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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 858, ff 1r-73v
Title:: Vetera Statuta
Scope & Content:: 1. Carta de libertatibus Angliae, known as the Magna Carta, confirmed by Edward on 28 March 1999 (29th year of his reign) (ff. 1r-2r). 2. Carta de libertatibus foreste (Carta de Foresta) (ff. 2r-4r). 3. Sentencia lata super cartas (of 1293) (f. 4v). 4. Statute of Merton (ff. 4v-7r). 5. Statu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: Early 14th century
Extent:: 73 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 858, ff 74r-119v
Title:: Registrum brevium
Scope & Content:: Registrum brevium with an added copy of the privileges granted by Edward II to the Knights of Rhodes in England (ff. 100r-101v). Decoration: Large initial in colours and gold with red ivy leaves with pen-flourishing in red and blue extending in the margins (f. 74r). Initials in blue or red wi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Early 14th century
Extent:: 46 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 858, ff 120r-191v
Title:: Registrum Brevium
Scope & Content:: Registrum brevium, imperfect at the end. Decoration: Large puzzle initial in blue and red enclosing ivy patterns in green and pink, combined with pen-flourishing in red and blue extending in the margins to form a full border (f. 120r). Initials in blue or red with pen-flourishing in the other...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Early 14th century
Extent:: 72 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 863 ff 1-7v
Title:: Calendar and verses
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*r-v: A former pastedown including numerous inscriptions and pentrial of the 13th century and 14th century particularly some Latin verses as 'O Maria maris stella' (f. 1*r) and a note on 'Feria VI'. ff. 1r-6v: A liturgical calendar with numerous added obits in margins. f. 7r: A...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1173-1199
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 863

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 863 ff 8-123v
Title:: Psalter, with canticles, litany for the use of Exeter, prayers, and offices (The 'Leofric Psalter')
Scope & Content:: Contents: This Psalter has been identified in other manuscripts made for Leofric, bishop of Exeter (from 1046 to 1072). ff. 8r-108v: The Gallican version of the Psalms with Canticles. A continuous interlinear Old English gloss to the Canticle 'Quicumque vult' (ff. 107r-v). ff. 108v-111v: Lit...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 863

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 866, f 48v
Title:: A treatise on chiromancy [imperfect], incipit: 'Benedictus Deus omnipotens qui machinam mundanam...'
Scope & Content:: Includes the beginning of a treatise on chiromancy. The same text is preserved in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 607.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1390-c 1410
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 866, ff 1r-7v
Title:: Treatise on rhetoric, incipit 'Rhetorica docet ornate loqui...'
Scope & Content:: A treatise on rhetoric [imperfect], ends with a title 'De divisione monacordi'. Includes 3 marginal drawings: 2 drawings of a hand pointing a stick or a verge, one of which is accompanied by an inscription 'digit viga', and a knife with an inscription 'cultellus'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1390-c 1410
Extent:: 7 folios.

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