Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Language: French, Old - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 86r-112v, ff 86r-102v
Title:: Pseudo-Turpin, Chronicle
Scope & Content:: Pseudo-Turpin, Chronicle (Chronique de Charlemagne), incipit: 'Cj comence le stoire qui / Turpin le ercevesque / de reins'. For the text see Walpole 1976; listed with other four copies in Shepherd 1996. Decoration: Initials in red or blue. 2 drawings of hybrids in brown ink (ff. 95v, 102v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 17 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 324
Title:: John le Breton, The Treatise on the Laws of England
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2*v-204r: John le Breton, The Treatise on the Laws of England (also known as Britton, and the Proposiciones digestorum) with a table of contents (ff. 2*v-4*v). Decoration: Numerous drawings in the lower margin including animals, hybrid creatures and hunting scenes (ff. 4*v-31r),...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: c 1305
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 334
Title:: Gautier de Metz, L’image du monde
Scope & Content:: f. 2* verso: ‘A medecyne for the stomok’, Middle English, late 14th century. ff. 1r–107v: Gautier de Metz, L’image du monde (Le livre de clergie en roumans). f. 108r–v: Pen trials, 15th century, including the opening section of a charter. Decoration: 1 large miniature in colours, gold, and s...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and French, Old
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 408
Title:: Statuta Angliae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-213v: Statuta Angliae. Decoration: Plain initials in red, some large, some small (3v-6v). Puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours. Blue initials with red pen-flourishing, some large, some small. Small initials in red or blue. Paraphs in red or...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 489
Title:: Treatise on the Laws of England (also known as Britton), attributed to John le Breton
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-153v: Treatise on the Laws of England (also known as Britton), attributed to John le Breton. Decoration: Small initials in blue, some with pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

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