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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 920
Title:: A collection of Catholic prayers
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-1v: Commendatio Matutina, qua post nos omnes Christi fideles Deo commendamus. ff. 1v-2r: Ad B. Virginem. f. 2r: Ad omnes Sanctos, et ad S. Angelum Custodem. ff. 2r-3v: Oratio S. Augustini a Spiritu Sancto sibi revelata. f. 4r: Oratio ad Jesum. ff. 4v-5r: Oratio B. Thoma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 921
Title:: Latin school exercises and vocabulary
Scope & Content:: Manuscript Latin school exercise book of an unidentified English speaking Catholic child. Contents: f. 1v: Jesuit IHS Christogram, surrounded by miscellaneous notes and scribbles, some crossed out. Includes dates: 1651 and (crossed out) 1646. f. 2: Latin verse, including ‘Carmina sacra’ and e...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1651
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 922
Title:: Balthasaris Castilionis comitis de curiali sive aulico libri quatuor, ex Italico sermone in Latinum conversi. Bartholomaeo Clerke Anglo Cantabrigiensi interprete
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-49r: Baldassare Castiglione (b. 1478, d. 1529), Il Cortegiano [The Book of the Courtier] (1528); Latin translation of the Italian original by Bartholomew Clerke (b. c. 1537, d. 1590), published as Balthasaris Castilionis comitis de curiali sive aulico libri quatuor, ex Italico...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1472-c 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 923
Title:: Notes on Common Law
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-74v: Notes on Common Law, featuring extracts from the Plea Rolls; additions with the date 1598 on f. 29r.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 924
Title:: Humfrey Rant, Notes on Common Law
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-71r: Humfrey Rant, Notes on Common Law, containing commentaries of 'Mr Plowden' in Law French; Latin proverbs; and abridgement of Anthony FitzHerbert's Natura Brevium in Law French (the copy is dated to 1616); mote cases dated to 1616-1618, law cases about mines, and references...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 925
Title:: Notes on Common Law
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-86v: Notes on Common Law, featuring law cases from the courts of 6 Henry VIII to 21 Elizabeth I (1578/1579).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: c 1579
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 926
Title:: Vetera Statuta
Scope & Content:: Vetera Statuta (ff. 7r-103v) written and illuminated after 1329 and before 1340 when Edward III changed his arms from England ancient into England ancient quartered with France ancient (see Provenance). The text of Vetera Statuta is preceded by a quire including notes relating to taxes and feuda...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1329-Mid 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 926, ff 1r-6r
Title:: Notes relating to taxes and feudal holdings
Scope & Content:: f. 1r: 'Argumenta brevium', incipit: 'Lex equi'. f. 1v: Register of taxable goods for the diocese of Salisbury. f. 2r: Register of tithes in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. f. 2r: Register of taxes for the province of Canterbury excluding possessions of the Templars, Hospitaliers, and t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 14th century
Extent:: 6 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 926, ff 7r-103v
Title:: Vetera Statuta
Scope & Content:: Vetera Statuta, including: ff. 7r-8v: List of contents. ff. 9r-12v: Carta de libertatibus Angliae, known as the Magna Carta, confirmed by Edward I. ff. 13r-14v: Carta de libertatibus foreste (Carta de Foresta). ff. 15r-17r: Statute of Merton. ff. 17v-23v: Statute of Marlborough. ff. 24v-3...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1329-1340
Extent:: 97 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 927
Title:: Registrum brevium
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is the second volume of a two-volume set. The first volume is Harley MS 926. f. 1v: List of contents. ff. 2r-127v: Registrum brevium from the royal chancery of Edward III, written and illuminated after 1329 and before 1340 when Edward III changed his arms from England ancient in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1329-c 1364
Extent:: 1 volume

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