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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 4401
Title:: Gautier de Coincy, Les Miracles de Nostre-Dame
Scope & Content:: An imperfect copy of Gautier de Coincy's miracles of the Virgin Mary, including his lyrics (with musical notation) dedicated to her. Contents: ff. 1r-189v: Gautier de Coincy, Les Miracles de Nostre-Dame. Four- and three-line staffs with C-clefs and quasi-square neumes: f. 3v: 'Amors, qui b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: c 1250–c 1275
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4939
Title:: Appian, Histoire des guerres des romains
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-95r: Appian, Histoire des guerres des romains. Decoration: 1 full-page miniature with full foliate borders, in colours and gold (f. 1r) made around 1450 in Burgundy; 1 armorial full-page miniature, in colours and gold (f. 6v). 2 full-page miniatures with large decorated initi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 1450-1517
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 205
Title:: Raymond of Peñafort, Summa de casibus poenitentiae
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–2v: Bifolium from the end of a 14th-century list of proverbs in alphabetical order, bound backwards. ff. 3r–67v: Raymond of Peñafort, Summa de casibus poenitentiae, with gloss, imperfect. ff. 68r–71v: Fragments from a 12th-century liturgical manuscript with musical notation, including t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th 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 4487
Title:: Aimon de Varennes, Roman de Florimont
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Roman de Florimont by Aimon de Varennes. Aimon wrote his work at Chatillon d'Azergues in the Forez region near Lyon in 1188. The poem, consisting of over 13000 lines, is in the Lyonnais dialect and relates the adventures of Florimont, the fictitious grandfather of Al...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and French, Old
Date Range:: 1295
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4656
Title:: De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae,also known as Bracton
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-100v: De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae, attributed to Henry Bracton. Decoration: Small initials in red. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4388
Title:: Anglo-Norman miscellany, including Les proverbes de Salemon and Chastoiement d’un pere a son fils
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-86v: Sanson de Nantuil, Les proverbes de Salemon, the Latin text of the book of Proverbs, chapter 1 to chapter 19:27 with a translation and commentary in Anglo-Norman verse. The 12,000 octosyllabic couplets were composed by Sanson de Nantuil for Aeliz de Condet between 1136-11...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4334
Title:: Girard de Roussillon, Chanson de geste
Scope & Content:: Contents: Girard or Girart de Roussillon, a chanson de geste, imperfect at the beginning and the end, with a lacuna of at least 3 quires after f. 37 and leaves missing after ff. 24, 30 and 43. There are 3,480 lines remaining out of a total of 10,000. Girard de Roussillon was governor of the D...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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