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81. Harley MS 1607

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

82. Harley MS 2378, ff 110v-118v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2378, ff 110v-118v
Title:
Glossary and recipes
Scope & Content:
ff. 110v-113r: Glossary of simples; Incipit: 'Diascorides noscitur fecisse hunc librum quam [sic] / misit avunculo suo … quid pro quo debeat poni / et accipi a vobis. Pro accacia succuslentia (?) / Pro accoro radix asari', expl. 'Pro yris ylliri/ca yreos et cetera'. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century-Early 15th century
Extent:
9 folios.

83. Harley MS 2750

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2750
Title:
Publius Terentius Afer, Vita Terentii, Opera (Life and Works), with interlinear and marginal glosses
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-94r: Publius Terentius Afer, Vita Terentii, Opera (Life and Works), with interlinear and marginal glosses. f. 94v: various scribbles and notes including an annotation which is one of the earliest French vernacular songs with music in a late-11th-century hand. Decoration: Ini...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

84. Harley MS 3353

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3353
Title:
Composite miscellany relating to medicine, alchemy and mathematics
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: 1. Macer Floridus, De viribus herbarum (ff. 2r-38v); 2. Marbod of Rennes, Liber lapidum seu de gemmis (ff. 39r-54v); 3. Pseudo-Ovidius (Thierry, abbot of St. Trond?), De mirabilibus mundi, hexameter verse (ff. 54v-57v); 4. Johannes Philosophus, Summa chiromantiae (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century-Mid 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

85. Harley MS 3353, ff 160r-177v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3353, ff 160r-177v
Title:
Chronicle relating to the year 1291
Scope & Content:
A chronicle relating to the year 1291 and possibly referring to the death of Jeanne of Chatillon, Countess of Blois and Chartres; incipit: 'En lan de grace mil cc quatre vins et onze le rendi devant la commision saint pol'. Decoration: Initials and paraphs in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
Mid 14th century
Extent:
18 folios.

86. 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

87. 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

88. 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

89. 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.

90. 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

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