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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 941, ff 91r-97v
Title:: Treatise relating to rhetoric
Scope & Content:: Treatise relating to rhetoric, incipit: 'Et si dictantos'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 7 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 941, ff 97v-100r
Title:: Satirical verse against the clergy
Scope & Content:: Satirical verse against the clergy, incipit: 'Viri beatissimi sacerdotes Dei / Precones altissimi lucerne Diei' (ff. 97v-99r) with notes (ff. 99v-100r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 941, ff 100v-103v
Title:: 'Modus acquirendi sapientiam'
Scope & Content:: A text entitled 'Modus acquirendi sapientiam', incipit: 'Volentibus parvenire ad sapientiam'. Added note, incipit: 'Opto illud in contingere' (f. 103r-103v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 941, ff 104r-120v
Title:: 'De sufficientia partium epistole'
Scope & Content:: 'De sufficientia partium epistole', incipit: 'Secundum quodam sufficit parte epistole'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 17 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 945
Title:: Statutes from the reigns of Edward III and Richard II
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-11v: 'Capitula Statutorum Regis Edward Tercij'. ff. 11v-14v: 'Capitula Statutorum Regis Ricardi Secundi'; ending: 'Plus in fine libri' (reference to f. 256v). ff. 15r-181v: Statutes of 1-50 Edward III (1327–1377); written in French. ff. 181v-257r: Statutes of 1-13 Richard...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1390
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 946
Title:: Nova statuta, including Hengham Magna
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-248r: Nova statuta, including Hengham Magna (ff. 191v-229v), preceded by a table of contents (ff. 1r-1v). Decoration: Numerous small initials in red. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 947
Title:: Collection of statutes and writs
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-86v: Vetera Statuta. ff. 87r-106v: Nova Statuta (Statutes of Edward III only). ff. 107r-169r: Novae Narrationes. ff. 170r-304r: Registrum brevium from the royal chancery of Edward III () with added texts and notes (ff. 304v-309r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 947, ff 1r-86*v
Title:: Vetera Statuta
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-4r: Carta de libertatibus Angliae, known as the Magna Carta, confirmed by Edward on 28 March 1298 (29th year of his reign), imperfect at the beginning, incipit: 'custodiis archiepiscopatuum, episcopatuum, abbatiarum, prioratuum'. ff. 4r-6r: Carta de libertatibus foreste (Carta de Foresta...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 14th century
Extent:: 86 folios + 9

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 947, ff 87r-106*v
Title:: Nova Statuta (Statutes of Edward III only)
Scope & Content:: Statutes of Edward III, king of England, from the years 1327-1335, including: ff. 87r-89r: Statute of Westminster V. ff. 89r-92v: Statute of Westminster VI. ff. 92v-96r: Statute of Northampton. ff. 96r-100r: Statute of Westminster VII. ff. 100r-103v: Statute of Westminster VIII. ff. 103v-1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 14th century
Extent:: 20 folios + 3 unfoliated leaves.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 947, ff 107r-169r
Title:: Novae narrationes
Scope & Content:: Novae narrationes, a compilation in Anglo-Norman French (with titles in Latin) presenting the forms of pleading in courts, composed in the second half of the reign of Edward I (r. 1272-1307) and later supplemented with new formulas. This mauscript includes the type C of the Novae Narrationes, wi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 14th century
Extent:: 63 folios + 1 unfoliated leaf

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