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61. Harley MS 839

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 839
Title:
Alphabet of Arms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-49v: An Alphabet of Arms; blazons organized alphabetically according to family names; f. 43, containing the blazoned arms of the princes of the royal house of Plantagnet, appears to have been misbound. ff. 50r-51v: Arms of Salisbury; Companies; Sir Christopher Hatton and Sir ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

62. Harley MS 855

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 855
Title:
Pierre Jeannin, Lettre de Monsieur Le Duc du Mayne Au Roy d’Espagne touchant Les guerres dernieres faute; A la Memoire perpetuelle de Henry quatriesme surnomme le Grand, Roy tres Chrestien de France et de Navarre
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-39v: ‘Lettre de Monsieur Le Duc du Mayne [‘Charles de Loraine’] Au Roy d’Espagne touchant Les guerres dernieres faute; Par Monsieur le President Jeannin [Pierre Jeannin (b. 1542, d. 1623)]’; dated to 31 December 1594. ff. 40r: ‘A la Memoire perpetuelle de Henry quatriesme su...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1594
Extent:
1 volume

63. Harley MS 858, ff 1r-73v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 858, ff 1r-73v
Title:
Vetera Statuta
Scope & Content:
1. Carta de libertatibus Angliae, known as the Magna Carta, confirmed by Edward on 28 March 1999 (29th year of his reign) (ff. 1r-2r). 2. Carta de libertatibus foreste (Carta de Foresta) (ff. 2r-4r). 3. Sentencia lata super cartas (of 1293) (f. 4v). 4. Statute of Merton (ff. 4v-7r). 5. Statu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:
73 folios.

64. Harley MS 871

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 871
Title:
English miscellany of tracts and letters from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Contents ff. 1r-6v: ‘The Last Will and Testament of Sir Walter Myldmay Knight Secundo die aprilis 1589’. ff. 7r-64r: The proceedings of the Early of Essex and other of Queen Elizabeth's ministers following the discovery of a plot to poison Queen Elizabeth I, dated 1593-1594. ff. 65r-70v: A d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1590s
Extent:
1 volume

65. Harley MS 923

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 923
Title:
Notes on Common Law
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-74v: Notes on Common Law, featuring extracts from the Plea Rolls; additions with the date 1598 on f. 29r.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

66. Harley MS 924

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 924
Title:
Humfrey Rant, Notes on Common Law
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-71r: Humfrey Rant, Notes on Common Law, containing commentaries of 'Mr Plowden' in Law French; Latin proverbs; and abridgement of Anthony FitzHerbert's Natura Brevium in Law French (the copy is dated to 1616); mote cases dated to 1616-1618, law cases about mines, and references...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

67. Harley MS 925

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 925
Title:
Notes on Common Law
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-86v: Notes on Common Law, featuring law cases from the courts of 6 Henry VIII to 21 Elizabeth I (1578/1579).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1579
Extent:
1 volume

68. Harley MS 936

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 936
Title:
A collection of statutes, with a calendar
Scope & Content:
A collection of statutes, including a calendar, dating from after 1311 (see f. 231r). Contents: ff. 1r-6v: A calendar. ff. 7r-8r: A table of contents. ff. 8r-14v: A table of the Magna Carta clauses. ff. 15r-25v: Edward I's 1297 Magna Carta. ff. 25v-30v: Edward I's Charter of the Fore...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1311-c 1350
Extent:
1 volume

69. Harley MS 978

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978
Title:
Collection of poems including fables and musical, calendrical, and medical texts
Scope & Content:
A miscellany or 'manual' including poems, fables, musical, and medical texts, several of which are unique to this collection, such as the song 'Sumer is icumen in', the Song of Lewes, several poems by Marie de France and Goliardic verses. The collection was possibly compiled between 1261 and 126...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

70. Harley MS 978, ff 2r-15r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978, ff 2r-15r
Title:
Musical miscellany
Scope & Content:
1. Musical miscellany. Written in square notation on a five-line red stave; the notation sometimes denoting rhythm and at times corrected by a later hand. The text includes: Four monophonic Latin songs (ff. 2r-8v): ‘Samson dux fortissime’ (ff. 2r-4v); ‘Regina clemencie Maria vocata’ (ff. 4v-6r);...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
14 folios.

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