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751. 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.

752. Harley MS 858, ff 74r-119v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 858, ff 74r-119v
Title:
Registrum brevium
Scope & Content:
Registrum brevium with an added copy of the privileges granted by Edward II to the Knights of Rhodes in England (ff. 100r-101v). Decoration: Large initial in colours and gold with red ivy leaves with pen-flourishing in red and blue extending in the margins (f. 74r). Initials in blue or red wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:
46 folios.

753. Harley MS 858, ff 120r-191v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 858, ff 120r-191v
Title:
Registrum Brevium
Scope & Content:
Registrum brevium, imperfect at the end. Decoration: Large puzzle initial in blue and red enclosing ivy patterns in green and pink, combined with pen-flourishing in red and blue extending in the margins to form a full border (f. 120r). Initials in blue or red with pen-flourishing in the other...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:
72 folios.

754. Harley MS 861

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 861
Title:
Compilation of texts relating to English claims to the French throne
Scope & Content:
A compilation of texts detailing English claims to the French throne and Anglo-French treaties during the Hundred Years War, compiled by Thomas Beckington (c. 1390-1465), bishop of Bath and Wells. The manuscript dates to sometime after 1443, when Beckington became bishop. The focus on the claims...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1443-1461
Extent:
1 volume

755. Harley MS 862

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 862
Title:
Collection of libella, positiones, instrumenta, appellationes, inquisitiones, litterae, licentiae, formulae and other ecclesiastical texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-317v: A collection of libella, positiones, instrumenta, appellationes, inquisitiones, litterae, licentiae, formulae and other ecclesiastical texts, some pertaining to English dioceses.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

756. Harley MS 863

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 863
Title:
Psalter ('The Leofric Psalter') with partial gloss in Old English
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a Psalter (ff. 8r-123v) that was written by scribes who also produced manuscripts made for Leofric, bishop of Exeter (from 1046 to 1072 (see Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Litanies of the Saints (1991) no. 23). The manuscript also includes a 12th-century Kalendar with many later a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 11th century-12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

757. Harley MS 863 ff 1-7v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 863 ff 1-7v
Title:
Calendar and verses
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*r-v: A former pastedown including numerous inscriptions and pentrial of the 13th century and 14th century particularly some Latin verses as 'O Maria maris stella' (f. 1*r) and a note on 'Feria VI'. ff. 1r-6v: A liturgical calendar with numerous added obits in margins. f. 7r: A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1173-1199
Extent:
Part of Harley MS 863

758. Harley MS 863 ff 8-123v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 863 ff 8-123v
Title:
Psalter, with canticles, litany for the use of Exeter, prayers, and offices (The 'Leofric Psalter')
Scope & Content:
Contents: This Psalter has been identified in other manuscripts made for Leofric, bishop of Exeter (from 1046 to 1072). ff. 8r-108v: The Gallican version of the Psalms with Canticles. A continuous interlinear Old English gloss to the Canticle 'Quicumque vult' (ff. 107r-v). ff. 108v-111v: Lit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:
Part of Harley MS 863

759. Harley MS 865

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 865
Title:
Ambrose, De Mysteriis and De Sacramentis;Jerome, Contra Jovinianum; and other theological works
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. [ii] verso: A table of contents. ff. 1r-4v: Ambrose (b. c. 339, d. 397), De Mysteriis (On Mysteries), beginning imperfectly due to the lack of the opening folio. ff. 4v-16v: Ambrose, De Sacramentis (On the Sacraments). ff. 16v-18v: Pseudo-Eusebius of Emesa (Eusebius Gallicanus),...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

760. Harley MS 866

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 866
Title:
Collection of texts on rhetoric, mathematics and other sciences, including Alain de Lille, De planctu naturae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-7v: A treatise on rhetoric, imperfect; beginning, 'Rhetorica docet ornate loqui...' and ending with a title 'De divisione monacordi'. ff. 8r-17r: Ranulf Higden, Ars componendi sermones, with a title, 'De arte predicandi sed Ranulphum castrensis'. ff. 17r-33r: Alain de Lille...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-c 1410
Extent:

1 volume

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