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691. Harley MS 743

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 743
Title:
John Lakenheath, Register of Bury St Edmunds Abbey
Scope & Content:
f. 2r: 16th-century notes. f. 3v: Prologue by John Lakenheath giving his rationale for the register and its layout; translated in Thomson, Archives (1980), pp. 23–24. A 14th- or 15th-century hand adds the heading ‘Re. Iohannis Lakynghethe’. ff. 4r–51r: Alphabetical index of manors, correspondi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1379-1381
Extent:

1 volume

692. Harley MS 744

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 744
Title:
A collection of the records of the Tower of London
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2*recto: A table of contents: ‘The letters begin on the several pages following, Alphabetically’. ff. 1r-585r: A collection of the records of the Tower of London, ‘shewing the foundation, and endowment of all monasteries, Abbyes, priories, Hospitalls, chappells, and chanteries, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

693. Harley MS 745

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 745
Title:
Psalter
Scope & Content:
Content: ff. 1-146v: Psalter, including Canticles, the Penitential Psalms and litany. Decoration: 1 large historiated initial in colours on gold at the beginning of Psalm 1 (f. 7r). 9 other large initials in gold on a blue and pink or blue and brown ground with foliate motifs in white, at the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

694. Harley MS 746

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 746
Title:
Legal tracts including the Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus Regni Angliae and the Leges Willelmi
Scope & Content:
A compilation of various legal tracts, including the Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus Regni Angliae (Treatise on the laws and customs of the kingdom of England), attributed to Ranulf Glanville (d. 1190). The Leges Willelmi, a late-12th-century translation of the French treatise known as L...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

695. Harley MS 747

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 747
Title:
Petrus Riga, Aurora, expanded by Gilles de Paris; poems by Hildebert of Lavardin
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Aurora, a moral commentary on the Bible written in verse, by the French poet Petrus Riga (b. c. 1140, d. 1209), in the expanded version by Gilles de Paris [Aegidius Parisiensis] (b. c. 1160, d. 1223/1224). The manuscript ends with a section of poems, includ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

696. Harley MS 748

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 748
Title:
Statutes of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8v: 'Regulae Juris super Quarto Decretalium'. ff. 8v-9r: 'Regule Juris super Quinto Decretalium'. ff. 9r-10v: 'Regule Bonifacij Papae VIII. super Sexto Decretalium'. ff. 11r-62v: 'Registrum Cancellarie'. f. 62v: 'Breve Regis Edwardi I de reddendo quodam Mesuagio Willel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

697. Harley MS 749

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 749
Title:
James Wedderburn, A collectanea of theological tracts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-212v: James Wedderburn (b. 1585, d. 1639), A collectanea of theological tracts.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

698. Harley MS 750

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 750
Title:
Theological tracts collected by James Wedderburn
Scope & Content:
Volume of theological collections made by James Wedderburn (1585-1639), Bishop of Dunblane. Preliminary matter: f. 1*v: inscription cut from old binding pasted on verso of folio 1*. f. 2*r: flyleaf inscribed with Latin religious epigram (‘Deus initium negoti, finis Deus’), proverb, and sho...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

699. Harley MS 751

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 751
Title:
Extracts of statutes from the reigns of Henry III and Richard II; statutes of Henry IV and Henry V
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-18v: Nova Statuta, comprising extracts of statutes from the reigns of Edward III and Richard II; written in Law French with headings in Latin. ff. 20r-35r: Alphabetical subject index. ff. 36r-42v: 'Statuta de anno primo R. Henrici Quarti'. ff. 42v-51v: 'Statuta R. Henrici ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

700. Harley MS 755

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 755
Title:
Collection of sermons; treatise on the Ten Commandments
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-136v: Sermons for feasts of the Temporale. ff. 137r-148v: A subject index. ff. 149r-170r: Treatise on the Ten Commandments. ff. 171r-247v: Collection of Latin sermons, beginning: 'Hora est [...] cum sit brevis vita [nostra] Job 12: Breves dies hominis sunt'. Attributed to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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