statutes made during the reign of King Edward III [written in Law French]. ff. 10r-15v: The Capitula of the Statutes made during the first 17 years of King Richard II [written in Law French]. ff. 16r-128r: The Statutes made during the reign of King ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume