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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 70r-85v, ff 70r-81r
Title:: Richard de Fournival, Bestiaire d'amour
Scope & Content:: Richard de Fournival, Bestiaire d'amour (Bestiary of love), incipit: 'Tote gent desirent par nature a saver'. Decoration: The text is illustrated with ink drawings: Author talking to a woman; Author teaching; Author at work; Author presenting his book to a woman (f. 70r); Knights on horseback...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 12 folios.

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 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 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

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