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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

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 990
Title:: A collection of abridged English statutes; a tract about dowry; the Assize of Weights and Measures; the verdict returned in a lawsuit in Guildford in 1396; De natura brevium; Les excepciouns ad brevia cassanda; Fet asaver; Registrum brevium
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-19r: a collection of abridged English statutes. f. 19r: a tract about dowry. ff. 19v-21r: The Assize of Weights and Measures. f. 21v: the verdict returned in a lawsuit in Guildford in 1396. ff. 22r-29v: De natura brevium. ff. 30r-35v: Les excepciouns ad brevia cassanda. f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1607
Title:: Psalter
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-189v: A Psalter. Preceded by a calendar (ff. 1r-6v) including saints linked to Northern France, such as Firmin (Amiens) in red and Honore (Amiens) and Angadrême (Beauvais), who also feature in the litany (ff. 180-184v) alongside Symphorien (Autun), Evroul (Normandy), Riquier (A...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

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

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

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

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