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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 1-7661 Language Latin Name Stillingfleet, Edward, Bishop of Worcester, 1635-1699

1. Harley MS 665

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 665
Title:
Miscellany of rhetorics, grammar, theology, and medicine
Scope & Content:
Miscellany including Texts relating to Rhetorics, Grammar, Theology and Medicine, and other Prose and Verse; 15th cent. Latin and Middle English. Imperfect. A composite miscellany of rhetorical, grammatical and theological texts in Latin and occasional prose and verse in Middle English. The cata...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

2. Harley MS 682

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 682
Title:
Charles of Orléans, Collected poems
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of English poems by Charles, Duke of Orléans, composed during his captivity in England (1415-1440). The manuscript was probably produced under the Duke's supervision at the end of this period, as it includes Ballades 111 and 113, which were rewritten by the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1439-1440
Extent:

1 volume

3. Harley MS 858

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 858
Title:
Vetera Statuta, Registrum Brevium
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes the statutes of the English kings from Magna Cartato the end of the reign of Edward II, known as the Vetera Statuta (ff. 1r-73v), followed by two copies of the Registrum Brevium (ff. 74r-119v and 120r-191v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

4. 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

5. Harley MS 882

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 882
Title:
Book of canon law, or law of the Church of England. Volume 1
Scope & Content:
First volume of a five part manuscript book of canon law, formerly owned by Edward Stillingfleet (1635-1699), Bishop of Worcester. Inscription at head of f. 1r: ‘Juris canonici, seu ecclesiastici Anglicani libri quinq[ue], totidem vocib. (carmine co[m]p[re]hensis) denotantur hic subsequentib. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 882-884

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 882-884
Title:
Book of canon law, or law of the Church of England
Scope & Content:
Five part manuscript book of canon law, formerly owned by Edward Stillingfleet (1635-1699), Bishop of Worcester. Lacks volumes 4-5. Undated, with no author.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

3 volumes

7. Harley MS 883

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 883
Title:
Book of canon law, or law of the Church of England. Volume 2
Scope & Content:
Second volume of a five part manuscript book of canon law, formerly owned by Edward Stillingfleet (1635-1699), Bishop of Worcester. With cancellations, marginal notes, and inserted folios.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

1 volume

8. Harley MS 941

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Harley MS 941
Title:
A collection of treatises relating to history, astrology, magic, astronomy, geography and rhetoric, comprising John Lydgate's Dietary and other verses and medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*v: An added abbreviated list of contents. ff. 1r-3v: De origine gigantum, an abbreviated version of the Anglo-Norman French Des Grantz Geanz, written in Latin. The short narrative tells the Story of Albina and her sisters often used as a preface to the Brut Chronicle. The leave...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 947

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

10. Harley MS 978

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978
Title:
Collection of poems including fables and musical, calendrical, and medical texts
Scope & Content:
A miscellany or 'manual' including poems, fables, musical, and medical texts, several of which are unique to this collection, such as the song 'Sumer is icumen in', the Song of Lewes, several poems by Marie de France and Goliardic verses. The collection was possibly compiled between 1261 and 126...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

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