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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 490
Title:: Walter of Bibbesworth, Tretiz de langage
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-31v: Walter of Bibbesworth (b. 1235, d. 1270), Tretiz de langage, imperfect at the beginning and end, also known as 'Aprise de franceis', 'Femme' and Femina.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 524
Title:: Collection of sermons and theological tracts (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: The collection includes (f. 66) two contemporary additions relating to medicine, a charm (item 1) and a short verse on humours (item 2). Two short chapters (ff. 84, 119-11v; items 3-4) discuss the formation of the fetus and birth in theological rather than medical terms. The cataloguing of the m...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 13th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 585
Title:: Medical miscellany including Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium, and 'Lacnunga'
Scope & Content:: Contents include translations of: Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium (circa 183 plants) (ff. 1r-101v) including Old English translations of two Latin herbals: Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium, imperfect at the beginning (ff. 1r-66v); Pseudo-Dioscorides, De herbis femininis and Curae herbarum (ff. 66v-101v); ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old, French, Old, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:: Late 10th century-Early 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 585, ff 130r-193r
Title:: Lacnunga (Leechbook)
Scope & Content:: Lacnunga (i.e. 'remedies' or 'cures') is a collection of medical recipes, magical charms and invocations mainly in Old English, partly in Latin and Old Irish. Rubric 'With heafod wræce' with later marginal note in Latin 'Ad dolorem capitis', incipit: 'Genim hamorwyrt and efenlastan nyðowearde', ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old, French, Old, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:: Early 11th century
Extent:: 63 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 616
Title:: Bible (Genesis-Psalms)
Scope & Content:: First volume of the Bible (Genesis-Psalms), incipit: 'Cist livres est apelez Genesis por ce que il est de la generation du ciel et de la terre'; ends imperfectly in Psalm 109, explicit: 'De ci a tant que je aie miste ennemis souz les...'. The second volume, containing Proverbs-Revelation, is no...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 621
Title:: Du cas des nobles hommes et femmes: a translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium by Laurent de Premierfait
Scope & Content:: Du cas des nobles hommes et femmes: a translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium by Laurent de Premierfait. Imperfect. The beginning of Book I, chapter 1 is lost. Incipit (f. 1r): 'premiers partus fut grant et telle que a elle aucune aultre ne se compare'. Fol...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 666
Title:: A collection of English statutes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-338v: A book of English statutes, from 1 Edward III (r. 1327-1377) to 6 Henry VI (r. 1422-1461), imperfect. Decoration: Large puzzle initials in red and blue with reserved designs and pen-flourishing in the same colours including foliate motifs (ff. 30r, 145r (purple also used...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 740
Title:: A survey relating to Barking; Walter of Bibbesworth, Tretiz de langage; Annalium Juridicorum relating to the reign of King Edward III
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4r: A survey relating to Barking. ff. 4v-7r: Walter of Bibbesworth, Tretiz de langage. ff. 8r-306v: Annalium Juridicorum relating to the reign of King Edward III. [f. 307r is blank].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 785
Title:: A collection of the laws of England and Normandy
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-198r: A collection of the laws of England and Normandy including a French translation of Summa de legibus Normannie in curia laicali.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 870
Title:: Britton (treatise on the laws of England)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-163v: Britton, a copy of the earliest summary of the laws of England in French, previously attributed to John le Breton, bishop of Hereford. ff. 164r-164v: Proposiciones digestorum;imperfect. The manuscript contains additions: f. 165r: An inscription with the date 1421: 'An...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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