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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3773
Title:: Chronicle of the see of Cologne to 1237; Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae; description of the world with its peoples and animals; chronicle of the see of Trier to 1130
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-1v: 'Prologus Sequentis operis', beginning: 'Cum in olim poete gradisonis pompare modis sua ficmenta [sic] solerent'. f. 1v: Verses on the manuscript's contents, with the rubrics: 'Super Hystoriam Brittonum', 'Super Mappam Mundi' and 'Super Hystoriam Trevirorum'. ff. 2r-6v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3811
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum; Bonaventure, Breviloquium pauperis seu Compendium sacrae Scripturae and De triplici via; a text regarding English laws
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a composite miscellany containing three separate parts. The first part (ff. 5-86) contains a Book of Hours, made in England in the second half of the 14th century. The second part (ff. 87-174) contains works by Bonaventure, made in Germany or the Netherlands [ff. 87r-154v]...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century-2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3813
Title:: Account of the counties of England, Ireland and Scotland, with engraved maps by Pieter van den Keere
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-188v: Account of the counties of England, Ireland and Scotland, written in English, with printed and coloured maps of counties (with their names in Latin and English) engraved by the Flemish engraver Pieter van den Keere ['Peter Kerius'] (b. 1571, d. c. 1646) in 1599. Decorat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3817
Title:: English statutes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-5v: Chapter lists of English statutes. ff. 6r-11r: Magna Carta. ff. 11r-13v: Carta de Foresta. ff. 13v-14v: Sentencia Cartarum. ff. 14v-17v: Statutum de Merton. ff. 17v-25v: Statutum de Marleberge. ff. 25v-41r: Statutum Westmonasterii Primum ff. 41r-69r: Statutum We...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3818
Title:: English statutes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2r: Table of contents. ff. 2v-16v: Chapter lists of English statutes. ff. 17r-25r: Magna Carta. ff. 25r-29r: Carta de Foresta. ff. 29v-34r: Statutum de Merton. ff. 34r-45v: Statutum de Marleberge. ff. 45v-68v: Statutum Westmonasterii Primum. ff. 68v-74r: Statutum G...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3819
Title:: Statutes of England; Registrum Brevium
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Lists of chapters of statutes. ff. 5r-10v: Magna Carta. ff. 10v-13v: Statuta de Foresta. ff. 13v-17r: Statuta de Merton. ff. 17r-25r: Statuta de Marleberg. ff. 25r-41r: Statuta Prima Westmonasterii. ff. 41r-45r: Statuta Gloucesterie. ff. 45r-74v: Statuta Secun...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3823
Title:: Notes on the Old Testament; Summa de septem viciis capitalibus; a work on the Seven Deadly Sins
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-37v: Latin notes on the Old Testament, beginning: 'Frater ambrosius etcaetera'. ff. 50r-407v: Summa de septem viciis capitalibus, beginning: 'Quoniam ut ait sapiens, peccantem uirum inuoluet laqueus'; Latin sermons with verses in early medieval English on ff. 129r, 182v, 183r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century-1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3824
Title:: Statute book
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-163r: Statute book. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 164v: notes in 15th-century hands. Decoration: Initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3831
Title:: Collection of sayings, amulets, magical spells, remedies and recipes
Scope & Content:: Contents: 1r-20r: A collection of sayings, anti-clerical, anti-drunkenness invectives, amulets, magical spells, remedies and recipes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3838
Title:: John Bale, Anglorum Heliades, and other works on the Carmelite Order
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains three works by John Bale (b. 1495, d. 1563) relating to his time as a Carmelite Friar (1506-in or after 1536). The works relate to the history of the Carmelite Order’s English province, biographies of the Order’s founders, and the history of Carmelite historical scholars...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1530s
Extent:: 1 volume

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