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831. Harley MS 3922

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3922
Title:
Ermolao Barbaro, Contra Poetas
Scope & Content:
A humanist copy of the Speeches against Classical Poets (Orationes contra Poetas) by Bishop Ermolao Barbaro of Verona (b. 1410, d. 1471), probably executed for the author himself (cf. Ronconi, Ermolao (1972). The work is a review of the major classical Roman poets from a moral perspective to sur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

832. Harley MS 5274

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5274
Title:
John le Breton, Britton
Scope & Content:
Previously catalogued as 'Vetera Statuta' (Ancient Statutes), this manuscript contains a copy of the Britton, the earliest summary of law in England written in French, and being an updated version of Henry Bracton's mid 13th-century De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae (Laws and Customs of Engl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

833. Harley MS 239

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 239
Title:
Lands leased by Queen Mary I, 1553-1558
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-80v: Lands leased by Mary I, 1553-1558.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1553-1558
Extent:
1 volume

834. Harley MS 856

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 856
Title:
A treatise on common law in England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-52r: A treatise of grounds and rules, maxims of the common law of England; dedicated to Elizabeth I, A. D. 1596.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1596
Extent:
1 volume

835. 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

836. Harley MS 1159

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1159
Title:
Robert Cooke, The Visitation of Herefordshire, 1569
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4*recto-6*recto: An index of surnames. ff. 1r-95v: Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms, The Visitation of Herefordshire, 1569; with additions, dated to 1574, 1586, 1590, 1591, 1618 and 1635. Decoration: Coats of arms, tricked, in brown ink throughout the manuscript. Drawings...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:

1 volume

837. Harley MS 1731

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1731
Title:
Prick of Conscience; Speculum Gy de Warewyke
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-132v: Prick of Conscience. ff. 134r-148v: Speculum Gy de Warewyke (also entitled Speculum Mundi and Speculum utile istius mundi). The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: two inscriptions on pieces of parchment: ‘Ryght honorable and most worthy’, added in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

838. Harley MS 1817

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1817
Title:
Statutes of Richard II and Henry IV
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-84r: Statutes of Richard II and Henry IV.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1403
Extent:
1 volume

839. Harley MS 2183

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2183
Title:
Reports of Common Bench and Eyre cases
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-196v: Reports of law cases heard on Eyre and by the Common Bench, arranged topically. The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 2*r, 196r: various notes written in a 17th-century hand. [ff. 1*r, 196v are blank].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

840. Harley MS 2980

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2980
Title:
Book of Hours, probably Use of Paris
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-13v: Calendar. ff. 14r-19v: Gospel lessons. ff. 20r-23r: 'Obsecro te'. ff. 23v-25v: 'O intemerata'. ff. 26r-37v: Hours of the Virgin, Vespers to Compline only (imperfect due to loss of leaves). ff. 38r-51r: Penitential Psalms. ff. 51r-54r: Litany. ff. 55r-58r: Ho...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1470s
Extent:
1 volume

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