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41. Harley MS 3644

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3644
Title:
John le Breton, Treatise on the Laws of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-173r: John le Breton, Treatise on the Laws of England (also known as Britton). Decoration: Large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours including foliate motifs and a dragon head, and forming a full border at the beginning of book 1 (f. 4r). P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

42. Harley MS 3775

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3775
Title:
Benedict of St Alban, Life of Thomas Becket in Anglo-Norman verse; an Anglo-Norman crusade song ‘S’onques nus hom pour dure’; Anglo-Norman romance Guy of Warwick; Chronicle from Incarnation to 1135 with additions up to 1266; Chronicle from AD 1 to 1135; Life of Saint Robert of Knaresborough; A chronicle of London written c. 1429-1430; St Albans's Annals datable to 1428-1431; St Albans's register of burials; Genesis in Anglo-Norman verse; Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Poetria Nova
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-14v: Life of Thomas Becket, in Anglo-Norman verse. ff. 14r-14v: an Anglo-Norman crusade noted song ‘S’onques nus hom pour dure’. ff. 15r-26r: Anglo-Norman romance Guy of Warwick. ff. 34r-73r: Chronicle from AD 1 to 1135 (ff. 34r-61r), with additions up to 1266 (ff. 61v-73r),...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century - 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

43. Harley MS 3776

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3776
Title:
The ‘Codex ruber’ or ‘Waltham Abbey miscellany’, part 1
Scope & Content:
The first surviving fragment of a collection of miscellaneous religious and historical tracts. The medieval numeration of the contents indicates that the folios were formerly in a different order, with ff. 25–62 coming after ff. 94–117. Four other 14th-century manuscripts, which may or may not b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1345-1360s
Extent:

Parchment codex

44. Harley MS 3860

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3860
Title:
History of the Kings of England and Scotland; L'estoire des Sept Sages de Rome; Le Château d'amour;Manuel des Péchés; Housebondrie
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-22r: Brevis historia Regum Angliae et Scotiae usque ad Henricum III (a brief history of the Kings of England and Scotland up to Henry III); ff. 23r-47r: Anonymous, L'estoire des Sept Sages de Rome (version A). ff. 48r-61v: Robert Grosseteste, Le Château d'amour. ff. 61r-77v:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
A parchment codex, 82 folios.

45. Harley MS 3908

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3908
Title:
Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancte Mildrethae; Lessons on the Gospel of St Luke; Mass and Office for the feast of St. Mildreth; Historia de Sancta Mildretha in music; Textus translationis Mildrethe; John of Bridlington, Prophetia; Prophecies of Merlin
Scope & Content:
Contents: This manuscript consists mainly of texts written in the 1st half of the 12th century (ff. 1r-100r), and it also includes two added texts written in the 14th century (ff. 101r-117v). ff. 1r-35r: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancte Mildrethae, (the Life of St Mildreth), with a prolo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century-14th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

46. Harley MS 3937

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3937
Title:
Statuta Angliae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-297r: Statuta Angliae, including Magna Carta, charters of Edward III, various statutes, and the Treatise on the Laws of England (also known as Britton and the Proposiciones digestorum) attributed to John le Breton. Decoration: Partial border with a large puzzle initial in red...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

47. Harley MS 3940

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3940
Title:
Sir John Mandeville, Voyage d'outre mer; a biblical account from the Creation to Isaac
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-49v: Sir John Mandeville, Voyage d'outre mer. ff. 50r-75v: A biblical account from the Creation to Isaac. Decoration: Numerous small initials in red and blue.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
14th century - 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

48. Harley MS 3983

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3983
Title:
Aimon de Varennes , Florimont; Chronicle of Rheims
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-82v: Aimon (or Aimé) de Varennes, Florimont, incipit: 'Cil qui a cuer de vacelage', explicit: 'Adonc fu retrais par Aymon' with the colophon ending 'Le tiers jour de lassumption acompli sa devotion'. The poem was composed by Aimon de Varennes at Chatillon d'Azergues in the For...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and French, Old
Date Range:
1323
Extent:
A parchment codex, 114 folios

49. Harley MS 3988

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3988
Title:
Maniere de Langage; Fatrasie; Dialogues and Reflections; Thomas Sampson of Oxford, Ars dictaminis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-23r: Maniere de Langage, a manual of French conversation revised between 1396 and 1415, including a drinking song known as 'On wine' (ff. 5r-5v). 23r-23v: Fatrasie, a brief slanging-match in prose concerning some strayed sheep, written after 1396. ff. 23v-26r: Dialogues and R...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century - 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

50. Harley MS 3992

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3992
Title:
Jacques de Longuyon, Les Voeux du Paon
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes Les Voeux du Paon composed in 1312 by Jacques de Longuyon for Tibaut de Bar, bishop of Liege; imperfect: following verses are missing: 1-980; 2560-2833; 6967-7080; 7248-8784; incipit: 'Oncles dist gadifer se vostre conseil niere'; explicit: 'Si grant quil li fance et perc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
Mid 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

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