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1091. 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

1092. Harley MS 866, f 48v

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.

1093. Harley MS 866, ff 1r-7v

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.

1094. Harley MS 866, ff 8r-17r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 866, ff 8r-17r
Title:
Ranulf Higden, Ars componendi sermones.
Scope & Content:
Ranulf Higden, Ars componendi sermones, with a title: 'De arte predicandi sed Ranulphum castrensis.'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-c 1410
Extent:
9 folios.

1095. Harley MS 866, ff 17r-33r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 866, ff 17r-33r
Title:
Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille), De planctu naturae.
Scope & Content:
Alain de Lille's De planctu naturae, an allegorical poem reflecting12th-century knowledge of natural sciences.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-c 1410
Extent:
17 folios.

1096. Harley MS 866, ff 33r-48r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 866, ff 33r-48r
Title:
A treatise on rhetoric, incipit: 'Hiis visis ad colores primo accedendum...'
Scope & Content:
A treatise on rhetoric, entitled in the colophon 'tractatus de arte dictandi' (f. 48r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-c 1410
Extent:
16 folios.

1097. 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

1098. Harley MS 868

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 868
Title:
John Felton, Sermones
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-110v: John Felton (fl. 1431), Sermones. ff. 111r-117v: A table of contents. The manuscript contains a few additions: ff. 1*, 2*, 123r, and 123v: End-leaves from a 14th-century missal, featuring music notation on bars in red ink; and small initials in blue or red with penw...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1099. 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

1100. 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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