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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 491
Title:: William of Jumièges, Gesta Normannorum ducum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r–2v: Two leaves from a Mass lectionary, probably written in Lotharingia, mid-11th-century (see Gneuss, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (2003)). ff. 3r–46v: William of Jumièges, Gesta Normannorum ducum (Deeds of the Norman Dukes). ff. 47r–48v: Two leaves from a mortuary roll for Turgot...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 492
Title:: Alanus de Rupe, De Planctu Naturae; Richard de Bury, Philobiblon
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-54v: Alanus de Rupe, De Planctu Naturae. ff. 55r-95r: Richard de Bury [here attributed to Robert Holcot], Philobiblon. The manuscript contains a few additions: ff. 1*r-1*v: An endleaf from a legal manuscript, written in the 14th century. ff. 1r*, 96v: Latin inscription...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 493/1
Title:: Statuta Angliae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the first of two volumes (the other is Harley MS 493/1) containing the Statuta Angliae (The Statutes of England). Contents: ff. 2r-289v: Statuta Angliae. [f. 1r is blank]. Decoration: Numerous small initials in red. Paragraph signs in red and blue.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 493/2
Title:: Statuta Angliae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the second of two volumes (the other is Harley MS 493/1) containing the Statuta Angliae (The Statutes of England). Contents: ff. 1r-218v: Statuta Angliae. Decoration: Numerous small initials in red. Paragraph signs in red and blue.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 494
Title:: Anne Bulkeley's prayer-book
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r-v: Elevation prayer, beginning ‘I do salute the moste holy body’. ff. 2r-4r: Latin prayers on the Five Joys, beginning ‘laudo amo adoro’, based on the Liber Specialis Gratiae, I.19. ff. 4r-4*r: Latin prayers for the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, beginning ‘Veni sancte spiritus’....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1532-1535
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 495
Title:: Theological miscellany
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a miscellany of tales, sermons and short treatises. Contents: ff. 1r-3r: Excerpt from the Historia Regum Britanniae of Geoffrey of Monmouth concerning Merlin, ending, '...proferrem taceret spiritus qui me docet nec aliter ualerem loqui quam ceteri homines. Hec sunt s...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: First half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 497
Title:
Scope & Content:: Alcoatim, Congregatio sive liber de oculis, and other short medical Texts ; 15th cent. Latin and Italian. Copies. A copy of Alcoatim's ophthalmologic treatise in Latin translation (ff. 1-46; item 1), followed by three other short texts relating to medicine. Owned in the late 15th-early 16th ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 498
Title:: Cartulary of Roger de Asphale
Scope & Content:: ff. 2–4, 24–29: Copies of approximately 25 deeds belonging to Roger de Asphale, from the time of Edward I. Parts of a roll, originally c. 1525 × 215 mm, now cut into pieces. ff. 5–23: Fragmentary memoranda of debts and payments. Decoration: Marginal titles.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 13th century–14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 504
Title:: Sermons by various authors including Geoffrey Babio du Louroux
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 13r-20v: Various sermons (13r-19v) and verses (ff. 20r-20v). ff. 21r-163v: Sermons by various authors including Geoffrey Babio du Louroux. The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 1r-3v: Various notes in 14th/15th-century hands. ff. 4r-4v: 'De 12 signis solis' in a 15th-ce...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 505
Title:: Dulcis Jesu Memoria; Sermones de tempore et de sanctis totius anni
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-5r: 42 octosyllabic quatrains known as Dulcis Iesu Memoria (The Sweet Memory of Jesus) in Anglo-Norman and Latin. ff. 5v-14r: A collection of sermons. ff. 15r-182v: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis totius anni preceded by a list of sermon titles (f. 14v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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