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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2181, ff 3r-8v
Title:: Poem (fragment)
Scope & Content:: This part of the manuscript contains a fragment of a poem, with interlinear glosses by the scribe and marginal notes by other hands. Begins 'Possesse vero prime'; ends 'nec me cessisse negabo'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 6 parchment leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2181

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2181, ff 9r-94r
Title:: Medulla grammaticae
Scope & Content:: The manuscript contains a complete copy of the Medulla grammaticae, a fifteenth-century Latin-English dictionary. Several other manuscript copies of the Medulla grammaticae survive: British Library, Add MS 24640, Add MS 33534, Add MS 37789 (bound with the Promptorium parvulorum), Add MS 62080, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 86 parchment leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2181

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2182
Title:: The Prose Brut
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-185r: The Prose Brut; extended version to 1419. The manuscript contains numerous additions: f. 1*recto: Various early modern inscriptions, now largely erased. f. 80v: Draft indenture, referring to 'Johannes Mayler' of ?Aston ['Assone'], Flintshire, and 'Johannes Shones de M...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2183
Title:: Reports of Common Bench and Eyre cases
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-196v: Reports of law cases heard on Eyre and by the Common Bench, arranged topically. The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 2*r, 196r: various notes written in a 17th-century hand. [ff. 1*r, 196v are blank].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2184
Title:: Year Book of King Edward II of England (imperfect), for 1311-1319
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-62v: Year Book of Edward II (imperfect), for 1311-1319 (lacking for 1315-1318).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1311-1319
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2195
Title:: Copies of certificates of Hundreds in England from the time of Edward II
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-80r: A Latin letter of King Edward II to all viscounts of England, certifying existing Hundreds and their bailiffs, how many cities and villages there are therein; followed by Latin certificates of Norfolk, Suffolk, Canterbury, Huntingdonshire, Middlesex and Kent; dated to 5 M...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1s quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2199
Title:: A treatise on mortification
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-60v: An English treatise on mortification. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1r: A title 'The maner and method to true mortification'; added in the 16th century; with another inscription added in a different 16th- or 17th-century hand: 'By the Godly Father He...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2201
Title:: Cartulary of the Bohun family of Fressingfield
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–89v: Cartulary of the Bohun family of Fressingfield, originally compiled for Edmund Bohun. Containing material relating to Fressingfield from the time of King Edward III. Includes contemporary additions up to the early 16th century. Printed in The Bohun of Fressingfield Cartulary (2011).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1491-1501
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2202
Title:: A miscellany of English prose and verse
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-10v: The Case of Anthony Ashley Cowper Earl of Shaftesbury (‘The Earle of Shaftsburyes Case’), beginning: ‘This day the Earle of Shaftsbury was brought to the Barr upon the returne of an alias habeat corpus directed to the Constable of the Tower of London’, written in the late ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2203
Title:: Coats of arms of Staffordshire
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-19v: Coats of arms of arms from the Visitation-Book of Staffordshire of 1583, some organized in a grid (16 arms per page), and others without a grid, featuring crests (about 9 per page); also featuring seals of towns (Stafford, Litchfield, Newcastle under Lyme). ff. 20r-21v: A...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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