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401. Harley MS 826

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 826
Title:
Theological miscellanea relating to the Council of Basel (1431)
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*r: a parchment fragment containing notes about St Ælfheah of Canterbury and the consecration of a cemetery near the Charterhouse in London in 1349 during the Black Death. ff. 1r-70v: Theological miscellanea relating to the Council of Basel (1431). f. 71r: notes relating to ecum...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

402. Harley MS 838

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 838
Title:
Collection of heraldic and genealogical works, including Mirabilia Orientis, Mirabilia Anglie, and a Middle English translation of Christine de Pizan's Epistre d'Othéa; Annales Cambriae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of two distinct parts that were copied separately and joined together at an unknown point before the manuscript reached the Harleian Library. The first part (ff. 1r-95r) contains heraldic works, chronicles and other historical items, and one of the two extant independen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

403. Harley MS 844

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 844
Title:
Copies of charters and exemplifications of orders concerning Congleton (Cheshire), 1518-1595
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Charters & Exemplificacions of Orders concerning Congleton. W: S:’. ff. 1r-29v: Collection of copies of charters and exemplifications of orders concerning Congleton in Cheshire, dated 1518-1595.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1595
Extent:
1 volume

404. Harley MS 850

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 850
Title:
John Hoskyns, Directions for Speech and Style (first part); Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes; Peter Heylin, A Summers Journey into France and Observations on it
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-10v: John Hoskyns, Directions for Speech and Style; first part of the work, imperfect at the end. f. 10v: Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes. ff. 11r-83r: Peter Heylin, A Summers Journey into France and Observations on it; imperfect. The manuscript contains several additions: f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

405. 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

406. 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

407. 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

408. Harley MS 867

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 867
Title:
Statutes from Henry III to Richard II
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains statutes from the reigns of Henry III to Richard II. For an item-level description of the statutes included in this manuscript, see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, I (1808), pp. 463-64. Contents: ff. 4*recto-7*verso: Table of statutes for Henry II. ff. 1r-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

409. Harley MS 869

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 869
Title:
Collection of English statutes, including Ralph of Hengham, Hengham Magna and Hengham Parva, and Britton
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 5r-6r: Chapter lists for English statutes. ff. 7r-8v: Magna Carta. ff. 8v-9v: Carta de Foresta. ff. 9v-10r: Statutum de Foresta. ff. 10r-10v: Consuetudines Foreste. ff. 10v-11r: Confirmacio Cartarum per Regis Edwardi I. ff. 11r-11v: Sententia lata super Cartas (1253)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

410. Harley MS 870

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 870
Title:
Britton (treatise on the laws of England)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-163v: Britton, a copy of the earliest summary of the laws of England in French, previously attributed to John le Breton, bishop of Hereford. ff. 164r-164v: Proposiciones digestorum;imperfect. The manuscript contains additions: f. 165r: An inscription with the date 1421: 'An...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

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