Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Level: [41] Item - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 651, ff 192-196
Title:: Chronicle from the creation of the world to 1384; England from Alfred to Richard II (with continuations); Names of the kings of Britain and the Heptarchy; Miracle at the shrine of Our Lady of Ipswich
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 192r–193v: Chronicle from Creation to 1384. ff. 193v–194r: Series of kings of England from Alfred to Richard II, continued up to Edward VI by a different hand, writing in Middle English (lower margin of f. 194r). f. 194v: Names of the kings of Britain and of the Anglo-Saxons in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 651

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 736/1
Title:: Collection of legal tracts. Vol. 1 of 2
Scope & Content:: f. 1: Rough contents note: ‘Miscellanies of Courts of the Court of Chancery. Of the Court of Wards. Of Ecclesiastical Matters by Burde. Of the Court of Starchamber Two Treatises whereof one twice’. ff. 2-257: Sir Robert Cotton, The Courte of Chauncerye. Interleaved, with notes inscribed on the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 736/2
Title:: Collection of legal tracts. Vol. 2 of 2
Scope & Content:: ff. 400-670: Treatise on the Star Chamber. Header (f. 400): ‘A Treatise of the High Courte of Star-Chamber; devided into three general Partes; & everie Parte devided into certaine severall Consideracions’. Followed by titles of the parts. Table of contents, ff. 401-402. ff. 671-711: Treati...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

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