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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 1-7661 Language French, Old

21. Harley MS 621

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

22. Harley MS 666

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

23. Harley MS 740

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

24. Harley MS 785

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

25. Harley MS 870

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

26. Harley MS 912

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 912
Title:
Scope & Content:
Commonplace-Book including Theological and Historical Texts in Prose and Verse; mid 14th cent. Latin and Anglo-Norman. Imperfect. The commonplace-book, now in two volumes, also includes the Pseudo-Hippocrates, Epistula ad Antiochum regem (ff. 393-393v; item 1), followed (ff. 393-395v; item 2)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 14th century
Extent:
1 item

27. Harley MS 913

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 913
Title:
The Kildare Lyrics
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-2r: A theological tract. f. 3r-6v: The Land of Cokaygne ('Fur in see bi west Spaygne / Is a lond ihote Cokaygne'). f. 6v: Bissop lorles, kyng redeles (Abuses of the age). ff. 7r-8v: Hail seint Michel wiþ þe lange sper (Satire on the people of Kildare). ff. 9r-10r: Swet ihe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

28. Harley MS 946

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 946
Title:
Nova statuta, including Hengham Magna
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-248r: Nova statuta, including Hengham Magna (ff. 191v-229v), preceded by a table of contents (ff. 1r-1v). Decoration: Numerous small initials in red. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

29. Harley MS 978

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978
Title:
Collection of poems including fables and musical, calendrical, and medical texts
Scope & Content:
A miscellany or 'manual' including poems, fables, musical, and medical texts, several of which are unique to this collection, such as the song 'Sumer is icumen in', the Song of Lewes, several poems by Marie de France and Goliardic verses. The collection was possibly compiled between 1261 and 126...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

30. Harley MS 978, ff 22r-37r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978, ff 22r-37r
Title:
Medical miscellany
Scope & Content:
Medical miscellany including: Pseudo-Aristoteles, Epistula ad Alexandrum Magnum de corpore humano sanando (from the Secretum Secretorum), translated by John of Seville (ff. 22r-23r). Rubric in the margin: 'Epistula Aristotelis ad / Alexandrum macedonem / de conservacione / sanita/tis', incipit:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
16 folios (f. 37v is blank)

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